Dance the night away with the Wheatland Whirlers
Shannon LeClair
Times Reporter
If you have never been to a good old-fashioned barn dance, now is your chance. The Wheatland Whirlers Square Dance Club is hosting the second annual barn dance at the Civic Centre on Aug. 13, and everyone is welcome to come out for the evening.
“If you want to come just to listen you’re more than welcome to do that, or to dance. All our dances will be demoed first and then danced so that if you’re a non-dancer you will be able to dance it,” said Claudia Littlefair, a Wheatland Whirlers member.
The night will include some social dances like waltzes, seven step, polka and much more. The dances will be kept simple and will be ones that everyone will be able to do. They will also include some old-time square dancing.
Littlefair is also one of Strathmore’s Children’s Wish Foundation (CWF) event organizers. Any funds raised from the barn dance will be donated to the Children’s Wish.
Last year the dance raised approximately $1,700 for CWF through admission, the snack bar and raffle prizes.
The Wheatland Whirlers are hosting the event, which will feature the Prairie Mountain Fiddlers group.
“It’s a good project in support of the Children’s Wish Foundation,” said Pius Sauverwald, who is part of the president couple for the Whirlers.
Over the eight years that Littlefair has been involved with the CWF there has been over $100,000 raised to help grant wishes to children and their families.
“It gives hope to the family, because a wish isn’t just for the child, they grant the wish to the family. It’s not just a wish, it’s an important event, so there’s even healing in that,” said Littlefair.
“There is so much ugliness with disease and there’s so much stress when you’re going through it, and this is something that is about as opposite as you can get. One thing is so black and the other thing just sparkles, the wish just sparkles.”
Admission for the barn dance is $10 per person, or $25 per family. It begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Civic Centre. For tickets contact Claudia Littlefair at 403-934-3900 during the day, or at 403-934-5966 in the evening. Tickets can then be picked up at the RE/MAX office.