Do you remember the old poem, winters come, fall has fell,
Spring has sprung, summers here and it's hot as……….."usual".
Well we have really had some very hot as "usual" summer.
Just a little humor before starting.

We have been listening to a lot of conversations about ways to get new dancers, ways to keep new dancers, and ways to keep or retrieve dancers that have stopped coming.
There are so many ideas which are discussed as part of the education to help square dancing grow. The really sad or negative part, if that is what you would call it. Is when the ideas are being given those listening have a tenancy to respond with those are very good ideas but we have tried them all and they didn't work.

What we would like to help get across is that the ideas will work if we get it through our heads that the reason it didn't work the first time could have been timing, the approach to the idea, attitudes of those trying. Because when things aren't going the way we hope that they will go we have a tendency to become very negative about the idea, which will kill the whole purpose of the idea to begin with.

So let's try this set down with the club membership again discuss ideas letting no idea be denied then if some ideas that are brought up and the we tried and it didn't work becomes the conversation, take a little time to discuss why didn't it work and what can be done to make it work.

Next month we will see if we can't follow up with some of the other things that were discussed that we heard that might help as well.

We are also open to suggestions from the North Central District Dancers as to things you might want discussed in the future.