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CDSS Governing Board
Current Board Members
The geographically diverse Board is listed below. Correspondence for them may be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. For photos and bios of Board members, click on the individual names.
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David Millstone
David Millstone (Lebanon, NH) spent junior and senior high school admiring others who knew how to move on the dance floor, venturing out only for the occasional "slow dance." Shortly after he moved to New Hampshire in 1972, friends dragged him to a Dudley Laufman dance one snowy night and his life changed. Playing guitar and hammered dulcimer in an all-purpose folkie band, he was asked to call for dancing at parties, starting his 35+ years as a dance caller. He resisted English country dancing for years—"What? No partner swing?"—but that changed in 1987 when he went to Pinewoods for English and American Week. In the company of supportive dancers there, he came to appreciate the joy of ECD, which he has been leading for the past twenty years. He calls at festivals and camps across North America and has led dances in Europe (seven countries so far) with many visits to Denmark and the Czech Republic. He also enjoys family dances, weddings, and similar events.
He has produced four video documentaries about the contra dance world and is currently coordinating a major effort to tell the story of American square dance through moving images in an online digital library. Away from the dance floor, he was an elementary school teacher for thirty years, during which he published an intensive study of his experiences teaching Homer's Odyssey to his fifth graders. Discouraged by micro-managing school boards and administrators, he was delighted to join the CDSS Board (2002–2008) with its focus on the big picture. He is excited about working with the Board again as we approach the CDSS centennial in 2015.
Jenny Beer
Jenny Beer (Lansdowne, PA) calls Philadelphia her home dance community. She leads English country dances and, less often, traditional community dances and Scottish country dances. Occasionally you'll see her playing dance piano, and she crafts a new dance now and again. A member of CDSS since 1982, Jenny started "country dancing" the second day of freshman week in Indiana and happily joined groups wherever life has taken her since: northern Japan, Vermont, Delaware, Berkeley, CA, Osaka, Japan. In earlier incarnations she was an avid contra dancer, and the first dance she ever wrote was "spinning Jenny," which had three swings. More recently, she had a great time leading Swarthmore College's folkdance class for 13 years. Jenny loves the messiness and pleasure of getting people to participate together, and appreciates CDSS' focus on supporting the groups that make participatory dance and song happen in their local communities. On the organizational side, she has more than a decade of experience running dance group websites, enjoys drawing new dancers, musicians and volunteers into the community, has helped with redesigning bylaws, and has taken on dozens of other dance organizational jobs. Jenny also brings to the Board skills from her consulting practice in facilitation, conflict resolution and cross-cultural communication.
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Brooke Friendly
Brooke Friendly (Ashland, OR) is a community oriented dance teacher and organizer whose specialties include dance choreography and calling with global terminology. She co-leads a weekly English and Scottish dance, calls contra and family dances, and teaches country dance in a variety of settings: college academic credit, older adults, and K-12 students. Brooke has been on staff at events throughout North America and was program director for Bay Area Country Dance Society English Week. She, and her husband, Chris Sackett, have published four books of dances (Impropriety Vols. 1-4) and produced four CDs with the band Roguery. More info at BrookeFriendlyDance.com or www.cdss.org/store.
Craig Meltzner
Craig Meltzner (Santa Rosa, CA) began contra dancing in the late 1980's in San Luis Obispo/Santa Barbara. He met his wife Elaine international folk dancing and after they married took up contra dancing with a passion. They raised both their daughters in the dance community and value how this community embraced their family. He began English Country dancing about 5 years ago and enjoys sharing ECD with his contra dance friends. You'll also find him on the fringes of camp song circles and an occasional ukulele jam session.
He has been a Board member of North Bay Country Dance Society (NBCDS) for about 8 years, serving three years as President and now in his second term as Treasurer. He programs a monthly contra dance series and helps plan the two NBCDS contra dance weekends. He and his wife have also run the BACDS American Week bookstore the past four years.
"Participation – that's what's gonna save the human race," said Pete Seeger. That's how Craig sees his local dance and music communities functioning and that's what CDSS is here to encourage and support. Let's spread the joy we share singing, dancing, and making music together!
Board Members at Large
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Jill Allen
Jill Allen (Lawrence, KS) learned to love dance in college. She began taking nursing classes but much preferred spending time at the university dance studio. She eventually ended up with a bachelor's degree in dance performance in 1979. She came upon her first local contra dance in the early 80s, oblivious to what it was or how deeply it would change her life. It was love at first step, and she never looked back. Her tap dancing became clogging, and soon she learned to call for dances. With experience in dance education, Jill was a natural boss on the dance floor. Soon after that she met a fiddler, got married and quit her day job to pursue a career in calling, along with motherhood. Some early piano training came in handy and she also began playing for dances. Jill has been on the organizing board for local dances and chief organizer for dance weekends. She has been the force behind the Lawrence Family Dance for nearly 14 years. Recently she co-created the Lawrence English Dance, and a new community dance series called the Uptown Hoedown. She has been a regular at CDSS camps, partly because of her two children who have also caught the dance and music bug, and partly because of the many ideas and the material she brings home to her community each year. She is a member of the band Fox on the Run with her husband Greg. She loves to see people of all ages moving to music and loves to be a part of making it happen.
Bev Bernbaum
Bev Bernbaum (Toronto, ON) has been a folk festival junkie since 1977. She found contra dancing quite by accident at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 1996 and was immediately hooked. She joined the Toronto Country Dancers (TCD) that fall, was at her first dance weekend by Thanksgiving and at Pinewoods by the following summer. Bev has held positions as the communications person, treasurer and president for TCD over the years. A fellow dancer suggested she'd make a good caller, and in 1998, she made her debut for a group of drunken students at a college pub! Since then, Bev has continued to call all over Ontario and across the United States, at local dances, dance weekends, festivals and camps. In 2006, Bev picked up the banjo and knew it was a match made in heaven. She's been playing old-time claw hammer style since then and attends Appalachian festivals and camps regularly. In the last couple of years, she's started dancing modern western squares and English country regularly. In 2009, Bev was the staff caller at a camp primarily focused on music and singing, and has since joined the weekly song circle. Bev joined the CDSS Board in 2010, and began serving on the Nominating Committee, which she now chairs. She co-organizes the "News from Canada" column in the CDSS News, determined to increase awareness of Canadian events and groups involved in continuing the traditions. When she's not dancing, calling, playing or singing, Bev is an information systems consultant in healthcare.
Nancy Boyd
Nancy Boyd (South Hadley, MA) started country dancing in 1989 in New York City, and later also danced on "New World Sword" and "Chelsea Country Dancers," Christine Helwig's performance group. Nancy served as secretary to the CD*NY board for two terms, chaired and volunteered at various events, and served on numerous committees. English dance is her favorite, but she likes the opportunities that camps and special events provide for trying other dance and song forms, and improving skills. She and husband Art Munisteri both enthusiastically serve on local dance committees and regularly attend English dances and informal sings. Apart from a passion for country dance, Nancy brings to the board a career of experience in government and business. When she retired in 2008, she was the Deputy Director of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's New York District Office where she oversaw operations, programs and staff in four offices. She also conducted training designed to encourage employers to voluntarily comply with anti-discrimination laws. Nancy joined the CDSS Board in 2010 and is currently serving on the personnel committee. Her priorities for CDSS include:
Martha Edwards
Martha Edwards (Creve Coeur, MO) is a dancer, fiddler, caller, web designer and dance organizer. She and her husband Bob Green started Calling Parties in their home in 2007 for contra and English, and have continued to host them every Wednesday. About a dozen callers developed there, and several excellent dance writers as well. She started an open-calling "Callers Choice" dance, an English country dance, and an American/English dance weekend that brings national level callers and musicians together for a crossover weekend. Her latest project is an "English Jam," to entice more musicians to play for English.
Mark Galipeau
Mark Galipeau (Rohnert Park, CA) is a child of Modern Western Square Dancers. He spent most of his youth in drafty auditorium foyers listening to the greatest hits of the 1960's MWSD world. He veered away from this close brush with dance until his 30's, when he was enticed by a co-worker to take a community college international folk dance class. Upon seeing the White Rats Experimental Morris in San Francisco, he was instantaneously captivated. Eventually joined his first side, Apple Tree Morris in Sebastopol, CA, (with occasional lapses to the Border with the dark side, where he bells up with The Rats). Apple Tree friends lured him into Contra, (and later English) but it wasn't until 2004 when Kalia Kliban took him to the inaugural dance of Queer Contra in San Francisco, that he found his true love. Ten years later he is still in love with the man he met at that first dance.
Now a member of the Queer Contra Board and chair of the Queer Contra Dance Camp weekend, he is very excited by the gender neutral role swapping turn in some contra dance communities. He created the "I Dance Both Roles" buttons to start conversations about gender on the dance floor. He and his partner Tom Bowers live in Sonoma County, California where they dance on Leap of Faith Longsword. He works as a public school teacher currently on assignment in third grade.
Lorraine Lee Hammond
Lorraine Lee Hammond (Brookline, MA) organized her first folk festival in 1962. A lifetime New Englander, Lorraine was raised in the rural musical traditions of the Connecticut Berkshires. She is a tradition bearer, performer, and scholar. With a recent master's degree for studies in folklore, ethnomusicology, and the politics of culture from Goddard College, she is now an adjunct professor in the Humanities Department at Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts, where she teaches American Folk Music and World Music. Lorraine is the founder and president of Great Acoustics, Inc., a non-profit corporation mandated to support the teaching and performance of traditional American music, and a founder and artistic director of Summer Acoustic Music Week, sponsored by WUMB-FM at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
The history of CDSS has great personal meaning for Lorraine, who first taught at Pinewoods Folk Music Week in the summer of 1974. Each afternoon she learned English Country dancing under the brisk tutelage of May Gadd who, with her white gloves and snare drum, was a vital link in the strong CDSS chain. Lorraine will focus on developing programs that continue to emphasize the Anglo American song and balladry link in that chain, with attention to engaging the interest of college students and classroom teachers across the United States.
Lorraine and her husband Bennett Hammond perform extensively, and record on their Brookline label, "Snowy Egret Music." See www.greatacoustics.org for more details.
Michael Hamilton
Michael Hamilton (Barberton, OH) discovered contra dancing while in college and immediately fell in love with the community and tradition that imbued his local dance. He soon began traveling to regional dances, making friends throughout the mid western United States. It didn't take long for him to begin writing and calling dances in his hometown dance community in northeastern Ohio. He now calls contras for local dances and regional dance weekends throughout Ohio and further afield (including PA, NY, KY, WI, IL, and GA). Furthermore, Michael actively aids the expansion of the greater dance community by calling for dances targeting younger audiences at college communities such as Oberlin College, Case Western Reserve University, and Denison University. In his free time, he has begun to explore the roots of traditional music by playing old time style banjo and guitar. Michael enjoys sharing the joy of the dance floor by calling, dancing, and playing and is excited to bring his talents to serve with the CDSS board and support the communities that have brought such joy and fulfillment to his life.
Dorcas Hand
Dorcas Hand (Houston, TX) started dancing in 1973 in South Amherst with Dudley Laufman. A huge Canterbury Country Orchestra, including a friend on French horn, played at her first contra, convincing her to keep dancing! After a few years of New England contra and graduate school, she ended up in Houston and with Barry Cooper began recruiting Texas fans of contra – she called and he played fiddle. It was a slow road, but they got the group interested enough to continue. She was on the founding Board of HATDS (Houston Area Traditional Dance Society), and has served several times since. She is even a footnote in the CDSS News a few years ago on Dudley's influence across the country. She also started – with Dorolyn Smith – the Yellow Rose Morris circa 1980, when the Men of Houston wouldn't let the women join them, and later joined Shambles Morris as a mixed side. After 2000, she returned to calling more frequently when her two boys were old enough not to require supervision during dances. By day, she is a school librarian with experience in leadership in local, state, and national library associations. Dance has always provided balance in her life.
Donald Hughes
Donald Hughes (Rougemont, NC) (2-year, completing a 3-year term) a long term resident of the Triangle Region of North Carolina, started contra dancing in the mid 80's. He was introduced to CDSS through English and American Week at Buffalo Gap. Going to camp was a delightful and new experience. Soon he wanted to help out. Being a builder and carpenter, he could make a direct contribution to the camp with construction work. At that point Donald was beginning to realize the power of the work CDSS was doing, bringing people into the fold over the course of their lifetimes, providing a continuity and growth and learning. This was especially notable with the young, seeing children grow up, form attachments, acquire consciousness and grace. Donald has been highly involved in his local contra and English dance organizations, serving in many capacities and on the boards. His work has included being treasurer, facilities management and development, web design, financial systems planning, reworking of articles of incorporation and bylaws, event planning and implementation, nominations, and being a local CDSS scholarship liaison. Teaming with his wife Gail, he developed and put together the Southeast Dance Leadership Conference in 2010, co-sponsored by CDSS and the local groups. Donald's professional career has included construction, design, teaching, community organizing, non-profit development, photography, and film production. Donald and Gail live in an energy-efficient house he built, designed for dancing at home.
Carol Marsh
Carol Marsh (Washington, DC) came to English country dance by way of Baroque dance (the topic of her dissertation), and she remains fascinated by the relationship between the two dance types. Although retired from teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her research activities continue. Current topics include the use of country dances in theatrical contexts (18th-century operas and plays) and compiling a checklist of 18th-century continental collections of English country dances. Carol is a regular caller at the Sun Assembly weekly dance in Durham, NC, and for the past four years has organized the Spring DanceFest, an English country dance weekend with a guest caller. She has taught ECD classes at Pinewoods and at various early music workshops. Her administrative experience includes serving as treasurer for both the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, and chairing the program committee for the 2000 mega-conference "Dancing in the Millennium." As a professional viola da gamba player she has performed and taught in Europe and the U.S.; she is founder and director of the Piedmont Consort of Viols. Her biggest regret: not having discovered rapper sword dancing 40 years ago.
John Mayberry
John Mayberry (Toronto, ON) grew up in a family full of music and dance. The story is that he was first taken to a dance in a basket at two weeks old, and early home movies show him at 6 in full Swedish costume at a Swedish dance festival in Tokyo. Early exposure to the Weavers, etc. led to a life-long love of traditional song, which combined with a teen-aged infatuation with mime and juggling resulting in several years working with the Poculi Ludique Societas, a scholarly medieval theatre group. This experience also developed three other life-long vocations: carpentry, leading to building scenery and props for theatres and then to teaching undergraduates in university theatre programs; Morris dancing, leading to his dancing with The Toronto Morris Men as the Fool, and mummers' plays, leading to writing, performing and studying them.
He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and also Academic Advisor of Winters College, at York University in Toronto. He and his wife Laurie Cumming have been on staff at CDSS Family Week, Campers' Week, English Week, and Ogontz Family Week where they have also been Program Directors. They have been on staff at Boston Centre July Fourth Weekend and English and Scottish Session at Pinewoods, as well as Berea Christmas Dance School and Algoma Traditional Music and Dance Family Camp. John has served on the Board of Directors of The Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology and also that of Theatre Ontario, a not-for-profit association supporting all aspects of theatrical activity in the province. He is Vice-Chair (and former Chair) of the Technology Commission of OISTAT (Organisation Internationale des Scénographes, Techniciens et Architectes de Théâtre). He currently dances Irish sets, contra and English as often as possible. A 2005 trip with the Toronto Morris Men, invited to dance in the carnival parade in Santiago de Cuba, sparked his current passion, Afro-Cuban dance, especially the dances of Ellegua the trickster.
Sharon McKinley
Sharon McKinley (Columbia, MD), Certified klutz at 21, folk dance addict at 22, Sharon has had a 40-year love affair with folk music and dance. Sharon has enthusiastically embraced English country dance, morris, contra dance, and rapper. A chance encounter with Sacred Harp on the radio led to many years of singing with a local group. A member of the Baltimore Folk Music Society since 1987, Sharon has served as its English Dance Chair, and has co-chaired the BFMS English ball more times than she can count. She likes to give back to her local organizations, and is involved in three different communities. Sharon also calls ECD. It is so rewarding to help motivate an entire roomful of people to have fun! Sharon loves watching beginners enjoy
David Means
David Means (Seattle, WA) had two left feet until the age of 35, when Bruce Hamilton convinced him that if he could walk, he could dance. He was active in the San Francisco Bay Area English and contra dance community for many years, and served as a member of the Playford Ball committee there for a few years. After moving to Seattle in 1991, he joined the dance community there and has found a calling as a dancer who practices non-verbal indications to make the dance flow more smoothly and comfortably for new dancers as well as those more experienced. In the last few years, he has served as Secretary for the Seattle Ball, bringing major improvements to the collaboration tools available to the committee, and setting up 21st-century communication procedures between the organizers and the dance community. Away from dancing, he has had a full career as a computer engineer, surviving a couple of start-up experiences, and is now keeping himself amused by building and repairing websites for customers throughout the world.
Pam Paulson
Pam Paulson (Waukeasha, WI) has lived in WI all of her life and started contra dancing in Kansas City, KS. It's quite fitting that she started contra dancing as a dance gypsy. After that start in Kansas City she found the local communities in Delafield and Madison. After dancing locally for 2 years she started going to dance weekends, Squirrel Moon, Breaking Up Thanksgiving, and then Pigtown! She was hooked on gypsying and for the next several years she was able to go to around 25 weekends a year! Things have slowed down a bit as far as weekends go, only 12-15 a year now. Pam has danced in 25 states with the goal of dancing in all 50! This year was the first time she was able to go to Pinewoods and it was amazing! She's fortunate to be able to help with Squirrel Moon held at Folk Lore Village near Madison, WI in September. She makes sure everyone is fed all weekend. In 2008 Pam was the driving force behind starting IndepenDance held in July in Delafield, WI.
Because of her experience gypsying Pam was able to incorporate many of the best ideas and the weekend was a success from the first year! Pam is passionate about contra dancing and loves waltzing. No matter where she is, local dance or weekend, the contra dance feels like home. She's looking forward to serving on the board to help continue the traditions and link those who love them. To support her dance habit Pam is the Business Manager for a Waukesha Funeral Home.
Doug Plummer
Doug Plummer (Seattle, WA) was born in Chambersburg, PA in 1955, attended Antioch College in Ohio, and graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA in 1980. He started taking photos and making prints in the darkroom at 6, learning the craft from his father. After college, and after a detour as a bird research field grunt, he turned to making a living with his cameras. He is now an established commercial photographer and filmmaker in Seattle.
Nathaniel Puffer
Nathaniel Puffer (Taos, NM) attended a handful of contra & square dances in the areas of Greenfield and Cambridge, MA while living in Boston, but he really didn't discover the world of traditional dance until moving to New Mexico. Nate moved West in 2008 to seek his fortune in Las Vegas, NM (not NV), and took over as managing attorney of the small legal aid office there. Since there were but a handful of musicians in that town, he was compelled to begin performing the country gospel regularly at the old Harvey House hotel bar there (and can therefore truly say he had a "regular gig in Vegas"). When Nate transferred to the legal aid office in Taos, NM, he went to check out the monthly local contra dance and ended up promptly joining the band. Since then he's started attending larger dance events here and there, mostly around NM and CO, but also once in Berea, KY. In Taos they got the bright idea to start calling the dances themselves instead of going into debt paying callers to travel to their tiny little dance, and now that's what they're doing! Also, since about 2001 Nate has been fairly big on old-time music and has tried to travel to at least one big old-time or bluegrass festival or event each summer.
Diane Virginia Shaw
Diane Virginia Shaw (Gainesville, FL) is native of southern California and currently resides with her husband, Andy Kane, and two sons, Collin and Ryland, in Gainesville, Florida. Music and dance have been a vital part of her community, and the fabric of her life, starting with middle school cotillion class in Newport Beach, moving eastward to contra dancing and zweifachers at the Chocolate Church in Bath, Maine. Following completion of Maine graduate school, Diane moved to Baltimore, Maryland where she met her husband, Andy Kane, dancing contras at Lovely Lane Church. While working a "real job" as a legislative analyst and liaison to the Governor's office in Maryland, Diane remained active with local dances at Lovely Lane and in DC, as well as at East coast dance camps including Buffalo Gap, BFMS Catoctin Mountain weekends. She expanded her dancing passions to include rapper and Appalachian clogging while dancing with Cub Hill Cloggers, Stumpjumpers (Pedantics) and Charm City Rapper. Over the past 15 years, she has made annual family sojourns to CDSS-sponsored summer family camps at Pinewoods and Ogontz, and has also contributed to Pinewoods Family Camp programs.
As a Floridian, Diane is engaged in lower school education as an assistant 3rd grade teacher. This opportunity has allowed her to share traditional English ritual dances in the classroom as a pathway to support student teamwork and building student confidence. Further, she augments school curricula with English and American folk dance, often with her sons as musicians and her husband as caller. Diane continues to participate in Morris dancing, step dancing and ritual dancing at local venues such as the Florida Folk Festival. She brings to CDSS her outreach and education skills, and shared passion for community-based traditional music and dance.
David Shewmaker
David Shewmaker (Washington, DC) grew up dancing in St. Louis and various festivals with his family. He started Contra dancing as a child, first at the Foxhollow Festival, then with the Childgrove Country Dancers in St. Louis, where he learned to flat foot to the Old Time music that was prevalent at the local dances. He is a founding member of Capering Roisters Morris in St. Louis, a former member of the Marlboro Morris Men in Massachusetts, the founder of Cutting Edge Sword in Washington, DC, served on the Board of Directors of the Folklore Society of Greater Washington as both Dance Chair and Vice-President, and was a sound tech for the St. Louis and DC dances.
Over the last 40 + years, he has volunteered for numerous festivals, ales, community radio and countless events. He first attended Family Week at Pinewoods as a child, returned as a teenager to volunteer, and spent many summers cooking and dancing at Pinewoods, with stints in the 80's, 90's and 00's. He is a fierce advocate for traditional dance and music: Contra and Square dancing is home base, English is his favorite, Balkan is mesmerizing, Irish Sets, Scottish, Scandinavian, Swing, Cajun, Zydeco, Slow Blues, Latin have all had a place in his life. He is a drummer, and enjoys singing and playing English Concertina. He has enormous gratitude for the extended dance and music community that sustains his life. He is a professional chef, and brings the same sense of community and interconnection to his work life that he finds in his dance life.
Natty Smith
Natty Smith (Somerville, MA) grew up in a family steeped in music and dance traditions. Raised by parents who met contra dancing thirty years ago and grandparents who were Classical and Baroque music enthusiasts and performers, he grew up skilled in and appreciative of both the classical and folk arts. After years of watching his mother dance Northwest Morris, he began Morris dancing himself on Tom Kruskal's children's team Hop Brook in Sudbury, MA. With Hop Brook, then Candyrapper and Great Meadows Morris and Sword, and now the Pinewoods Morris Men, Maple Morris, and Thames Valley International, Natty can be found dancing or playing fiddle for Morris and sword all over New England and southeastern Canada every spring and summer. Natty attended Pinewoods and Ogontz Camp family dance sessions starting at a very young age, in later years working or volunteering on the camps' kitchen and grounds crew. This, inevitably, led to working on staff at a Family Week at Ogontz in 2008. His family has attended and supported The Christmas Revels productions in Cambridge, MA, since it began in the 1970s. Natty began performing with The Christmas Revels in 2000, continuing to dance, sing, or play fiddle in many of their productions. In 2008, Natty helped start and has since co-directed the Revels Children's Summer Workshops. A love for history and music goes hand in hand with his family's passion for sailing off the coast of Maine.
Annual Meeting Minutes
The minutes from the most recent Annual Meeting of the Governing Board are available here.
Seeking New Nominations
CDSS is Looking for Stars!
Are you seeing stars? CDSS is always on the look out for star volunteers. Are you one? Do you know someone who is a star?
The CDSS Governing Board is a group of hardworking volunteers who look at the big picture, the vision and direction of where the organization is heading and what we and CDSS should be doing. Board members come from all over the United States and Canada and represent our constituency in dance, music and song.
The CDSS Board will have a number of board members completing their terms next year and are seeking nominations for those positions before the end of June. As well, we're often looking for people to participate in task groups and board committees as community member representatives. And as planning for our Centennial celebrations shifts into high gear, we're anticipating all kinds of opportunities and will need volunteers.
The Nominating Committee submits a slate of qualified individuals for board "at large" positions each year. We're also keeping a list of stars willing to serve on task groups and committees. We're asking for your suggestions. Board members must be members of CDSS but community members serving on task groups and committees need not be.
Think about yourself and the people you know in your local community. We're looking for people who have the appropriate mix of skills, experience, time, energy, teamwork style and have a passion for the country dance, music and song that we all love! Professional experience in any of the following categories would be particularly helpful: management, finance and/or banking, human resources, law, fundraising, publicity and small non-profit organizations. We want to hear about active, organized, thoughtful, responsible, creative, innovators in your community who have come up with an idea and worked with others to make it happen. We're particularly interested in increasing the number of younger volunteers.
If you, or someone you know is a star, please let us know! Send us a short summary of the following:
- Why you think they are a good board, task group or committee candidate
- What work/activities and skills/qualities they have that are useful and relevant
- What do they do in dance, music and song
- How we can contact them (email, phone, mail)
Most of our committee work happens during the summer and early fall so please send your suggestions by June 30, to the CDSS Nominating Committee via email to email@example.com or by mail to 301-140 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5V 3N8.
Bev Bernbaum, Chair, CDSS Nominating Committee


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Best of Landline 2009
29/11/09 - 31/01/10
29 November 2009
All in the Family
No matter how the economy is travelling, nothing undermines a family farm's viability like a blue over succession. With around 40 per cent of Australian farmers over the age of 55, experts say it is an issue that can no longer be ignored. Succession planning may be a complex and confronting process but it does not need to be divisive.
Old Steamer
Like many small rural towns, Orbost in eastern Victoria is enduring some tough times. The local timber industry had all but collapsed and its young people were drifting away to find work. However a few locals got together and devised an ambitious plan and set about rebuilding a famous paddle steamer, lost at sea many years ago. Now the new paddle steamer is once again churning the waters of the famous Snowy River.
How Sweet It Is
It is perhaps appropriate the latest shot-in-the-arm for Australia's sugar industry may well be administered by a Queensland nurse. For the past 10 years Sonya Maley has been working on a radical value-adding process and she is determined to prove there is more to cane than crystallised sugar.
06 December 2009
Farming for Profit
In the world of high finance it is fair to say that agriculture is rarely regarded as glamour stock, 'all sausage no sizzle.' However with the slide in sharemarkets and talk of world-wide recession, returns from farming now do not look so bad after all. And while corporate investment is still only a relatively small part of Australian agriculture, there are signs that might be changing.
Flour Power
The end of the single desk marketing arrangements for Australian export wheat was always going to deliver some valuable niche opportunities for enterprising growers. One small family based grains company operating in South Australia jumped the gun and as Prue Adams reports, it's a move which seems to be paying off handsomely.
Mohair Raising
The best angora goats in the country were in Goulburn last weekend for the industry's 20th national trophy show. It is a significant milestone for what many still regard as a cottage industry. It comes at a time when production worldwide has collapsed. Indeed with demand rising for quality mohair fibre, growers here are keen for a lot more mainstream farmers to give angoras a go.
Lend Me Your Ears
Nicki Stuart catches up with animal behaviourist Dr Andrew McLean who has gone from horse breaking in Australia to elephant wrangling in Nepal.
13 December 2009
Family Ties
Last week Chris Clark looked at new corporate investment in agriculture and found the big end of town is using the lessons learned on family farms as a business blueprint. This week, Chris looks at three different experiences on the land to find out just how the family farms.
Back to the Future
This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of the former radio drama, Blue Hills and if ABC broadcaster Ingrid Just has her way, we could all be enjoying the resurgence of radio serials.
Kyushu Shots
It was used in pre-industrial Japan as a disinfectant yet these days shochu is the country's most popular alcoholic tipple. The clear spirit made from sweet potato, rice or barley has overtaken the better known sake as the top-selling distilled liquor in Japan. The ABC's North Asia Correspondent Mark Willacy travelled to the southern Japanese Island of Kyushu to sample some shochu for himself. Helping fuel this shochu surge is Australian barley which the Japanese regard as the best there is.
Pacific Power
Leaders from across the Pacific will be in Cairns this week for their Annual talkfest, the Pacific Island Forum. While the often volatile politics of the region tends to dominate the headlines of these events they are also an important opportunity for an exchange on everything from environmental issues to ways of driving local economies through tough times. Landline has been to Vanuatu to see how coconut oil is being pressed into service as an alternative to diesel.
20 December 2009
Ground Control
There is a great deal of unease in rural Australia about the costs farmers will bear when agriculture is eventually included in an emissions trading scheme. While some say storing carbon in soil will only ever play a minor role in Australian agriculture, one scientist claims it is the key to farming profitably in a carbon economy. Dr Christine Jones is on a mission to spread the word about soil carbon, so much so, that she has spent her life savings on carbon trials to prove it can be done.
Starting from Scratch
Launching a jewellery venture in the middle of a global recession may seem risky but the developers of Australia's newest pearl farm are confident they will not only survive but thrive. The Broken Bay pearl farm took a decade to get its product right and its partners say they have already secured a niche in the Australian market.
Guardian Angels
Over the years maremma sheepdogs have become a familiar sight on many Australian farms. Not only do the so-called Italian sheepdogs look after livestock, they have also been used to protect poultry from predators. However as Kerry Staight found out the potential of these ancient guard dogs may be only limited by imagination.
Not For Profit
Foodbank was set up more than a decade ago linking farmers and food processors with families in need. The not for profit organisation has distributed more than 16 million kilograms of food in the past year, however charity workers who rely on Foodbank say there is a growing number of people in need.
27 December 2009
Tipping the Scales
The rising demand for top quality saltwater crocodile leather, particularly among European fashion houses has created an export industry that's now worth tens of millions of dollars. As competition to produce the snappiest crocodile fashion accessories heats up, one Top End crocodile farm has turned to science to unlock some of the secrets of these living dinosaurs and their strikingly unique skin.
In Like Flynn
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has been one of the best known outback support services since it was established 80 years ago but the man behind it, Reverend John Flynn was also the brains behind another vital frontier service that's been clocking up some serious kilometres for almost a century.
Clean and green tea
The Chinese have been drinking it for thousands of years and the Japanese have turned it into a cultural icon. And now Australian farmers are being encouraged to grow green tea for an expanding global market tipped to get even bigger now that scientists are proving it is as healthy as it is refreshing.
Barb-Wired for Sound
A few months back Landline heard about a bloke recording farm equipment sounds in Queensland's central-west. He planned to incorporate not only those noises but local farmers as well into live shows, as part of the regional gigs for the Queensland Music Festival. Kimmo Pohjonen has played some of the great concert halls of the world and now he's played the Blackall Wool Scour.
03 January 2010
Catch 22
The tuna season in South Australia is winding down after the most tumultuous year in more than two decades. Prices have plummeted, as Japanese consumers tighten their purse strings and Tuna producers are also under pressure from conservationists as campaigns against tuna fishing gather pace.
Water Wise
When it comes to irrigation most attention these days focuses on the much maligned Murray-Darling Basin. However on the other side of the continent in the semi arid north-west, you'll find some of the country's most efficient irrigators. A world away from the main political and environmental bun-fights, growers around Carnarvon are getting on with business and tapping into a vast underground supply of water to increase production.
Clear and Present Danger
Handling deadly animal viruses is obviously not everyone's idea of the perfect career. However it is vital work and Australia has one of the world's leading labs. As Chris Clark reports, more and more work is now being done on the links between animal and human health.
Hold your Horses
It is the condiment with the funny name which has the singular job of adding zing to roast beef. Horseradish might well be a dark horse in the vegetable industry but there can't be too many vegies that can fetch upwards of $50,000 a tonne, once they have been minced up and put into jars.
10 January 2009
Just Add Water
Some of the latest research coming out of the CSIRO relates to the science of water footprinting. In south-eastern Australia, farmers would be very aware of just how scarce water has become. The big food companies like Nestle and Mars are very concerned that there will not be enough water to grow the foods we have all come to know and love.
Tickled Pink
In an international apple market crowded with new varieties, the Pink Lady continues to stand out for its appearance, taste, handling and shelf-life. But the West Australian-bred apple is also winning kudos for a global licensing and marketing system which manages a trademark that is now worth more than $1.6 billion dollars per year.
Saddlers Well
There was a time when every saddle was tailor made for the horse it sat on. In more recent times, saddlery like so many other traditional trades has been swamped by cheaper, mass produced goods. However Tim Lee's found a master saddler in Melbourne who's bucking that trend with his commitment to cutting edge design and hand-crafted quality.
Bean Counters
For years Australian scientists have been working with growers in Papua New Guinea on a range of crop improvement measures for cocoa. Now they have teamed up with the world's largest confectionary company in an aid project that is helping restore productivity and profitability for Indonesian cocoa growers as well.
17 January 2009
Hard Sell
In the last 20 years half the cattle and sheep saleyards in Australia have closed. Those that remain have had to confront some serious challenges over their future direction and their management. As Pip Courtney discovered, more and more producers are wondering whether saleyards are still the best way to buy and sell livestock.
Quarrel Coast
It's known as one of the last frontiers in Australia but the Ningaloo Coast between Carnarvon and Exmouth in Western Australia has a long history as a pastoral region. The new state government is grappling with a possible world heritage nomination, native title and a strategy for managing more than one hundred thousand visitors a year. However pastoralists say they also need a stake in the booming tourism industry to ensure their own survival.
Ruminant With a View
Moves are being made to finally give goats - a form of long standing resource for Australia both past and present - the recognition supporters say they so richly deserve.
Art Down Pat
This story gives new meaning to the phrase cash cows and has some dairy farmers raising their eyebrows. Kerry Staight has met a man with a muse that moos.
24 January 2009
Flight of the friesians
The Russians were searching for dairy heifers to build a new herd in the Republic of Tatarstan and found what they needed in Victoria. Normally the shipment would be dispatched by sea, but as this report shows, this consignment gave a whole new meaning to 'cattle class'.
What lies beneath
Faced with the trials and tribulations of unhelpful seasons and unfriendly financial landscapes, it is no wonder more and more Australian farmers are scanning the horizons for opportunities to diversify. For many that means trialling new crops and new farming systems. However on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula, one grain grower has delved even deeper and come up with a very lucrative "cash crop" indeed.
Still Life
Making a living in the highly competitive world of fine art is hard enough for most and doing it far from the big city art markets is even more challenging. However Sculptor Brett Garling is attracting attention far beyond his home near Dubbo in central western New South Wales.
Knights' Realm
For nearly 20 years the McKell medal has been awarded for outstanding contributions in soil and land conservation. The latest McKell medal winners are siblings from Victoria who've made their own property a showcase and spent years encouraging others to follow their example.
Country Practice
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia claims there is an immediate need for an extra eighteen hundred qualified medicos in country towns. Rather than sit back and complain about their plight, a couple of experienced general practitioners in South Australia have taken things into their own hands.
31 January 2009
Drier land farming
The Federal Government's water buy-back program has left some irrigators in the lurch, but many have happily sold their water entitlements. Some will stay on the land, others are looking for a future elsewhere.
Top Serve
While the visual impact of plump ripe strawberries has long been a secret of their success, the industry in Australia is keen now to 'lead' consumers by the nose towards some new varieties that smell and taste every bit as good as they look.
Dr Dolittle
If trends in Europe and North America are anything to go by, animal welfare is set to become the next major factor in consumers' buying habits. According to one of the world's leading animal scientists, agriculture needs to close the gap between claims made by animal advocacy groups and the reality of what actually happens on farms. Dr Temple Grandin has a unique view of the world and how animals see it.
Field of Dreams
In the United States Midwest, annual State Fairs are a significant part of the rural fabric, much like Australia, and the most famous of these is the Iowa State Fair.
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Media Life: Auburn's Epic WS100 is star of new movie
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At one time, Media Life was convinced that Western States 100 runners were a crazed bunch of uber-athletes. Over time, that opinion has morphed considerably into healthy respect for those who attempt to run 100 miles through the Sierra onfoot – in 24 hours or less. They're overachievers, perhaps. But also driven, super-athletic, competitive and, above-all, goal oriented. And while finishing is good enough for some, a new film that debuts in San Francisco Dec. 2 called "Unbreakable: The Western States 100" shows the drive to succeed behind the best of the best. Reno, Nev.-based JB Benna of Journeyfilms locks his lens in on four of the favorites to win in the 2010 edition of the Western States 100. An ultramarathoner himself and a Western States finisher, Benna ran 34 miles of the run two years ago carrying a 10-pound camera to film some amazing on-the-trail footage of front-runners Hal Koerner, Geoff Roes, Anton Krupicka and Kilian Jornet. Another seven camera operators along the route captured the gritty resolve of the pack leaders, while interviews with running legends like Auburn's own Tim Twietmeyer, multiple run champ Scott Jurek and Meadow Vista WS10 pioneer Gordon Ainsleigh helped provide perspective. Benna and his team have already completed documentaries on David Horton's 2,700-mile run of the Pacific Crest Trail and ultramarathoning iron man Dean Karnaze's quest to run 50 marathons in 50 states over 50 days. The Western States 100 has been the subject of many TV documentaries in the past, including a period in the 1970s when it was featured on ABC's "Wide World of Sports." But the 90-plus minutes of "Unbreakable" was the first documentary that zeroed in on the upper echelon of runners competing in the 2010 ultramarathon, Benna said. "It's kind of the pinnacle of the sport – the Super Bowl of ultra-running," Benna said. "There has never been a film about this level of competition and it all came together in one year." While San Francisco will be the scene of the "Unbreakable" debut, about 35 more screenings are already being lined up. Close to home, Benna said the Western States 100 lottery Dec. 10 at Placer High School will be a chance to premiere the film in Auburn. Media Life's Gus Thomson can be reached at (530) 852-0232 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Yippee, I do believe I have come up with a fun way to make recycled plastic bottle flowers that look artfully elegant! Just in time for spring, though of course these flowers will last practically forever, and are great to have on hand for a last minute centerpiece. Plus your recycled plastic flower bouquet will be the talk of the town, and then you'll end up teaching all of your friends to make them too, so do keep that in mind! Truthfully, no one actually asked me to teach them how to make them, they just asked to take some home! Oh and the kindergarten teacher borrowed a bouquet to teach her students about recycling, which made me very happy!
The story goes like this: in September 2011 I made some gold plastic bottle flowers for my succah, and posted about them as simple plastic bottle flower ornaments. As I recall I didn't think they looked quite finished enough, and when I ran out of time I stuffed them all into a garbage bag, where they sat patiently awaiting their debut here! Last week I needed some arrangements, eight to be exact for a community party, and decided to try combining a small version of my giant paper flowers with the a newly updated and improved version of plastic bottle flowers, namely with fabric rosette centers! And I'm happy to say I love the results.
So gather together your supplies and follow the tutorials which I've linked to below. For each bouquet you'll need at least two paper flowers and six to eight (or more for a huge bouquet) plastic bottle flowers in a variety of sizes.
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For the paper flowers: follow my tutorial here, just make a five petaled flower using the smallest petal only. Make pom poms from pink yarn, ours is variegated, and attach with hot glue.
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Randolph Westphal of Nidderau, Germany, poses for a photo with his sled dogs, Nanook, a Siberian husky, and Chinook, an Alaskan malamute, at the Holiday Inn on East Market Street in Harrisonburg on Wednesday. In 1987, Westphal was diagnosed with malignant skin cancer and given six months to a year to live. More than 25 years later, he is in the midst of his sixth world cycling tour to tell cancer patients to "never give up." (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
Westphal gives Chinook and Nanook some exercise in the parking lot at the Holiday Inn on Wednesday. The distance Westphal has traveled with his dogs — he is up to about 130,000 miles from all the world trips — landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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For "I", for "S", forever!
For Iowa State all the way.
Let's go! To show them what the gang's all here for,
Go! To show them how the Cyclones cheer.
For "I", for "S", forever!
For Iowa State do it right!
It's time to climb up on the vict'ry wagon,
Fight! Iowa State, Fight! Fight!
No one said Mizzou fans are smart.
Keepers of the Faith -- The Unknown
Wow that's epic alright
"I'll hold off on buying into a blog called.... widerightandnattylight."
When Prepared, Fear No One.
That board sucks. Who the hell would want to post on that crap?
This IS the fanbase that brought us roger sprague.
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"I'll hold off on buying into a blog called.... widerightandnattylight."
I wouldn't Its all pure gold.
I wonder if they also believe Masoli is headed to the Hawkeyes, or ISU is actually filling their basketball roster with Family Matters crew?
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No one said Mizzou fans are smart.
yeah, WRNL seems about their speed. Color me shocked that some Tiger fan took it as fact.
Wear the fox hat.
its just keeps growing ... the fight with the NU guy is my favorite part
MU fan: "are you saying Cornell is as good as Nebraska?"
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This IS the fanbase that brought us roger sprague.
God, I enjoy Roger. That is one of the best things now that we get to keep the Big 12.
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I hate that board- I appreciate CF so much because I can navigate the thread without clicking each post.
Wide right and Natty Light is my new favorite website...it's my favorite brand of funny
I check it out every morning after I check CF. Then I get ****** that they dont have a new better-know-an-opponent. I think they should do this for BB too- that way they can string this bashing forever!
Gotta say...the stuff they put out there makes me laugh, but I've gone to the site only via links posted here.
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Blown Fuse Helpful Information A fuse is designed to blow in the event of a circuit overload stopping the voltage flow. Most power distribution centers are located under the hood or dash. Heavy duty fuses are used to supply voltage to sub electrical systems which then power many smaller accessories. Use a test light to check a fuse condition. If a blown fuse is discovered replace with equal amperage rating. Common Problems
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