Square dancers to kick up their heels at park

Club with Banks and Forest Grove members to perform Saturday during ‘Cowboy Day’

By Nancy Townsley

The Forest Grove News-Times, Jul 21, 2010, Updated Jul 21, 2010

It’s been a social outlet for at least three centuries, and it’s Oregon’s official state dance.

This Saturday, members of a Hillsboro square dancing club, the Sunset Promenaders, plan to strut their stuff at L.L. “Stub” Stewart State Park between Banks and Vernonia.

Retired Forest Grove lawyer and club member Bill Young, 80, will be there during the park’s third annual “Cowboy Day” to demonstrate some dances and educate spectators about his favorite hobby.

“It’s a great way to meet people, and it’s just a whole lot of fun,” said Young, 80, who started square dancing after his wife died seven years ago.

“It became a social contact, which I needed badly in my life,” he said.

Young and caller Harold Kleve, a Hillsboro resident and retired deputy sheriff, are eager to promote their hobby. The group will dance in the pavilion at the Hilltop Day Use area of the park starting at about 1 p.m.

Kleve’s dance selection “will match the day’s theme of re-living some of our earlier days on the range,” said Young.

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