At Your Service: Recreation

The At Your Service column appears on Mondays in The News-Journal. Featured this week are recreational groups in Volusia and Flagler counties. African Violet Club of Daytona: 386-673-4737. Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), Volusia Region: 386-566-2537. ARC Flagler County...

Dance Club President Zaleta Combines Love for Dance and Leading

By: Kathleen Sullivan '14/News Staff Christina, or Tina, Zaleta '12 is a dedicated math major and business minor from East Hartford, Conn. She has been involved in th...

Dancers: Contra get-together is good old-fashioned fun

They do it for exercise They do it to meet people They do it to hear good music But mostly they do it ''cause it's fun,' said Boe Walker, of Boe's Strings music store in downtown Frederick

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FDR birthday balls helped raise funds, awareness in polio battle

“Truly McLean County danced so that others might walk!” That was Charles S. Kirkpatrick’s slogan for the seven annual Depression-era “President’s Birthday Balls,” in which high society types and assorted hoity-toity danced into the midnight hour for a good cause — ending the scourge of polio.