By Carol Mills
Staff Writer
LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
Members of the Corbin Dudes & Dolls Square Dancing Club circled, twirled and entertained the residents at Village Heights Friday — all because they enjoy giving something back to their community.
“We do this because if we can dance for those people, sometime somebody might come dance for us in the future,” President Howard Daniels said. “The ones who do the dancing during the day are retired. There’s no way we could do that and work. We just try to give something back to the community.”
The club celebrated its 47th anniversary this year and has about 50 members.
“There’s a lot of history behind it I don’t know,” Daniels said. “We still have four of the original members. They’re in their 80s and they still dance.”
Harold Adkins, 84, has been a member of the club since its beginning in 1963 and was its first president.
“I like the people and I like the exercise,” he said. “There are hundreds of people I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t been in the club. We visit the clubs in Lexington and Nicholasville. I’ve had more fun dancing than anything else I’ve ever done. We have a potluck dinner the third Saturday of every month and we have 60 to 70 people.”
A group of eight travels to area nursing homes and assisted living facilities to entertain the elderly. They visit the Laurel Senior Living Communities campus about once a month.
The club members do not charge to square dance.
The members meet from 7 to 9 p.m. every Thursday at the old train depot in Corbin, now a tourism building. They will start teaching classes Aug. 19. The cost is $30 for 15 lessons, the first two are free.
For more information, call Daniels at 524-4648 or 528-6543.
Staff writer Carol Mills can be reached at cmills@sentinel-echo.com.
