Thursday, July 31, 2008





Hello allI wanted to drop a quick line to you all before I leave town for August. I want to congratulate all the dancers on a very successful feis! You all danced well, and many many dancers acheived personal goals, or placed high in dances that we have been working hard to correct. I am also pleased to announce that our school won the figure competition for the school with the most first place wins. I choose not to announce it at the feis, as a matter of good sportsmanship to the other schools. Thank you to all the teams that particpated and helped the school win this award.
Thank you also to the many many parents that volunteered and helped make the feis a great success! So many parents signed up for different jobs, and many parents worked extra to fill in the gaps of the schedule. I am very impressed to see the amount of support so many parents provided this last weekend. I heard from many outside parents, teachers, and our judges that we run one of the best feiseanna of the year. I want you to know that each time I hear that I know our success full lays on the shoulders of our hard working families. You all make it the great feis it is, and I really appreciate it.
I have been reading the survey from feisworx and have talked to a number of parents in regards to making next year even better. If you have a suggestion or noticed something that can be improved for next year, please let me know and I will take this to the committee. I also encourage anyone who would like to see an improvement in the way the feis works to join the feis committee and help us to prepare for next year.
I would like to thank the different members of the feis committe who worked so hard this year to make the feis a success.Mike and Diane worked so hard to make sure that we had a great hotel and that the hotel staff worked on our behalf all weekend. Diane was also great at keeping me on task and focused throughout the year. Thanks to the Garrigans for their help with awards. They store the awards, do and inventory each year, help me with the order, delivery, and presentation of the awards all weekend, then the re-storage of the awards. Margie and Kim did another excellent job with the volunteers this year, especially with the addition of the on line sign up sheet. The feis only runs as well as the volunteer base working the feis. I think Margie and Kim have this down to a science. Special thanks to Laura Tuey, who worked on our ads procurement, put the program together, ran registration the whole weekend, and made sure our website was up to date all year long. Thank you so much for all your hard work and care for the school and the feis Laura, we couldn't do it without you.
I think we have all earned a nice break in August! I will see you all the second week of September. I look forward to another successful year of dance, and another wonderful Dance for Life feis.XORobert

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