First BIDA Dance of the 2025-2026 Season is September 7, 2025!!!

[Persis Thorndike]

Hello, all you lovely BIDA Volunteers! 

I hope your summer has been wonderful. I had a pretty nifty but hardworking time at Maine Fiddle Camp for June and August camps, went to a bunch of Maine dances, heard a lot of great music. 

Our first dance is next Sunday, September 7, lesson at 7 pm, dance 7:30-10:30 pm. We've got Alyssa Adkins calling dances to the fabulous tunes of Stomp Rocket (Bethany Waickman, Glen Loper, and Dave Langford), and it should be an amazing mask-optional dance. We will be running an alternative air filtering test after the dance ends to see if it is a viable alternative to requiring masking.

We need the following shifts filled;

Set up (bring fans, baskets of posters, lights, reg table, 5-gallon water coolers from under the stage, set up lights & posters with tape, fill water coolers): 6:15-7:30 pm, 1-2 people;

Early Door (welcome dancers, take money on sliding scale, make tick mark to count how many dancers arrive at each time period, offer free mask): 6:30-8 pm, 2-3 people;

Late Door (welcome dancers, take money on sliding scale, make tick mark to count how many dancers arrive at each time period, offer free mask): 8-9, 1 person.

Please let me know which shift you can fill by reply email or text to 508-282-0089. I'll send a confirming email or text for your shift.

I look forward to seeing you all soon, but not at this dance. I need to be in Vermont early Monday morning to take my 3-year-old granddaughter Oona to her first  day of day care and take care of my elderly granddog Winnie.

Cheers,

Persis

Persis L Thorndike

BIDA Board, Volunteer Coordinator, BTS Committee

508-282-0089

pers...@gmail.com

[Persis Thorndike]

I have a clarification on the filtering from Jeff Kaufman. I remembered wrongly, and want to make sure you all are on the same page as us. Here's Jeff's reply to me.

"Hi Persis,

Thanks for sending out volunteer announcements!  Unfortunately "we will be running an alternative air filtering test after the dance ends to see if it is a viable alternative to requiring masking" isn't quite right:

* We're going to be running an alternative air *cleaning* test, but it doesn't use filtering.  It's testing two options: UVC and glycol vapors. 

* The test will be during the dance.

* While some people see this as a potential alternative to masking, others see it as a potential supplement.  The board hasn't taken a position on this, and if we did discuss and decide that would be after we run another survey.

* We are maybe going to run a different test after the dance ends, but this is to measure the efficacy of our existing ventilation system.

Jeff K”

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Persis L. Thorndike
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