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Patch Portrait: Square Dancing into Life and Love

This week's installment also features Skokie's biggest theater character in town.

This week's Patch Portraits was produced and edited by Philip Downie, Carrie Porter, Quintin Slovek and Allison Williams. Check back on Mondays for the next installment.

Also showcased, an entertainment operations manager who talks to Skokie Patch.

Microphone in one hand and vinyl record in the other, Cliff Benson has been calling out moves for square dancers since he was 14 years old.

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About four decades later, square dancing continues to footprint his life: He practices on Tuesday nights; calls on Friday nights; and sees his wife every day (whom he met through square dancing).

The 55-year-old explains to Morton Grove Patch the common denominator found in square dancing.

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And if anyone wants to give it a whirl, square dancing practice is every Tuesday from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Glenview Park Center Building in Room 201.

Norma LoPresti provided one photo.


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