[7/22/2010 SteppersUSA Daily News]
Lot's Going On!
By Markie Bee
National Chicago Style Steppers Day
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Sometimes when there's a lot going on I just don't know where to start. If you've visited SteppersUSA.Com or Facebook in the last day you'll notice I've responded to all of the messages I got asking about National Chicago Style Steppers Day (NCSSD) T-Shirts.
I'm not in a position to buy a bunch of shirts and pay a shop to warehouse and print my designs (I have a whole bunch (of designs) in my mind) so I did the best thing possible with all things considered. I used the Facebook Shirt Shop application. All I had to do was to create the design and upload it to the application and they take care of the rest. They have the shirts (in different colors for $2 extra), the equipment to print on the shirts and the whole thing cost's me the time to make the design and upload the file. They even ship for free. So if you want a National Chicago Style Steppers Day T-Shirt (they're about as "official" as they can be right now since I'm the guy who came up with the idea in the first place) visit the Facebook Shirt Shop application and order one or ten. If you're not on Facebook, I guess you can give someone who is the $15 to order one for you.
Tuesday night at Mr. G's at the World's Largest Steppers Competition (WLSC) New Skool Original semi-finals a camera man from Fox32 News came and shot some video of people stepping as DJ Raphael cranked the music up.  

 

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Last night the segment aired and the DVR on my computer grabbed it and I'm sharing it on SteppersUSA (below with the You Tube Videos) as well as on Facebook (video quality is pretty good considering I'm using rabbit ear antenna and a $15 USB TV card). If you're on Facebook, be sure to tag the people who are in the video who may have missed the nine o'clock news on Fox.
After talking with Pete Frazier, I found the Fox camera man will be at the rest of the semi-finals in Chicago collecting footage. I also discussed with Pete shooting the rest of the semi-finals from the floor instead of from my perch next to the DJ so I can get those shots you can't get from a static camera location. Every time I see those camera men with those (very expensive) high definition camera's I get a bad case of camera envy. Those things cost more than some people make in ten years though... but I can dream!
Another WLSC note, If you go to WLSContest.Com when you hit the home page, you'll hear the new radio commercial that's scheduled to air soon.
Monique Salter from the Step and Think Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation has posted the price sheet for the ads for the book they will be doing for the ten hour dance-a-thon for breast cancer awareness on October 30th at the Dolton Expo. It's a worthy cause and it's worth throwing a few dollars toward an ad in the book for the event. Last years event was well attended and I expect this year's to be also. If you haven't signed up a team to dance in the dance-a-thon, what are you waiting for? Head over to the website and sign up... here's the link www.dance.stepandthinkpink.org. Instructors it's time to represent with your class!
Back to the NCSSD for a moment, I was informed through a message on Facebook that the Rhythm Ryders are hosting an event to celebrate our dance on August 14th in Warren, OH... they haven't contacted me back with location details, but once they do I'll post it for you in the perpetual steppers events calendar..

What are you doing on August 14th? Please let me know!

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