Junior Linden ballroom dancers excel

One of the young couples who displayed flair and style

Patrons along with a representative from the Ministry of Education were forced to endure a two-hour delay without explanation before the fourth annual Junior Ballroom got underway at the Linmine Constabulary Hall on Saturday 15 August.

The event, organized by the Right Step Dance School and the Linden Ballroom Association was scheduled to commence at 4.00 PM but did not begin until 6.17 PM. Patrons, many of them mothers who had accompanied their children, who were participating in the event and were punctual, were forced to exercise military-like patience, sitting in their seats, listening to recorded music of the decades of the sixties through the eighties, played by Electric Dreams.

But from the opening dance by diminutive Darren Semple and his partner Coleen Walcott, the