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      • New Year's Eve Dance
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      • Mardi Gras Dance
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  • Home
  • About
  • 2025 Caller Line-Up
  • Officers & Directors
  • Lessons
  • Other Area Clubs & Events
  • Orange Blossom Specials
  • Banner Raids & Visits
  • Videos
  • Event Photo Albums
    • Student Graduations
    • Conventions & Festivals
    • Non-Holiday Sunday Dances
    • Golf Tournaments
    • Other Events
  • Holiday Photo Albums
    • New Year's Eve Dance
    • Valentine's Day
    • Mardi Gras Dance
    • St. Patrick's Day Dance
    • Easter Dance
    • Cinco de Mayo Dance
    • Mother's Day Dance
    • Memorial Day
    • Father's Day
    • Independence Day Dance
    • Halloween Dance
    • Christmas Dance
  • A Look at Our Past
    • Featured Stories
    • Past Presidents
    • Callers & Cuers
  • Square Dance Guidelines
    • Ten Commandments
    • Square Dance Manners
    • Tips for Better Dancing
    • New Dancer Suggestions

A Beautiful Memory of Warmth & Kindness

Roberta & Bruce Troop

Square dancing is great fun and exercise. But it can also be a way to give back to the community. The Orange Blossom Specials, a dedicated group of Orange Blossom Squares dancers, provides demonstrations at a variety of venues.


One venue is nursing homes and retirement centers, and in the past, part of a demonstration in that setting included providing one of the residents with a beautiful handmade afghan crocheted by Roberta Troop, a former member of the Specials with her husband, Bruce.


The Specials began giving away an afghan with each performance when Bruce came up with the idea in 2003. Roberta was there to support his idea with her talent and time, fashioning over 500 afgans! Roberta thought of it as more than a hobby; it was a calling.


Roberta is no longer with us but memory of her efforts and kindness lives on in the pleasure she brought to so many over the years.

Bruce and Roberta present an afghan to a lucky recipient.

Another happy recipient, Penny, presented by Fran & Ed Garguila.

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