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Banner raids are a
tongue-in-cheek ritual used to promote the visitation of square dance
clubs with each other. The Banner itself in this context is usually a
rectangular cloth replica of the club’s parade banner (see Hayloft
Steppers banner above)
A banner is “won” or Stolen
when members of one club visit another and the visited club will award
their banner. A banner is then
“retrieved” or Recovered when the visited club likewise visits the
visiting club.
Rules differ slightly between
regions but here are the May 29,2006 WACA Requirements
TO CAPTURE TRAVEL BANNER
1. Any WACA club attending
another club's dance with four or more graduate couples wearing club
badges is eligible to capture that club's banner at one or two separate
dances.
2. If two or more WACA clubs
attend another WACA club dance with at least four graduate couples
wearing club badges, each club's name will be placed in a container and
the club drawn will capture the banner.
3. To retrieve your banner from
another WACA club, you must visit the dance with at least four graduate
couples wearing club badges at one or two separate dances.
4. To retrieve your banner and
be eligible to capture the host club's banner, you must attend the
dance with eight graduate couples wearing club badges (four couples to
retrieve your banner and four couples to capture the host club's
banner).
5. No club can capture more
than one banner on a given night within the WACA organization.
6. If a club's travel banner is
not available when you visit a club, the president will ensure that you
will get the banner when they retrieve it or they will return the visit
as soon as possible.
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR WACA VISITATION CARD SYSTEM
1. To qualify to have the WACA
card signed, the visiting club is required to attend a dance with four
couples or one square.
2. If anyone, two or three
couples attend a dance the treasurer of the host club will keep an
unsigned WACA card with a note of the number of couples attending from
the visiting club. The treasurer will hold this card until a total of
four couples have visited at which time the card will be signed and
given to the Visiting club.
The Hayloft Steppers, as one of
the most widely traveled clubs in the area, full supports this
program. Some of the banners we
now hold are the Fairs
‘N Squares, Manchester
SDC, Monadnock
Squares and the Windham
Whirlers.
The clubs that have recently
stolen our banner are the Sutton
County Squares and the Montachusett
Twirlers
See maps and
flyers from some of the clubs we have visited
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