| Pretty
in Pink
Cedar Beach Dance Hall, Musselman Lake, June 11.05
 At
noon it was already 35 degrees with 500% humidity... we had
started lugging the gear down the stairs to the waiting fleet
of transports to set up at Cedar Beach Dance hall for the
Pretty in Pink fundraiser for the Walk
to End Breast Cancer. Response to the show was solid but
with the heat we weren't sure what the turn out would be...
 JoJo's
sister Karen JoJo's sister Karen and Richard (Croc) had shown
sporting a bright Pink hairdo... this was just a taste of
the sea of pink about to invade the quiet banks of Musselman
Lake... The doors opened at 7:00 with DJ Mike Felds spinning
the party tunes and playing camp counselor to the hordes of
screaming kids... with hula hoop and bubble-gum contests the
kids were in perfect party mood.. the door was busy as the
party goers filled the hall... Pink was everywhere and from
the AVC boys shirts to Tom Brown's hair to the Summerhayes
family's matching attire...everyone wanted to party...
The Slime Dogs took the stage around 9:30 and kicked the hall
into a bopping dance sweat... JoJo was the true Pink Diva
with a hot pink wig and a special pink outfit all the way
from Victoria
Secrets... the boys in the band sported the manly salmon
look with the exception of Grant's pink ensemble that Jo and
Laura had chosen from the women’s fashion section of
Walmart..."Hey, I have those pants!" said a cute
startled teenager as she looked in shock at Grant in his Capri’s...
It wasn't ‘til halfway through the second set that we
noticed Stevie wasn't sweating! I twisted between a few amps
to the drum stage and noticed that Stevie was rocking in his
own little comfort controlled area with his own 24" fan...
I laughed and yelled "you bastard" as I went back
to join the rest of the crew under the melting banks of spotlights
at front stage... the middle of the stage was reserved for
Laura's swarm of dancing girlfriends who danced and sang and
rocked all night...
At midnight the spotlights revealed the tall lanky profile
of Cedar Beaches' worst nightmare "Wally"... as
the Pungent Brothers attacked the stage with their rhythmic
rants about Older Women, WaWa, George Bush and Jen with no
pants filled the hall...
 The
dance hall filled with over 200 friends, neighbours and trailer
park partiers who were all harassed by Diva Jen and her flock
of muscle men in pink working the door along with Croc and
Karen for a great cause... Laura and her team of side-kicks
worked the room and sold all of the Pink Wristbands and by
the time the steam had settled we had raised over $3200 for
Breast Cancer Research... all JoJo has left to do now is walk
the 60kms in September...
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