Do-si-don't: Some West Cambridge residents outraged to learn dancing is going on at local youth center

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Just to clear up a few things. NEFFA (the New England Folk Festival Association, the 501(c)(3) non-profit that runs the weekly contra dance usually in Concord MA) has run three (3) dances at the WCYCC since it opened. I am the chair of the committee that runs the dance. We previously ran dances at the VFW from 1990 until it's sale to the city in the mid-2000's.

If there are other dances being run there, it is not our group, and I cannot vouch for the conduct of the attenders to those dances. Our dancers are simply terrific: community-oriented, considerate people of all ages who love music and dance.

The hall has been constructed with windows that open a teeny bit on the side of the apartment building. The windows do not open on the side of the garden apartments. Unlike the old VFW, which had two doors in the back and one in the front which provided air, but could let out sound, the new hall is on the 2nd floor with doors that open in protected exit stairwells -- not the outside.

One of our long-time dancers, Arnold Reinhold, lives at Fresh Pond Place. He would be more than happy to talk with you about contra dancing, I imagine.