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3 comments September 30th, 2009
Last year, I gave free beer away while it lasted to those who had paid to vote for me to win the People’s Choice at Dancing with the Rockford Stars.
To read more about Dancing with the Rockford Stars this year Oct. 10 at the Clock Tower, go here.
To vote for your favorite dancer, with all money benefitting Family Counseling Services, go here.
Add comment July 20th, 2009
A few musings about the Bone Soiree fundraiser at and for the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford Saturday night:
1. Ouch. Rockford alderman Joe Sosnowski can bend backwards pretty-back-achingly far. Congrats to him and Laura Gibbs, WREX anchor, who won the Dancing with the TV Divas contest via audience applause, as well as the online vote on my blog. (Yeah, that’s me in the middle in the background, pointing with amused delight. I was a judge with Judge Rosemary Collins and Rep. Dave Winters.)
(Katy Mull/Register Star photo)
2. Ouch 2: The crowd of 185 or so was maybe half the size as last year’s. Blame the economy, publicity, overcast skies.
3. Darn. Wish I would have won the two-night stay in a condo overlooking Millennium Park in Chicago that was donated by the Kalchbrenners for an auction item. It went for way more than double my paltry $325 bid.
4. What a nice kid. Near the end of the night, the pre-teen son of Joe Bruscato, Winnebago County State’s Attorney who competed with Alice Barr of WIFR in the contest, said he wanted to have his photo taken in a photo booth with me. He’d inquired about what the booth was for. I told him and asked if he wanted to have his picture taken with me. Then I thought better of it. “Why don’t you go get your sister or ask one of those pretty diva dancers if they want to have their picture taken with you?” I asked him. “No, I want to take a picture with you,” he said. He probably didn’t want to have to go find someone else. We were standing five feet from the photo booth. But it made my night. If he ever runs for political office, he’s got my vote.
3 comments July 16th, 2009
And the winning couple in online voting for the Dancing with the TV Divas contest is Laura Gibbs, 13 News Today anchor, and Joe Sosnowski, Rockford 1st Ward alderman. They received 470,259 (62 percent) of the 762,405 votes cast.
Voting at my blog (see the post a ways below this post) started July 8 and ended at 5 p.m. Thursday.
In second: Kimberly Nelson, WQRF-39 anchor, and State Sen. Dave Syverson with 251,742 votes (33 percent). They won last year.
Alice Barr, WIFR-23 reporter, and Joe Bruscato, Winnebago County state’s attorney, received 40,404 votes, or 5 percent.
The online poll was just for fun.
The real competition is Saturday at Burpee Museum of Natural History. The Bone Soiree museum fundraiser of dinner, dance contest, dance lessons and auction starts at 6 p.m. For more information, go to burpee.org or call 815-965-3433.
19 comments July 8th, 2009
AND THE WINNING COUPLE IN THE ONLINE VOTING IS: Laura Gibbs and Joe Sosnowski with 62 percent of the 762,405 votes cast. Congrats, and we’ll see you Saturday night at the Burpee for the real competition, where audience applause determines the winner.
Total Votes: 762,405
(The following ran in this space before voting ended at 5 p.m. July 16.)
Vote for your favorite couple in Dancing with the TV Divas, Rockford’s Original Charity Dance Contest.
The competition is part of the Bone Soiree — A Continental Evening at Burpee July 18. The event is a fundraiser at and for the Burpee Museum of Natural History. Online voting is just for fun.
See Sen. Dave Syverson/Kimberly Nelson dance.
3 comments May 19th, 2009
First of all, don’t cringe in all your superiority and tell me I’m a boor because I can’t wait to watch two season final competitions tonight: “Dancing with the Stars” and “American Idol.”
The competitors are so close in “Dancing,” and I’m soooo curious about whether the androgynous but terrifically voiced Adam Lambert will outperform the more comfortable Kris Allen.
Add comment March 19th, 2009
Julie Dale, who teaches dance classes at Rock Valley College, says many newly engaged couples want to learn what they are calling “The Obama Dance.”
(AP photo)
You remember, it’s the dignified two-step slow-dance the President and Michelle Obama did as Beyonce sang “At Last,” Etta James’ 1961 R&B classic at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball on Jan. 20.
If you want to take lessons or merely dance at dance events, call Dale at 815-718-1814.
By the way, James wasn’t too happy with Beyonce singing her song at the inauguration, according to stories on Show Hype.
3 comments October 1st, 2008
Where should these contestants in the Oct. 4 Dancing with the Rockford Stars fundraiser for Family Counseling Services display the coveted mirror ball trophy if they win the People’s Choice award?
Vote as often as you like.
18 comments July 15th, 2008
The vote is now closed, as of 5 p.m. Friday, July 18.
And the winner is ….
Kimberly Nelson, WQRF-39 anchor and WTVO-17 reporter, and State Senator Dave Syverson, R-Rockford, are the winners of the just-for-fun “Dancing with the TV Divas” vote at the Ask Geo blog at http://blogs.e-rockford.com/askgeo/.
They captured 49 percent (23,528) of the 48,337 votes cast since the poll opened Tuesday. Voting stopped at 5 p.m. Friday.
Alice Barr, WIFR-23 reporter, and Rockford Ald. Doug Mark, R-3, finished second of the three couples, with 35 percent, or 16,918 votes. Laura Gibbs, WREX-13 reporter, and State Rep. Dave Winters, finished third, with 16 percent, or 7,891 votes.
The number of votes cast was a record or near-record for any rrstar.com poll.
While this vote was just for the heck of it, the real winners will be chosen by audience applause Saturday at the dance competition at the Bone Soiree fundraiser at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 N. Main St., Rockford. Tickets at $90 are available in advance and at the door. For more information, call 815-965-3433 or go to burpee.org.
Check out below a rehearsal video of the three teams.
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For more information about the Burpee fundraiser and other dancing in the Rockford area, read this column.
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