You are now able to register online with your credit cards via our online registration link. It is located on the registration page in the upper right hand corner. Feel free to check out the required format and should you have any questions, simply contact our registration chairmen. We know you have been asking for this feature for sometime and we are very pleased to be able to provide you with this opportunity to register at your convenience.

Our committee is hard at work planning a great convention full of lots of exciting "MAINE JEWELS" so keep checking our web site on a regular basis. Hope to see you there !!

Congratulations are in order for MICHAEL & BETTY GARDELLA of Westerly, RI.  Their names were drawn as the winners of the pre-registration drawing that took place just after the first of the new year.  Everyone who registered by 12/31/09 was eligible for a $100.00 gift card and we hope that the Gardella's will enjoy their prize.  They are members of the Surfside 8's in RI, so be sure to congratulate them.

All dancers who register for the 52nd New England Convention this April in Biddeford, ME will be entered in a drawing for 2 FREE REGISTRATIONS for this year's convention.  That's right ... anyone who has their registration postmarked by March 1, 2010 is eligible.  A $70.00 value is yours just for sending in your registration ... what a deal !! 

Spring is here and despite all of the rain the Gems of Biddeford, Maine are DAZZLING !!  Finals preparations are being made for what promises to be a great convention, so don't delay .... register today if you haven't done so !!

Here is how our "GRAND TOTAL of 753" is made up . . . Massachusetts is pulling away from Maine !!  Connecticut - 99, Massachusetts - 201, Maine - 189, New Hampshire - 107, Rhode Island - 42, Vermont - 78, New Jersey - 4, New York - 10, Canada - 15 and various other states - 8.