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Daddy’s girls

Friday, February 17, 2012

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John Longan spins his daughter Vanessa at the Daddy Daughter Dance in Hollis on Feb. 10. The event helped raise money for the Nashua Humane Society.

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Bella Haytay, Isabella Le Blanc and Kristin Hallerman make Valentines at the craft table at the Daddy Daughter Sweetheart Dance in Hollis on Feb. 10.

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Mike Tighe and his daughter Abby dance to Chicken Eye Joe at the Daddy Daughter Sweetheart Dance in Hollis on Feb. 10.

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Emily Ott makes an ice cream sunday as Caroline Kennedy looks on at the Daddy Daughter Sweetheart Dance in Hollis on Feb. 10..

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Jocelyn Gillespi leaps while dancing with her father, Mike at the Daddy Daughter Sweetheart Dance in Hollis on Feb. 10.

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John Longan spins his daughter Vanessa at the Daddy Daughter Dance in Hollis on Feb. 10. The event helped raise money for the Nashua Humane Society.

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By BETHANY POULIN

Correspondent

HOLLIS – If you drove by the Lawrence Barn last Friday night, you may have seen flashing lights and lots of pink and red through the windows from the sixth annual Daddy Daughter Sweetheart Dance.

Dads in their suits and little girls in their best party dresses danced and frolicked in the main hall of the barn as local teen disc jockey Grace Howard played current hits, favorite oldies and dance classics.

Howard inherited the honor of the DJ position from her older brother who had managed the sound for the previous five Daddy-Daughter dances, according to the event’s founder Cynthia Andreola.

Andreola started the dance six years ago shortly after moving to Hollis in response to a conversation with her daughters about what they missed from their prior New Jersey home.

“They both said that the only thing they missed was the Daddy Daughter Dance,” Andreola said. So she started one here.

From the very first year, she had fantastic turnout so she seized the opportunity to do good within the community. The next four raised money for the local Big Brothers Big Sisters selling to capacity each year.

However, this year she handed the gauntlet off to her daughter, Allison Andreola, 15, who decided to donate the proceeds to the Nashua Humane Society. Allison and her friends did most of the work necessary to make the night a special one for the daddies and the daughters.

The evening’s festivities included a Valentine’s craft table, make-your-own ice cream sundaes with lots of red and pink candy toppings, a portrait photographer to create a lasting memory of the special evening, and lots of red and pink decorations.

Though the sundaes and crafts drew a small crowd throughout the evening, dancing clearly topped the evening’s events. The floor remained jammed all night as the girls formed conga lines, danced to Chicken Eye Joe and convinced their dad’s to shake it out on the floor. And a room full of little girls left both tired and smiling.

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