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\ CAOGO Nd ¢ oY Oitthack Paul Puckrin can’t explain. but he sure can feel it! Working for a living provides the necessities of life; passion nourishes the soul. It’s passion — the kind with the power to lift you temporarily away from day-to-day cares — which drives Dr. Paul Puckrin and Port Perry’s “Outback Cloggers.” “People just naturally want to move to music. And because clogging re- quires focus, it gives me a mental holiday,” says Paul. Paul leads the “Outbacks”, a group of over 50 local residents who share his love of folk dancing. Clogging — its name derived from the heavy wooden “clog” footware worn by its originators centuries ago — carries a rich histot from Irish, English, and Scottish cultures. The Europeans imported their tradi- tional dances as they settled the New World. “Clogging adopted elements by ‘stealing’ from the pure European styles,” Please turn to page 4