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WAITSBURG - - Most Waitsburgers know Mickey Richards as "Izzy's Dad."

But what many don't know is that the affable owner of the town's iconic dromedary is as good a dancer as he is a camel handler.

If you'd have set foot in Walla Walla's Heath & Co. (now Barnabees) in the 1980s, chances are you'd have seen Richards practice or teach the two-step, waltz, polka or any country dance routine as often as six days a week.

"I practically lived there," he said. "It was a bad day when it closed."

But despite the distractions of work and family, Richards, now 50, never lost his love for dancing and want...