The next meeting is Tuesday, August 3, at the Edgewater. There will be three meetings in the month of August, on the 3rd, 17th, and 31st. Mark your calendars. No meeting the first week of September, and on September 14 we resume our regular schedule. Subject, of course, to revision, adjustments and manipulation.

A theme for the August meetings is emerging. Our speaker next week will be Barry Adams, reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal. He is their crime reporter, covering murders in particular, so he should have some interesting and perhaps mysterious things to say. Following programs will be someone from the "Booked For Murder" bookstore, and the deputy coroner. See the pattern here? We've all heard of people with murderous schedules, and it sounds as though President LINDA is starting out that way.

At our last meeting, LINDA not only presided, but led the song as well. ALEX WONG gave the invocation. There were no guests, but we heard briefly from new member PADDHE HEINEN, who has transferred to our Club from the Madison-Monona Lioness Club. New LCI rules credit all prior service in Lioness to someone who becomes a Lion. She said her daughter had attended Lions Camp, and, as is so often said, came hope happy and more self-reliant than when she went. That's what motivated her to join Lions. The Camp has as one of its main objectives the development of confidence and self-reliance in children who attend, as they find out they can do a lot more than they thought, and have fun doing it.

TOM STEVENS reported on Lions Day at the Camp. He toured the Camp and Eyeglass Center, and came away impressed by the job Wisconsin Lions are doing. He noted that Minnesota Lions brought in boxes and boxes of donated glasses, which our Center will recycle. Other Madison Central Lions attending were CHUCK BASFORD (with wife Holly), MELISSA ABBOTT, MARK LARSON, JOHN JENSON, and TERRY SCHAR. Each time you visit the Camp you see more improvements, including a new path and trestle to make more of the cabins handicapped accessible. The new cabins are light years ahead of the ones we had, particularly in the bathroom facilities and common areas. The chatter and laughter from the mess hall at mealtime is still the same, tho.

PHIL INGWELL reported on the International Convention, and presented President LINDA with the new International President's pin. CLARENCE F. KUSIAK is from Maryland, and his motto for this Lion year is "Share Success Through Service."

President LINDA announced a couple of special events in our Lion schedule. The meeting on the first Tuesday in October is being planned as an evening meeting, and on September 26th we hope to have a group attending the UW Volleyball team's match with perennial power Penn State. At the Fieldhouse. If you haven't seen these Badgers play, you've missed something good. (At some risk of getting in trouble, your Editor's take on the situation, especially after walking by the court on one occasion when a 6'4" opponent happened to be standing close by, "girls aren't as mere as they used to be!." That's the punch line from a fairly old joke.)

JIM BRADLEY introduced our speaker, Susan Jones, Coordinator of the Lakes and Watershed Commission, who gave us a good overview of what's going on in the Madison lakes. Blue-green algae are present, emit toxins on occasion, and are an intermittent and unpredictable threat. The recent anti-phosphorous ordinances will help, as the soil in the Madison area mostly has more than twice as much phosphorous as necessary for lawn growth, and excess phosphorous running off into the lakes contributes to algae and weed growth. The weed cutting machines working on the lakes can't possibly keep up with the growth of weeds, and so they just try to keep access lanes for boaters open on the waterways. The annual Take a Stake In The Lakes campaign helps to clean up the lakes and raise public awareness. Invasive exotic (not invented here) plants and animals are a constant threat. Current problems are with Eurasian Milfoil weeds, and zebra mussels. Boaters are urged to clean their boats carefully after each use, and allow a five-day drying out period between different locations, in order to avoid bringing in foreign organisms from other waters. Not a particularly attractive picture at present, but they're trying.

The 58th Annual New District Governor's Golf Outing, sponsored by the Stoughton Lions, will be on Aug. 10 at the Stoughton Country Club. Golf is $30 for 18 holes or $16 for nine: Carts are $37 per cart (holds two persons) for 18 holes or $22 for 9. Make up your own foursome and call the pro shop at (608) 873-8464 for a tee time. Dinner (sirloin and chicken) is $14.00, and must be reserved and paid for by Aug. 7. Call Lion Steve Burrell at (608) 873-6937 or Lion Virgil Martinson at (608) 873-5308 to reserve. JOHN JENSON usually coordinates this sort of thing for our Club, so you might check with him. Dinner at 6:30.

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Lion SHARON MOLL-BRENNAN, hospital development manager for the Lion's Eye Bank of Wisconsin, will be interviewed at 6:40 a.m. Wednesday, August 18, on NBC 15 (Madison) about her involvement with the Five Points of Life Ride, to raise awareness about donation.

Lion SHARON will bicycle from Seattle, Wash., beginning August 22, to the Kennedy Space Center arriving in Florida on October 15 with 11 other riders to promote awareness of the five ways people can share life with others through donation of whole blood, apheresis, marrow, cord blood, and organ, tissue and eye donation WDN volunteer and transplant recipient Dennis Erickson is part of the support team. The Wisconsin Coalition on Donation is working on generating other news stories about them, as well.