There will be a lot of business done at our next meeting, including the celebration of November and December Lion Birthdays, and a discussion, led by President LINDA, on the future direction of our Club. New ideas on how to stimulate interest, recruit new members, and perhaps remove some perceived barriers that discourage active membership are welcome. What do you like most about MCLC?

President LINDA, having been left with no prep time by the departure of the former Head Fruit Cake, has ordered about the same quantities of various kinds of nuts and malted milk balls that we sold last year, and is trusting the rest of us to move that merchandise. She is still hunting for the fruit cake source for those who can't live without it. If she can get them, one pounders will probably be $4.25 and 1 ½ pounders $8.25. The initial order will be delivered at our meeting next week - get out your lists from last year and get going. We need the money, and the President needs some help. She shouldn't have to carry the whole Club operations singlehanded. Volunteer to give her a hand, and sell those goodies. We need to sell cases of nuts to nut cases, and everyone else. Each variety comes from the vendor in cases of 12, and other varieties can be ordered if you can sell a full case.

We think the Beaver Dam Lions are coming with the citrus fruit next week, too. An opportunity to get some good oranges and grapefruit and help out another Lions Club at the same time. $14-$15-$16 for a box of grapefruit, half & half or oranges. JIM SCHUTZ is the contact for that one.

TTT (TemporaryTailTwister) ALEX WONG led off with another Lion quiz, and again we flunked. The most recently added language for The Lion magazine is Polish; DICK POMO was in the Wisconsin Lion but not properly identified, and his wife Sharon was also in the photo but not identified at all; 1964 was the year we sponsored the Madison West Lions Club, and therefore became Madison Central LC; MELISSA NOVINSKI's Lion Birthday is in December and MELISSA ABBOTT's is in August; Club presidents from ‘83 to'89 were BOHN, WILCOX, ZIMMERMAN, BRADLEY, ST. JOHN, ALLEY and JABLONIC;. And a Lion who sponsors five new members gets the Membership Advancement Key. About all you'd have needed was a copy of the Directory - surely you have one with you at all times?!

A Lion polo shirt was auctioned off, with PADDHE HEINEN as the successful bidder. BOB BOHN appeared to have something to do with this, but he also appeared confused as to the exact origin of the item. Your Editor has one like it, and it came by way of JABO JABLONIC, who had a batch made.

We have a BOHN to pick - first the polo shirt, then the "Bishop" gave the invocation, and after President LINDA led the singing the first announcement she called for came from BOB BOHN. A good one, tho- he needs only one more volunteer bell-ringer, from 6 to 8 PM Wed. Dec. 8 at Sentry Hilldale, to fulfill our commitment to the Salvation Army. We give our time, people give their money, and the Army gives its effort to help those who really need it, both at Holiday time and thruout the year. Out of respect for BOB's work in setting up this act of service, HO HO HO!!!

The East High School Swing Choir will be our Christmas musical program, on December 21. OTTO FESTGE has arranged it for us, and these young people always give us an entertaining show. Guests are welcome-bring your spouse, friends, prospective members, whatever. It would be nice to have a crowd.

JODI BURMESTER introduced our speakers, Neil Heinen and his wife Nancy Christy. Neil is, among other things, Editor of Madison Magazine, and Nancy owned the restaurant which was lost when they tore it down to build the new courthouse, and between them they talked about restaurants, food, recipes, newspaper restaurant reviews, and the magazine. "Madison" has a circulation of 19,000 and 85,000 readers (4 point something per magazine?) and they find that food covers sell. They write a lot of stories on food, trying to introduce their readers to specialties and new things at different locally owned restaurants, including not just individual food items but also style, and sometimes actual recipes. There is actually a term, "slow food", meaning locally owned restaurants serving locally grown items, regional recipes, heirloom items, house specialties - the opposite of all-alike chains featuring standardized menus. Madison has a high proportion of restaurants, many of which serve uncommon ethnic menus. They mentioned Nepalese as one not seen elsewhere. They try to make their magazine stories completely different from the "restaurant reviews" which appear in newspapers, often written by reporters without a lot of knowledge of food preparation and service, and which can be very damaging to a family-owned restaurant when they are inconsistent, superficial and critical. An unstructured, informal and interesting program.