Next Meeting: Tuesday, August 15 - Our program will be Glenn Lloyd, from Wisconsin Consumer Protection, speaking on “The Latest Scams and Frauds.” Sounds like something we all should hear. MICHELLE VETTERKIND is the Program Host.

TaleTwister's Jackpot
$632

President SAL began the last meeting with the pledge, LINDA BERGREN stepped up to lead the song, with a disclaimer about the pitch, and then LINDA switched hats to give the invocation. TT ROSS ROYSTER had his usual drawing, and ED NEESE won the drink mixes, but no rum and no joker, and therefore the pot, now $632, goes on.

We had two visiting Lions as guests - ARTURO GUZMAN and IRMA ROSAS DURAN, charter members of the Tlalnepantla Centro Historico Lions Club near Mexico City. They are visiting a friend in Madison for about a month, to see the area. They speak poco Ingles, and your editor speaks muy poquito Espanol, but we did the best we could. DAVE WEINBACH does better in Spanish, and that helped to make them welcome. SCOTT GROVER introduced his granddaughter Samantha Carothers once again, and this time her mom Ann Carothers was there too.

Membership Director LINDA BERGREN announced that CHRIS WILZ and DON NEVIASER will captain the two competing membership recruitment teams. Some team members have been named (the names came way too fast for the editor’s pencil) and the rest of us will get lined up on one side or the other. Plan is for the winning team to be served an exceptional lunch by the losers. We’d all better get out there and get to work. There are two magic words - “Just Ask!” Every one of us should have a Membership Proposal/Application handy at all times - you can download it off the web* if you have internet access, or get one from LINDA, CHRIS or DON.

TT ROSS ROYSTER was one of several MCLC members attending the Grand Opening of the new UW Lions Pediatric & Adult Strabismus Eye Clinic. A plaque recording Lions support is prominently displayed. Lions Clubs International Foundation supplied $75,000 USD, and our Club and two others each gave $10,000.

JODI BURMESTER is the Chairperson for Region 3 in south central Wisconsin area, and in that capacity reported that our Secretary JOHN JENSON has been appointed Zone Chairman for the clubs in our immediate area. It is this Lion infrastructure, from clubs up through zones, regions, districts and multiple districts to Lions International, that enables us to be part of a powerful international organization. It goes both ways, too — the larger jurisdictions support the work of each club in its own community. There will be a Zone Meeting at Rex’s Innkeeper in Waunakee on August 14th at 6 PM. All Lions are welcome, and you would get further insight into how Lionism works. The theme for the next three Lion years is to reemphasize our Lion motto “WE SERVE.”

Our Board has voted to take part in the statewide WLF Sports Raffle, rather than continue our own separate raffle. Prizes include Packer tickets and other valuables. Tickets cost $5.00 for one, or $20.00 for five. Our club gets half the sale price, and WLF the other half. WLF also supplies the prizes. If we can sell 1000 tickets we will make over $4,000 for our service work. DON NEVIASER is the Project Chairman — get your tickets from him. Quickly, because we only have a month or two to sell them. We have Bucky Books for sale, too. 14 of them were paid for last year, and are thus all profit to us. We can get more if we sell the 14 — last year we sold 26. Profits go to the Club. See PHIL STOWITTS.

Our Club was represented at the Service Club Olympics by only a handful of stalwart members, but those who contested on our behalf did well. DAVE WEINBACH and CHUCK BASFORD won the Ping-pong tournament, and MELISSA ABBOTT won in backgammon. Our warriors did a lot better than the Jamaican bobsled team — now we need more of them.

President SAL’s words of wisdom for the week — “A rolling stone can start an avalanche. It just needs a little nudge!”

Speaker Dennis Denig-Chakroff of the Madison Water Utility told us that new flushing procedures have largely solved the manganese problem, and our water, which comes from an aquifer 500-1500 feet down in a sandstone layer, is still good. Founded in 1882, the utility now operates 11 “pressure zones” supported by more than 20 wells and a number of water towers. Manganese is not new - it has always been in the water to some degree and is found in many foods, but certain areas have had more than others and it had settled in some of the pipes. The program to replace older mains has been accelerated. The Utility adds small amounts of fluorine to prevent tooth decay, and chlorine to kill any microorganisms that might be present. He also pointed out that much bottled water is no different from tap water (in some cases the same) and costs more per gallon than gasoline. Our tap water is still a bargain.

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