Next Meeting - Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the Edge of the Water. Our speaker will be Judy Miyagawa, District Director for the Wis. Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. She's a native Madisonian, with a name familiar to old Badger sports fans, and will tell us about the work of the Foundation to inform and assist those with arthritis, which will probably be most of us, now or later. She also has some tips on "how to get a little motion in your day." The title "leadership in the Prevention, Control and Cure of arthritis and related diseases" holds out hope for those with aching joints. LINDA BERGREN will be the Program Host.

We will also celebrate Lion Birthdays - our way of recognizing the years of service given by our member Lions. We will honor CHARLIE LIBERTY, MARSHALL FLAX, WALT PRIDHAM, BILL WILCOX, DALE ST. JOHN, GLENN SCHAEFER, DALE MUELLER and ED NEESE. These are all veteran Lions with a total of 278 years of service, and it would be nice to have them all on hand.

At our last meeting, VP LINDA BERGREN presided, led the Pledge, conducted the song (bass clef) introduced the speaker, and in her position as Head Nutcake, reiterated that the order blanks are out for our Holiday Cake and Nut Sale. Four kinds of nuts, not counting our membership, five kinds of chocolate whatevers, two sizes of Benson's Old Home fruit cake, and a couple of miscellaneous snacks, including the fabled Malted Milk Balls. She needs orders in the next two weeks in order to get the stuff here before Thanksgiving.

ROSS ROYSTER offered the invocation, on the theme "Life Is Good, But Not Always Easy." Much truth in that one, which also relates directly to how and why "We Serve."

SCOTT GROVER, Concession Stand helpraiser, said we need volunteers for the Ohio State and Northwestern football games, and the entire basketball season. Sign up on the web or see SCOTT. (He'll stick a link in that last sentence - just wait and see.)

PHIL INGWELL reported on the Lions Forum in Milwaukee, and brought along copies of the souvenir magazine put out by the Forum Committee. Tucked away in there was the information that Madison Central has 16 Eye Bank Transporters. That's more Lions than were present at either of the last two meetings. I guess that proves that just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't doing something! But it would be nice to see them all at meetings. Info item from the Forum - in the last ten years, Lions have helped save or improve the vision of 27,000,000 people worldwide. So those hours in the concession stand and those malted milk balls do add up, and they count for something.

Fran Pulio, our speaker from Monona Terrace, told us about all of the things that can or do go on there for Madison residents. They have summer and winter Cafes for a quick meal, a gift shop, the Madison Sports Hall of Fame room, Tuesday & Thursday Tai Chi classes for those in need of low-impact exercise, free concerts from 5:30-7:00 on the first Wednesday each month, an architectural lecture series, and the Winter Farmers Market on Saturdays from Nov. 13, to Dec. 18. In addition, all sizes of meeting and event rooms are available for rent, and the requisite catering service is available too. More information is available at www.mononaterrace.com or by calling (608) 261-4000.

MCLC trivia - In the editor's memory, our Club has met at: The Loraine Hotel, Park Motor Inn, the Simon House, the Elks' Club, Carson Gulley's restaurant, a motel on W. Washington Ave., the name of which I can't remember, the campus Howard Johnson's, and the Edgewater. We have held off-site meetings at Olbrich Park, the Main Post Office (when it was on Monona Ave.), the Forest Products Lab, the UW Eye Clinic and the Lions Eye Bank. Probably some of the other senior members can add a few to that list.