Next Meeting - At the old time, at the new place, on Tuesday, Oct. 16. Noon, at the Sheraton Madison Hotel. We understand that the meeting room will be near, but not in, the room we had for our first dawn meeting. Which means that when you enter thru the main entrance of the hotel, you bear to the left, down the hall in that wing, and we should be in one of the rooms on your left. The noon meetings are expected (at this point) to have a larger attendance and therefore need a slightly bigger room.

It is very important that we make this expectation come true. We need better numbers at meetings to justify our hotel space, keep our meetings enthusiastic, and accomplish our Club goals for service and fellowship. So get yourself to the meetings! Both of them! Try it - you'll like it!

JACK HEIM is the Program Host for the next meeting, and the speaker will be Gwen Davies from Achilles International. Their mission is to enable people with all types of disabilities to participate in mainstream athletics, and we'll hear more about the why, and more importantly the how, they go about it. If you've been to Lions Camp, you know about the archery range and the rope course, and what they do for the kids.

Pres. LINDA has the Holiday Cake and Nut Sale going, and she needs orders, preferably by the middle of October, which coincides nicely with our next meeting date. We want to sell as much as possible, but we don't want to be stuck with excess inventory that will take five months to work off. Get your order blank from LINDA, or look on our website, check your customer list and your spouse's treat list, and get those orders in!

We will celebrate Lion Birthdays at the next meeting, for JEFF SCHNEIDER, CHARLIE LIBERTY, MARSHALL FLAX, WALT PRIDHAM, BILL WILCOX, DALE ST. JOHN, GLENN SCHAEFER, DALE MUELLER and ED NEESE. They total 296 years of Lion service! That's a lot of good, in a lot of places, for a lot of people. Hopefully, they will all make it to this meeting, so we can recognize all that good work. (ED NEESE was writing the Bulletin, as it was then called, when the present editor joined the Club, and set a high standard for all of us who followed.)

Our last meeting was also our first (at the new 7 AM hour) and 13 Lions were present when LINDA began the proceedings. We also had one guest who plans to join us, Debbie Mahaffey. TT JACK HEIM, undeterred by the informality, had some sort of gadget for us to identify. Those who couldn't, which was all of us, paid. It assists him in some way, but the editor was too far from the explanation to find out how. [The gadget was a device that audibly indicated a light source, used primarily for checking LEDs.] Treasurer SCOTT GROVER was prepared, too - he greeted us all with the quarterly bill.

JODI BURMESTER has prepared a new flyer for use in recruiting new members. In full color, it tells many of the things we do and has our new schedule on it. Copies are available from JODI - give one to your membership prospect. New Club “business cards” are also in the works, and there are stirrings about a new printed Directory of some kind. Please check your current information, and if anything is out of date get corrections to Sec. JOHN JENSON. It's suggested that we work at, among other things, being “Lion visible” - wear Lion gear when appropriate, and tell our story every chance you get.

There was lots of Lionism to talk about, and enthusiasm was in the air at the first morning meeting, which felt more like committee meetings of old. Our Project of the Month is Highway Cleanup, on a two-mile stretch of County Hwy TT, near the Hwy N. - I-94 interchange. SCOTT GROVER is the guy in charge, and it is scheduled for tomorrow, Oct. 13 October 20. Meet at the E. Wash Hy-Vee for breakfast at 8:30, and SCOTT says they're usually done by 11-11:30. If you have a “grabber” to pick up stuff, bring it. Contact SCOTT to volunteer.

SCOTT also says the Kohl Center basketball is about to start, and if we can provide the crew, there could be additional opportunities beyond UW basketball games to work and earn money for our Service Fund. Sign up to help out on our web site, or talk to SCOTT.

Plans are afoot to celebrate our Club's 90th Anniversary, and the Holidays, at the first December meeting, which will be a dinner meeting and therefore NOT at 7 AM. Save the date.

JIM KEMMETER is still getting rehab treatment at St. Mary's Care Center. We all hope he's getting better.