Next Meeting - Tomorrow,Tuesday, Feb.21, at the Coliseum Bar & Restaurant, as usual. Program that day will be a Doctor from Project Wellness Company giving their Healthy Living to 100 Presentation. ADAM GRASSNICKLE will introduce the speaker. Hard to see how anyone would want to miss this one.

Last time we checked, DALE and KEVIN still needed a bit of help with our Bags Tournament, coming up this Saturday at the Coliseum Bar. A chance to have some fun, maybe win a prize, maybe do a little Lion recruiting. We don't want the Bags Committee left holding them.

The target boards for the Bags Tournament (we have ten of them, custom-built) still needed permanent storage as of the last meeting. Has to be a dry place, but not necessarily warm. Talk to DALE or KEVIN if you have, or know of, some empty space. The boards may also be available to other orgs who want to run a tournament. Again, talk to DALE or KEVIN for terms for use.

Last meeting was mostly friendly conversation, with a little Tournament and Transport talk mixed in. March is one of MCLC's months to transport eye tissue, so if you are on the list of transporters prepare to be contacted. The dispatcher is not from our Club this time, so anticipate a call from someone you do not know. SCOTT GROVER will remind us tomorrow who it is, in addition to probably having inserted the right name in the copy for this BULLetin before he sends it [Bruce Voight, from the McFarland Lions Club]. Lion DALE reminded transporters to put the name and phone number of the dispatcher(s) on their “contact list” on the phone you will be receiving calls, so that your phone will tell you it's the dispatcher calling before you take the call.

GAIL STIRR said that Cycle For Sight, the fundraiser for the McPherson Eye Research Institute at UW, will be on Saturday, March 11. If you want to actually go ride a bike, the locations are the SERF and/or the Natatorium on the UW campus, plus the Princeton Club West on Watts Rd. You can get more info on this from GAIL, and of course individual donations, even without the exercise, are very much welcome and needed. The researchers at the Institute are working on some mind-boggling projects that hold promise for repairing/improving/preventing some previously seemingly unfixable eye conditions. MCLC will match the first $250 of Lion donations. Talk to GAIL, or go to cycleforsight.wisc.edu.

Lion JODI BURMESTER noted that our District Convention is at the Marriott West in Middleton, on March 10 and 11, likely the physically closest it will be for a few years. Delegates will vote on her candidacy for District Governor next year (watch out, world!) and JOHN JENSON is handling registrations for our Club, and the deadline is this week. The Club will cover the registration and the luncheon costs for our members who attend, and you should go. It's another face of Lionism in action, and you meet a lot of nice, dedicated people.

Pres. MIKE noted that we got a Thank You letter from Andy at the River Pantry for our donation.

DALE BURMESTER told us that there are “Lion University” courses available on line, sponsored by the USA-Canada Forum. Like the Forum itself, this is another way to learn more about Lionism - how, where and why “We Serve.” If you are a Lion, your service to humanity goes way beyond what we do here, and this is one more way to realize how much good you really do.