Gaye Michael has provided us with a new 10 menu rotation and three substitutes.  Below is new schedule!

• Baked herb Chick with a vegetable - rice primontese
• Pork Chops with au gratin potatoes and a vegetable
• Beef Stew wtih noodles
• Pasta with vegetable
• Grilled Chicken Breast with a vegetable and new potatoes
• Pork Loin with mashed potatoes & gravy, vegetable
• Mini meatloaves with mashed potatoes, vegetable
• Soup with assorted sandwiches, cheese tray (warmer months)
• BBQ Prok with Potato Chips & Soup
• Turkey with mashed potatoes & gravy and vegetable
• All dinners served with a salad bow, dessert, coffeee & tea
• Alternatives meals offerend every week:
  • Grilled Chicken sandwich with potato chips
  • Michael's special salad
  • Hamburger with potato chips

Maura opened the meeting with the pledge of alligence followed in prayer by Adrian.

• Please keep Gordon Smith's family in your prayers as his father passed away on April 19th and was laid to rest on April 22nd due to extended illiness. 
• There is still room for you to attend the Progressive Dinner on May 13th. Sullivan's will host cocktails and appetizers, Lammers main dish, and Whitten's dessert.  Those attending will meet at the Whitten's and get on a bus and travel together.  Everyone attending is invited to participate by bringing an appetizer, beverage, or dessert.
• April 30, Troxler Clean-up @ 8am.
• Mark Korte is looking for a co-chairman for the upcoming Golf Tournament.  The date of the event is 6/17/11 at Highland Country Club.  The co chair will help to organize tee signs, teams, and prizes prior to the event.  The committee does the work to get those things, but he needs someone to tally things and keep it organized prior to the event.  This person would still be able to golf that day because their work would all be prior to the event.  If you are interested, please let him know.  He will have his first committee meeting on 4/28/11 at 7:00 am at 9th Street.  It should only last 30-45 minutes.

Kevin stated that they had another furniture pick up this afternoon for HACSM.  He stated that if anyone would like to be put on this list to let him know.

Troxler Clean-up day is on April 30th at 8am. 

The Library work day will be in April - TBD.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Holli Martin

Guests: None

Birthdays: None

Anniversaries: Will & Sue Holzinger - 27th

MakeUps: None

Please let the following know that they were missed this week!  Terry Bell, Jan Brinker, Skip Butler, Cliff Couch, David Daiber, Larry Deiters, Robert Engelmann, Larry Essenpries, Angela Fears, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Jon Greve, Jeff Guillot, Phil Hardas, Luke Harris, Roland Harris, Robert Hellige, Ronald Hesson, Wil Holzinger, Lisa Hunsche, Don Johannes, George Jones, Mark Korte, Terry Lammers, Mark Latham, Terry Leitschuh, Holli Martin, Glenn Meffert, Henry Metzger, Robert Nagel, David Peters, Jim Rankin, Mark Reaka, Traci Riechmann, Rick Ringwald, Randy Schorfheide, Ron Schneider, Art Schuetz, Wayne Steiner, Michael Sutton, Buzz Widmer

Starting all over again James collected $37 and the Qdiamonds was pulled.

Fines for the ten people who missed today but normally come because the 50/50 pot was distributed last week.

PROGRAM: Tim Daiber, State of Illinois Conservation Police Officer, District 4 Captain

Tim Daiber was introduced by his father Len Daiber.  Tim has a degree in Administration of Justice from Carbondale.  He is captain over the 4th District and helps to oversea District 5 as well.

Tim stated the the conservation police have the highest legal authority and are the oldest state agency (1885).  The department receives both state and federal funding.  There are 120 in the entire state and have a small command staff of 5 captains and 3 sergeants per district.  These officers are often known as "Game Wardens" but do much more.  Because of their resources and knowledge of the terrain they are often called to help in special task forces.  Some of their duties include:

• Licensing of outdoors men and tagging of wildgame
• Work with US Fish & Wildlife (duck, goose, and migrating birds)
• Assist in setting up barrier system of Asian Carp
• Patrolling waters, state parks, and public property
• There is a lot of river traffic in the barges carrying manure and chemicals (items could be used to make bombs) and if a bridge were down this could be detrimental to all.
• Disaster Relief
  • Last snow storm they drove ATVs to rescue stranded motorists.
  • Assist in rescues during flash floods
• Securing Ports
• Regular street patrol (warrants, traffic, drugs, DUI, OUI)
• Drugs are especially prevalent due to the rural areas that they patrol.  Many also grow on state property so that they would not loose their property if caught
• Homeland security
• Purchase, Sale, and Licensing of Timber

 Due to the nature of what they do and where they patrol, the conservation officers undergo a lot of defensive training.  The officers are often alone and patrol secluded areas.  Many of the smaller rural areas have anti-government groups that do not respect their authority.  Even with these risks they have not had one death of an officer on the job in the last 30 years.

The department works with many other agencies as well to collaborate and cross train to protect SAFETY of everyone they serve.