Jared Haugh made the membership come to their feet with his opening prayer. They remained standing as Zeke Cernea began the Pledge of Allegiance with a traditional spoken "I" (although I thought he just might sing it instead). For those who don't know, Zeke is an accomplished musician and has his new CD release party set for this Friday night at One Restaurant at 6th and Hampshire.
Rick Gengenbacher handled the Tail Twisting duties with quite a bit of flair and some of it directed at all of us for not asking Mike Lavery if he was the program (more on that later). He also posed a question of what if the Kinipples (friends of Mike Lavery) met up with the Titsworth family????? Leave it up to Rick!
Curt Moore handled the 50-50 Card Draw with birthday boy Rich Howell holding the winning ticket. Rich drew an 8 of Hearts so the pot remains at $200 for this Friday's drawing.
President Chuck Venvertloh reminded everyone about the upcoming 10th anniversary of Character Champion days in September. The 17th is the day for Senior High students in the area and the 18th is the day for Junior High as well as 7th and 8th graders in the area to attend the event at John Wood Community College.
Mike Lavery updated the club on his induction ceremony into the Gus Macker Hall of Fame in Belding, Michigan a few weeks ago. Mike spent two days there, played some golf and was inducted along with 6 other people. Mike displayed the plaque he received at the ceremony hosted by Gus Macker Founder, Scott McNeil. Mike also took some time to thank Mel Dillman who has been instrumental in helping with the Gus Macker Fundraising effort for quite some time. Mike also brought back some ideas to present to the Macker committee to try and make our tournament even better next May.
We had one guest last Friday and it was Chris Kirn of Refreshment Services Pepsi. Chris was the guest of Mike Elbe.
Perry Terwelp is needing some help with our involvement in the Chili Dog Competition with other local groups as part of this Friday night's Blues in the District. Basically, the Exchange Club will be selling Chili Dogs during the event from 5 until 9 this Friday night. If you can help, contact Perry at 228-3229 or 440-1109.
Finally, I mentioned at last week's meeting that, after I got slammed with a comment from Rich Zeidler, I would write something "nice" about Rich Zeidler in this week's bulletin... so here it is._________________(I couldn't think of anything to say). Hey, I did make you read it Rich!
Our speaker this week is Kate Dougherty from Down Country. Down Country is dedicated to helping provide training and promoting positive awareness for individuals of all disabilities and abilities. So bring a friend to Quincy's finest hour and both of you can find out what what Down Country is all about.
