John Spring reached out to God for us with the prayer that featured a request for a St. Louis Cardinal win.

Hal Broadwater initiated (that means started for those with a GPA of 1.0) the Pledge of Allegiance.

Rick Gengenbacher was our tail twister and methodically went around the room featuring several comments including a complement on the good looks of Melissa, Heather Griswold's mother. The man was wound up for sure. Perhaps he was worried that the State of Illinois might shut down like the Feds did.

Rick Goughnour handled the card draw for the "ailing" Curt Moore and Hal Broadwater had the winning ticket but drew a King of Spades. So the pot of $297 goes higher next week.

One guest this week and it was a prospective member as Bob Hays brought Dr. Jay Johnson from Irvine Chiropractic with him to the meeting. Bob seems to be walking better too!

President Chuck Venvertloh presented Mike Elbe his 12 pack of beer for bringing in a new member. I have lost count but that might be 4 cases now so far.

Chuck also asked for someone to step up and chair "Smoke" (as he put it) for next year. He was referring to Smoke on the River. If interested contact Chuck as soon as possible.

The Club also made a $500 donation to Toys for Tots and received a thank you for the Shade White Autism organization for our donation to that cause as well.

We held a first reading for membership for Josh Klitz of Sisco Foods. Josh is being proposed for membership by Steve Labs.

Dennis Koch addressed the group notifying us that his proposal at the National Leadership Conference in Detroit was accepted and the National Exchange Club will be holding a Mega Raffle whereby 10% of the $100 ticket sale will be returned to the local Exchange Club. That's $10 for those of you who went to public school.

The Annual Lincolnland Conference will be held on November 9th in Bloomington, Illinois. If interested in going, please contact Joel Koch. The Club will pick up your expenses if you would like to attend.

Doug Greenwell thanked those few of you who returned your surveys. Vital information has been gathered from the few who actually took the 5 minutes to fill them out. Thanks to those who did.