Mike Elbe had the honors of presenting the prayer. Elvin Townsend threw us all into a tizzy when he began the Pledge of Allegiance with "Pledge" followed by a delayed "I". Might need a tail-twister extra buck for changing the words of the pledge.

Speaking of the tail-twister, there was none last Friday.In a quickly called board meeting after our meeting concluded, the board was asked if the Quincy Club would be willing to host the Lincolnland District Convention in June of next year (2015). The board said yes at which time Art Awerkamp and Chris Parker immediately volunteered to chair the Bar Committee.

Kent Anderson handled the 50-50 card draw worth "under 200" according to President Chuck Venvertloh. How is this happening? In any case the pot was NOT claimed as Randy Frese drew a 3 of Clubs.

Speaking of Chuck, he announced the next board meeting will be on June 9th at The Pier. He also announced the Flag Day meeting will be on June 13th.

Dennis Koch is looking for a couple more local residents who fly their flags properly so we can invite them for the Flag Day event.

Jeff Dorsey presented The News and seemingly picked on one particular table. Like John Tripp did before Macker, I died. He did it literally and I did it figuratively. Maybe no news is good news.

President Chuck, with 3 million Gus Macker shirts around to wear, chose to wear a Vote for Chuck shirt. His opponent's name is Jonathon. Wouldn't it be funny if he changed his name to Chuck as well? Just a thought!

We also had the honor of hosting three visitors from Dallas, Texas who are on a fact finding mission as they are thinking of holding a Gus Macker event there.

There were two other guests and they were Clay Venvertloh, son of Chuck Venvertloh and Tyler Green, the son of Steve Green.

Congrats to Sonny Christner . Sonny was on the latest Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. last week and was joined by his son, Dave. Thanks for serving Sonny and I hope you enjoyed the trip.

There is still time to purchase your $100 National Exchange Club Mega Raffle ticket. If you are interested in getting a ticket just go to www.exchangeraffle.com. You do not need to be a member to buy a ticket.

The Exchange Club Golf Outing will be held at Spring Lake Country Club on June 20th this year. We will also meet there for our meeting prior to teeing off.