Have you ever wondered where your dues money goes once you write that check to the Quincy Exchange Club? First and foremost, it goes to pay for our Friday meals - If you attend every meeting, of the year, your dues pretty much pay for meals at $10 per week. Also included in your dues are the costs of operating the club itself - there isn't a lot of overhead, but we do have the cost of our liability insurance ($650 each year), the P.O. Box, postage and other costs like speaker gifts. From your dues, we also pay the Lincolnland District and National Exchange Club dues.

The Lincolnland dues help pay for the Lincolnland Link, now a monthly electronic publication, and educational training opportunities for officers and directors at the Mid-Year conference and spring training. Your National dues include $10 that is used specifically for Child Abuse Prevention and also provide you with 4 quarterly copies of the Exchange Today magazine. All in all, your dues are a pretty good value.

For those of you who don't religiously read your Exchange Today from cover to cover, the new issue that should be hitting your mail boxes this week would be a good issue to take a look at. This year, Exchange is spotlighting a large club in each issue, and this issue features none other than your Finest Hour gang. (just keep in mind that the article was written before the Avenue of Lights went dark!)