The meeting was called to order by Frank
St Charles and opened with God Bless America and the Pledge to
the Flag followed by an advent reading by Estelle Ruehl from
a card sent to Estelle by her daughter.
Frank announced a short meeting today as
there would be a board meeting following the regular meeting
instead of a program.
Guests we have Earl Oakes a rare winter
visitor as he mostly spends his winters in Florida but his better
half wanted to spend some time with the grand kids so here they
are. I believe Earl said it was the youngest's birthday. I hope
I got that right Earl.
Sick list finds Tim Hornsby's sister recovering
from a kidney transplant. Also his cousin, the donor, went home
in good shape last Sunday. Greg Hartlaub reported that on his
return home from a visit to the ice cream parlor found his wife
in the hospital as a result of a seizure. After a full check
the hospital reports that it most likely is a result of the progression
of Alzheimer's Disease as nothing else could be found as the
cause. John Nordmeyer reported Fr Willig walking with a cane
and celebrating a funeral mass with other Priests for Jack Torbeck.
Frank St. Charles reports his father is doing well with dialysis.
Tom Reuter reported on the status of the
toy wrap to occur on Thursday. Ed Flick has agreed to give the
toys a home, as we need to move them from Stegner's. Tom Riggs
has provided a truck for transportation of the toys with Kevin
Kahny providing the Van to Oyler on Friday for the kids' party.
The Twelve days of Christmas will be undertaken
on the 18th by Walt Luthy. Day after Christmas Ray Bradshaw Co.
Engineer will be the program.
John Nordmeyer then choked his way thru
the announcement that we collected $503.63 last weekend. And
it is rumored that a matching gift is in the offing for the collections.
John also announced that those of you missing the meetings have
missed not only a good lunch but glad hand prizes of $150 and
$200 over the past three weeks. This week we had nine glad hands.
Split the pot was $25. The Tom Reiring
and Walt Luthy led us in song. A birthday greeting to Jane Reuter
then Joy to the World for Christmas and a close of Smile.
With that we closed the meeting with song.
See you on Tuesday next.
Walt Luthy
PS, when someone says they didn't get the
bulletin on time its Walt's fault cause he didn't write it on
time.
