Thanks to Lions Cathy Rufer, Linda Amman, and Susan Grangroth on the excellent meal at our March 6th meeting.  Also, thanks to Lions Mike Main, Dan Judd, and others on the fish fry at our March 20th meeting.  Also, special thanks to Lion Hazel Oberpriller for cleaning off the tables immediately after the meal.

Thank you to Lion Catherine Stenberg for working at our booth at the HL Expo on March 15th.  A job well done!

DONATIONS
Our club made a donation to Derek Swedberg, a senior at HLWW High School, in order to co- sponsor him (along with the Waverly Lions) at the Minnesota State High School League All-Star Basketball games to be held on April 4 & 5.

Our club also made a donation to a needy family whose house burned down recently.

OTHER CLUB NEWS & EVENTS
Our club will be holding a pancake breakfast on Sunday, April 13 (Palm Sunday) at the Howard Lake Legion from 7:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M.  Any help with this function (setup, cooking, serving, and/or cleanup) will be greatly appreciated.

The Easter Egg Hunt will take place on Saturday, April 19th at Memorial Park in Howard Lake.  The fun starts at 10:00 A.M.  Lion Duane Hass will be the chairperson.  We will be stuffing eggs (with candy) immediately following our business meeting on April 17th.  Any help with this event will be greatly appreciated.

Our Lions club will be holding the 2nd Annual Scramble 4-Player Golf Tournament on Saturday, July 12th at The Greens in Howard Lake.  A committee for this tournament was set up at our March 20th meeting.  They are as follows: Lions Steve Weber (chair), Duane Hass, Tom Fiecke, Dan Judd, Harvey Krohn, and Denny Massey.  Our first committee meeting will take place immediately following our regular business meeting on April 3rd.

Our Lions club will be holding a meat raffle every Saturday from 2:00 – 4:00 P.M. at the liquor store in HL.  Lion Tim Oberpriller will be the chairperson for this fundraiser.  Lion Sam Gruenhagen advised that if the raffle is going to work, it must be done every week.  Also, thirty tickets must be sold before you can spin the wheel.  This fundraiser is a volunteer position.  If you have any free time on a Saturday afternoon, please come and help.

MEETINGS
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, April 3rd at our regular meeting place.  Lion LaNette Thorson will be cooking and serving at this meeting.  The meal will be at 7:00 P.M. with the business meeting at 7:30 P.M.  Region Chair Lion Mike Main will be speaking to our club at this meeting.  We will also be installing two new members into our club that night.

Our second meeting will be on Thursday, April 17th at our regular meeting place.  There will be a Board of Directors meeting at 6:30 P.M.  At 7:00 P.M., there will be a meal cooked and served by Lion Darrell Main.  Following the meal, we will have our regular business meeting.  At this meeting, we will have a speaker from Camp Friendship.

The next GND meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 2nd at 7:00 P.M. at the fire hall.  Any interested members are strongly encouraged to attend.

The last zone meeting of the year will take place on Monday, April 28th at the Community Center in Montrose.  The social hour begins at 6:30 P.M. with the meal at 7:00 P.M.  The meeting will take place after that.  At this meeting, a new zone chairman will be elected.  Any members interested in attending should sign up by the April 17th meeting.  Remember that the club will pay for your meal.  However, if you sign up and do not attend, you must reimburse the club for the meal.

SLATE OF OFFICERS
Our club will be voting on the following slate of officers for 2003-04 during our first meting in April.  If any H.L. Lion member wants to run for one of the offices listed below, he/she should attend that meeting in April and have his/her name put on the ballot.

The slate of officers to be voted on is as follows:

PRESIDENT – Darrell Main
1ST VICE-PRESIDENT – Catherine Stenberg
2ND VICE-PRESIDENT – Duane Hass
3RD VICE-PRESIDENT—Cathy Rufer
SECRETARY – LaNette Thorson & Terry Thorson (to be elected by ballot)
TREASURER – Joyce Thorson
DIRECTORS – Denny Massey, Harvey Krohn, Karen Hill, Mardell Lemke
MEMBERSHIP – Cathy Rufer, Steve Weber, Dean Stenberg
GAMBLING – Sam Gruenhagen (chair), Mike Main, Duane Hass, Dan Judd
TAIL-TWISTER – Vern Lemke
LION TAMERS – Melmer & Renee Lahr
PUBLICITY – Steve Weber
PAST PRESIDENT – Tom Fiecke
 
 Results of the voting will be published in next month’s newsletter.
 

5M-7 GRAM UPDATE
The next workday for the 5M-7 Gram has been set for Monday, March 31st at HLWW High School (in the Vo-Ag room).  Several members of the local chapter of the FFA will be helping with the April issue.  Work will begin at approximately 2:30 P.M. (If the newsletters and labels are done by that time). Any Lion members interested in helping with the newsletters should be at the high school at that time.

YOUTH CENTER NEWS
The Youth Center is missing two 9 X 13 cake pans.  If you or know someone who might have them, please return them ASAP (no questions asked).

BIRTHDAYS
Happy birthday to the following Howard Lake Lion members who will be celebrating a birthday in April: Tom Fiecke (5); Duane Hass (27).

PHILOSOPHY QUESTIONS

If you keep trying to prove Murphy’s Law, will something keep going wrong?

What happens if you’re scared half to death twice?

If you had everything, where would you keep it?

Why is it that whenever you don’t want to be involved in something, you end up MORE involved?