THANK YOU
Thanks to Lions Darrell Main, Mike Main, Terry Thorson, LaNette Thorson and Catherine Stenberg for the excellent meal at our July 15th meeting.

MEETINGS
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, August 5th at our regular meeting place. There will be a meal at this meeting which will be at 7:00 P.M. Lions Duane Hass and Harvey Krohn have volunteered to cook for this meeting. Our business meeting will be at 7:30 P.M.

Our second meeting will be take place on Thursday, August 19th also at our meeting place.  There will be a Board of Directors meeting at 6:30 P.M. No one has volunteered to cook for this meeting.  If interested, please let Lion Steve at our next meeting so it can be put in the Herald.  If there is meal, it will be at 7:00 P.M. followed by our regular business meeting at 7:30 P.M.  If there is no meal, the business meeting will be at 7:00 P.M.

DONATIONS
The Howard Lake Lions made a donation to a needy family to help pay their medical bills.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Membership fees for 2004-05 are now due.  They are still $40.  You can pay them in person by attending one of our upcoming meetings or you can mail your dues to: Howard Lake Lions; P.O. Box 13; Howard Lake, MN 55349.

Governor’s night has been scheduled for December 2nd.

It was announced at the District Awards Night on June 17th  that our club finished first overall in the Governor’s Contest.  Way to go Howard Lake Lions!

Our sympathies go out to Lion Renee Lahr on the passing of her mother Ida Entinger.  In her memory, a donation was made to the Hearing Foundation.

LIONS GOLF TOURNAMENT
Our Lions club held our 3rd Annual Scramble Golf Tournament on Saturday, July 17th at The Greens in Howard Lake. We ended up with fifteen teams this year.  The weather was ideal and a good time was had by all.  Congratulations to Lion Darren McAlpine’s team who finished first this year.  Other Lion members who had teams were Debbie McAlpine, Dean and Verdell Stenberg.
 

Thanks to the following Lion members who helped make this tournament a success:
Steve Weber, Duane Hass, Harvey Krohn, Tom Fiecke, Dan Judd, Mike Main, Cathy Main,
and Darrell Main.  The fourth annual scramble tournament will be held on July 16, 2005.

Our Lions club will be holding our annual Members Only golf outing on Saturday, August 21st at The Greens in Howard Lake.  Tee time is at 9:30 A.M.  Cost of the outing will be determined at our first meeting in August.  If interested in participating, please let Lion Steve know.  After golfing, we will once again have a potluck meal at Lion Renee’s home.  Hope to see you all there.

GOOD NEIGHBOR DAYS
Thanks to all H.L Lion members who helped out at Good Neighbor Days this year on
June 25-27.

BIRTHDAYS
Happy birthday to the following Howard Lake Lion members who will be celebrating a birthday in August: Tim Oberpriller (13); Tom Main (17); and Stan Roberts (26).