June Newsletter
June 2026
Board of Directors Meeting: The board of directors met on Tuesday, June 2 at 6pm at the Hok si La Park office. There were 8 Lions and 4 guests attending.
Treasurer's Account Balances:
Activity Account $ 431.90
Administration Account $1,236.27
` 52 Club $14,356.86
Aluminum Cans $ 7,208.85
Fireworks Fund $ 4,426.18
Club 52 Winners For May: $100 Paul Thompson, Jodi Corrigan, Elaine Meincke, Jeff Sprick
June Dinner Meeting: The Monthly June Dinner Meeting will be on Monday, June 8 at the Hok SI La Park Dining Hall. Social hour at 6pm(or earlier if you wish). You are encouraged to invite your spouse, special friend, relative, perspective new member, or anyone you know who like an enjoyable evening at the park with a free meal. Special guests will be the widows of passed members who are also encouraged to bring a friend, neighbor, relative or anyone special to them. There will not be a speaker, but there will be a raffle drawing that all guests are encouraged to participate in. This is a great opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones. Lion Ed Burfeind is arranging the meal and Lion Bruce Carlstrom will be washing the dishes. If you are having a difficult time walking from the parking lot to the dining hall we can arrange to let you park closer to the dining hall, there will be a golf cart shuttle available also.
Water Ski Days: Water Ski Days will be on June 25,26,27,28. We have volunteer opportunities for everyone. The main duty will be to provide Lions (and their spouse or a friend) to take care of the entrance gate at the Beer Tent. These volunteers will be eligible for free refreeshments while working.We will using scanning for pre sale tickets so if you have even a slight knowledge of scanning and computers your help would be especially appreciated. You will be in the shade with a cold beverage, sounds like you should be paying for this duty! Lion Ron Weigel is in charge of the Craft Fair, he has his volunteers lined up. The Car Show is being organized by Lions Bob Varga and Joe Sdhmidt, they will have a signup sheet at the Hok Si La Meeting. Lion Nate Schulz is in charge of the volunteers at the beer tent gate, and John Mortenson will be lining up the volunteers for that activity. There will be a sign up sheet at hok si la for that activity, if you can't make the meeting to sign up, please call Lion John Mortenson 651-347-9268 call me or text me.
4th of July Fireworks: Everything is ready for the biggest Fireworks show on Lake Pepin. Everything takes place at Ohuta Park (by the swimming beach). Please invite anyone you know to attend. Lions Bruce Carlstrom and Dan Wood are organizing this event. Please let them know if you would be available to help out with various small tasks that might be ned to be done.
Donations: The club will be making donations to the Lake City Area Arts and the Lake City Band Boosters. The LCAA will receive $600 for a new printer and screen printing on aprons for the volunteers at events and the club donated $1000 to the Lake City Band Boosters to be used to purchase new equipment that the band director has on his needs list.
Ole and Lars were on their very first train ride. They had brought along bananas for lunch. Just as they began to peel them, the train entered a long, dark tunnel.
“Have you eaten your banana yet?” Ole asked excitedly
“No,” replied Lars.
“Vell, don’t touch it den,” Ole exclaimed. “I yust took vun bite and vent blind!”
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