Dick Leighninger and Brian Prall told us about the Commemorative Air Force last week.  Very good presentation!  They told us about the WWII aircraft they have in a hanger at Fleming Field in South St. Paul.  One of the airplanes, the BT-13, was a plane that Dave Hanson's dad trained on in preparation for his corsair flying during WWII.  This plane also did a fly over at Ft. Snelling during Bert Hanson's memorial service.  There are also vintage vehicles, a museum and flight simulators in the hanger.  For more information visit https://www.cafmn.org/ .   Thanks Dick and Brian!

Get ready to start selling beer and wine raffle tickets for $10.00 each.  Bob Gullick is having them printed up soon.  Please bring a good bottle of wine and some exotic beer to our meetings between now and October 31st.  The winners will be drawn at the Copperfield restaurant on our November 9th.

Do you enjoy our weekly meetings?  Share them with others.  Be on the lookout for prospective members!

Here are some highlights from the meeting: 

1 - Community Service (Mark Landy) said a highway clean up will be in October.  Next L & F is August 30th.  Currently serving over 200 people!

2 - Membership (Alan Ruvelson & Val Namen) - investigating getting new members via other organizations like the South Robert Business Association.

3 - Susan Hommes mentioned we got $720 for those working the Prior Lake Music Fest.  David Miller will pick up our check from the Prior Lake Rotary.  Susan mentioned we should try and get more people to participate next year.  It's a fun project.  Our funds will be going to Polio Plus.

4 - Ethic's Day will be held every other year.  We did it last year, so we're off this year.

5 - We're going to do two MATTERBoxes on the September 7th meeting.

6 - Bob Gullick reported we are financially in good shape.  He is also going to print tickets for a wine and beer raffle.  We will announce the winners at the November 9th meeting at the Copperfield restaurant. 

7 - We are always looking for fundraising ideas like "Ask people who previously participated in Moonstruck to consider a donation to the club going to a community effort with a sponsorship"