AUGUST

October 16^th – Two Oaks North. To Have a meeting and have a chance at a “Spotlight”, you must GO to meetings. Thank you! We are looking for more speakers to attend our meetings. If anyone has any ideas of someone that could benefit our members, please let us know.

Our speaker for next month's meeting at Lake of The Woods on Sept. 11th will be Dick Breitenbach from Dental Associates, LTD. As a member of the Tavern League, Dick will be sharing information about a great dental plan that could save you some money. Please try to attend the meeting.

Christmas Banquet Fundraiser will be at Blader's Dakota Inn on December 2nd. A committee has been formed to help this year's banquet become another success. The members are: Rusty Grimm, Shayna Scimeca, Gary Vandr Perren, Dennis Felton, Billy B. and Denise Blader. If you are interested in helping on the committee in any way, please contact Denise. Please put together a bottle of booze for the wheel barrel and any other donations that you may wish to give. You could bring them to the next meeting, or give me a call and someone can come and get them. Tickets and posters should be available by the next meeting. As usual we will need EVERYONE'S help in selling the tickets.

Pub Crawls are back

Every third Sunday (except November) from Sept. to April. 1pm start time. $10 per person.

Includes: 1 drink from each place and the bus ride.

It’s a great way to see your fellow members’ establishments, whom you may not normally get a chance to go to.

Pick 4-5 places on the other side of the county. We’ll spend about 45min to 1hr at each place, then back to home bar. Your patrons will talk about it for a long time, and they’ll appreciate you spending some time with them. Give it some thought.. Dates are:

Sept. 16^th Oct. 21^st Nov. 4^th Dec. 16^th

Jan. 20^th Feb. 17^th Mar. 16^th

Pioneer Pub April 20^th

Give me a call if you would like to schedule one of these dates. Sue 787-3159

Interested in hearing about how you could save quite a bit on your electric bill each month? Our speaker at last month's meeting was Ellen from Power Save of America. Ellen spoke about a new accessory to add to your breaker panel that could save you money on the electricity that you use each month. Ellen can be reached at 920-787-7129. Sounds like a very interesting product.

FYI: A new survey was taken with 400 people. It was concerning the smoking ban and making a compromise to get it passed. Scott Stenger is working very hard for us on getting some kind of reasonable wording in so it will help us, not hurt. Keep the optimism high. We need to keep going on this, not give up!!

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Warning about the group “Beanshack”. They have been having a very bad habit of booking, then canceling. The problem .. they don’t call first. If you have booked them… BEWARE!!

Well, this month, I had a fun visit to Pine-Ridge Farms. It is just outside of Wautoma off Hwy 73. It hosts so many things, but today we’re just going to talk about their two, very different bars.

Pine-Ridge was built in 2001, and opened up in 2002 with their first bar downstairs; “Pintail Pub”. It had fairly limited hours, but now being the “Bears Den”; it has expanded to host many small parties, karaoke contests, open mic night, and much more. They serve sandwiches and pizza and are usually open Thursdays to Sundays. In 2005,

the upstairs; “Buck Rub Bar”, featured a full service bar with a very complete bar menu, with lots of daily and weekly specials. It is open from noon to close Tuesdays to Sundays. They are looking forward to joining the areas many leagues in the upcoming months, with men & women’s pool, darts and volleyball. Polka and Big Band nights are on the agenda soon. Snowmobiles can come right to their door and enjoy all this hospitality too, as they are right on the trail. You’ll have some nice warm specials also!

Keep an ear open for all their special events coming up, or go to their website at: www.pineridgeofwautoma.com for all the latest. Thanks Dan McComb, the general manager, for showing me this beautiful scene right outside both their bars. Pictures of the bars?? Well, you’ll just have to come on over and see for yourself, won’t you??