District 10’s meeting was called to order on October 20 by District Coordinator Doug Smith at KC’s Halftime Lounge in Manson. The pledge of allegiance was recited and we had a moment of silence to honor our lost brothers and sisters. Roll call of officers was taken with Doug, DL, Scott, Cheryl, Pam, Deb, Ron, Jean, Shawn, Larry, Dean and Jess being present with Brian being unexcused. We welcomed old members George and Kate Tewald, who had recently moved back into the area but had kept up their membership.

Sexy-tary’s report: Jean read the minutes from the September meeting. Jess Tepner made a motion to accept, Larry Raner seconded; motion carried by a butt load of votes

Treasurer’s report: Pam indicated there had been deposits in the Toy Run fund. Three checks were written from the general fund. Bill Gurnett made a motion to accept, Theresa Benjamin seconded; motion carried with Sue Hill being opposed.

Membership: Deb announced there were 49 members present and two guests; Kate and Krista

Events; Cheryl indicated the Christmas Parade would be on November 17. Setup is November 16 at 5:30 at the old Kneedler’s garage behind Casey’s in Dakota City. Cheryl stated Lenny would be driving the tractor that pulls the float. Buck has a flat bed we are going to use and Jerry has a generator we are going to use. Cheryl said there was one small problem and that is our Christmas decorations are missing so any donations of Christmas decorations we can use on the float should be taken to Doug, Scott or DL’s house by November 10. Harlan made a motion to purchase new decorations if not enough donations are made, Jess seconded the motion; motion carried by a butt load of votes. Sue Hill made a motion that the November 17 meeting will be at 2:00, before the parade at the Prowler in Humboldt, Wayne seconded the motion; motion carried again by a butt load (unanimous) of people. Cheryl also indicated that the Reservation in Pocahontas won the plaque for the most money in their toy can. Lynch’s Bar and Grill in Rockwell City came in second.

MRF and Legislative: Jess indicated that the NTSB was using our tax money to lobby for nation wide helmet laws, which is wrong. EVERYONE needs to contact their congressman in Washington and let them know we are totally against this use of our tax dollars. Go on the MRF website or our District 10’s website to find out how to contact the officials in Washington and let them know how we feel.

Webmaster: Scott indicated that there was a bunch of technical stuff going on there. Something about hyperactive polecats or whatever but that it was up to date and he had made some recent changes.

Share the Road: Dean indicated that Doug, DL and Jean made a presentation at Fort Dodge Senior High to 57 students in September and Doug and DL made a presentation to the Noon Seratomas the following day to 27 People. The next Share the Road presentation will be on December 6 at Fort Dodge Senior High. Meet at the high school at 8:00. All members are encouraged to attend.

Assistant’s Report: DL reported that Brittany Ray who is a District 10 member had recently left for basic training the Air Force to fight to keep our rights and put it our freedoms. DL also indicated that at one time there were quite a few memory books of our district and Cheryl was looking for them and looking to add to them so any pictures old and new people have please get them to Cheryl or DL. No one won the membership drive for this quarter because no one had 10 new memberships. It was talked about for next year’s membership drive that it would go for the whole year and the winner would get a hotel room for the night paid for by the district if they earned in at least 40 abate bucks for the year. Larry Raner made a motion to run with it, Amanda Hoover seconded; motion carried by a butt load of votes.

Old Business; Ballots were handed out for everyone to vote on officers for the year with the following results;

Coordinator: Doug Smith

Assistant Coordinator: DL Peterson and Scott Hill

Sexy-tary: Jean Hoover

Treasurer: Sheila Evans

SSgt of Arms: Ron Hoover, Larry Raner, Dean Sumners

Legislative: Mark Loots

Buck made a motion to burn the ballots, Harlan seconded the motion; motion carried.

New Business: Doug brought up that we had been asked by the Noon Sertomas to have a display in the Lights at Kennedy display at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge. He pointed out that winner gets 500.00 for their charitable organization, which would be us. Winner is named by popular vote. You are charged $5 to drive through the displays and given a ballot to vote at the end. Rhonda Summers made a motion to go for it; Dean Sumners seconded: motion carried. Doug brought up another idea he had gotten at the Meeting of the Minds about having a quarterly newsletter, with supporting business’ having specials for members, events report, classifieds and spotlight on the supporting business of the quarter. Sue Hill made a motion to do the newsletter, George Tewald seconded the motion; motion carried. Doug said he would put together the first one but everyone else had to agree to help and since there was a butt load of people that agreed to have a newsletter they were all assumed to help.

Announcements: We received a thank you letter from the Fall Fest committee for participating. The Breast Cancer Awareness organization thanked us for helping them put on a very successful poker run. Congratulations to Don Ashenfelter recently became a father to a new baby girl, Heidi Lynn. Don Ashenfelter and Larry Raner had recently arranged to give one of the Bikes for Tykes bikes to a young boy here in Fort Dodge who had been hit while riding his bicycle in town. Larry indicated that although the young boy loved the bike he loved the ride on DL’s motorcycle three times more.

Harlan made a motion to adjourn, Dave Zimmermann seconded the motion; motion carried by you guessed it a butt load of people with Jerry the Pimp abstaining.

Doug thanked KC’s Halftime Lounge for hosting our meeting and the Halloween party to follow.

Respectfully Submitted

Jean Hoover

District 10’s Sexytary