Before we get into the meat of the Bulletin for March 28, 2025, it’s important to explain the banner picture. It is a picture from an early Wild Game Dinner, before the Winefest took over. The marlin was donated for the auction. Mel Neighbors secured a patsy to help him get the bidding up, telling the patsy that he'd get it up to $1000, and the patsy could drop out. Except $1000 was the winning bid. It was re-donated, and the same scenario played out. (Let that be a warning: alcohol has repercussions!) That was the last auction for the marlin however. It burned up in the fire at Art Hudtloff's (the second 'winner") bowling alley fire. Pictured: Jim Walter, Mel Neighbors, Boyd Lundstrom, and ??.
Bulletin Writers Run Amuck and How AI Might Help
Greg Rediski
Time and time again, I am queried as to the inner workings of the bulletin committee. I have previously shrugged this off as “none of your business”, but in a clear case of getting what you asked for, here is a recent communication string after a Wendy McGowan bulletin. Beware the Ides of March, indeed, but even more important, beware the musings of bulletin writers with time on their hands:
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