Our December Meeting is our Christmas Party!  We're having a buffet dinner ($7 per adult, children 16 years and younger are FREE) consisting of roast beef, pork, chicken, mashies, and other stuff.  By other stuff, I mean vegetables and salad.  Bring a dessert to pass if you like.

Carrie is coordinating our annual donation to the Food Bank of WNY.  Please bring canned or dried foods to help feed those less fortunate.  Our goal is 300 pounds of food.

The raffle table will be our best of the year.  Santa Stachowiak and his elf, Lil' Lenny Kozlowsk have been working extra hard this year making musky baits, other goodies and noise in Santa's workshop (which has just thrilled Mrs. Claus), and they will be bringing a bag full of toys for all us good musky girls and boys.  Santa Frank has put together some unbelievable raffle tables for us over the years and this year's may be his very best, ever.  Santa Stachowiak is stepping down after this year to focus on his his Easter Bunny training, and Mike Fortunate will be promoted to head Santa, which is great since the suit fits him better.  Santa Fortunate will be raffling chances to win our new Shimano Compre rods.  For every $60 of tickets sold, we will raffle one rod of the winner's choice.  Santa Frank has been trolling with the 9' Compre's on board Mike Crehan's sleigh and he loves them (although Frank wishes his new Okuma Convector would sing the "Bell's of St. Mary" once in a while).

We're having a buy one, get one half price Christmas Sale on our new T-shirts!  Does anything say "I love you" like the gift of a NMA T-shirt?  I don't think so, but then again I always want to get Carrie's nieces and nephew NMA memberships for their birthdays and Christmas.  I think the oldest is seven.

Come to the Christmas Party.  The dedicated folks at the Eldridge Club put on a hell of a spread for only $7, there will be desserts, raffles, we'll be giving a gift to those less fortunate, and, most importantly, your friends will be there.  What else could you want for Christmas?