We figure we'll leave this in here for one more week -- that's one more week of nagging you to pay your membership dues. Dues are $15.00 per year, and give you the chance to partake in all of the club's activities. If you also play darts, bowl or many of the other social sports in the city, you'll know that $15.00 a year is a bargain!

Your dues paid now will be good for the 2007/2008 year starting July 1. If you're a new member who hasn't yet paid for 2006/2007, well then we've got the deal for you. Your $15 paid now gets you membership for TWO years!

Any evening director can take your membership dues, and be sure to ask for a receipt after you've paid -- and thank you in advance for your support.

Congratulations to Craig Hines who correctly identified Haley as the vixen without the talent to stick around another week on American Idol. Craig, print this newsletter out and take it to any play night to play for free! For the rest of you, it's time for your own American Idol pick. Who is going to bite it this week? Your powers of clairvoyance can earn you a free play! Visit our survey and tell us who is going home (and be sure to leave us your first and last name too). All entries are due by Wednesday, April 18 at 7:00pm CDT. Once the show is over, we'll draw a name at random from everyone who correctly identified the weakest Idol.

Good Luck!

Your weather for the week, provided by the meteorologists at WFLD-TV Fox Chicago.

TUESDAY - 61 / 37 Drizzle
WEDNESDAY - 49 / 34 Partly Cloudy
THURSDAY - 55 / 37 Sunny
FRIDAY - 62 / 45 Partly Cloudy
SATURDAY - 68 / 43 Thunderstorms
SUNDAY - 71 /.50 Thunderstorms

Tuesday, April 17 Tax Day!

Sunday, April 21 Next Board Meeting (tentative)

We're getting a little behind in congratulating our recent winners, so if you win, be sure to remind the evening director that they need to share your glory with the newsletter staff. Or you can always just buy a billboard on the Kennedy. Your choice.

Dear Hoyle: Why do I always seem to get stuck at the three handed table? Why do we even play three handed? It totally sucks. - Three is not a magic number.

Dear Three-way:
Into every life a little three-handed Euchre must fall. If you've ever wondered why so many people get to cards an hour to sign-up, it's so they can be as far as possible from the two and three-handed tables. So my advice to you is sign in earlier if you can.

But why do we play two and three handed you ask? Well, we can never guarantee that we'll have an even number of tables every night, and it's not entirely fair to make the last person (or people) who sign in be prevented from playing. Think of two and three- handed as your chance to work on some bidding and setting skills -- or you can always just go alone a lot and get it overwith in no time. Just ask Paul Zehren.

If you have a question about Euchre strategy, ECC club rules, relationships or just life in general, send an e-mail to resident expert Hoyle at euchrechicago@yahoo.com. We promise all e- mails are anonymous, and the answers may just surprise you.