Join the club

Paul Turner is taking a few days off. The Slice will return on Tuesday. But in the meantime, there’s something column-related you can do: Fill out and mail in your application (pictured at left) for membership in the International Order of Friendly Marmots. Belonging to the Marmot Lodge will not involve any expense or obligations. (Though if you want to enclose a small check to the Spokane Humane Society, we will see that it gets forwarded.) Anyone of good will is eligible for membership. Maybe there will be a lodge meeting someday. Maybe not. In any event, your personal information will not be passed along to marketers. The Grand Exalted Poohbah Marmot (that would be Turner) might occasionally seek your opinion and advice on matters of real or imagined importance to residents of the Spokane area. Down the road, there might even be hats or T-shirts. Mail the completed application – held by the marmot to the left – to The Slice, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210. Being accepted as a member in good standing of the Marmot Lodge will fully entitle you to all the rights and privileges of Marmotdom. The Marmot Lodge is not affiliated with anything except The Slice column. E Pluribus Marmot.