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The Club welcomed guest John Cordinger and frequent visitor Irene Meinen. The guest speaker was Adam Lee, who is the store manager at the Kowalski's in Shoreview. Adam indicated that he had worked for Kowalski's for 14 years. He indicated that during his career he had worked in several positions at stores in Woodbury, St. Paul, White Bear Lake, Excelsior and now Shoreview. He noted that Kowalski's has been around for about 35 years and that the first store was on Grand Avenue. He indicated that the new Shoreview store was doing well and it has been open about a year and a half. Kowalski's views itself as a civic business and as an active participant in the community. The Shoreview site is unique in that it not only has the retail store, but they also use the other half of the former Rainbow Foods site as their bakery and catering site. Adam then responded to numerous questions from club members.