 Jeff
Fitch shared his first exposure to the Venture Crew
and introduced our speaker. Mark and Ben were here
to talk about Winter Wonderland grants in action.
Jeff met Mark at work and steered him onliine to
apply for a grant for this brand new group.
Sertomans gave this unique scouting organization a
$500 award that helped them get started. This
program is the next step beyond scouting for both
boys and girls ages 13-21. The program's goal is to
have the students plan and run the program for
themselves. Venture Crew 405 is the first one in
Minnesota. If you want more information about the
national program go to http://scouting.org/scoutsource/Venturing.aspxI
. A local website is in the works. One project Ben's
crew recently completed was a four week Kodiak Camp.
This is an event for Cub Scouts They built a thermal
shelter which is used for winter camping. They
cleaned up and restored an old Campsite as their
major summer activity last year. The Sertoma Grant
went to purchase cooking equipment for their outdoor
activities. They are looking for more members who
like the outdoors and community service. Mark
compared the group to our Sertoma Club. Venture
groups give the older scouts a chance to continue
under the auspices of the International Boy Scouts.
They also accept members from 4H and FFA. Mark
Stroat is the contact person, to join-call
218-831-8200.
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Thanks Pam Sachs for taking notes, Kari Satre for taking
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Pipe and Drape Career Exploration Set Up
went well. LoAnn thanked everyone who
participated. Mark your calendars for the
Aitkin show this weekend. The set up seems
to be organized but if you can help Sunday
for the takedown 4 p.m., it is very
important to get people who can handle
removing the carpet. Call Tad at 838-7617 to
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Pipe and Drape at the Lodge March
16th Tuesday Set UP 5 p.m. Take down
Wednesday March 17th 4 p.m. Small show, Tad
is not available so he needs good help.
Contact LoAnn who has volunteered to be in
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Gossamer ceiling takedown Monday,
March 15th at noon. |
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Orientation will take place after the
meeting next Wednesday, March 17th. It will
take approximately half an hour. |
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Rookie Party Committee announced
their date for the party, April 15th at
Ernies. The social hour will start at 6 p.m.
They are celebrating tax day with Carole
Paulsen. |
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When you receive the Dancing Man video
and information please post it on your
Facebook page or forward it to someone who
might be interested. Thanks! |
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International News: Celebrate Sound,
a new web presence, will help people learn
about hearing health. A Sound Investment is
an action campaign that our clubs can use to
become leaders in their communities on the
subject of induction looping and hearing
health! This material is coming to your club
so you can participate in May: Better
Hearing and Speech month. The next issue of
the Sertoman has a complete article about
Hearing Charities of America, Celebrate
Sound and A Sound Investment. Join us as we
take the lead in promoting hearing health to
our communities! For more information
contact Sertoma Headquarters. |
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Brainerd Area
Sertoma Club Calendar
Got a big event coming up—want to let everyone know?
Please send to Pam Sachs and it will be posted.
eglponys@brainerd.net |
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Blue
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Gene Farone |
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Winner |
| Would have been Mary Kolkind |
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Guests: Mark Stroat, Ben Schrader Venture Crew 405 |
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members to a Sertoma meeting with the Club picking up the cost.
However, you will be billed $9.50 for any other guests. |
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Schedule |
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As greeter you have several duties. You need to arrive about 10
minutes early. It is your job to greet people, help them find
their badges and sell them a ticket if they wish to participate.
The money collected must be divided by the Greeters equally--half
goes to the Current Club Treasurer for the social committee and
half goes to the Club President along with the bucket of tickets.
Be there by 11:45 and call somebody to substitute for you if you
can't be there. |
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Pete Knight, Mary Kolkind, Brandon Knowles |
| Mar. 24 |
Keith Kolstad, Mark Korte, Darren Larson |
| Mar. 31 |
JJ Levenske, Brian Lehman, Gary Loge |
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Congratulations to Beth Burnard's Polar Plunger who made the
Brainerd Dispatch with her efforts to raise money for Special
Olympics. She sent a thank you for the Sertoma contribution to
her $840 total.
Thirteen curlers helped the Raboin team come in fourth at the
tournament for the year. |
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Facebook |
| This is the link to the official Facebook
page for the club. It will now be an interactive
way for members to share pictures and comment on
club activities. As with Walters Wacky
Adventures Page--you can visit it without being
a member of Facebook. Creating a Facebook
account is easy and free. You can limit access
to your page and just communicate with those
people who are really your friends. Signing up
is simple and by creating your "own" page you
give yourself interactive abilities on the
Brainerd Area Sertoma site. You can completely
ignore your personal page if you wish. However,
the profile and information pages may become THE
way for us to update your data base information
in the future. I am also totally available for
phone consultations for people who want me to
walk them through the Facebook site. For
instance--Jeff Fitch has promised me by Monday
you will be able to view his awesome barbecue
pictures. Les Franz also took some photos at the
party and maybe we can get him to join and
upload those!! |
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Business Notes |
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Annual Purses for Partners to Be Held
The Third Annual Purses for Partners, a luncheon and
purse auction to benefit Kinship Partners, will be held
on Saturday, April 24th, in the Gull Lake Center at
Grand View Resort. Purse viewing and the silent auction
will begin at 11 am and lunch will be served at noon.
Tickets for this one of a kind event for women and girls
are $25 each and are available by calling the Brainerd
Kinship office at 454-8012 or 1-877-730-5437. Purses for
gals of all ages will be auctioned and each purse will
contain a special extra surprise gift from an area
business. On the silent auction there will also be
themed bags with accessories, such as a beach bag, a pet
bag, a baby bag, and an ice cream bag among others.
Come and enjoy lunch on April 24th and get a new fashion
accessory at the same time. All money raised benefits
the children’s programs of Kinship Partners. The mission
of Kinship Partners is to provide positive role models
and guidance to youth in our communities. For more
information about Kinship’s programs, please call
Kinship Partners at 829-4606, or toll-free at
1-877-730-5437, or visit the website at
www.kinshippartners.org.
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Rumor Corner
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 Greg
Straka incurred the wrath of the rumor lady today. She parked a
little bit funky and he tried to convince her they were towing
away her truck. Not good Mr. Second Wind!!
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Welcome back Joyce Anderson!!!!!!!
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Karen M was buttering up the dog pound today. HMMM What is the
rest of the story?
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Charlie Bartels Respite Dining--garlic was a big topic at
today's early Dog Pound chatter.
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Loann is jealous of Steve Mau and his "radio" voice.
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Vox Pop teacher bashing wasn't real popular at the newsletter
table today.
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Steve Mau is paying happy fines for his "step" class. He is on a
roll for physical fitness! The Dog Pound paid a fine for Steve
for putting the C (person of the lighter color race) in dancing.
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LoAnnism--did we do good? or did we do well? Me N Paul became
Mean Paul Keprios.
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It is scary that Straka is actually being hired by the Baxter
police. If not the fine was well deserved!!
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Pig mud bath feet fine Brenda Kelley. She is putting out a new
line of piggy pomades and hog wild beauty treatments.
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John Raboin's hair is too short to curl and he is too old to
join the boy scouts. He had to pay big bucks for being too
straight and too old!
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The Dancing Man's dates with Art Becker, Rick Besmehn, Charlie
Bartels got cancelled.
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Paul Gropper has a magnetic personality--so he paid!
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The newsletter editor ventured into Cub Foods and got behind
this man in a uniform (white shirt, tie, black pants) leading a
long line of chattering happy school kids on a dance around his
store. We now have to call him the Pied Piper of Cub Foods.
Actually, his helper confided to me that Bryan Jelinsky is
absolutely wonderful with the school groups!! I know they were
singing him a song when I left after taking his photo!!
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to proud papa JJ Levensky. Happy Steve Mau paid a fine for his
daughter's honors at school. Laura Beilke is very happy her
daughter is going to do her graduate studies at the U of M. Jim
Grant is very happy with his green light from the doctor for his
17th year cancer free.
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Photo's |
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Photos
Photos Everywhere New photos go up almost every week on our new
Sertoma Photo Gallery.
http://sertomaphotos.brainerd.com |
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"One day your life will pass before you, make sure it worth
watching," was my thought for the day. As President I feel I
should encourage everyone to be very active during Pipe and
Drape season. This is our oldest and really most successful fund
raiser. When you work any hour for Pipe and Drape you are making
an average of $50 to contribute back to the community. We really
need a coordinator who knows how to supervise set ups!! Jeff and
Tad are doing a great job and we need to take responsibility for
helping as much as possible.
International News
Roster Updates/Change of Information
Send Cathe any changes of business, address, phone or email. The
roster will be updated and published at the beginning of each
quarter.
Roster - 1-26-2010
Cathe Picek
cathe@campconfidence.com
218-330-7804
Program/Sertoman of the Month
Contact Darren or Veronica to schedule a time to share your
story about you and your business. No fines that day!
Darren Larson
darren.larson@lakewoodbank.com
218-851-8368
Veronica Jensen
vrjensen@bremer.com
218-828-5191
Download form here
Pipe and Drape
Contact Tad with Pipe and Drape information or questions.
Tad Hoskins
tadhoskins@juno.com
218-838-7617
Awards/Club Supplies
Bonnie Cumberland
bcumberland@mailstation.com
829-6316
If you are not receiving the newsletter notification or the
emails announcing special events, please contact Pam Sachs
either at 218-821-1130 or
eglponys@brainerd.net.
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