 Theresa
Harsha, who is program coordinator for Senior Outreach from
the Kitchigami Regional Library, was today's guest speaker.
Theresa and her group have organized a pilot program in Crow
Wing and Wadena Counties to provide library services to
elderly shut-ins in private homes and senior care
facilities. Theresa is holding the senior sack which is
pre-prepared using 8 themes such as romance or western and
including 3 books that the seniors can keep for a month. The
Senior Tote contains 8 books, 4 dvd's and 4 audio books that
also stay at a senior care center for a month. The program
has been so successful that they are running out of totes!
Theresa encouraged Sertoma members who wanted to get
involved to fill out an application. The year 2030 will see
people over age 65 make up 24% of the population, double its
current rate. Programs such as this are invaluable aides to
those wishing to remain in their own homes as long as
possible. Theresa remarked, "We had a few glitches but the
reception has been fantastic and all we need to continue is
more volunteers". |
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Thanks Pam Sachs for taking notes! |
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| Announcements |
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Cathe Picek announced the Annual Fall
Auction to be held at Confidence
Learning Center on September 20th. See
Cathe for a flyer either for yourself or to
put up in your place of business. |
Crow Wing County Fair Help Needed
Monday, July 28 11:00 Set Up for Pipe and
Drape at Fair
Tuesday, July 20th 8 p.m. Tuesday Evening
Flag Take Down-call Beth Burnard if you can
help with the flags. |
Support the Sertoma Teams at the Relay
for Life
Relay For Life of Crow Wing County
Friday, July 25, 2008
Don Adamson Field, Brainerd, MN
5 PM: Gates Open 5:30 - 7:00: Survivor
Reception 7:00: Opening Ceremonies 5:00 -
9:30: Silent Auction 9:45 - 10:30: Luminaria
Ceremony 10:30: Fight Back Ceremony 11:30:
Raffle Drawing 11pm - 4:30am: Late Night
Games 4:30: Closing Ceremonies and clean up |
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Gossamer Ceiling Help Needed Friday
July 25th at 8:30 a.m. Set Up, Take Down at
6 a.m. Sunday at the Nisswa Community Center
for Randy Phillips' daughter's wedding. Call
Jenny Vesel if you can help--especially
Sunday. |
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Remember No Meeting August 20th. Big
Anniversary Celebration on August 15th.
Watch your email for the flyer invite to
RSVP. |
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Sports Booster Raffle Tickets $20 or
6 for $100. Limited amount of tickets
available, great prizes, drawing August
15th--see Bryan Barrer if interested. |
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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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| Pipe and
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| Ceiling Dates |
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Blue Ticket Winner |
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Jim Mayne |
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Winner |
| Sandra Ehrich |
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| Attendance |
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Guests:
Theresa Harsha from Kitchigami Regional Library and Nathan
Kempka from BITS |
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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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| Greeter
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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| July 30 |
Carol Winegar, Todd Alguire, Doug Campbell |
| Aug. 6 |
Ami Anderson, Joyce Anderson, Ryan Cerny |
| Aug. 13 |
Ted Anderson, Jamie Arvig, Becky Pakarinen |
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| Sertoman of the Day |
 Brenda
Kelley was today's honored Sertoman. Brenda is a new member
who was invited to the club by Steve Augustinack but abandoned
at the door. She was sponsored by Jeff Fitch who "stole" her
from Gus. Brenda was raised in North Dakota and both her parents
were teachers. She met her husband David through the Jaycees.
Their company is called DB Kelley Farms and the little ones they
raise are an integral part of their business. The farm is
located in the Fort Ripley area. Brenda jumped right into all
the aspects of pig farming from vaccinating through processing.
Their animals are raised in a natural environment and their meat
is processed under the FDA standards so they are allowed to sell
directly to consumers as well as stores. The also process
venison in the fall. They have been doing this together for
eight years and Brenda is certainly enthusiastic about her farm
life and product. Brenda was born in Germany when her father was
in the army and came to the area in 1994. Pam Sachs has sampled
some of the excellent products produced at DB Kelley Farms at
the Classic Golf Tournament and can personally say "Yum!Yum". |
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Of
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 Karen
Owen is back from the convention and just gave us a short
update--guess what even with the dog pound we are a "young"
club. Karen was the youngest district governor in training. Her
and Mark will be giving a more complete report at a later date.
TOB (Tough Old Broad) Karla Nelson returned with a good report
about her progress in coming back from her pericardial
infection. Les Franz is still at Bethany. Prayers and support to
Gus and Ginger--Ginger was just released from the hospital after
some emergency surgery. We should also include Kevin Goedker's
father Gene in our prayers this week--his is hospitalized with
heart problems.Congratulations to our GEM Award Winners. Anna
Gorecky and Jeff Fitch have gathered together all the necessary
achievements to be award the Good Enthusiastic Member Award
which can only be won in the rookie year. They will be presented
with plaques also, but today were given their pins. |
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Business Notes |
Contact Brenda Kelley if you are interested in the
home-grown meat products. They also do casual catering
and hog roasts. They offer brat sample parties for
groups. DB Kelley farms specializes in USDA Farm Fresh
Meat. Phone 320-745-2660 or email
dbkelly@brainerd.netCamp Confidence Outdoor
Auction Donations (they will pick up) wanted: guns,
bows, tires, atvs, snowmobiles, tools, chain saws,
machinery, antiques, trees and shrubs, portable
generators, portable air compressors, snow plows. Go to
the website for items NOT accepted at
www.campconfidence.com.
Want to support sports in Brainerd? The boosters have
a great raffle ticket for sale, drawing August 15th--see
Bryan Barrer for tickets. |
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Rumor Corner
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Queen LoAnn Reponen reigned over the meeting today. Korte's
rules went out the window as she continued to follow her own
agenda, pronounce her own version of Sertoma, and go barefoot to
keep from wobbling! Actually LoAnn is not one bit intimidated by
the Dog Pound or Sertoma and is very much in command. Good job!!
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Stevey Ray Mau was commiserating with LoAnn after the meeting
about the joy of being president. He decided she definitely
could run a talk show--Dr. LoAnn. Her ending remark, "You know
life is going good if there is not enough time in the day."
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Karen Owen not only spent two days in training to be a district
governor, she also spent some time in Denver learning the art of
creating the bloody Mary or so the rumor goes.
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Gee, an awful lot of people got fined for non-existent tatoos or
ones they wouldn't show. Kathy Williams has a tat? Steve Mau has
a tat? Wow!
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Beth Burnard paid our new GEM Awards guys fines for not getting
"ugly" included in the award ceremony.
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David Allen Pundt got fined for coming in late and coming in at
all.
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Bob Nibbe may have thought he was at a Jewish wedding-something
about glass stomping!
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The Dog Pound can't apply for the Library outreach program--not
only do they NOT read, they don't even listen!
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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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Notes from your President |
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If you are not receiving the newsletter notification or the
emails announcing special events, please contact Pam Sachs
either at 218 829 7761 or
eglponys@brainerd.net. |
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Sue VanWagner (suekvw@brainerd.net) is in charge of the
Sertoman of the Day schedule. Contact her to take advantage of
this great opportunity to share your story and get some free
advertising (and no fines for the day). The form is also
available here on our website.
Kari Barnes is the go-to person
for Pipe and Drape information.
Need awards? Did you lose your pin? Bonnie Cumberland
(bcumberland@mailstation.com) is the person
in charge of awards and meeting paraphernalia. |
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