 Brian
Skogen and Missy Lake introduced Glen "Pat" Smith who was named
the 2006 recipient of our prestigious Service to Mankind Award.
When presented with the award, Pat remarked, "I have enjoyed my
years in Brainerd; the community has been good to my family and
me." Brian's presentation follows.
It is with great pride that the Brainerd Noon Sertoma Club has
chosen "Pat" Smith as our Service to Mankind recipient. Pat has
been an active and dedicated member of our community since 1987
when he and his family moved here from Cloquet. Pat supports
various community projects volunteering his time and talents with
the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, the Northland Arboretum, the
Chamber of commerce and the Rotary.
Pat has been involved with the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts for more
than 12 years, serving as a leader in both groups. Two of his
children obtained the Eagle Scout Award while he was involved.
Pat has been an active member of the Northland Arboretum, serving
on the Board for nine years. While serving as President, Pat was
active on the building committee for the visitor center. The
Arboretum currently has 540 acres and is working on expanding to a
total of 1000 acres, with all of these remaining green space
forever. The Arboretum is presently visited by 35-50 people daily
which amounts to 12,800-18,250 per year. Besides Arboretum
sponsored activities, the Center has many weddings and meetings.
Pat has given the Arboretum tremendous support and countless
volunteer hours.
Pat has been a member of the Brainerd Area Chamber of Commerce
since 1987. As a member of the Chamber, he has been a director on
the board of the Brainerd Lakes Area Development Corporation.
BLADC is a non-porfit organization designed to help new and
expanding businesses find the resources they need. Pat served as
both first and second vice president during his term on that
board. Pat was recognized and appointed to serve on the loan
committee for the Central Minnesota Initiative Foundation as a
result of his work with BLADC.
For more than 25 years, Pat has been a Rotarian. He served as
President when he lived in Cloquet. The members of the Brainerd
Noon Sertoma Club are honored to present Glen "Pat" Smith with the
Service to Mankind Award. Pat's dedication has made him a role
model for our community.
The second part of our program was a presentation by Dan Levno who
is about to make a 776 mile jaunt across Alaska with his sled
dogs. He will be one of 14 mushers recreating the famous Serum
run. He is fulfilling a life long dream to dogsled through the
interior of Alaska. He was recently featured in the Brainerd
Dispatch and you can go to Nome or bust to read the fascinating
details. |
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Thanks Deb Ryan for taking notes. |
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| Announcements |
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REMINDER Pay your dues before the Board Meeting Tuesday,
please. |
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Watch your email for the Christmas Lights Video. Steve
Augustinack previewed the new one minute video which will be
used to sell the Christmas Lights project. You are being asked
to forward the video to any business contacts you have that
might be interested. Contact Lori Rubin if you need more
details about the project. The email will note which of the
larger businesses have already been targeted. Nice work Gus
and thanks to BL Broadcasting for their assistance. |
| Dec 19 - Tuesday, 7 a.m. TJ's Log Cabin
December Board Meeting |
| Dec 27 - NO MEETING To offset
the costs of the Festival of Trees dinner and to give people a
holiday break. |
| Feb 10 - Big Annual Alexandria
Sertoman Ice Fishing Contest. Mike Boen has their raffle
tickets that include a Harley and a nice portable fish house
as prizes. |
| March 5 & 6 - Academic Decathalon
at Cragun's - Judges needed by end of February. State
competition for young people--interesting and fun |
| May 3-5 - Great Plains
Regional Convention in St. Cloud. Make plans to attend--we
will have a hospitality booth encouraging people to attend our
convention the next year. |
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Brainerd Area
Sertoma Club Calendar
Got a big event coming up—want to let everyone know?
Go to
the
interactive calendar and post it for all
to see. |
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| Pipe and
Drape Schedule |
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| Ceiling Dates |
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| Ticket Winner |
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Mike Howard |
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| Pot-O-Gold
Winner |
| Would have been Todd
Froemming |
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| Attendance |
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Guests: Pat and Alice Smith, Dale Brady from the Arboretum,
and potential member Denny Young from IAB Associate |
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| *Everyone is encouraged to bring potential
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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| Dec 20 |
Milo Johnson, Rita Johnson, Scott Johnson |
| Dec 28 |
No Meeting December 28th |
| Jan 3 |
Jerry Keimig, Paul Keprios, Brian
Kirkpatrick |
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| Sertoman of the Day |
 We
welcomed back long time member Deb Ryan who has continued to be
part of Sertoma but has been very busy with her family for the
past few years. She talked about her family background (her maiden
name is Sweet) which includes dirt racing which also seems to be
an important part of her husband Dan's life. Dan does Custom
Fireplace Installations and they have four children.
Deb became a member because of her long acquaintance with
Hopper and has served as both club and district secretary. She
worked on her rookie party also. She is now working with the
convention planning committee as their secretary.
Deb's current employment is with Tastefully Simple as a Senior
Consultant. She work out of her home doing direct sales of Gourmet
Foods. The company is based in Alexandria and has a staff of 250,
20,000 consultants, and $113 million dollars in sales in 2005. Deb
has offered to donate 20% of all her sales from now through
December 21st to the Peter Eigner fund. You can order directly
from her or go to her website at
www.tastefullysimple.com/web/dryan. Deb has been a member
for 8 years.
Her other hobbies include volleyball and camping. Welcome back
Deb!! |
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Rick Besmehn's daughter is not in the military--Pam apologizes for
her mistake. However both she and her husband were very
appreciative of all the nice thank you's from Sertomans last week.
Aaron Thomas Photography is doing a free family portrait for them. |
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Rumor Corner
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Karla Nelson had a Kiwanis moment--she had to wear one of those
aprons when ringing bells.
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Dan Holmes managed to get away without a fine even though he
remarked, "We have to come late, we work!"
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Kathy Williams blamed the Jehovah Witnesses for her late
appearance at Sertoma today. Praying didn't help her though, she
still had to pay her fine.
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Sucking up to sergeants works--ask our President.
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Brian Barrer is hiding out, he didn't come to Sertoma today and
he missed his bell ringing date. Rotary was ahead of us for a
little while but we now have 69 hours to their 62.
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Nate Grotzky is being embarrassed by the Universal Sex Swing
Scandal from the Expo.
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Veronica Jensen has beautiful hair, Bryan Jelinski does not.
Poor Deb K. From Ace Hardware had to pay for the difference.
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Congratulations on your radio winnings Randy Hukriede.
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Bonnie Cumberland has been rumored to be attending fertility
meetings.
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Bryan finally got to fine the illustrious Paul Koering today for
not mentioning Sertoma as a Civic accomplishment in his
campaign. Welcome back Paul Koering, Brian Skogen, Deb Ryan.
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Our musher today could have used a few more minutes in our
action packed meeting. Many good questions were asked.
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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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| FYI |
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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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Sandra Bonde (ehrichappraisals@charter.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 and her assistant Cathy Picek are the go-to folks
for Pipe and Drape information.
Need awards? Did you lose your pin? Tami Webb is the person
in charge of awards and meeting paraphernalia. |
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