 Bonnie
Cumberland, Sertoma member and Affiliate Coordinator for the
Central Minnesota Community Foundation was today’s honored
speaker. Bonnie had a serious topic to present but her extensive
training as teacher, mayor, victim’s advocate, church committee
member and a long life dedicated to community service made this
a very well-organized, informative and humorous production. Pam
started the humor ball rolling when she accidentally took a
picture of Bonnie’s “best side” when she was bending over to
retrieve one of her four visual aides which turned out to be a
cute "builder bear". Rod Converse got into the mix when he
announced that her visual aide “tree” was actually plastic and
she promptly collected a dollar fine from him for her
foundation. Her first visual was a hat which represented her
recap of the many hats she has worn and continues to wear
including her own television show, “ISD Insights”. She then got
into the purpose of her organization. The Central Minnesota
Community Foundation has its main office in St. Cloud. They have
a 35 million dollar foundation base, 1.5 million of which is
earmarked for the Brainerd area. They are in the business of
getting dollars into the community to help strengthen it and
make
it grow. They accept grant applications to get these funds, and
twice a year give out about $20,000 in one or two thousand
dollar increments. Deadline for the first grant applications is
February 2nd and the second round applications are due in August
and given out in September. Bonnie remarked, “I believe in this
organization and it is an opportunity that many of you will
appreciate”. She encouraged everyone to consider donating to the
foundation, applying for grants for non profit organizations,
and even volunteering to serve on the board of directors.
Incidentally, we learned that some trees get 272 feet tall, some
get 40 feet across, and some are made out of plastic and can
cost you money if you happen to notice the plastic part. |
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Announcements |
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Get your Michael Johnson posters and tickets from Jim Potvin.
If each member of our club would purchase or sell two tickets, we
would have $3,000 for the Central Lakes Foundation. Brian Lehman
is taking his wife to the concert as a Valentine’s Day present,
why don’t you join them? |
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Thanks social committee for a great holiday party at Ernies.
Pictures are up on the MSN site. |
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Feb. 2 - Noon Meeting of Christmas Lights Committee at Super 8.
RSVP to Kristine Welle. |
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Feb. 5 - Sertoma Induction at Noon at the Log Cabin in
Downtown Brainerd |
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Feb. 20-22 Annual Perch Jerk Grand Vue Lodge at Leech Lake
which has a new bar, kitchen and fireplace. Cost is $110 which
covers food, beer, lodging and soft drinks. See Paul Gropper if
you want to participate and contribute to Hopper’s Fund. |
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Feb. 29 - Michael Johnson Concert. - Tornstrom
Auditorium |
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March 2 - Academic Decathlon at Cragun’s. Junelle Hewitt
is looking for judges who can commit to a 10:30-2:30 time
slot. Call her directly or talk to Jim Potvin. |
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April 29 - May 1 - Regional Convention at Mankato—mark your
calendars. Rookies, this is a must if you want to earn your GEM
(Good Enthusiastic Member) Award. |
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May 22 - CAMP CONFIDENCE CLEAN UP DAY everyone welcome |
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June 12 - Regional Twins game for Sertoma. If we can get
500 ticket purchases at $23 a ticket with $5 of that going to a
designated charity, the Swinging Sertomans will be singing the
National Anthem. The Twins play the Phillies. Jim Potvin will try
to persuade the Sertoma Region to give the money to Camp Sertoma,
a charity which is definitely regional. |
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July 11-17 Great Plains Region Camp Sertoma—volunteers
needed to cook, donations of food or ideas of where to get
donations welcome. |
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FAS: Roy Miller won the FAS money this week. He was kind
enough to donate it to Mike Howard to help fund the trip to
Grafton to look at the holiday lights. Loren Kmett did not call
in. |
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Drape Schedule |
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Winner |
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party and did not return them. |
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Would have been Ina Luca. |
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Attendance |
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Remember: Greeters
(Be sure to take care of your duties that include meeting people
at the door and getting the ticket money counted and divided
with half going to Tami to give away and half to Diane for the
social committee's budget). 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 Club Treasurer (Diane
Rook Johnson) and half goes to the Club President along with the
bucket of tickets. Be there by 11:45 and call somebody if you
can't. Call Patty Hartman. |
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Rick Besmehn, Laura Beilke, Scott Blake |
| Feb 11 |
Paul Bloom, Mike Boen, Dale Bolt |
| Feb 18 |
Sandra Bonde, Joe Brenny, Dave Burggraff |
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Sertoman of the Day
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Of Note: |
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We had two honored guests today from the Bemidji Sertoma Club,
Michael McDaniel of Consumer First in Bemidji who is a charter
member and Dick Olson of Ultima Foods of Litchfield who will be
working closely with the group in their community endeavors. If
Edie Hindman or Tania Melby reads this and calls, they will win
their $10 |
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Rumors Corner: |
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 Julia
Sullivan in now introducing herself as a retired karaoke
singer—she and Jim did sing very pretty at the Holiday Party.
- It is only two weeks to baby Ryan.
- Charlie Bartels is headed to Cancun.
- Congratulations to Rick Besmehn on 30 years in business. He
mentioned that Les Franz was his first customer. Networking
definitely pays off at Sertoma –about 30 people had to stand up
and admit that Rick did work on their cars too.
- Jeff Kozitza is in training as harem leader according to
Mike Howard.
- Rory Coit got fined for lending Dave Clausen a book that
Dave lost and now feels bad about—only our alumni Sergeant could
come up with such a convincing story for fining someone.
- Pam should have been fined big time for putting the
Christmas Lights Meeting at the local grocery store instead of
at Kristine Welle’s “Super Place”. Mr. Clausen instead decided
to give that fine to Lori Ukkelberg simply because she is his
neighbor.
- Don’t ask Bill Mitsch what he got fined for—something to do
with gold bracelets, and plasma TV’s and the guys in charge of
ladies of the evening.
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Find a Sawbuck Corner: Call 829-7761
The FAS Program was designed to encourage people to read the
newsletter. Even those who attend the meeting can benefit from
reviewing the announcements etc. If you find the letters FAS
followed by your name, you must call the number provided and just
leave a message that you called and attend the next meeting to
collect your money. Simple--however 90% of the people never
respond.
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Photos Photos Everywhere New photos go up almost every week on our
new MSN Community homepage. This community is for the club, easy
to join and gives you the opportunity to add edit or delete any
photos that are posted as well as leave messages for fellow
Sertomans. It is a good way to thank someone for doing a good job
or give them some positive feedback for a big event in their life.
If you wish to view the current photographs or check out the new
online directory go to:
http://communities.msn.com/BrainerdNoonSertoma/_whatsnew.msnw
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