Loren Kmett , an audiologist with Avaba Audiology and Hearing Care was the first speaker. He was followed by Ryan Hokanson of Hokanson Chiropractic and Injury who is praying for snow. Jason Bertram let us know he was a native of the area, a budding Jesse Ventura (he coaches wrestling), and an employee of Northwestern Mutual. Lee Anne and Denny Benjamin followed with their version of the Brady Bunch. They have a total of eleven children between them and they keep them hopping around the clock and playing those golden oldies in their Teddy Bear Sound capacities too. Sandy Kleist of LSS Financial Counseling works with people who need to create budgets and clean up their money problems when she is not home chasing her four year old twins around.

Amy Doyle hit everyone up for donations to the Rookie Party, announced that she was divorced and "looking" and let us know she works for Grand Casino, Mille Lacs. Standing beside her was Nadine Wade, also a Grand Casino employee. She has 8 children all by herself and 23 grandchildren to enrich her life. Rod Johnson, who is too new to be in the data base and works with commercial real estate, let us know that he lived on one of the 64 Bass Lakes in the area and he got his real estate license when Gerald Ford was president. Sue Beck who works with social services was very adamant about being the only person in the room who wasn't looking for additional customers. Sue Johnson told us how she got to be the "Soul Doctor" and had to admit with a little prompting from Pam Sachs that she races drag cars at BIR and comes from a family long associated with racing. She wants to hit 9 seconds by the time she reaches the age of 60.

Patty Hartman was very quick to tell us she works for the 3 best radio stations in the Brainerd Lakes area--WJJY, B93 and K101.5. Cheryal Lee Hills wears several commercial hats but joined Sertoma under the auspices of Community Sound and Security. Believe it or not, Cheryal admitted her secret vice was a good cigar to cheers from the Dog Pound. Linda Turpin, the new HART director, has something in common with Pam Sachs and Karla Nelson--she grew up as a Gull Lake girl. She says her beautiful daughter looks like Demi Moore. Lori Elwood just spoke to us about her Center of Possibilities so she put in a plug for her newest gift item, the table top fountain. Julia Sullivan thought maybe she had the Brady Bunch award socked up with her 8 between her and husband # ????. Julia does say this one is the last one. She also admitted it was the day she would rather be a barfly at Shep's. If Curt Hawkinson or Mary Aakus Olson reads this and calls Pam before next Tuesday, they will win their sawbuck.

 What a great program and what a talented, enterprising, funny, and diverse group of rookies. We are looking forward to working with you in the future and to a great Rookie Party. Speaking of which, be sure to let Amy know if you have some prize or money to donate to the party.

• Paul Gropper has an additional job--Builders Marketing.
• Bob Nibbe has lots of additional jobs mostly related to farming. He is selling hay and strawberries and invited everyone to his humungous garage sale next week.
• Karla Nelson was a virgin dog pounder this week.
• Pam Sachs got caught laundering money--ask Jeff Olson to repeat the story. She also has a great picture of the motorcycle that almost ran her over at Camp Confidence on Saturday. Bob and Ann Sherman looked terrific on their Harleys at the motorcycle rally in another picture, but she was warned that it would not get by the Midwest Captions official "censor". The Up NorthRally was a great new fundraiser for Confidence Learning Center. Papa Franz didn't look too shabby on his bike either.
• Happy Birthday Edie--in spite of all the harassment by the group we do appreciate your great work as Sergeant.