All of us are aware of the problems facing breast cancer victims since Lynn Franz is currently in our prayers because of her battle with this disease. Christie Jelinkski who is Brian’s wife is co chair of the event. She talked about the fact that 75% of the money raised stays in the community and 25% goes to research. Local monies are handed out in the form of grants.

Emily Lanin, who is the chairperson, went on to explain that they are very proud of the money that provided mammography for resident of Cass County with the purchase of a used machine for use by the Dakota Clinic this past year. Many local sponsors are involved including The Power Loon, Brainerd Medical Center, Cuyuna Medical Center, Cub Foods, and Radco to mention a few.

Volunteer Coordinator Sue Fisher, shared some of the special parts of this event. They include a quilt raffle, the Pink Survivor Tent which is new this year, Shop for the Cure, and Tinkled Pink. This unique contest involves decorating a porta potty with dollar votes for the champion that will go into the fund. This year they are expecting 1,600 participants including 87 survivors—you can find out more information at www.brainerdlakesrace.org.

Kathy has three children, two from her previous marriage and a stepson with her new husband, Steve. She was very excited to share the fact that her son has been accepted into graduate school.

Kathy came to Brainerd from Northfield where she was very active in Sertoma. The Northfield club was the fist to charter with women members. Kathy held all the offices in her home club as well as being the first woman elected to an international office. She served on the Board of the Foundation and became the VP traveling the country working for the Foundation. She started working at an early age for her father and spent 20 years in the ad management position for newspaper, radio and TV stations in Northfield. The Chamber of Commerce in Brainerd employed her for 7 years until she took a position at Lakeland Public Television which ended because of budget cuts. Kathy, however, had been working part time for Newton Advertising and decided to make this her full-time job. Newton has about one thousand representatives all over the country who sell specialty items such as pens and calculators with business logos for advertising.

Kathy enjoys calligraphy, gardening, garage sales, treasure hunting at antique stores, cooking and crossword puzzles. Before sharing her most embarrassing moment which was hilarious, Kathy told us about her personal brush with death from a car accident that left her in a wheel chair for a year and broke almost every bone in her body. As Rory stated afterwards, “As Sertoman of the Day you can share your triumphs and your sadness and know that Sertomans care.”

Kathy was Miss Fridley and won the swimsuit competition in the Miss Minnesota contest. She explained that she won not because of her swimsuit display but because everyone felt sorry for the contestant who hooked one of the cloud decorations on the stage with her spike heels and dragged it along on her walk down the ramp. Thanks Kathy for sharing your story. See Sandra Bonde to sign up!

• Charley and Jeff Birks are sponsoring a dance marathon.
• Welcome back Tom Steiger
• Congrats Steve Mau on your new job announcing with the Blue Thunder Baseball Team. Steve also paid a happy fine to announce the Lord of Life Rummage Sale this coming Sunday.
• Farmer Bob Nibbe visited us today.
• Congratulations Dennis Lutterman on your retirement
• Amy Doyle continues to provide us with free tickets from Grand Casino-Sinbad tickets today. Thanks!