 Brainerd
Noon Sertomans were given three great reasons why they
should attend the Regional Convention today by the new
roving Ambassadors of Great in 08. Three of our new active
members have taken on the role of the Good, the Bad and the
Ugly and will be presenting motivational segments the next
meetings to inspire everyone to attend the convention. They
are in order: Shannon Fanth, Anna Gorecky and Jeff Fitch.
There is now a big sign up sheet on the back wall and they
are expecting to "SEE RED". That is, a long red line that
indicates all of our membership is attending the convention.
They were assisted this week by Lori Rubin who is the
chairman of the entertainment segment of Great in 08. Lori
was praised highly by Co-Chair Joe Schulte who remarked,
"Lori worked tirelessly to sign up our speaker at a price
that our club could afford. Kathy Buckley is as the first
nationally known hearing impaired comedienne. She is also
known as an inspirational speaker and adds award winning
performances as an actress to her list of talents. She began
her early childhood with the label of "slow" until someone
realized she was hearing impaired. She has battled her way
back from two serious health issues and continues to say,
"Anything can be achieved when the heart and the mind work
together." She is the National Spokesperson for No Limits, a
non profit that deals solely with the deaf and hard of
hearing. Kathy is the perfect speaker for our convention and
in the words of Lori Rubin, "You will never forget her
presentation!" If you want more information or a sample of
her humor, just go to her website. The second reason to
attend the convention also takes place on that Friday night,
May 2nd. Along with Kathy, the Swinging Sertomans will
entertain and be celebrated with a 20 year anniversary
party. The group was formed for the first convention, and
intends to make this its last season as a fund raising group
for the Noon Sertoma Club. Everyone should want to take this
last opportunity to enjoy their special brand of
entertainment and to thank them for all their hard work. The
last reason everyone should be willing to attend this and
other events is the fact that it is already paid. A decision
was made to assess the fees necessary to cover the
convention expense over a two year period to make it easy to
motivate our members to attend. |
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Thanks Pam Sachs for taking notes. |
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| Announcements |
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March 12th Brainerd Lakes Therapy
Dogs demonstration and donation of
Rookie Check. Everyone should be there
for this interesting event.
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March 19th President's Awards Meeting. Julia
encourages everyone to attend as she will be
presenting awards. |
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March 13th 20 Year Anniversary Celebration for
Crisis Line and Referral Service, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
At Prairie Bay. Minimum donation is $15 and will
include hors d'oeuvres and wine. |
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May 5, 2008 Good Samaritan Bowl V Jack's
House Fundraiser 4 shifts 12 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 5
p.m., and 7:30 p.m. Sponsors are needed for bowlers,
teams,lane signs, and prizes. |
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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
Drape Schedule |
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| Ceiling Dates |
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Blue Ticket Winner |
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Drawn and won by Pam Sachs who donated it to the Warrior Way |
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| Pot-O-Gold
Winner |
| Jerry Keimig who donated it to
Confidence Learning Center |
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| Attendance |
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Guests:
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George VanWagner, Luke Schumer from Ameriprise
Financial, Joe Langehaug from Partytime Rental, Dane
Rubin from Lewie's RV, Jim Nagy and Lisa Houle from
Nelson Advertising, Barb Treat from Minnesota Public
Radio, Lance Nelson from All State, and PJ O'Brien
from T.C.B.X.
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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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| Mar. 12 |
Bob Nibbe, Bill OHara, Shannon Fanth |
| Mar. 19 |
Pete Odell, Jeff Olson, Craig Dunmire |
| Mar. 26 |
Tim O'Keefe, Jim O'Roark, Karen Owen |
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| Sertoman of the Day |
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Of
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The Linders family, another greatful Winter Wonderland Sears Gift
Card winner, sent us a thank you and see you next year card.
Randy Klinger from the YMCA issued a God Bless Sertoma thank you
letter for our contribution of $100 to Youth in Government.
Sadly, Sertoma was the recipient of a $500 donation today
from the Northern Lights Club which is disbanding. Mike Boen
thanked everyone for their support of that club. |
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Business Notes |
Winter Wonderland Sponsors on the 1 Star Level include:
Brainerd Savings and Loan, Burger King, Carole Paulsen
Accounting, Complete Title, Confidence Learning Center
(sponsored by Pam Sachs), Crossing Arts Alliance, Dale
Carnegie Training, Dr. Robert Bender and Dr. Carol
Winegar, Grand Casino, Hanneken Insurance, Hengel
Construction, Home Instead Senior Care, U S Card
Systems, Lake Region Storage, Max's Downtown Liquor,
Northern National Bank, Norther Lakes Sertoma Club,
Service Master, Simonson Lumber, State Farm
Insurance-Chuck Brenny, State Farm Insurance-Paul
Gazelka, Stern Industries, Sunrise Sertoma Club,
Wendy's. Music Matters, a non profit group, is
spearheading an effort to endow the 2.5 music positions
that are being cut due to the referendum failure. They
are looking for 1,000 people to donate $100 to make this
happen. For more information contact Bob Nibbe. |
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Rumor Corner
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Our last class of rookies continues to be involved in a big way
in Sertoma. They are not trying to offend anyone, but they are
passionate about getting people to support Great in 08. Lena is
making special appearances to tell jokes--today's was a groaner
but they are going to get much funnier. Thanks Pam Sachs for
sharing.
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We had an automatic meeting start today. The Dog Pound decided
that they would start the meeting by standing up, Pam did Good
Day Julia before she could say a word and Bryan Jelinski started
the pledge. Impromptu prayer was given excellently by Andy
Holmes. It's not that we can do it without you Julia, we just
wanted to make it easy!!
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Dairy Queen Karen Munsterteiger must have moved to a farm. She
was discussing "milking" today with some authority.
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Dale Bolt put away badges today and he insisted that from now on
people with similar numbers have to sit together. Actually, that
is not a bad idea--it would mix up the group if you had to find
someone within 20 numbers to sit by every time.
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Anna Gorecky burned her tongue on John Raboin's coffee at the
recent committee meeting for Great in 08. She is looking for
support for her tongue suit against Mr. Raboin.
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The Curling team has its last hurrah this weekend-come out and
show your support. Call the embattled lawyer above for times and
locations of their matches.
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Sue VanWagner was trying to sell her retired husband on the idea
of joining the club-she claimed he was good with lights, loved
the cold and the outdoors and didn’t mind heavy lifting so would
someone please snatch him up!
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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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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 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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