 Sertoma continued its efforts to encourage attendance at both the
St. Cloud Regional Convention and the 2008 event to be held in
Brainerd. Beth Burnard was the featured speaker on "Wow in St.
Cloud" which is coming up in May. She shared her first experience
which included a very "interesting" ride with such dignitaries as
Mike Howard and Jeff Olson. She concluded by saying, "We are far
too close not to go to St. Cloud and encourage them to come to
Brainerd in 2008."
Joe Schulte and Sue Slaybaugh presented a "teaser" introduction to
some of the plans which are in place for our Regional in 2008. The
speaker is someone former Secretary of State Colin Powell has
described as "an inspiration". Sue presented an amazing number of
awards and achievements for the mystery speaker including visits
to The Today Show and Good Morning America. People Magazine wrote
one of their most touching stories in 1997 about this person. The
mystery guest is associated with the comedy field including live
spots on Fox, and A & E television shows. Sue also shared some
raves from people who had heard this person's motivational
speaking ability. Joe went on to acknowledge the chairmen of the
committees: Activities-Laura Beilke and Cheryal Hillls;
Registration-Kristine Hoheisel, Sara Nelsen, Nanci Hallam and Kari
Robinson; Hospitality Room-Julia Sullivan, Scott Fisher and the
Bemidji Sertoma Club; Entertainment-Lori Rubin; Decoration-Kristin
Larsen, Joyce Seymour, Veronica Jensen; Display-Sue Slaybaugh;
Cookbook-Cathe Picek; Golf Tournaments-Sunrise Sertoma, Dale Bolt,
Dave Burggraff; Swinging Sertomans-Steve Augustinack, Texas Hold-em-Gary
Walters; and Bonfire/Beach Party-Tami Webb. Joe reminded us that
we have only 60 weeks until the actual Regional Conference at
Maddens and also encouraged everyone who attends the St. Cloud
event to be an ambassador for ours.
 We also had a birthday surprise celebration for our illustrious
president. Steve Mau, who turned 40 today. His lovely wife Maureen
and his daughter Anneke brought in black balloons and a cake to
share. Steve shared the exciting beginning to his birthday day. He
got an early morning phone call from his security company who
reported that the burglary alarm was going off. His mad dash down
the highway ended at General Rental where he got to see the lovely
black birthday balloons that were waving in the breeze created by
the furnace and obviously the culprits. Congratulations Steve and
thanks for the cake. |
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Thanks Mary Kolkind for taking notes. |
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| Announcements |
| Contact Kari Barnes at Karibarnes@charter.net
if you can help with the takedown on Sunday at 4 p.m. at
Aitkin H.S |
| Scott Hansen is bringing back a comedy show
entitled "The Bad Apple Comedy Tour" with Dave Mordal and Jeff
Cesario on Saturday March 24th at the Iron Rail. Every ticket
that is sold will return $5 to Sertoma so we are putting up
flyers and helping sell tickets. See President Mau for a
flyer. |
| Laura Beilke announced the United Way Biggest
Loser contest coming up after Easter. She and Cheryal Hills
have also organized a trip to the St. Paul St. Patrick's Day
Parade. For more information about either event, talk to
Laura. The teams for the loser contest have been reduced to 6
persons. Last year's event raised $9,000 which went to school
athletic equipment and other needs. |
| Get your Classic Booster Tickets from
your local Sertoma ladies who are in competition with the Twin
Cities crew to sell the most before June 15th and 16th when
the golf and fishing events are scheduled It's not too early
to mark your calendar for the Mariucci Fiesta on June 15th. |
| 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. |
| March 5 & 6 - Academic Decathalon
at Cragun's - Judges needed by end of February. State
competition for young people--interesting and fun |
| Aitkin Pipe and Drape Rory Coit and
Dale Bolt are in charge. SetUp is March 9th and Take down is
March 11th. The sign up sheet has specific jobs and times or
contact Kari Barnes. |
| The dates have been announced for Camp
Sertoma. Our group was instrumental in the founding of
Camp Sertoma for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children held each
year at Confidence Learning Center. This year again will see
two sessions with the younger students attending July 8-13th
and the older students the 15th-20th. If you can spare some
time to volunteer, plan on joining the kitchen crew. |
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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 |
| March 9th |
Aitkin High School
- 8:30 a.m. - 120 booth set-up |
| March 12th |
Aitkin High School
- 4:00 p.m. - take down |
| March 24th |
Princeton |
| March 22-25 |
Lewies RV |
| March 23-26 |
Rolfings |
| March 28-31 |
Brainerd Chamber |
| April 13-15 |
MMBA |
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| Ceiling Dates |
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Blue Ticket Winner |
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Dale Bolt representing the Dog Pound |
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| Pot-O-Gold
Winner |
| Would have been Jim Hanson |
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| Attendance |
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Guests: Maureen and Anneke Mau |
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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 |
| Remember:
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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| March 14 |
Randy Phillips, Mark Puschinsky, John Raboin |
| March 21 |
Loann Reponen, Kari Robinson and Diane
Rook-Johnson |
| March 28 |
Karla Nelson, Steve Rose, Tom Rosenberger |
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| Sertoman of the Day |
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We received another nice scholarship thank you from Lisa Citke. |
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Rumor Corner
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 Thanks Tom Rosenberger for sharing his minnow eating prize
as described by Melody Banks. As you can see by the picture, it
is a hidden side of Mr. Rosenberger. Thanks too for filling in
as chaplain.
- "No checky, no shirty" --someone's new motto. Attorney
Raboin dressed the part today and got harassed by everyone.
- Diane Ulmen-lost, found and welcomed back.
- President Mau thanked Julia for her excellent job filling
his shoes last week.
- 1871 is being touted as the year after Dale Bolt graduated
from high school.
- Everybody voted on the mystery fish--it definitely wasn't
walleye, northern or crappie.
- Speaking of fish, the dog pound got the business for not
celebrating their win but Mr. Bolt explained that they all had
"fish camp voices"--something like the second week of deer camp?
- Sergeant Bill wants to be appointed Pledge Starter so he can
get out his boy scout uniform and see if it still fits.
- We celebrated belatedly with Jeff Marchand who skipped the
country for his 50th last week.
- Vern paid a fine today because she wasn't Jim Hanson. Hmm
maybe our Sergeant needs his eyes examined--we have several nice
places with Sertomans. Jackie McCall or Andi Holmes would be
glad to help him out.
- Guesses as to the identity of the mystery speaker were
Hillary and Cher. Personally I prefer Cher.
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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 (tamiwebb61@yahoo.com) is the person
in charge of awards and meeting paraphernalia. |
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