 Vanessa Velasquez, foreign student from Columbia was a repeat visitor to our group. Vanessa, who is staying with Mary Marana, spoke to the group last summer. The biggest change was her very much improved English. She explained that her parents decided that being a foreign student would be a valuable experience for her after she graduated at 16. She had neglected to take any English
classes, however, and had to "bribe" one of her sister's English instructors into signing her papers and so arrived armed only with a giant Spanish English dictionary and the hope that she could learn quickly. Vanessa was very emotional about her attachment to her American family and talked about her trip to Miami and a visit to a North Dakota farm. She explained,
"I have never been to a farm and driving a tractor is cool."
Her plans for the future have changed because of her school experiences in Brainerd. She took a class in TV productions and decided to go home and study to be a television announcer and possibly return to work in the United States. Vanessa is a very personable girl and was very entertaining. Kudos to the Maranas for their willingness to be involved.
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Steak Fry at Milo's 6 p.m. start, come at 5 if you want to go on the cocktail pontoon run. Entertainment provided by Sertoma Band. The Band will play for at least an hour and then music will continue for dancing. Steaks and beverages will be provided by the club, everyone else who is coming is encouraged to sign up for a pot luck item. Details will be finalized at
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Food prepping in the afternoon getting vegetables ready and precooking some items. |
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Fiesta starts at 6:00 p.m. at Camp Confidence. Food preparers and servers, bartenders, drink ticket salespersons, and live-silent auction workers needed. |
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| Dale Bolt (again?) |
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| Would have been Becky Butcher |
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Rick Besmehn, Scott Blake, Paul Bloom |
| June 7 |
Mike Boen, Dale Bolt, Erik Bonde |
| June 14 |
Pam Braland, Joe Brenny, Dave Burggraff |
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 David Tagtmeier who is Program Director for the Family YMCA was our Sertoman of the Day today. He recently returned to Sertoma and his goal is to become an active member of the club and earn his gem award. David has been married for 19 years to his high school sweetheart and links the birth of his three children to the success of the Minnesota Twins (Unfortunately he is not planning any more children so he says the future of the Twins looks rather bleak) . He is very active in Boy Scouts including being Caretaker of the Parker Scout Reservation.
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Pipe and Drape Needs You - Sign up and Help Mike Howard and the club |
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It's that time again...Sign Up to Help with the Sertoma Mariucci
Fiesta
** Chuck Bartels will not be available this year to supervise this event. The various chairs that have agreed to take on this awesome responsibility really need your help.
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John Nelson closes his eyes and crosses his fingers as he campaigns for his candidate for 3rd Vice President, Jim Potvin who won by a narrow margin. Kim Hauglie is our new Secretary . The tie for Treasurer was broken by one vote in a revote and went to Matt Engen. Both the secretary and the treasurer will serve for 2 years--their first year will be as assistant to the current office holder. |
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Largest New Member Induction, May 23rd
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Please Welcome the Following People to Sertoma: Jill Sandberg, Eric
Paulson, Diane Johnson, Art Bergen, Bonnie Nentil, Tim Nentil, Eric
Bonde, Sandra Erich, Marla DeRosier, Criag Dunmire, Jim Hanson, David
Tagtmeier, Pam Braland, and Pete Legge
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