 Four
individuals actively involved in Bridges Workplace
connection and Career Academies made lengthy
presentation to Sertoma today. Their many focus was
to interest business people in the audience in
supporting their efforts to help high school
students explore careers by providing hands-on
experiences. Pictured from left to right are Kevin
Thesing, Mary Gottsch, Cindy Brey, and Pat Swarthout.
This is a partnership between business and education
to help students fulfill personal and career goals.
Many teenagers do not understand what the job itself
involves and they end with a degree that they cannot
use. The interesting fact is that 20% of the jobs of
the future do not need college degrees. Young people
need to be encouraged to stay in the area and train
for these jobs. The new worker needs to thinking for
change, willing to speak up and must possess the
ability to solve problems and engage effectively
with co-workers. The three goals of the local
organization have been to increase career education,
to promote hands on learning for credit through the
Bridges Career Academy and Workplace Connection and
conduct a marketing and educational promotion to get
businesses and education involved. November 18th is
second big Career Exploration Day scheduled at
Craguns. They are expecting 1800 plus students from
22 schools. Businesses were contacted and areas were
set up where all businesses from a certain area
would create hands-on experiences and provide
personnel who can directly relate what these new
jobs are all about as well as acquainting the
students with some of the equipment. Mary has been
absolutely amazed at the cooperation between rival
businesses to set up these experiences. Most school
districts have had to cut their career exploration
programs and many of their vocational offerings
because of lack of funds. The goal of this group is
to expand their offerings into the junior high
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| Announcements |
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The deadline for the nominations for
Service to Mankind is Monday, November
10th. Get your names into Missy Lake. |
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Pam Sachs no longer has a
landline--if you have to contact her call
her cell phone number 218-821-1130. |
 Winter
Wonderland
- Updates to the worker's schedule can
now be done online at the
Winter Wonderland Volunteer Sign-up page.
- November 20th Chamber Chow/Sertoma
Winter Wonderland joint meeting. DO NOT
MEET at Bonanza that Wednesday.
- People needed for the sales
committee to hand deliver invitations to
the preview party and to contact current
sponsors and update their information.
- Today Steve Mau acknowledged all the
people in attendance who had helped to
get 40 of the 50 displays up. Our new
exciting Statue of Liberty with
fireworks is going to wow them. People
who can check bulbs are needed
desperately. They plan on working the
rest of this week (starting at 10) and
into the beginning of next week. Call
Steve Mau to check on work schedules.
- Rain on Thursday postponed the work
at the Arboretum. It is re-scheduled for
Monday at 9 a.m. when the crew hopes to
be able to finish the displays and the
bulb checking if enough people show up.
Call Steve Mau with questions
218-851-6381
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Pipe and Drape for Career Exploration Day
at Cragun's on November 17th Set up is at
6:30 a.m. and includes 130 booths and
tables. Take down is November 18th at 5:30
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Warm clothes for volunteers to have
on hand at Winter Wonderland are being
requested. If you have a snowmobile suit-etc
that you can lend for the season, Andy
Holmes will see that it is cleaned and
returned to you. |
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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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Blue Ticket Winner |
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Raboin Consortium |
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Guests: Julia Evanson from RELS, Richard Peterson who is
helping with WW, and our 4 speakers-Mary Gottsch, Kevin Thesing,
Cindy Brey, and Pat Swarthout. |
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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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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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| Nov. 12 |
Craig Dunmire, Kim Ellingson, Shannon Fanth |
| Nov. 20 |
No Greeters MEETING NOVEMBER 20TH WITH
CHAMBER CHOW AT THE ARBORETUM! |
| Nov. 26 |
Pete Knight, Gene Farone, Scott Fisher |
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| Sertoman of the Day |
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 Nathan
Kempke of Business Information Technology Solutions was today's
honored Sertoman. Steve Augustinack encouraged his co-worked
Douglas Benzer to join and Doug soon brought him to Sertoma
also. He wasn't really sure that this was the organization for
him until he volunteered at the vision and hearing screening and
began to realize what a huge impact Sertoma has on the Brainerd
area. Nathan has lead a nomadic life that took him from his
birthplace in Illinois to high school in Pine River, some US
army reserve training and service including Germany, and
experiences with the Airborn Division. He returned to the area,
went to college and then got involved with the family interest
in technology. The final result was the establishment of BITs
which is located in downtown Brainerd and is a Microsoft
Certified Partner specializing in design, installation and
administration of business. He and Amy have recently become
parents of baby boy Kayden. Amy is a nurse who is working on her
RN degree. They live on a hobby farm and raise lots of animals.
His most embarrassing moment involved an incident in the army
that earned him the nickname "Dual Exhaust". |
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Karla Nelson's happy fine involved an all clear of cancer message
from her doctor. Congratulations to Mayor Brian Lehman.
This smiling group of volunteers spent Tuesday helping at Winter
Wonderland. Thanks Camp Confidence Crew!!!!!!Laura Beilke,
Bob Ehrich and Cathe Picek received the Believe in Sertoma Award
for bringing in a new member. |
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Business Notes |
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Business Information Technology Solutions, LLC
Your IT infrastructure is a critical tool for business
success. BITS knows that when it goes down so do your
profits. Out-sourcing your technology management to BITS
can help you feel secure about the technology that
empowers your company. BITS techs have the expertise you
need to install new systems or repair-upgrade-maintain
currently owned technology. Business IT Solutions has
partnered with the largest system builder in the
channel. Equus Computer Systems, Nobilis brand
computers, can be delivered to you and deployed as early
as the next business day! If your company is ready to
replace that old server or if you are ready for your
first server, our staff can configure one tailored to
your IT needs. Need new storage solutions? Let Business
IT Solutions address your needs and deploy the Network
Attached Storage (NAS) or Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
that is the best fit.
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Today was a quiet day since we had little time for merriment or
socializing. In lieu of the usual local humor, here is something
to enjoy. TEN PUNS |
TEN PUNS
It is said that the ability to make and understand PUNS is
the highest level of language development. Here are the top 10
winners in the International Pun Contest. |
- A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons.
The Stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one
carrion allowed per passenger.
- Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the
other and says, 'Dam!'
- Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a
fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly, it sank, proving once again
that you can't have your kayak and heat it, too.
- Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.'
The other says, 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm
positive.'
- Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during
a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.
- A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were
standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament
victories.
After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and
asked them to disperse. But why they asked, as they moved off.
'Because,' he said, 'I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an
open foyer.'
- A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of
them goes to a family in Egypt and is named Ahmal. The other
goes to a family in Spain ; they name him Juan. Years later,
Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon
receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she
also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, 'They're
twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal.'
- A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments, so
they opened a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone
liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across
town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good
fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and
begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival
florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious
thug in town to 'persuade' them to close. Hugh beat up the
friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they
didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving
that only Hugh can prevent florist friars. (Oh, so bad!!)
- Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the
time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet.
He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with
his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him (Oh,
man, this is SO BAD, it's good) a super calloused fragile mystic
hexed by halitosis.
- And, finally, there was the person who sent ten different
puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns
would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
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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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Sue VanWagner (suekvw@brainerd.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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