What more could a former English teacher ask for in a speaker. First of all, John Bolduc, Brainerd's new police chief is a handsome personable young man. He has a sense of humor which is evidence in his quote from a fellow officer
"If you run, you will only go to jail tired." But most of all, he quotes one of my favorite authors, Mark Twain, as his motto for his new job,
"Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest." His major emphasis on
"doing right" by his new job involved focusing on a purpose driven organization. Hence the efforts this summer to establish a mission statement to guide his staff. His standard to measure goals is centered around valuing people from top to bottom, valuing honesty, encouraging leaders, stimulating ingenuity and rewarding individual and corporate achievements. He does not intend to make a
"perfect" police force. In fact, he stressed the importance of admitting to the public when you have made a mistake. From philosophy he moved on to discuss some practical aspects of working in Brainerd. In their efforts to provide service his force does everything from getting a bat out of someoneıs house to the more serious job of rescuing motorists after accidents. In their role as protectors of the public they arrest a lot of people. For instance, he thinks the rate of about 10 per week for driving under the influence is high but is part of the goal of diligent lawn enforcement. He knows his officers have difficult high risk jobs but he thinks that they simply have to follow Twainıs motto and do what is right and everything will fall into place. John came here from Mora where he was chief of police for three years. He is a Maple Grove native who went back to his hometown to work after graduating from Bemidji State College with a degree in Law Enforcement. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Police Chief's Association. A question and answer period concluded John's speech and of course the question of added vigilance due to the terrorist attacks did come up. John's answer was encouraging,
" We are pretty confidence that we are not at high risk." Thank you John for an interesting, informative and entertaining approach to the Brainerd Police Department.
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Bring a potential new member to a meeting and join Ty Eigner in sporting a fancy license plate holder that promotes
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Some interesting plans are in the offing from the social committee. Stay tuned for developments. |
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7:00 PM - midnight "Mardis Gras in Brainerd" at Cragun's Legacy Pavilion. Advance tickets needed, call 828-7610 sponsored by St.
Joeseph's Medical Center |
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Gus and Brenda are updating badges--see them for changes. |
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Remember to buy your Camp Sertoma Herbergers Discount Tickets from any Camp Sertoma member and use them on November 17th for big savings at the storewide sale. Prizes to register for at the day of the sale also. |
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Northern Lakes Sertoma Benefit Raffle. Tickets are $10 and many prizes including 4 wheeler and a Grand Casino Getaway are included. See Mike Howard or Lori Redmond for tickets. |
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Membership Drive, Gary Walters will lose and keep off one pound for every new member who joins. Anyone who brings in a prospective new member will receive a license plate holder with the Sertoma Logo and Motto on it. |
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by 11:45 and call somebody if you can't. Call Jeff Birks @
820-5544 if you can't make it.
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Matt Engen, Richard Fargo, Scott
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| October 31 |
Sandy Fowler, Damian Brumley,
Bonnie Franke
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Lynn Franz, Les Franz, Dennis Renowski
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Find a Sawbuck Corner:
The FAS Program was designed to encourage people to read the newsletter. Even those who attend the meeting can benefit from reviewing the announcements etc. If you find the letters FAS followed by your name, you must call the number provided and just leave a message that you called and attend the next meeting to collect your money. Simple--however 90% of the people never respond. For instance this week Randy Herrlich won $10 and Joe Brenny didn't.
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Humor
Subject: FW: Interesting Minnesota facts
For those of you who live in Minnesota, have lived in Minnesota, or have
ever been to Minnesota... 50 factoids that you may or may not already
know!!!
Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow'
during a baseball broadcast.
The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields 9.5
million square feet.
Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick,
HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables
The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 allowing oceangoing ships to reach
Duluth.
Minneapolis is home to the oldest continuously running theater (Old Log
Theater) and the largest dinner theater (Chanhassen Dinner Theater) in the
country.
The original name of the settlement that became St. Paul was Pig's Eye.
Named for the French-Canadian whiskey trader, Pierre "Pig's Eye"Parrant, who
had led squatters to the settlement.
The world's largest pelican stands at the base of the Mill Pond dam on the
Pelican River, right in downtown Pelican Rapids. The 15 1/2 feet tall
concrete statue was built in 1957.
The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is the largest urban sculpture garden in
the country.
The Guthrie Theater is the largest regional playhouse in the country.
Minneapolis' famed skyway system connecting 52 blocks (nearly five miles) of
downtown makes it possible to live, eat, work and shop without going
outside.
Minneapolis has more golfers per capita than any other city in the country.
The climate-controlled Metrodome is the only facility in the country to host
a Super Bowl, a World Series and a NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship.
Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and
Hawaii combined.
The nation's first Better Business Bureau was founded in Minneapolis in
1912.
The first open heart surgery and the first bone marrow transplant in the
United States were done at the University of Minnesota.
Bloomington and Minneapolis are the two farthest north latitude cities to
ever host a World Series game.
Madison is the "Lutefisk capital of the United States".
Rochester is home of the world famous Mayo Clinic. The clinic is a major
teaching and working facility. It is known world wide for its doctor's
expertise and the newest methods of treatments.
The Bergquist cabin, built in 1870 by John Bergquist, a Swedish immigrant,
is the oldest house in Moorhead still on its original site.
For many years, the world's largest twine ball has sat in Darwin. It weighs
17,400 pounds, is twelve feet in diameter, and was the creation of Francis
A. Johnson.
The stapler was invented in Spring Valley.
In 1956, Southdale, in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, was the first
enclosed climate-controlled suburban Shopping center in the United States.
Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson was the first enlisted man to land with
the first American Expeditionary Force in Europe in WWII on January 26,1942.
The first practical water skis were invented in 1922 by Ralph W. Samuelson,
who steam-bent 2 eight-foot-long pine boards into skies. He took his first
ride behind a motorboat on a lake in Lake City.
In Olivia a single half-husked cob towers over a roadside gazebo. It is 25
feet tall, made of fiberglass, and has been up since 1973.
The first Children's department in a Library is said to be that of the
Minneapolis Public Library, which separated children's books from the rest
of the collection in Dec. 1889.
The first Automatic Pop-up toaster was marketed in June 1926 by McGraw
Electric Co. in Minneapolis under the name Toastmaster. The retail price was
$13.50.
On September 2, 1952, a 5 year old girl was the first patient to under go a
heart operation in which the deep freezing technique was employed. Her body
temperature, except for her head, was reduced to 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
Dr.Floyd Lewis at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota
performed the operation.
The first Aerial Ferry was put into Operation on April 9, 1905, over the
ship canal between Duluth to Minnesota Point. It had room enough to
accommodate 6 automobiles. Round trip took 10 min.
Roller blades were the first commercially successful in-line Roller Skates.
Minnesota students Scott and Brennan Olson invented them in 1980, when they
were looking for a way to practice Hockey during the off-season. Their
design was an ice hockey boot with 3 inline wheels instead of a blade.
The first Intercollegiate Basketball game was played in Minnesota on
February 9,1895.
In 1919 a Minneapolis factory turned out the nations first armored cars.
Tonka Trucks were developed and are continued to be manufactured in
Minnetonka.
Hormel Company of Austin marketed the first canned ham in 1926. Hormel
introduced Spam in 1937.
Introduced in August 1963, The Control Data 6600, designed by Control Data
Corp. of Chippewa Falls, was the first Super Computer. It was used by the
military to simulate nuclear explosions and break Soviet codes. These
computers also were used to model complex phenomena such as hurricanes and
galaxies.
Candy maker Frank C. Mars of Minnesota introduced the Milky Way candy bar in
1923. Mars marketed the Snickers bar in 1930 and introduced the 5 cent Three
Musketeers bar in 1937. The original 3 Musketeers bar contained 3 bars in
one wrapper. Each with different flavor nougat.
A Jehovah's Witness was the first patient to receive a transfusion of
artificial blood in 1979 at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He had
refused a transfusion of real blood because of his religious beliefs.
Minnesota has one recreational boat per every six people, more than any
other state.
There are 201 Mud Lakes, 154 Long Lakes, and 123 Rice Lakes commonly named
in Minnesota.
The Hull-Rust mine in Hibbing became the largest open-pit mine in the world.
Minnesota's waters flow outward in three directions: north to Hudson Bay in
Canada, east to the Atlantic Ocean, and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
At the confluence of the Big Fork and Rainy Rivers on the Canadian border
near International Falls stands the largest Indian burial mound in the upper
Midwest. It is known as the Grand Mound historic site.
Author Laura Ingalls Wilder lived on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove.
Akeley is birthplace and home of world's largest Paul Bunyan Statue. The
kneeling Paul Bunyan is 20 feet tall. He might be the claimed 33 feet tall,
if he were standing.
Hibbing is the birthplace of the American bus industry. It sprang from the
business acumen of Carl Wickman and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson who opened
the first bus line (with one bus) between the towns of Hibbing and Alice in
1914. The bus line grew to become Greyhound Lines.
The first official hit in the Metrodome in Minneapolis was made by Pete Rose
playing for the Cincinnati Reds in a preseason game.
Polaris Industries of Roseau invented the snowmobile.
Twin Cities-based Northwest Airlines was the first major airline to ban
smoking on international flights.
Alexander Anderson of Red Wing discovered the processes to puff wheat and
rice giving us the indispensable rice cakes.
In 1898, the Kensington Rune stone was found on the farm of Olaf Ohman, near
Alexandria. The Kensington Rune stone carvings allegedly tell of a journey
of a band of Vikings in 1362.
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Photos Photos Everywhere Whew, over 70 new photos have been
uploaded to the MSN Community Page where your hard working
photographer is now storing photos. This community is for the
club, easy to join and gives you the opportunity to add edit or
delete any photos that are posted as well as leave messages for
fellow Sertomans. It is a good way to thank someone for doing a
good job or give them some positive feedback for a big event in
their life. If you wish to view the photographs of the Ditch Pick
(subtitled Dave Clausenıs Bachelor Party and including some
photos from the actual wedding dance) either click on this link or
cut and paste this address in the browser window: http://communities.msn.com/BrainerdNoonSertoma/_whatsnew.msnw
If you are looking for a name to match a face, Pam is also trying
to take current head shots of all Sertoma members and providing an
online directory at the same location.
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