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Brainerd Noon Sertoma welcomed Robert Shricker who
is the executive director of Breath of Life. Breath
of Life is a non profit that has been around for 8
years. They are located in Woodland Good Samaritan
complex. Their goal is to help out the loved ones
who are caring for people with dementia at home.
Their goal is to show these patients respect, care
for them and make their lives worthwhile. They enjoy
an opportunity for peer support in a stimulating and
protective environment. Breath of Life has licensed
medical staff on board to help to deal with medical
issues. They provide lunch,assist with baths,
organize physical and mental exercise programs, and
provide support groups for the caregivers. Many
clients are veterans and about 60% of clients are
men. Breath of Life has enabled people to keep their
jobs and still take care of a loved one with
dementia. Robert defined his group as an enrichment
program that takes away the isolationism that
prevails among these patients. He also pointed out
the everyone would have to admit that they know of
someone who is dealing or has dealt with this
problem. Long term care insurance and medical
assistance does provide some help with costs which
average around $70 per day. Breath of LIfe is non
profit and he thanked us for our contribution which
has helped with their transportation costs. |
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Thanks Pam Sachs for taking notes and Bonnie Cumberland for
taking attendance. |
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| Announcements |
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Facebook--sign up and join the group.
Pam will be will be available for phone
consultations . People will be able to
update their profiles, upload their own
profile picture and add to the photo albums
as well as make important announcements for
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"The Show" Jeff and Tad are getting a
banner together to use at this function and
other ones. It will list the people who have
received money in the last year to year and
half. Volunteers are need to maintain the
booth. Mike Boen is definitely accenting the
Sertoma Club at this function.
Coming to the Westgate Mall September 11th, 12th and 13th! |
Booth Attendants
Friday 7-9 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 1 p.m-4p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 1-4 p.m.
Call Tad to sign up 218 838 7617 |
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Last two Flag set ups--Beth may need
help and will let you know. |
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Jaycees Rib Fest thank you from Jeff
to Bonnie Cumberland, Brenda Kelley, Paul
Gropper, Cathe Picek. We took first place
and won $300 which was donated to Kinship
Partners. |
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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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Matt Hennekin |
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Winner |
| Would have been Allen Hall |
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| Attendance |
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Guests: Robert Schricker Breath of LIfe Dane Erickson who is
joining from Red House Media |
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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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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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Kris Velasco, Kathy Williams, Nanci Williams |
| Sept. 16 |
Anita Travica, Lori Ukkelberg, Greg Straka |
| Sept. 23 |
Carol Winegar, Yvonne Zappa, Amie Anderson |
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Of
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Both Carol Paulsen and Andy Isackson have earned their orange
shirts for bringing in a new member.
 We
celebrated some very hard work with efforts that paid off
$163,000 in two years at last week's social event .In that time
the club returned $44,000 to the community through Winter
Wonderland and The Pipe and Drape added $35,000. Thanks to the
social committee who organized the Burn the Mortgage party: Kari
Robinson, Laura Beilke, Beth Burnard, Lori Rubin. A special
thank you to Brenda Kelley with her assistant Reed Campbell who
provided food service and grilling. Brenda was a busy little bee
that evening since she had also agreed to cater the Kinship
Picnic which got postponed to the same date. Brenda is
superwoman, she can be in two places at once!!
Gary Walters update was presented by David Downing with some
assistance from John Raboin who encouraged everyone to help Gary
by making comments on his Facebook page. He is really
discouraged because he ended up in Pennsylvania on crushed rock.
We had a great vidoe message from Gary. He was in Amish country
and got a few zingers in for the dog pound. "This was absolutely
nuts, but I did it to raise money for Kinship. So give and give
some more!"
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Facebook |
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page for the club. It will now be an interactive
way for members to share pictures and comment on
club activities. As with Walters Wacky
Adventures Page--you can visit it without being
a member of Facebook. Creating a Facebook
account is easy and free. You can limit access
to your page and just communicate with those
people who are really your friends. Signing up
is simple and by creating your "own" page you
give yourself interactive abilities on the
Brainerd Area Sertoma site. You can completely
ignore your personal page if you wish. However,
the profile and information pages may become THE
way for us to update your data base information
in the future. I am also totally available for
phone consultations for people who want me to
walk them through the Facebook site. For
instance--Jeff Fitch has promised me by Monday
you will be able to view his awesome barbecue
pictures. Les Franz also took some photos at the
party and maybe we can get him to join and
upload those!! |
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Business Notes |
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Kelley Farms has a 1/2 of a hog that will be ready for delivery
around the 16th of September if anyone is interested. The price
is $140 for approx. 60-75 # of meat. It will be paper wrapped.
If anyone is interested, they could call Brenda at 320-745-2660
(H) 320-630-2914 (cell) or email her at dbkelley@brainerd.net.
Coming to the Westgate Mall September 11th, 12th and 13th!
BL Broadcasting, in cooperation with the Mid-Minnesota Builders
Association, is bringing a new fall consumer show to the
Brainerd Lakes. New for 2009…”Brainerd Outdoors…THE SHOW”!
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Rumor Corner
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Art missed the party--guess what he was doing? Fishing of
course.
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Reed Campbell might have been a little shy about showing up at
Sertoma to show of his burnt fringes--he had a little explosion
lighting the grill at the party. Thanks Reed for helping out
Brenda who had to leave her husband at the Kinship event!!
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Inquiring minds want to know who invited all those horrible
mosquitoes to the party. It was a beautiful night except for
them!!
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Welcome back Jeff Marchand--hope your next three weeks are
vacation weeks not busy at Cub and can't come ones!! Nice to see
Nanci Williams, Clyde Bender, Brian Jelinski,Becky Pakarina,
Aaron Meester, and Keith Kolstad also.
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Jeff Fitch and a certain blonde lady had a hugging session
before the meeting.
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Happy Birthday Brenda Kelley. Brenda is a very hard working
newer member of Sertoma. In the last week she has helped with
the barbecue contest, Kinship picnic, and the mortgage party.
Thanks for all your hard work!!
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Nice Gary Walters slide show today--thanks David Downing from
Kinship.
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Reed almost got a standing ovation--at least everyone wanted to
make a note that he was late.
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Welcome new member Dane Erickson with Red house Media.
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LOAnnism--noticing she always catches people with their mouth
full of food.
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LoAnn had to threaten to sing in order to get the Sergeants up
to the podium.
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Jeff Fitch got fined for pretending to be Anna Gorecky.
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David Downing got fined for admitting he "does windows".
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Dale Bolt can golf at 12:30 if it is with a client--it cost him
$2. Art had to pay half because he didn't bring any pictures of
the fishing trip-cause they were X rated.
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Andi Holmes is good at whining. Diane Rook Johnson swears that
Listerine isa good mosquito repellant.
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Milo is now working for Bonanza.
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Pam had to pay a happy fine because she called 911 because her
brother's phone butt-called her, then he wouldn't answer and all
she heard was heavy breathing. It was a false alarm (he was
loading his golf stuff in the car) but she learned that when you
call 911 they can turn on your cell phone by computer.
Fortunately only the police, not the ambulance made it to his
house!!
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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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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about
learning to dance in the rain.
Roster Updates/Change of Information
Send Cathe any changes of business, address, phone or email. The
roster will be updated and published at the beginning of each
quarter.
Cathe Picek
cathe@campconfidence.com
218-330-7804
Program/Sertoman of the Month
Contact Joe or Veronica to schedule a time to share your story
about you and your business. No fines that day!
Joe Schulte
schujm@kellyservices.com
218-850-5476
Veronica Jensen
vrjensen@bremer.com
218-828-5191
Download form here
Pipe and Drape
Contact Tad with Pipe and Drape information or questions.
Tad Hoskins
tadhoskins@juno.com
218-838-7617
Awards/Club Supplies
Bonnie Cumberland
bcumberland@mailstation.com
829-6316
If you are not receiving the newsletter notification or the
emails announcing special events, please contact Pam Sachs
either at 218-821-1130 or
eglponys@brainerd.net.
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