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everyone, it is chili cookoff time again. The event costs $5.00
for all the chili you can eat, starts at 11:30, and all proceeds
go to the local United Way fund raiser. This is the annual kickoff
for the United Way Fund Drive in the Brainerd Area. Mike Howard
and Laura Bielke, Sertoma member and Community Impact Director for
the United Way, presented a short synopsis of this annual activity
at today’s Sertoma meeting. We will be occupying Booth #6. This
year our recipe will be new and different and much more
“traditional”. Hillbilly Chili will have a secret ingredient and
hopefully will get us back up into the winning ranks.
This year’s event is bigger and better than ever with 65
booths. Laura took this opportunity to introduce us to a new
program being sponsored by the United Way with a spotlight at the
event. The Imagination Library will be available to all area
children under the age of five years. Each month those signed up
for the program will receive a free age appropriate book in the
mail. This is a wonderful program with no income requirements and
aims to improve reading. Seven hundred recipients are already
signed up with their goal number at 1100. The public can get
involved in this terrific program by sponsoring a child for $27 a
year.
Thanks Sarah Nelson for taking notes. The note takers from
now on will be simply whoever volunteers for the day. See Rory
before the meeting to pick up the sheet; it is very self
explanatory and easy to use. Only 48 or so people have to
volunteer once a year to cover this task that makes Pam’s job so
much easier.
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See Cheryl Lee Hills to take part in the Nisswa “Big”
Raffle. Tickets are $100, first prize is $100.00, and only 250
tickets will be sold. See Jason Bertram to buy raffle tickets
supporting the Nunik fundraiser. Price is $15. |
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Flag Program came to a close for the year with the Sept.
11th activity. We closed the year with 320 flags with 32
of those in Nisswa thanks to the efforts of Sandy Fowler.
After start up costs, the project will make $5,000 this year
with next year certain to be at least twice as profitable.
Rory took this opportunity to recognize all the people who
have contributed to the project which has brought the club
closer together by involving more people. He singled out the
efforts of Beth Burnard who did much of the organizational
work that made this possible. |
| Joe Schulte announced that this is the
last Gossamer Ceiling set up since the National Guard has
allowed us to leave the ceiling up for the week. Takedown is
Monday September 27th. Joe thanked everyone for their
support. Rory added kudos to the Gossamer Ceiling committee
for their hard work and their considerable financial boost to
our organization. |
| Sept 18 - Sign up with Beth Burnard to
help the Women of Today at the Annual Camp Confidence
Outdoor Auction. Cashiers, clerks, runners and spotters
are needed. The Auction is at its usual spot at 9 a.m. |
| Sept 22 - No Meeting United Way
Cookoff. Everyone is encouraged to support the United Way
by attending the cookoff. |
| Oct 5 - Tickets for the Rookie party
available. We would like to get an idea how many will be
attending so we can plan accordingly. If you plan on attending
please call Greg Franzman at 218-820-9032. Tickets are $20.00.
If you have donated a prize for the Rookie party and it has
not yet been collected please call Bryan Jelinski at 828-1816
or Jeff Marchand at 828-4601. If you have not yet donated a
prize there is still time to do so!! No price to small or too
big! Be sure to call Bryan or Jeff. |
| Oct 29 & 30th - Fall District Conference
in St. Cloud. Those not going down just for the day will
include Camp Confidence Sertoma members since they meet Friday
night. |
| Nov 24 - Put November 24th on your
calendar. Our noon meeting will be held at the new school
and will include a tour of the building. |
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| Pipe and
Drape Schedule |
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| Ceiling Dates |
| Where: |
Brainerd National Guard Armory -
Wedding - September 18, 2004 - Jenny Hartman |
| Sept. 15 |
Set Up - Wednesday at 2:30pm-4:00pm |
| Sept. 27 |
Take Down - Monday at 11:00am-Noon |
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| Ticket Winner |
| Tom Steiger |
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| Pot-O-Gold
Winner |
| Would have been Deb
Kohan. |
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| Attendance |
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| Guests:
Craig Swenson, Financial Service Officer from Affinity Plus who is
joining. |
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| Greeter
Schedule |
| Remember:
Greeters (Be sure to take care of your duties that include meeting
people at the door and getting the ticket money counted and
divided with half going to Tami to give away and half to Diane for
the social committee's budget). 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 and half goes to the Club President along with the
bucket of tickets. Be there by 11:45 and call somebody if you
can't. Call Patty Hartman. |
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| Sept 29 |
Deb Kohan, Jeff Kozitza, Missy
Lake |
| Oct 6 |
Greg Larson, Kathy Bittner Lee, Brian
Lehman |
| Oct 13 |
John Linn, Robin Loftus, Gary Loge |
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| Sertoman
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| Of Note: |
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| Our thought and prayers go with the
Dave Burggraff family. Donna had major surgery today and hopefully
is on the road to recovery. |
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Thank-You’s from the Rademacher Family, Kathy William’s sister,
and the Workforce Center (recipients of some of our help books)
were read today. |
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| Rumor Corner |
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And the wacky job contest goes on. Very hard to choose—the
synchronized water ballet teacher or the kitty humanitarian
services with strings entrepreneur. Will leave you to guess which
one is which if you weren’t at the meeting. Of course one of them
got fined for loving to go swimming with bow-legged women! |
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Groper got his fine today for imitating John Raboin imitating a
lawyer. |
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Beautiful and intimate Joe Schulte, Smoke and Mirrors Mau, Senior
Citizen Front Row Parking Phillips and Diane Wrecker Ulmen also
made the list this week. |
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| Photos Photos Everywhere New photos
go up almost every week on our new MSN Community homepage. 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
current photographs or check out the new online directory go
to: http://communities.msn.com/BrainerdNoonSertoma/_whatsnew.msnw |
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