Area briefs

STAPLES -- A session of "I can't dance, don't ask me aerobics" will begin Sept. 8 in the assembly room of the Staples campus of Central Lakes College.

Classes will meet 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Cost is $28 for 17 sessions.

Send registration fee to Staples Motley Community Education, 400 Second St. N.E., Staples, MN 56479.

For more information call (218) 894-2497.

Nominations due for Cass-Crow Wing FSA

Sept. 3 is the last day to return nominating ballots for the Crow Wing-Cass Farm Service Agency County Committee. Nominations and voting are limited to Local Administrative Areas 3 and 5 in 2005.

A nomination form should be signed by the nominated agricultural producer, agreeing to serve if elected. Committee members help decide the type of U.S. Department of Agriculture programs a county will have and how they will be run.

Local Administrative Area 3 includes the Cass County townships of Ansel, Bungo, Poplar, Moose Lake, Byron, Meadow Brook, Home Brook, Lake Shore, Becker, North May and South May. In Crow Wing County it includes Nisswa and Lake Edward and Center townships.

Local Administrative Area 5 includes the following townships in Cass County: McKinley, Bull Moose, Pine River, Barclay, Deerfield, Powers, Ponto Lake, Blind Lake, South Trelipe, Crooked Lake, Beulah, Hiram, Birch Lake, Woodrow, Wabedo, North Trelipe, Thunder Lake, Smokey Hollow, Shingobee, South Turtle Lake, PIne Lake, Kego, Inguadona, Remer, Lima, North Shingobee, North Turtle Lake, Boy Lake, Rogers, Slater, Leech Lake, West Gould, East Gould, Boy River, Salem, Torrey, Wilkenson, Northwest Ottertail Peninsula, Northeast Ottertail Peninsula, Wahena, Pike Lake and all unorganized townships north of T138.

Ballots will be mailed to eligible voters with a final return date of Dec. 6.