MUCH OBLIGED

We would like to thank the following businesses for donating items for the silent auction or door prizes for our first Classic Bash benefiting the American Diabetes Association. Over $600.00 was raised to help find a cure.

Advanced Auto Parts, Auto Value, Black Bear Restaurant, Brainerd Ace Hardware, Cellular One, Crystal Cleaners, Kustom Kreations, Dairy Queen, Dick Park's Gas, First Impression Printing, Grizzly's Grill and Saloon Restaurant, Head to Toe Beauty Supplies, Integra Telecom, Jamie Magness & Associates, Joe Barstad's Trackside Autobody and Airbrush, Justice Brothers, MidMinnesota Federal Credit Union, Napa, North Central Medical Supply, Northwind Grille, Pepsi Bottling, Perkins' Restaurant, Peterson's Towing, Pizza Hut, Smilee's Printing, TJ's Log Cabin, and 3WWWI Radio Station.

Randy D Kirckof

Classic Roadsters 2

Brainerd Classic Coachworks Inc.

Salvation Army

The Salvation Army would like to thank the Boy Scouts of America in the Brainerd area for the fantastic job they did during their food drive in October. They collected over 9,700 pounds of food for our food shelf. This food is very much needed as the summer months and Katrina disaster has taken a toll on our food supply. Food shelf usage is on the rise. Without the support we receive from sources such as the Boy Scouts we wouldn't be able to meet the increasing need of our growing community. We also want to thank the following businesses that helped with the Boy Scout drive: Wells Fargo, Cub Foods, BL Broadcasting, and the Brainerd Dispatch. Thank you for a great job well done.

Salvation Army

Legacy Chorale

The Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota and its artistic director, Sarah Aamot-Lundin, would like to extend their most sincere gratitude to the following people and businesses who helped make our second annual fall Fundraiser, "Autumn In New York: Favorites From Broadway and the Met," on Friday night, October 7, at Cragun's Resort and Hotel on Gull Lake, such a fantastic and successful event: Cragun's Resort and Hotel on Gull Lake: Irma and Dutch Cragun, owners; Rebecca Mies, sales coordinator; Melinda Maltezos, food and beverage director, decorations and serving; chef Jason Eslinger and chef Ben Maas for their fabulous meal; and all of the dining room staff. Everyone at Cragun's worked above and beyond the call to make the evening elegant and enchanting. Lakes Printing: Kevin Thesing, owner, for the donation of the programs, and all of the Lakes Printing staff, especially Jan and Sherry.

Special guest artists: accompanist Sarah Lockwood, Hastings; impresario Mike Lundin, Baxter; and guest singers Peter Pellinen, Virginia, and Kristin Hegrenes, Albertville. Silent auction: Jennifer Pederse, silent auction coordinator; announcer David Allen Pundt; helpers Lynda Erickson, Grace Forbord, Roz Haapajoki, Mike and Carol Smith, Bob Brekken (credit card machine), and the Legacy Chorale Fundraising Committee. They worked tirelessly at preparing our auction. Silent auction donors: Applebee's of Baxter, Scott Bingel, manager; Kathy Bardolph; Dr. David Boran; Mary Boran; Karen Bradley; Caribou Coffee; Cash Wise Liquors; Country Inn & Suites; The Cut Above, Chuck Olson; Sheri Drown; Bob Dryden; Mugs Duker; Candy Bouquet--Penny Edberg, owner; Nancy Gervais; Marina Grabowski; Mark & Cathy Gray; Martha Griffin; Diana Harms; Ron Hobson; Deborah Jacobs; Paul Kath; Sue Knudsen; Jean London; Lundrigan's Clothing, Nisswa; Carolyn Macy; Erik Macy; Al Maier; Connie Meyers, Connie's Studio & Photography; Shari Nelson; Nordic Living, Inc., Cathy Mayr, owner; John Pedersen; Jim & Jade Povich; Prairie Bay Restaurant; Jerry Raedeke, Raedeke Gallery, Nisswa; Erv & Sandra Reuther; Betsy Santi; Cathy Taylor; and several anonymous donors. Decorations: Bob Dryden and Hannah Cooper for the their special talents in helping with decorations. Bob Nelson, chorale manager: for doing everything from coordinating and managing ticket sales to setting up and running sound and being an all-around great guy!

Bill Satre: for the donation of lighting equipment, and setting up and running lights and sound; Harmony Engineers: for the donation of sound equipment.

Special thanks to the talented singers who put in an incredible amount of time--not just in rehearsal, but also in decorating, generating ticket sales, and promoting their Fundraiser! You're the best!

Wow! I can't say thank you enough to all of you for your generous support of our organization. We owe our success to all of you! Any omissions from the above lists are deeply regretted.

Sarah Aamot-Lundin and The Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota

Woodland Good Sam

Thank to the following, Woodland Good Samaritan Auxiliary raised $2,100 for a new sound system in the Woodland Care Center. The Sept. 24th Tour of Tables event at Woodland Good Samaritan had 17 beautifully designed tables donated by hostesses and mroe than 90 guests. Donations by: Little Farm Market, Caribous Coffee, Cakes by Design, Bagetelle, Bear Trap Trading Company, Pan-O-Gold Baking Co., Sheila York, Quarterdeck, Elite Nails, Super One, Song of the North, City Looks Salon, College Square Gas, Town & Lakes Sportsware, Grab-A-Java, Papa Murphy's Pizza, Sherwin Williams, House of Flowers, Colorz for Quiltz, Choppers, Save Foods, Hallmark/East and Tom Kavanaugh.Thank you hostesses, donors and volunteers. Your gifts of time, talent and treasures is greatly appreciated.

Woodland Good Samaitan Auxiliary

Linda Twaddle

Woodland Good Samaritan Village

Community Relations/Development Director

Activity Center

The Lakes Area Senior Activity Center Board of Directors and members would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for donating merchandise and time to refurbishing the Nonprofit Office Tower at the Senior:

Center: Ace Hardware, Artistic Marble, Bobs Building Supplies, Floor to Ceiling, Goodin Company, Hirshfields, Home Depot, and Terry's Tops. Lesli Ball, Virgil Crawford, Sara Dunlap, Steve Esser, Don and Clarice Hardy, Sandra Holmes, Wayne Holtmeier, Dennis and Arlene Jensen, Vern and Jean LeDoux, Roger Moilanen, Dick MacFarland, John Nelson, Ray Norgaard, Peggy Richter, Rawleigh Tougas, Sherwin Williams, St. Joseph Medical Center, Jane Stucke, Troop No. 393 of the Girl Scouts, Wal-Mart and to Bruce and Pete with the Sentence to Serve crew, who not only helped with the Tower but also did the landscaping. Without all of this help we would not have been able to complete this project.

Lakes Area Senior Activity Center Board of Directors

Zonta Club

The members of the Brainerd Area Zonta Club want to thank Annette Weber and Girl Scout Troop 393 for their help with our highway clean-up.

The Girl Scouts have been helping us for the past two years to keep our section of highway clean and tidy. We picked over 18 bags of garbage and litter from our two-mile area on 210. We couldn't do it without them. Thanks, girls.

Also thanks to Zonta members Monica Husen, Girl Scout coordinator; Jeanni Foss and Calvin; Ginny, Theo, Oliver and Helen Knudson; Dianne, Cassandra and Billy Kendall and my grandson, Joe. It was fun! People don't know what they are missing if they don't help clean up our highways.

Thanks to Mary at MnDOT, who keeps us supplied with bags and aprons and cheers us on!

Sara Dunlap

Brainerd Zonta Club

Ladies Aid

The Community Ladies Aid would like to thank the 525 people who attended the 44th annual Harvest Supper at Deerfield Townhall on Oct. 1st. This year's quilt winner was Butch Rogers of White Bear. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped make this year's supper a success.

Robin Kriens

Community Ladies Aid

Publicity Committee