BUSINESS NOTES

Central Lakes College will offer four hours of continuing education for certified food managers from 5-9 p.m. Nov. 27 at the Business and Industry Center in Brainerd.

The course will address food sanitation and safety, emerging trends in food preparation and handling sanitation and prevention of food-borne illness.

Colette Pohlkamp is the instructor. There is a $70 fee. Registration deadline is Nov. 20.

For more information, call (800) 933-0346, ext. 8142 or 855-8142.

LASHO hosts emergency planning session

The Lakes Area Safety and Health Organization is hosting a seminar on emergency/pandemic planning.

The event begins with registration and continental breakfast at 9:30 a.m. with the seminar from 10-11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Central Lakes College Business & Industry Center in Brainerd.

Cost to attend is $10 per person or free for paid LASHO members. John Bowen, Crow Wing County emergency management director, will be the guest speaker. RSVP is requested by contacting Kori Busho at 855-8139.

Operation Round-Up donations distributed

The Crow Wing Power Community Trust Board donated more than $44,000 to area community programs during its fourth quarter meeting in late October.

Operation Round-Up funds were distributed to the following projects:

$250 to each of the following economic development organizations: Initiative Foundation, Brainerd Lakes Area Development Corp., Cass County Economic Development, Cuyuna Range Economic Development and Community Development of Morrison County.

Low-income heating assistance totaling $14,750 was donated to Lutheran Social Service and Salvation Army Emergency Heat Share.

Other miscellaneous donations were as follows: $3,000 to Confidence Learning Center; $872 to St. Gabriel's Lifeline Program, Little Falls; $1,000 to Lakes Area Senior Activity Center; $3,000 to Pillager Area Family Resource Center; $1,000 to Hands of Hope Resource Center, Little Falls; $2,000 to Crow Wing County Foster Parent Association; $1,500 to Crow Wing County Victim Services, Brainerd; $1,000 to Cuyuna Range Chiefs Association, Merrifield; $1,000 to Brainerd Lakes Area NAMI; $1,000 to Ski Gull; $1,500 to Heart and Hands Ministry, Motley; $2,000 to Mounted Eagles, Brainerd; $1,500 to Fatherhood Task Force of Crow Wing County; $1,000 to Arts Alive, Brainerd; and $7,000 in donations were made to private cooperative members for crisis medical support.

Operation Round-Up is funded by participating members of Crow Wing Power who allow the cooperative to round up their electric bills to the nearest whole dollar. The additional change is pooled and distributed quarterly. Since the program's inception in late 1996, Operation Round-Up has donated more than $1,360,535 to community projects and programs in Cass, Crow Wing and Morrison counties.

The next quarterly meeting is scheduled Jan. 26. Grant forms can be obtained by calling Crow Wing Power at 829-2827 or (800) 648-9401 or at www.cwpower.com. The deadline for grant applications is Jan. 10.