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Cargill Cares Alumni Newsletter Spring 2016 Dane Kern: Volunteer Extraordinaire When I asked newsletter co-editor Barbara Luke for a Cargill Cares Alumni (CCA) volunteer to interview, one of the first names she mentioned was Dane Kern. A past Volunteer of the Year, Dane spends almost 800 hours a year – about five months of full-time work -- on volunteer activities involving a dozen different causes. What drives a person to do that? I’d never met Dane, so I wondered if he might be a compulsive do-gooder, or someone with a long tradition of volunteering, maybe an attention-seeker, or possibly a weak-willed individual unable to say no. It was none of the above, as it turned out. Once we found a time to meet in a week when Dane was serving as an election judge, the answer proved to be quite simple. Similar to the approach he took in his 35-year Cargill career, Dane is a person open to trying new experiences. If he finds them rewarding and fun, he commits to them. On CCA, he leads Loaves & Fishes, the 363 Sandwich Project, Salvation Army bell ringing and Get Out the Vote, as well as serving on the alumni board. As a participant, he works in the Food Group to repack food, helps with Feed My Starving Children, staffs the calling tree and helps keep handicaps for the golf league. Outside of CCA, he works with the Boy Scouts, the Friends of Westonka Library and serves as an election judge. “I enjoy doing it, even if sometimes my wife thinks I overdo it,” Dane says. Dane joined Cargill in 1974 as a newly minted CPA fresh out of the University of North Dakota. After the trainee program, he chose to enter the new field of IT. “We were just getting into computers at the time – even if they were as big as refrigerators with less computing power than today’s cell phones,” Dane says. “I had a lot of mentors and was able to learn a lot.” In a classic Cargill career of the era, Dane worked in multiple businesses and locations. Working in the peanut business in Dawson, Georgia, he met his wife Gail. One of their biggest adventures, along with their two young children, was a five-year assignment to Amsterdam, where Dane was IT manager for the Benelux countries. Throughout his career, he did very little volunteering. “I didn’t have time,” he says. “About 140 percent of my time was devoted to Cargill – actually too much, in retrospect.” He cringes at the memory of climbing out of bed at 2 a.m. because his subconscious came up with a work idea that he had to call into his answering machine before it evaporated. While stationed in Boston with Northeast Petroleum, his boys became involved in scouting. “My kids left scouting, but I stayed with it,” says Dane, who has been treasurer of the 30-member Troop 569 for 15 years. His own scouting career fell apart because of a lack of leadership continuity in North Dakota, and he decided he didn’t want kids to miss the opportunities of scouting because there was no organization to support them. Almost half of Dane’s volunteer hours are devoted to scouting. He does everything from hauling trailers of tin cans to recycling centers to helping troop members place flags on veterans’ graves. Successful fundraising under his leadership means every troop member has financial support to attend monthly campouts and defray the cost of attending the Boy Scout high-adventure camps. When he retired in 2009, Dane had no great plans for volunteering other than the Boy Scouts. “I retired in February. By April I was involved in the Cargill golf league and Alumni board members started to rope me into to all kinds of stuff,” he says. “Believe me, I know how to say no, but I’ll put my toe in the water and try just about anything. If I like it, I keep doing it.” Continued on page 2 SUBMITTED BY Paul Dienhart THE 363 SANDWICH PROJECT CAME TO CCA FROM A MEMBER WHOSE CHURCH COULD NO LONGER RUN THE PROJECT. AS A BOARD MEMBER, DANE KERN EVALUATED THE PROJECT FOR CCA. HE LIKED IT SO MUCH HE NOW RUNS IT.

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CargillCares

Alumni Newsletter Spring 2016

Dane Kern:Volunteer Extraordinaire When I asked newsletter co-editor Barbara Luke for a Cargill Cares Alumni (CCA) volunteer to interview, one of the first names she mentioned was Dane Kern. A past Volunteer of the Year, Dane spends almost 800 hours a year – about five months of full-time work -- on volunteer activities involving a dozen different causes.

What drives a person to do that? I’d never met Dane, so I wondered if he might be a compulsive do-gooder, or someone with a long tradition of volunteering, maybe an attention-seeker, or possibly a weak-willed individual unable to say no. It was none of the above, as it turned out.

Once we found a time to meet in a week when Dane was serving as an election judge, the answer proved to be quite simple. Similar to the approach he took in his 35-year Cargill career, Dane is a person open to trying new experiences. If he finds them rewarding and fun, he commits to them.

On CCA, he leads Loaves & Fishes, the 363 Sandwich Project, Salvation Army bell ringing and Get Out the Vote, as well as serving on the alumni board. As a participant, he works in the Food Group to repack food, helps with Feed My Starving Children, staffs the calling tree and helps keep handicaps for the golf

league. Outside of CCA, he works with the Boy Scouts, the Friends of Westonka Library and serves as an election judge.

“I enjoy doing it, even if sometimes my wife thinks I overdo it,” Dane says.

Dane joined Cargill in 1974 as a newly minted CPA fresh out of the University of North Dakota. After the trainee program, he chose to enter the new field of IT. “We were just getting into computers at the time – even if they were as big as refrigerators with less computing power than today’s cell phones,” Dane says. “I had a lot of mentors and was able to learn a lot.”

In a classic Cargill career of the era, Dane worked in multiple businesses and locations. Working in the peanut business in Dawson, Georgia, he met his wife Gail. One of their biggest adventures, along with their two young children, was a five-year assignment to Amsterdam, where Dane was IT manager for the Benelux countries.

Throughout his career, he did very little volunteering. “I didn’t have time,” he says. “About 140 percent of my time was devoted to Cargill – actually too much, in retrospect.” He cringes at the memory of climbing out of bed at 2 a.m. because his subconscious came up with a work idea that he had to call

into his answering machine before it evaporated.

While stationed in Boston with Northeast Petroleum, his boys became involved in scouting. “My kids left scouting, but I stayed with it,” says Dane, who has been treasurer of the 30-member Troop 569 for 15 years. His own scouting career fell apart because of a lack of leadership continuity in North Dakota, and he decided he didn’t want kids to miss the opportunities of scouting because there was no organization to support them.

Almost half of Dane’s volunteer hours are devoted to scouting. He does everything from hauling trailers of tin cans to recycling centers to helping troop members place flags on veterans’ graves. Successful fundraising under his leadership means every troop member has financial support to attend monthly campouts and defray the cost of attending the Boy Scout high-adventure camps.

When he retired in 2009, Dane had no great plans for volunteering other than the Boy Scouts. “I retired in February. By April I was involved in the Cargill golf league and Alumni board members started to rope me into to all kinds of stuff,” he says. “Believe me, I know how to say no, but I’ll put my toe in the water and try just about anything. If I like it, I keep doing it.”

Continued on page 2

SUBMITTED BY

Paul Dienhart

THE 363 SANDWICH PROJECT CAME TO CCA FROM A MEMBER WHOSE CHURCH COULD NO LONGER RUN THE PROJECT. AS A BOARD MEMBER, DANE KERN EVALUATED THE PROJECT FOR CCA. HE LIKED IT SO MUCH HE NOW RUNS IT.

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PRESIDENTS CORNERIn my final contribu-tion to this column, let me declare what a pleasure and privilege it has been to serve you as president of CCA for the past 20 months. As Cargill Alumni, we are very fortunate to have a first-class

organization that feeds our (innate, I believe) desire for service, education and community. We owe a debt of gratitude to the late Ken Moritz and many others with the foresight to create SPICE 31 years ago and the energy to nurture it since. While CCA certainly is not unique, I believe its three strong focus areas, and strong connections to outside organiza-tions, set us apart from many retiree groups from other companies.

As you will read in more detail elsewhere in this newsletter, we’ve just completed a strong program year. Our rolls are up, our volunteer hours are up, and participation in our social and education events has been very robust. Our offerings to our members tend to be largely consistent from year to year, reflecting how you vote by your participation! However, as a board, we’re eager to explore expanding these offerings at your suggestion. (The interest groups introduced in my last Presi-dent’s Corner and further promoted at the Annual CCA Meeting are an example – oper-ators are standing by for your input!)

As the board challenges itself to ensure that its mission and offerings are relevant and attractive to you, we need to redouble our

efforts to identify and recruit more Cargill alumni to join CCA’s ranks. As you know, privacy constraints limit our access to Cargill’s retirement (or other separation) records, so your word of mouth is critical to this effort.

We are very pleased to begin our new program year with virtually a full board, led by Mary Kurth, president, Ceal Regnier, vice-president, and Lois Tolentino, treasurer. An accomplished and energetic non-profit leader, Mary will be wrapping up a term as president of the Bloomington Rotary Club. I know that one of her objectives is to tackle CCA’s progress against our “Strategic Plan – Vision 2015,” including the membership challenges and program expansion men-tioned above.

We will miss the leadership of Barbara Luke as she leaves the board, and of her husband, Bob Bridges, who has served so energetically and skillfully as editor of the Cargill Cares Alumni Newsletter. We thank them both for their tremendous service. We are also very pleased to announce that you will see on the masthead the name of Paul Dienhart, former editor of the Cargill News, who is taking over the newsletter from Bob and Barbara. We’re thrilled to benefit from Paul’s skill and experience.

In addition to Paul, we have welcomed several new board members during the year: Chuck Croes, Joan Koosman, Ceal Regnier, and Gene Van’t Hof. We’re excited about the energy and commitment they will add to CCA’s endeavors. I look forward to continue working alongside them on the board.

All the best for 2016-17!

Dave Braden, President | Bob Bridges, Editor | Barbara Luke, Co-Editor

The CCA newsletter is published quarterly in spring, summer, fall and winter, and is distributed to Cargill retirees throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Submit items of interest to the CCA office (Community Relations/137).

For additional information about CCA volunteer activities, call the CCA office at 952/742-6188 or email [email protected]

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If you are not currently receiving email updates from the Cargill Cares Alumni office and would like to be added to the CCA Email Directory, please send your name and Email address to [email protected].

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Dave BradenChuck Croes Paul DienhartJoe Fournier

Larry GrayGene GrossJim GuyreJohn Keefe

Dane KernLarry KnutsonJoan Koosman Mary Kurth

Mike LillyJim LittleJohn LokenCeal Regnier

Lois TolentinoJohn TschumperlinGene Van’t Hof

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Deceased Art JanuszewskiGeorge Kubera

That’s essentially his advice on volunteering: “You get to pick from a whole bunch of projects on the CCA website. You come over and see what you think. If you don’t like it, try something else. Everybody on these projects is there because they like being there.”

Fun is a huge part of volunteering, he believes. “We’re always having fun. If the work is starting to go too fast, and the chit-chat and giggling stops, we slow it down. The socializing is part of the project.”

Combining fun with making a difference in people’s lives is a powerful combination. Dane is regularly part of the five- or six-per-son group that cooks a meal at Loaves & Fishes and serves it to the less fortunate. “The location is just off West Broadway in North Minneapolis, so you see people you know are living on the street,” he says. “This is probably the only good meal they’ll get today.”

In the winter, Dane’s volunteering slacks off slightly when he and Gail spend three months on Alligator Point in Florida’s Big Bend. They bike, kayak, golf and reconnect with Gail’s relatives in southwest Georgia. But Dane still keeps up with his spreadsheets and adminis-tration of various projects.

“We’ve talked about spending more time down there, but I have election judge duties in November and there’s the Salvation Army bell ringing in December,” he says with a resigned shrug.

Now, he’s starting to see his volunteer activities intertwine. He’ll see ex-scouts from his troop show up to vote at the polling place where he’s an election judge. “Time does go by,” he grins. But for a person as involved as Dane, one expects that that the time goes fairly fast.

“For every good deed you do, there’s another one waiting,” Dane says. “There are so many opportunities out there to get involved. Just pick a few things that interest you and go do it.”

Continued from page 1

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STORY ON CCA ANNUAL MEETING

Annual Meeting Looks BackAnd Sets Goals for 2016Cargill alumni may have left the Cargill ranks, but it was obvious from the Cargill Cares Alumni (CCA) Annual Meeting on May 12 that they are still representing Cargill in the community. More than 260 alumni contribut-ed volunteer service hours last year. In fact, alumni accounted for 28 percent of volunteer hours – ahead of current employees and the largest percentage in the company, according to Stacey Nelson-Kumar, Corporate Affairs representative to CCA.

Stacey also noted that alumni gave $450,000 to Cargill’s Annual Giving Campaign. “That alumni contribution was a 13 percent increase from the previous year, so I thank you very much,” she told CCA members gathered in the Excelsior Crossing auditorium.

Although the group just completed its first year under the Cargill Alumni name, a retiree organization has been around for 31 years. President Dave Braden reminded everyone that CCA’s purpose was to volunteer primarily in nutrition, health, education and the environment, as well as provide social and educational activities to enhance active lifestyles.

Other numbers for the year: 15 official group volunteer projects; four educational seminars from internet security to hearing loss; seven social events from dinner theater to a Twins game; and golfing that averaged 20 golfers a week along with a record turnout at the annual tournament. Most events were sold out, Dave noted.

There are 2,012 alumni in the Twin Cities database, but privacy rules make it difficult for CCA to contact all alumni. Dave urged members to get the word out to retirees who may not be aware of the organization and its opportunities.

Dave also promoted a new activity for CCA: the formation of interest groups. “The interest could be hobbies, books, knitting – anything you like to do with other people,” he said. “The idea is that CCA would help get the word out on these groups, not run them.” Ideas can be sent to: [email protected].

Todd Hall, a member of the Cargill Board of Directors and the new leadership team, was

guest speaker at the event. Todd recalled how he joined Cargill 34 years ago. “I joined a company and found a family,” he said. “You all helped create the family and culture in the company I joined. Thank you for helping to build this great company.”

Part of Cargill’s strategy is to be “the most trusted partner,” Todd explained. He said CCA has a key role in representing Cargill in the community. “Community engagement is one component in differentiating Cargill in ways that drive performance. It’s humbling to see the volume of volunteer hours CCA alumni give to the community. You are changing people’s lives.”

Dave and Stacey both noted that Spark, the new system for reporting volunteer hours, has presented some challenges. The system was launched so Cargill could track hours globally for the first time. “It has not been a perfect system,” Stacey said. “Once you actually get on it, it’s fairly intuitive. We’re looking at finding ways to make it easier and simpler.”

The meeting ended with awards. The Volunteer of the Year Award went to Lois and

Kent Norby. Both are heavily involved with their alma mater, Montana State University. Kent also has spent a lot of hours on the initiative to eradicate invasive plants from Lake Minnetonka. In accepting the award, Kent said volunteering at Montana State really has been its own reward because working the faculty and students has been so energizing.

The Ken Moritz Leadership Award went to Mike Lilly, former president of CCA and leader of the Habitat for Humanity group project. Mike also is involved in Bridging, the Giving Garden and the golf league. Educa-tion seminars grew significantly under his leadership.

Already for the coming year, three education seminars and six social events are planned. Goals for this year include increased mem-bership, more team activities, supporting Cargill community involvement and the formation of the new interest groups. For more information, check the CCA website at: CargillCaresRetirees.com

OUTGOING CCA PRESIDENT DAVE BRADEN ADDRESSING ALUMNI AT ANNUAL MEETING

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During his keynote presentation at the CCA Annual Meeting, Cargill Board Member Todd Hall touched on a number of topics, including:

Safety. Eight employee fatalities last year didn’t come close to the goal of zero fatali-ties. But Cargill has identified 12 activities responsible for most fatalities in the past 40 years. Focusing on those activities could help eliminate fatalities. Reportable injuries continue their steady decline but will have to be reduced by a further 250 accidents to meet the 2020 goal.

Reorganization. The Corporate Center has gone from almost 50 people at its peak to an executive team of 10. The December change also does a better job of representing functions such as Human Resources, Finance and Cargill Business Systems. Accountability was the big motivation in making the change, which Todd defined as “when you make a promise, you keep a promise.” Those promises include expected financial returns.

The smaller leadership structure also supports faster decision-making. “We are an elephant, but we want to be the best-dancing elephant there is,” Todd joked. “We need more agility to set the stage for serving our customers better. The pace of change will only get faster.”

He said some things won’t change: the “our word is our bond” tradition, Cargill integrity and ethics, the focus on human and food safety, high aspirations for growth, and a family ownership that continues to reinvest 80 cents of every dollar earned.

Performance. Cargill will come in with earn-ings of $1.8 billion this fiscal year, short of the targeted $2.7 billion, Todd said. Challenges included the highest grain stocks ever, along with growth declines in China and Asia. Next year’s budget will be $2.1 billion, representing a 16 percent increase over this year’s result.

Todd acknowledged that the stock price has underperformed the S&P in recent years. “We are not where our earnings should be, given the amount invested. That’s why we are changing the portfolio and the executive team for greater accountability.” Personally, he said he is optimistic that both earnings and share price will see upturns.

While the Agricultural Supply Chain was particularly hard-hit, attaining only half of its budget, Animal Nutrition and Financial Services exceeded their budgets. Cargill Beef lost money, but Todd forecast a turnaround this year with a rebound in the cattle cycle.

Portfolio changes. Divestures last year included Pork, a steel joint venture and the spinoff of the Black River financial business.

SIDEBAR TO ANNUAL MEETING STORY

News from Todd Hall

But the list of new investments was longer: a world class salmon feed business, a shrimp JV in Ecuador, ADM’s chocolate business, animal nutrition businesses in the UK and Turkey, a soy crush plant in Zambia, a pectin business in Italy and a ground beef plant in South Carolina.

“I think pork for salmon was a good trade,” Todd said, noting that Cargill Pork did not benchmark well with the industry. “Fish is a growing part of people’s diets. We hope to eventually be in the fish protein business.”

Underperforming businesses now have a Performance Improvement Process. Cargill’s strategy is to lead in its markets. That means divesting businesses that aren’t positioned for growth but retaining even struggling businesses that benchmark among the best.

“We are not sitting still,” Todd said. “We are constantly looking at our portfolio for businesses that perform at the top of their industry and fit with our purpose of feeding and nourishing the world.”

The Office Center. Most hands went up when Todd asked how many people had worked at the Office Center. A major remodel had much of the building looking like a war zone this year. When it reopens in the fall, it will feature the concept of open space. Employees will not have assigned desks and will find places in open work areas. The open concept has proved popular at the Amster-dam office and other places Cargill has tried it.

Todd will be one of those employees finding a new work space each day. The Lake Office, Cargill’s iconic executive office for 70 years, is closing. “As someone who works in the Lake Office, I’m thrilled,” Todd said. “Some-times the Lake Office felt like a funeral home where you were afraid to talk. Now, I can actually run into some people. There will be a lot more energy in the remodeled Office Center.”

The Lake Office is still owned by the family, which is still considering how it will be used. In the future, Cargill plans to sell or lease at least one Excelsior Crossing building as employees move back to the Office Center.

TODD HALL PROVIDES CARGILL ALUMNI WITH A COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE OF CARGILL PERFORMANCE

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The Effects of the SunI’m a hardcore fisherman, so I spend a lot of time outdoors and in the sun. I love the feeling of the sun warming my skin on a cool day when I’m casting a lure in my favorite fishing hole. I don’t love what I know it is doing to me in the long run. Sun exposure is a bitter-sweet situation. We know we cannot live without the sun warming the planet, but the damage to our bodies by the ultraviolet (UV) rays, which damage the fibers in the skin called elastin, can be prevented. Sun damage to the skin may not be apparent when you’re young, but it will definitely show up later in life as those elastin fibers break down and the skin sags. There also are major cancer concerns when it comes to sun exposure.

But first, let’s look at all the benefits of the sun when it comes to our health. There’s no denying that vitamin D produced by our skin in response to UV radiation is a primary health benefit of sun exposure. In addition, regular sunlight exposure can naturally increase the serotonin levels in the body, making us more active and alert. Sunlight deprivation can cause a condition called seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of depression common in the winter months. Moderate sun exposure, however, increases levels of natural antidepressants in the brain that actually can help relieve this and other forms of mild depression. That’s because on sunny days the brain produces more sero-tonin than on darker days.

The most obvious choice to keep the harmful rays of the sun from burning your skin is sunscreen. The problem with sunscreen for a fisherman like me is that the fish don’t seem to appreciate the taste of whatever is in it. If you have sunscreen on your hands and you handle the lure or bait, it will adversely affect your catch. For this reason, I choose to cover up when I’m on the water fishing.

There are more than a few companies out there that are creating facial covers for anglers. These tubes cover your neck and face and are lightweight enough that you don’t get hot beneath the fabric. As a matter of fact, my experience is that the thin layer of material actually keeps me cooler. If it’s really hot, soaking the facial cover in water allows for evaporation that really cools nicely.

Some of the facial covers out there have breathing mesh sewn into the fabric. This is nice when you wear sunglasses, because on humid days breath channeled out the eye opening can fog up a pair of glasses pretty easily.

When you shop for these facial covers you’ll find some that have some crazy fac-es screened onto the fabric. Most are pret-ty cool and some are downright crazy look-ing -- which might make other anglers think twice before in-truding on the spot you’re fishing. All of them will provide the relief from the sun you need to keep your ears, cheeks and neck from getting burnt.

It’s amazing what you see anglers wearing these days on the water: super lightweight long-sleeved shirts, super-thin pants and wide-brimmed hats above the facial mask. Everything is covered to keep the sun from damaging their skin.

Some might think it’s okay to skip the sun-screen and cover-ups when it’s cloudy. That would be a mistake. Even when the sun doesn’t appear to be shining brightly, its rays are there, working their damage. UV levels are measured on an international scale ranging from one to 20, and this indicates how much UV radiation reaches the earth’s surface. A level of three or above is considered high enough to damage the skin. Even on cloudy days it is typically much higher than three.

Clouds can reduce or increase UV levels. It depends upon the type of cloud and its

thickness. UV radiation can penetrate through thin clouds, so you can still get high levels of UV at ground level on overcast days. Sometimes, UV rays can reflect off the cloud’s edge, intensifying the level of the UV rays. Therefore, partly cloudy days can be misleading; you believe you are protected from the sun’s rays but you may, in fact, be getting stronger UV rays because they are bouncing off the clouds.

So, never, ever go without protection for very long. Anglers always think they can just soak up “a little” sun and then they push it and get burnt. Stay covered and you will stay healthy.

SUBMITTED BY

Tim Lesmeister

PROTECTION FROM THE SUN THE OLD FASHIONED WAY

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Build with UsTwo new Habitat for Humanity volunteer projects are available.

On June 14, Cargill Alumni volunteers will begin construction on a home site in South Minneapolis. The project is sponsored by the Hoover family, and Dave Hoover is Cargill’s long time project leader for Habitat for Humanity. We will continue to meet on the second and fourth Tuesday each month throughout the summer. The job site is at 3521 13th Ave. S. in Minneapolis.

Beginning September 9th Cargill will sponsor a house in North Minneapolis.

CARGILL ALUMNI HABITAT TEAM

Cargill employees will volunteer daily through October 14th. Cargill Alumni volunteers will serve lunch and refresh-ments during the month-long build. Alumni construction volunteers will be scheduled on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The two-story single-family home will be at 2953 Oliver Ave. N. in Minneapolis.

If you would like to join the construction crews, call or email Mike Lilly at 763-546-9665 [email protected]. If you would like to volunteer for serving lunch to the crews, call or email Lois Tolentino at 763-537-6051 [email protected].

Bridging has introduced Retiree Team Projects, a new approach that is bigger and better. Instead of being just one of the individual teams, we will join with retiree groups from Ameriprise, Xcel Energy and MARS/Centerpoint Energy on the fourth Tuesdays of each month in both Bloomington and Roseville.

This joint effort has several advantages:

• More variety because of additional group projects

• More opportunities for individuals to decide where to work. With larger teams, several different projects would be available. (Previously, with the smaller volunteer teams, the entire team usually worked in a single area.)

• More chances to meet and work with retirees from other companies.

The work projects all fit with Bridging’s mission of providing quality furniture and household goods to people transitioning out of homelessness and poverty. On a given day, projects could include evaluating donated items, organizing small items like houseware, performing minor repairs and testing for small electrical

SUBMITTED BY

Jim Little

appliances and lamps, restoring donated furniture, moving donated items in the warehouse or unloading trucks.

Come join us. For more information, contact me at [email protected].

Bridging Opens New Roseville WarehouseBridging has purchased a warehouse at 1730 Terrace, which is across the street from the old Roseville warehouse. The new ware-house has an additional 9,000 square feet of

THE NEW WAREHOUSE SPACE HAS MORE WORK SPACE IN THE SORTING AREA, THE WORKSHOP AND ELECTRICAL REPAIR.

space -- almost half again as large as the old leased space. The additional space was needed not only for donations but also to provide work space for large project teams who are building dressers, sorting donations from events such a pillow drives.

The general reaction to the new Roseville warehouse has been “Wow!” There will be a June 22nd grand opening celebration at 1730 Terrace in Roseville . Come join us.

A Change for Bridging Volunteers

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THE TOP 10 REASONS YOU KNOW YOU’RE A VOLUNTEER

Why volunteer? This exploration of voluntarism goes to the heart of the answer.

SUBMITTED BY

LINDA MARSHALL

1. You don’t get paid.2. On a regular basis, your significant other looks at you and says,

“Another meeting tonight?”3. You watch the news about the war in Afghanistan and have to tell

yourself firmly, “No, you cannot get on an airplane and go over there and help them tomorrow.”

4. Friends call you and say things like, “We know you’ll say yes to anything, so we thought we’d exploit your time and energy just one more time to serve on the Friends of Endangered Craw daddies committee.”

5. You have a recurring dream in which you are riding naked on a white horse through a medieval town, giving out bread and wine to the peasants, and having them cheer you on as you make your way to the next hamlet.

6. Someone jokes that he was asked to volunteer at his son’s school and replied, “Hey, I already gave at the office, har, har, har”—and

you fight the urge to grab him by the collar and say, “Go join the PTA—now!”

7. If you’re single and you meet a nice man (or woman) at a bar one night, and he or she asks what you do in your spare time, by the time you come up for air after telling all about your volunteer activities—said nice man or woman has vanished.

8. You go to your 30th high school reunion and your old friends say, “My goodness, you look so young and bright-eyed,” and you know it’s because you find the kind of fulfillment that volunteering can bring.

9. You get to attend a fabulous Volunteer Appreciation Banquet every year.

10. At night when you go to sleep, and in the morning when you wake up, you know in your heart that—whatever evils and problems afflict this world—you are making it a better place. You are the reason we can all have faith in the human spirit.

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Compiled by Lois TolentinoContact the CARGILL CARES ALUMNI Office for more information, [email protected], 952/742-6188

Upcoming events:Seminar- 10 Steps to MovingWednesday, June 15, 2016Letter has been sent

Social-Twins Game Vs PhiladelphiaWednesday, June 22, 2016Letter has been sent

Seminar-”My Future, My Options” a guide to senior livingWednesday, July 20, 2016A letter will be sent

Social-Grotto of the Redemption, West Bend, IowaWednesday, July 27, 2016A letter will be sent

Social-St Paul Gangsters and Cave TourWednesday, Sept 21, 2016A letter will be sent

Social-Old Log Theatre‘Million Dollar Quartet’Wednesday, October 5, 2016A letter will be sent

COMING EVENTS-INFORMATION

Ongoing Events:Bridging

Contact Jim Little @612/338-1872 orGene Van’t Hof @952/934-5764Bloomington and Roseville4th Tuesday of every month.

The Food group in New Hope Contact John Tschumperlin @ 952/472-44659:00-11:00 AM 1st Wed every month.

Second Harvest Heartland-Golden ValleyContact Joe Fournier-763/420-67202nd and 3rd Tuesday and last Wednesday every month

Retiree Golf LeagueContact Joe Fournier 763/420-6720

Loaves and FishesContact Dave Kern-952-472-4488

Sandwich Project-9 AM-11 AMContact Dane Kern-952-472-4488Prince of Peace Church-BP2nd Friday- every other month/F/A/J/A/O/D

Store to Door- Contact Marge Klimmek-763/732-1733

Habitat for Humanity Contact Mike Lilly, 763/546-9665

Prodeo Academy – MplsContact Barbara Luke 612-799-8534Last Wednesday 9:00-noonSeptember – May