Brainerd Rotary News Today

The 2024 inductees are Rachel “Perky” Pernina Oliver Burke, Elissa Hansen, Heidi Holtan, Jennifer Person and Amy Wallin Price.

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.

The recognition program raises awareness of Rotary's primary value, "Service Above Self." Anyone can nominate a lakes area resident in 2023 for this service award.

Brainerd Rotary acquired 38 acres of land and 1,400 feet of Mississippi River frontage and donated the property to the city of Brainerd on Jan. 3, 2012, for use as a park.

Rotarians have been selling $100 raffle tickets for a grand prize of $10,000. It is a reverse raffle so the last ticket drawn will win the money. The drawing will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Curling Club at the Crow Wing County Fairgrounds.

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1922.

The Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District, the Brainerd Parks and Recreation Department and the Brainerd Rotary Club are again using goats instead of herbicides to manage the European buckthorn at Rotary Riverside Park by letting the animals eat the invasive species.

38 / 50 W.E. Lively, the hustling Maxwell auto dealer, has sold a Maxwell to Joseph Johnson. Pictured is a Maxwell Mascotte Touring 1911 by Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1526033 39 / 50 This truck belonged to Silas Halls Transfer Line just after World War I. It was used for hauling freight from the NP (Northern Pacific Railroad) depot to stores around town as well as for other kinds of moving. The picture was taken in fron...