Community Focus

Sarah Aamot, Artistic Director, Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota joined Community Focus

CEO Shane Riffle from the Brainerd Area YMCA joins Community Focus once again! 

Our guests today were Anthony Housey, Public Affairs, Camp Ripley Visitors Bureau, and Spc. Katlin Hoernemann of the Camp Ripley Support Unit to talk about happenings at Camp Ripley.

Our guest today was Karl Samp, Executive Director of the Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation. 

Our guests today were Brainerd City Engineer Paul Sandy, and Brainerd Parks and Recreation Department Director Tony Sailer. 

Guests today were Brainerd Police Officer Troy Schriefels, Crow Wing County Child Protection Team member, Pat Sharbonda, Crow Wing County Family Services Supervisor, Chair, Crow Wing County Child Protection Team, to talk about efforts to prevent child abuse in Crow Wing County. 

Our guests today were Lisa Roggenkamp-Rakotz, Senior Assistant Aitkin County Attorney, and Sue Tange, former Aitkin County Child Protection Supervisor (retired), to talk about efforts in Aitkin County to prevent child abuse, using dollars raised by the Radiothon to End Child Abuse.  

Our guest today was Leslie Bouchonville, Executive Director, Pine River Backus Family Center and the Northland Area Family Center, to talk about how the Radiothon dollars are used to fund programs to prevent child abuse. 

Our guest today was Melanie Erickson, Social Service Supervisor, Morrison County, to talk about the programs made possible by the dollars raised during our Radiothon to End Child Abuse.

Guests today include: Gary Hirsch, Director, Wendy DeGeest, Choreographer, Jim Tousignant, and Mark Ford, Actors, to talk about the Stage North Theater presentation of “A Christmas Carol”.