About Brainerd's Crosslake

Tell your parents, your children, your friends, your clients, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies.

Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain.

It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break in your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around... after a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that! And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. I always have my keys out in the Mall of America ramp or the hospital ramps in the cities.

For someone working outside in their yard - who falls or starts to feel ill (heart attack) - push the button. Those living in secluded or rural areas are on their own, but even where I live - if the neighbors knew "the signal" could hear a honking horn across 80 acres.

Brainerd,MN ~Minnesota's Fourth of July Capital

Despite the economy, the 4th of July Celebration and the jaw dropping fireworks display will continue, at least for this year. This is mainly due to the efforts of some dedicated volunteers and Nancy Cross , Drector of Brainerd Community Action. There will be 100 parade units down only 20 from last year. The weather is predicted to be sunny with temperatures around 77 degrees and a small chance of rain.

The festivites on the Fourth will start with the Annual Brainerd Jaycees Corn Feed on the Adamson Ball Field at noon. If you like sweet corn roasted in the husks and dipped in butter, you will love this. A little sprinkle of salt and pepper and plenty of napkins will do. The American Celebration parade will start at 4 PM and the musical entertainmetn brgins at 6 PM. Be to see Elvis live on stage with the Blues Brothers Revue. The year's Battle of the Bands winner will perform and the night has only just begun. A fly over is traditionally held at 8 PM and music contiues until the fireworks at 10:15. If you have not witnessed the musically choreographed presentation of oooohs and aahhhhs- you are really depriving yourself and your family of a specatular event.

Kathleen Lordbock

Keller Williams Brainerd Lakes REALTOR/Staging Specialist

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A few short weeks ago my husband went in for back surgery. It was to be rather intense as he was having fusion, had a tumor on his spine and a disc that was protruding. They were to take bone from his hip to use in the back and that was to give him some pain during the proposed 5 months of recovery. We are both self employed and his part of that is roofing. So it is no small matter to take off another 5 months(he hasn't been able to work with the pain for 5 months). The doctors have varying opinions as to whether he will even be able to roof again.

There was really no choice as to having surgery so off we went to Minneapolis. He was overdosed with narcotics during surgery and that shut his systems down. They could not wake him up and his bodily systems then stopped. He has had people from all over the world praying and after 3 days he woke up, kind of. When he would fall asleep then he would stop breathing again. It has been a long hard battle but he is making progress. There is a nasty tube running through his nose to pump out his stomach as that is where everything that they pump in by IVs seems to be staying. He has some problems with chemical balances and all that stuff but as they tell me the actual surgery went well.

You just do not know what will happen at any point in time but God is a big God and a good God. God's people responded and two Master's programs of young people went to their knees. Missionaries in Lebanon roused their underground churches and they prayed. Russians were praying in their Christian school. The women and young girls who have been rescued from slavery & prostitution who live in the home that Art helped build prayed. Teens from Art's Evergreen group and Sundy School classes prayed for their mentor's survival and then recovery. Our local Teen Challenge group started talking to the God that they just recently committed the bablance of thieir lives to. He has been involved with many groups and many lives through the years

If things progress, I may be bringing him back home in the near future - first he has to be able to eat by mouth. He can walk a short distance and it is not far to get him in to our home.

UPDATE

ART IS HOME!

HE HAS VERY LITTLE RECOLLECTION OF WHAT TOOK PLACE IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS AND HIS MEMORY IS STILL NOT THE BEST FROM DAY TO DAY. HE EATS BUT SAYS THAT HOW FOOD TASTES HAS CHANGED. MOST FOOD HOLDS LITTLE APPEAL TO HIM AT THIS TIME. HE HAS ALSO DEVELOPED A BETTER SENSE OF SMELL ODDLY ENOUGH AND NOW LIKES THE SMELL OF ORIENTAL LILIES. HE HAS A NICE WALKER WITH A SEAT BUT IS DOING WELL WALKING A SHORT SPAN. HE TIRES EASILY AND SLEEPS OFTEN. HE IS VERY HAPPY TO BE HOME AND SAYS HE KNOWS THAT GOD STILL HAS WORK FOR HIM TO DO HERE.

We are grateful for your prayers.

~God is Amazing~

Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin in Thursday's Washington Times wrote:

"What and who exactly are President Obama's homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism, or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You."

Patriotic Americans now pose a threat to the United States government. There are millions of them, they are everywhere.

People who believe the government is too large and taxes its people too much. All those who participated in TEA parties, anti-abortion rallies, those who attend Christian denominational churches, advocate for marriage and family in a traditional manner. People who realize that the government can not fix everything and should stop trying. If you are returning from active duty, you will be watched very closely because someone might want to recruit your US Miltary trained talent to their anti-USA cause - you are a bigger threat than an illegal immigrant or a Muslim militant.

You do not know where they are hiding, some are even undercover in the very government that is claiming this threat. You can not tell because they vote like all the rest - a very good undercover operation, indeed.

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See photos of the sandbagging efforts and view the Fargo/Moorhead flood area

Despite everyone's best efforts to keep up with the rising waters, in some areas there is already dike failure and subsequent flooding. The volunteers are growing weary but fresh replacements are still coming in. With the evacuations , there will be less time spend on rescue efforts as there will be less to rescue. There will always be those who stay in their homes risking their lives and those of their rescuers. No one knows exactly how long the waters will keep rising and how long the crest will be sustained.

Update: Officials are now indicating that the crest has been reached and for the most part the sandbags are holding.

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Time lapse images here