Employee Newsletter June 2017

This month’s spotlight features the employee with the “Most Strikes” award from the May Wellness bowling event.

Diane Overby, Social Worker in Community & Veterans Services: I have worked as a social worker for over 31 years. I have worked in a variety of different areas, but I have been working in chemical dependency since 1999. I love working with chemically dependent people. It is great to help people as they work to improve their lives while learning to manage their illness — and there is rarely a dull moment! I was raised in North Dakota and went to college at Moorhead State University. I have degrees in Social Work and Psychology, with minors in Philosophy and Sociology. My interests include traveling and scrapbooking. I also love hiking, camping, and organizing group events! I like to do new things. I like working out and teaching bootcamp with Community Education. If I could have any superpower, I would want to be able to beturn invisible at will. If a bear was about to attack, *poof* I am gone! It would increase my bravery by 2000%.

INSIDE Employee Spotlight………..Pg 1 Retirement Party…………...Pg 1 Employee Picnic ……….….Pg 2 Area Events……...…............Pg 3 Employee Updates.….…......Pg 3 Wellness Newsletter………..Pg 4

Congratulations to Diane Overby from Community & Veterans Services Office for being our May WELCOA quiz winner! Diane’s prize was a 3-in-1 solar light. Check out the June quiz at the end of the WELCOA health bulletins for your chance to win! All of the answers to the quiz can be found in the WELCOA health bulletins. Those who score 100% on the quiz will be entered for a chance to win a Wellness prize! Send your quiz answers (either the entire answer sheet, or just your answers in an email) to Karly in ASO by 6/15/17.

Mike Smith is Retiring! Please join us in celebrating Mike Smith’s retirement after 19 years of service to Mille Lacs County. The retirement party will be held in the Sheriff’s Office on Friday, June 30, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Cake and coffee will be provided.

Funded in part by the MLC Wellness Program and Resource Training & Solutions

Please join us! Lunch will be served from 11:30 to 12:45. Picnic tables will be set up outside the employee entrance on the east side of the

historic courthouse, plus a few on the lawn, for seating.

Menu

• Roast Beef Sandwiches • Potato salad • Potato chips & pickles • Cookies • Water

There will be a Department Head/Supervisor bake-off contest at this year’s Employee Picnic. Department Head/Supervisors interested in participating should

contact Karly in ASO by Friday, 6/9/17. There will be cookies if there aren’t enough bake-off entries for dessert.

Many thanks to all who make the picnic possible, including the Labor Management Committee, Public Works, and Facilities Operations.

Also, special thanks to the Commissioners for serving lunch!

In the event of rain, food will be served from the employee break room on the lower level of the Historic Courthouse, with tables set up in Conference Room D.

ANNUAL MILLE LACS COUNTY

EMPLOYEE PICNIC TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2017

June 1: Mille Lacs County Spring Cleanup Milaca June 8: Mille Lacs County Spring Cleanup Wahkon June 10: Mille Lacs Kathio State Park: Best of the Bears June 10: Father Hennepin State Park: Outdoor Recreation Day June 16: Mille Lacs Kathio State Park: Fishing Fridays (every Friday in June) June 25: Father Hennepin State Park: Fishing 101 Milaca Farmers’ Market (every Wednesday through October 18, 2017 2-6 pm) Onamia Farmers’ Market (every Friday through October 2017, 2-6 pm) Isle Area Farmers’ Market (every Saturday through October 2017 9 am—1 pm) Princeton Farmers’ Market (every Saturday through October 28, 2017, 8:30 am—12pm)

Area Events

Welcome, New Employees!

Melissa Feist Office Support Specialist CVS

Employees Leaving

Mike Smith, Jail Administrator, retiring after 19 years of service

Holly Jablonski, Registered Nurse in CVS, left after 7 months of service

Lisa Zahner, 911 Communications Specialist, left after 2 weeks of service

Ken Godeen, Eligibility Worker in CVS, left after 3 years of service

Employee Moves

Brigid Halberg, moved from Jail Sergeant to 911 Communications Specialist

Misty Anderson Office Support Specialist 4-H/Extension

Nikki Herr Office Support Specialist CVS

Kalvin Strecker Survey Intern PW

Blake Struthers Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Intern LSO

Stephanie Reynolds Temporary Environmental Education Coordinator LSO

Healthy Choices.

Healthy Me. An Employee Worksite Wellness Initiative

June 2017

Volume 32

About This Issue

It is the Mille Lacs County Employee

Wellness Program’s mission to

educate, support, and empower

employees to improve and maintain

their overall health and well-being

through healthy lifestyle choices.

Visit our web page HERE !

Healthy Choices. Healthy Me.

This month we are looking at

the May bowling event.

Alisha Fussy, CVS Diane Overby, CVS Dillon Hayes, LSO Heather Anderson, CVS Joni Windhauser, SO Karly Fetters, ASO Lynn Goldbloom, CVS Mellissa Griswold, CAO Pat Oman, ASO Susan Shaw, SWCD Trisha Ellington, CVS

Current Wellness

Committee Members

Next Meeting

Thursday, 6/22/17

2:30 pm

Conference Room A

This month’s Wellness Newsletter focuses on the May employee bowling event.

MILLE LACS COUNTY

EMPLOYEE BOWLING EVENT RESULTS Thank you to everyone who participated in the May bowling event at Lakeway Lanes! We had 16 employees make up 4 teams of 4, along with those who came to cheer. Highest Score: James O’Hollearn Lowest Score: Stephanie Pariseau Most Strikes: Diane Overby Most Gutter Balls: Emily Funk Stop by the Wellness Board outside of the Administrative Services Office for more photos on a display made by the very talented Lynn Goldbloom! A special thanks to Pearl Moede for volunteering her time and doing such a great job with the photography!