Good evening. It's 5:15 and it's time for the November meeting of the Sister Cities Commission of Newm. Ellie, would you please take the role? >> You want me to say my name for Ellie Sweeney? I'll speak for Jane. Jane Mayday Hulky.
Carolyn Marty Smith, >> Larry Mack, >> Dick Seabbo, >> John Forward. >> We had a question. Do we have enough for a quorum? >> It's a commission's nine and we've got five. That's a majority. >> Uh that being said, um motion to approve the minutes from
October 6 would be in order. >> I'll offer a motion to approve the minutes as presented. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries.
Uh the financial reports have been presented to you in great detail and the highlights were the stipened for Sam. Our last uh broadstand profit from
August looks really good at 259.50 50 and then some payments out for various uh items such as the welcome party for Sam and some repairs on the kiosk. So,
a motion on accepting the financial reports as presented would be in order. >> I will make that motion. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed.
Motion carries. Okay, we're on to the Hanzios Cultural Exchange Program and in a few minutes we'll be having a Zoom meeting with our outbound person
from last year, Martha. And in the interim, I'd like to call on Sam Kenopes to uh let us know what he's been doing the last month. Hello. Uh I've been doing a
lot. Okay, where do I start? Um my last trip, last week, was to South Dakota and Wyoming. I got to see the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Wall Drag,
Devil's Tower, Wyoming to name a few things. Um, I presented a speech in front of the Rotary Club, New invited to the German speaking club. Um, also New I helped at the Legion packing
Halloween treats and stuffed animals for the children for Halloween with Chambatles. is my host father right now. Um I've been in several other departments at work. Um this week I'm at
upstairs packaging. Last week I attended the um filling room. I've been to the keging line and mixing root beer myself. Um, and before that I've been to the
sellers all this month. So I came around and the next two weeks I'll be in the lab and then my stay will already be over sadly. >> And I met Martha uh on Saturday.
Yeah, we went to the Martin Luther College game against Northwestern together. Sam, who did you go to out west with? Uh, >> with Rick Isel. He took me there. Very nice. >> I'll also go to Granite Falls this
Saturday with him to the World War II Museum. And we have tickets for the Vikings game against the Chicago Bears on the 16th of November. >> I'll also do that with Rick as well.
hadn't a lot happened. >> Well, you've had as much activity as most of us have in a year, so it's wonderful. Any questions of Sam? >> Well, Sam, I just briefly visited with
you before the meeting. I was asking you what you thought of our brewing process versus in Germany and maybe you can share a couple details that you that might be significant. So um the process
basically is the same but of course here you don't have the term purity law. So here in America um you can for example use sugar to um get fermentation going way quicker. And um for shells for
example they do high gravity brewing. So that means you brew you put way more sugar or mold in the beginning and then water it down to the percentage of alcohol you want in the end. So, especially shells is limited by space.
So, that's a good way to do it if you're limited by space to produce more beer than you usually could if you brew right to the Play-Doh percentage. You give the beer out. And um my brewery at home, we
have a way more space, so we don't need to do that. It's also the bigger breweries in Germany, they do high gravity brewing because it's just it goes faster and um it's way cheaper because you can store
um much more beer in the beginning or less beer you can water down in the end. So you need less storage space for it and can produce more in the end. And what else? Um, of course the the
flavor stuff. Um, peanut butter chocolate porter for example. And at least my brewery would we would never do that. Um, but it tastes really good. >> Okay. >> And a recommendation. This year's
snowstorm is also really really good. >> What style is it? >> Uh, it's a dark I don't know the style exact, but it's a very dark beer. Very very flavorful. >> Okay. >> But it would not be called a porter.
>> No, not a porter. >> Would it be considered like a dunl? >> I think. Yeah. More a dunl. Dunl. Yeah. But really good. I like it. >> Sam, do you work at the Golden or Ox? And >> yes, I work at Golden uh Gold Oxen at
home. How big is the Golden Ox Brewery in um >> say I mean >> so we use hectto liters. So with at beer we do roughly about 240,000
hectare liters per year and we do way more in soft drinks and pops. So another I think let me lie I think it's like 300,000 hectare liters of soft drinks.
>> Our brewery is it in size you know just physically it are they comparable or is golden much larger? >> Uh we are larger. >> Okay. >> Um the beer part I think is roughly the same but of course the soft drink part
um makes us way bigger then. Yeah. And we don't distribute the area that Shells does because like Shells you can get up north in Minnesota and over in where else? Illinois and I don't know
where you can buy it, but of course Shells distributes way more than we do in Germany. >> Well, when your beer is that good, you don't have to ship it a long way to get to to sell it. >> That's true. Yeah.
How was your time with the Conquered Singers attending events? >> Really good. Um, I only had a chance by now to sing with them once on stage, but my next time will be on the 11th of November at where is it?
>> Veterans Day at Cathedral. >> Veterans Day Cathedral. And then on the I think the next one is the 22nd at State Street Theater. Yeah. for a community concert type thing that we'll be offering to the public. So,
>> so I have two more options to >> a guest star. >> Will he be here for Flannel Fest? >> Yes. >> Oh, cool. >> Attend. >> Good. Good. >> Very nice. >> Day before Final F the day before the concert is Flannel Fest.
>> Yeah, exactly. And then the uh ball by then has gained a lot of momentum. On the 23rd, you can catch your breath. On the 24th, it is uh suggested from
uh the chair and others that we have our farewell party for you at the cable club on the on Monday the 24th. And I understand your current host family, the Bartles, have offered to take you to the airport on
November 25th. >> Exactly. Yeah, >> that is a uh full schedule. >> Yeah, I'll be busy the next few weeks. Still still is something to do every day. So >> nice.
>> Well, any other questions of Sam? I will see him again on Thursday night at Conquered Singer Practice. And we have well let's see if we can knock out some other ideas here. Uh let's talk about the recognition
award. The people on the committee presently are Brian, John, Ellie, and Tony. And because our commission has shrunk, uh it's appropriate that there be three
people on the committee plus potential attendance by Jean and myself. Is there uh anybody of those three or those four that would like to take a year off? >> This is my last year.
>> Oh, okay. I this is my first year so I guess I don't care. >> Well, because of that being your first year, you are less familiar with the possibility of historical people that would uh warrant being involved in the
recognition award. So, if you would uh step down for this year only, that would be uh appropriate. >> I will do that. >> Thank you. Now, we need to come up with a date for when you're going to meet in here so we
can get it cleared with uh the powers that be on the second floor. >> So, the other two on the committee are not here to ask if they're going to be available. Um, but I can still get a hold of Lisa
after I talk to them. >> Sounds good. >> Yeah. Okay. >> And then if you can bring a recommendation uh December 1st. >> Mhm. Should be able to. >> Excellent. And when you do get it scheduled, please
make sure that Jane and I are aware so we can attempt to attend. >> And Dick, it looks like Martha's on. Aha. >> And our timing is just about right. Welcome Martha. >> Hi. Are you able to hear me? Okay,
>> you're coming through beautifully. >> Perfect. >> All right, great. >> You've had an exciting uh spring. Let us know when it all happened. >> Um, sorry, say it again. >> You've had an exciting spring and summer. Would you share your
>> highlights? Yeah. And I have a presentation of pictures. If I'm able to share it with you that you can see that it somehow um I think it would add more to what I talk about. But if that's not possible, I understand. >> Well, if you could hold them up next to your yourself and you're coming through
beautifully. >> Or however you or maybe if I I'll try sharing my screen. I'm not very >> well. We'll see if this works. a lot of technology these days, >> right?
>> I'm a teacher and sometimes I I don't use very much uh technology though when I teach. >> Um, all right. I have my slides up. Are you able to see the slides? >> Are you able to see the slides I have up? >> We are.
>> We can. >> Okay. All right. Um, yeah. So, I was I was the Hansios candidate uh this past summer. I was there from Jo um start of June, end of May until August.
And looking back on the time, I just am very very grateful for the experiences I had um from the sister cities commission from the city of New. And looking back, I think there's really truly no in no other circumstance could I or any other
candidate who goes over um experience this and this friendship that we have with our our sister city. Um so I'm just I'm very grateful for having had this opportunity. Um I broke down what I would talk about briefly mostly surrounding the people I
met uh because the people I met were just so very special. Um and then a couple trips about and then the last one is just a trip I went with my host family on. Um I was very uh blessed to have stayed
with the same host family for the whole summer. I don't think that's the typical situation, but the Yanni family took me in and I got to know them very well and they were just a lovely, wonderful host family. Um, they had three children,
Benny, Hana, Uni, and they it just was very fun to be able to uh hang out with the kids and play with them. Um, learn about their city through their eyes. And then my two host parents, uh, Brigetta and Wulfgang were both gynecologists at
the university clinic. And my host's dad, Wulfgang, was the director of the clinic. And again, I my host family made my experience just truly wonderful. And
it's difficult to put into words what it meant to spend 3 months with this family. Um, but we'll stay in contact. We still are in contact. I was actually just in Newm this past weekend. Um I just got back last night and I made sure I got new homem postcards to send the
kids. Um because I think it's just so cool that they share our cities share the same name. Um I went from pretty much the prairie of Minnesota to the mountains within my first weekend in Germany. We went to the
Algoy which is in the Alps. And again, my great host kids um like to have fun and we uh often saw c cows just wandering through the mountains with their um cowbells. That's very charming
sound. Um, this is typical of the Alps where um you can hike up your way through the mountains and then stop at this kind of a hut where you can get drinks, food, and enjoy the view. Um,
it's a very uh comfortable, very nice way of walking through the mountains. And yeah, this was I think we drove only about an hour and a half to get here. And so it was really very close to the southern border and a very nice welcome to Germany experience.
Uh there's another shot of the cow. Uh this is a picture of our breakfast at the mountains. Um, and this is something that I miss often of German culture of often eating bread, uh, but also spending the time with the family and
with the people, uh, to slowly eat a breakfast and take, uh, like the butter or the cheese, the jam, whatever you'd like for your breakfast. It's just a very comfortable way of dining with the people that you're with. Um, but this for me is a nice memory of being with my
host family there. And then I just went through this picture as well because um I think that Germany and later when we were in Switzerland as well, they uh provide very nice children's activities for um kids as they go through the
mountains. Um this was uh an activity that went off of the history of Austria and Germany. In the past, salt was smuggled. And so the kids, you can kind of see, rubbed charcoal on their arms because they were the smugglers. And I
and my host mom were the uh border guard. And the kids would run around or run ahead and complete activities through the mountains. And if they saw us coming behind them, they uh they took off. They weren't we didn't they didn't want to be captured by us, the by the border guards. Um, but I thought it was
just a very uh very wonderful thing that the Germans and Swiss seem to do and I'm sure the Austrians as well. Uh, just to provide nice activities for the children as they are in the nature. And then this is us at an evening meal
again. Um, it was just so special to be able to spend times like this uh with the people with my host family especially. And then as I went through the summer, I met more and more people who invited me into their homes and
treated me so well and they are so dear to me. Um, and it was just so interesting, just so interesting to step into their lives and see um what uh what they're about and how they live their
lives in M and then just a mountain shot. I think it's typical that there are these crucifixes at some peaks and we walked up to this peak just a beautiful area again um just a contrast to what I had known um especially in my area of the
US. All right. Uh so that was just that first weekend I'd gotten to the Algoy and then I returned to and a lot of people have asked me if I how much I traveled around when I was there. But uh besides the couple trips
with my host family, I really wanted to be in M and I really wanted to see what this city was about. This is our sister city and I wanted to see um what made it tick. This is the city wall. On the left side of the picture is the city and then
on the right side is the river. And people can walk on the city wall and they can walk below it. It's very comfortable. I thought it was just a high quality of life to be close to the river and something have something so beautiful like this. I would often take my lunch breaks on this wall when I was
in the downtown area for my internship. This is the donut or the donut in English, the Danube um river. And uh I'm as you know we are sister sees with and no m is on the right side of this
picture and no m is on the left. And I heard a few times the phrase uh the only thing the only good thing about no m is the view of m. And I think that describes maybe the
architecture that Olm is more of the older city type and uh No is more industrial. Uh but I I truly did not spend very much time in Noi M um which is in Bavaria in Bayern and then uh Benber is M. I did not so I did not
spend much time in No. All of my activities revolved around. Um, I went to Deno a couple times though and that's where a former American base was and somebody took me a tour on a quick tour through those streets. Um, and then some of my friends also lived
here on the river technically in No, but it was very close to the river. And then this is a view. Um, this was not far from my host family's house. And maybe in the horizon, maybe my pointer shows up. This is the Müster uh church.
Um it's the tallest church in the world only to be surpassed by the Sigrada Familia in Barcelona I think soon. Um but beautiful church which I'll show another picture of. But this is the skyline and I think I wrote in one of my articles for the Newm Journal that um I
believe the settlers of New Minnesota thought that the landscape was similar. And it's true that there's a river and then these hills and a valley. And I although it looks different now, I think back then that would hold true that they looked fairly similar geographically.
This is the monster up close. Um I just saw some nopes this weekend and I he mentioned that he's given presentations on the moonster so I won't go into detail on this but a beautiful church. Um it's difficult to describe uh just how uh striking it is to walk through
this church and the woodworking all parts of it is just uh very very intricate and interesting and the city of M uh gathered in this building only because of rain um to hear the speech of
their mayor anor montag they call it and it's kind of like the state of the union for this city where he just uh goes through what they've done in the past year, what they're looking forward to in the future. And they only gathered inside the church because it was
raining. Typically that's outside um at a specific location at a house in the city. Um but it was interesting and very cool to see the whole city gather and it the church was as full as it could be. they had stopped had to stop people from coming inside cuz it was at capacity.
And it was cool to see in that um setting how much the city of M cared about its traditions and its city. One more shot from inside the cathedral or it's not a cathedral, it's a church. Um but it's very beautiful.
Uh this is a local um library that's very uh intricate and elaborate, but I went here with my host mom and host daughter and they just again were so willing to show me around their area and they showed me this beautiful place.
This is um inside the Merelt the M tent, a concert I went to. And so that's just kind of a brief over view of M. But uh like I said earlier, the people I met were just so special to me and they were so willing to show me
their city, which I thought was very welcoming and very cool. Um and I would especially thank the Rotary Club of M. They are the people that I'm referring to. They really stepped up and made this exchange
incredible. Um I had very limited I would say contact with the city. Um there was a welcome thing for welcome cafe. Um uh we had coffee when I ar about a month in after my arrival. Um but the Rotary
Club of M uh and the people in that Rotary Club um were just so welcoming to me and they really uh embraced my stay there. Um, so again, we I again
these kind of meals were for me particularly special because that's when you really get to know people and hear them converse and hear what they're about. Um, these are at some relatives of my host family in a Augsburg in about an hour and a half away by train. A
member of the Rotary Club uh took me on a tour of his business. I referenced this in one of my articles. Um this was for me uh so cool to see the businesses of M. I was just curious in what what was the economy like? What what what do people do in M? And he ran or he he was
part of I should say a scaffolding building business. This is Mikail Connie Liebinger and uh again they're just so dear to me. They uh they love their city and they love that I was interested in their city and
they took me under their wing and brought me into their home several on several occasions. Uh this picture is a little bit um the lighting is kind of different because uh it was at a a parade of lights on
their river Alikar Zerinada and the city you can kind of see the people behind on the other side there thousands of people are here and I would guess even hundreds of thousands um to watch thousands of little lights float down the river. the
city arranged that they would let these lights float down. It was just very beautiful and part of their festivities that weekend. Um, but I can't say enough about my island Connie. Uh, they are just so dear and I just learn a lot about their city from
them and learned Yeah, it was just so wonderful to be with them. Um, my host was part of an optimist's club in the city and so I met more women here. Uh the woman, here's my cursor. This is Hanalora Shungle and she uh gave
tours to uh new M people who came over back in the day, especially our mayors. Um she mentioned Mayor Ted Friie and I know she gave tours to other mayors as well. Um and she just really lit up when I by
chance met her through my host mom that I was from Newell, Minnesota. And so that was for me very special that this connection between the two cities carried on. This was probably 30 years after the fact. And it was just so cool. And so because of that connection, she
invited me to her home for a meal with these other women in this optimist club. Um, and here we are at the dinner. And again, it was just so so cool for me to be to have this connection across the ocean. M is quite a bit bigger than
Newm, but this woman by by chance met uh was had remembered fondly giving tours to residents of and representatives of New Minnesota. Um, this is the brewery that our current
uh intern Samuel Kopes works at in Gold Oxen. And he gave me I met him at the welcome cafe um invitation for me and then he graciously gave me a tour through his brewery and uh he met with
up with me a couple times over the summer and that was again so cool. Again, there's there's just no other circumstance where there's the where young people can meet other young people of their cities and learn from each other. And this is not a picture from um Germany, but this is actually in Sweet
Haven Tonics from a couple days ago when I was in New and I visited Samuel. I got to show her my hometown around a little bit. And then Anukica Fischer is here. Um she invited me to run in a race
around the Müster in downtown and yeah again just a very cool connection. and she had just been in New Mininnesota the previous year. And it was so bizarre in a way to hear a German in Germany explain to me Al Deutsch in
German about my hometown New. It was just it was just kind of strange to have that kind of event happen. But it Anukica is um it was very nice to meet her and um spend time with her as well. Uh just more examples of the people of
the Rotary Club. Norbert Balt invited me to go with his family and his children to Saturday Night Fever which was performed at this Vilhelmsburg in M an outdoor theater. Later that summer was a concert venue of the same
location. I put this picture in only to remember to tell the story of teaching my host children the American game Marco Polo in the pool where kids yell out Marco Marco and then the person who's running away says polo. Um they had never played that
game before and they thought it was quite fun. After I taught it to know we played it all summer long. Uh just some more people um some Ukrainians who were living in my host family's basement uh was very dear and then a relative of my host family. I
could go I don't want to go on for too long of uh the many people I met, but I can't say enough how how these people made my experience so special. Another gathering
um just these are all Germans that I'm conversing with. Um a member of the Rotary Club happened to be a mason on the Müster and he gave me a tour to the rooftop of the Müster. again an example of the just
graciousness of the Rotary Club to take the time to do that for me. And it was an experience I'll truly never forget. It was just fascinating and and I was at the rooftop. I was above on top of the moonster. Just very very cool.
Here's another picture of that. And then um his wife actually happened to be um part of the house in M which was a school that means school uh I said
it wrong hula um but it's a different word hula duralong um the school of design in she gave me a tour through this you can kind of have an idea of what the style was through this picture
Um, these are I I'll I'll speak briefly on my internships. I know that I wrote to Lisa Pelzel and she conveyed the message back to the Sisters Commission that my first internship was just not in the spirit of the program. Um, I won't go into too much detail. I think you
have that message. Um but after about a month I after a couple requests from me to um re have an internship that I would learn something about the city and do something. Um the pri the previous internship was involved sitting in an
office in silence for hours during the day um without doing much and so I asked to have a different internship and so afterwards I started visiting schools in the area. So here is a quick picture of
a classroom of second grade and um yes so it was uh very interesting to learn. I had known of the different system of schooling, but to see hands-on, especially in the grade school level, I hadn't experienced before um
how Germans instruct and also I was very it opened my eyes to just how many immigrants have been um have moved to Germany and to the city of M. Um many many u most of the time the majority of the students in the classroom were
speaking German as a second language. It was not their first language. And so it was just very interesting to see how the teachers navigated that and how they um yeah how they instructed through that. These are my school host
children walking to school. Um and they these are their typical backpacks. They're just hardier. They're plastic. They're bigger than our American backpacks for children. And I was also able to go to the children's my host children's school which was again special because they knew me and I was
kind of a celebrity just being the American. It was just a lot of fun to be with them. That's Yonyi my host one of my host kids on the way to school. And then after school was done at the end of July
is when their summer break starts. I worked with a summer care program for children whose parents worked. Um, and part of that involved going to a um a hostel we would call it. And at
this location, the children learned camping skills. And one of the things that is classic German, which I hadn't known, is that they toast bread on a stick. And one of the men who was working there had been an Opair, a nanny
in Seattle. And he told me he had never heard of s'mores. And so we had a nice exchange of how he had learned about s'mores. I learned about bread on a stick. But they just wrapped the dough around the stick and then put it on top of the fire and cook it.
All right. Um I did uh by representing Newm I this was my opening page to my presentation on Newm for the Rotary Club. I talked about the geography of New where it is the a bit of the history
and then what the Hans exchange is and then about Newolm currently. And they were they were impressed. They had an audible reaction to especially our um like sand volleyball uh in downtown Newm and also our
festival our festivals. I was very proud to say how lively New Alm is and how active we are and how many tourists we bring to our city and and they also enjoyed I had a picture of the Turner Hall basement where uh the pictures the paintings of the Rine are. Um, they also
thought that was just very interesting that this town in Minnesota has paintings of the rhyme. Uh, very a very German picture. U, but again, it was just very I was very proud um to be represent my hometown in this way and be able to tell them all about New
Minnesota. Uh, just some more activities, outdoor cafe, concert. Um, I was interviewed on the radio um about the exchange mostly. Um I think it's about an hour long an
interview about New Minnesota the exchange um in German. I wrote about this in one of my articles so I won't speak long uh too long about it but there was a traditional festival that only happens every four years. Um
and I got to witness this parade. The um sparrow is a symbol of the city. And then at the end of the festivities, the culminating event was a bit of
jousting on the river. And this was even described this year in the National Geographic and I got to witness it. And you can see half the crowd again, hundreds of thousands of people there. And then on our bank, uh there were even more hundreds of thousands of people here to witness this. Also
on that weekend it was very busy. Um the city the city really uh was on the river uh in these floats uh and kind of like a Marty Gro on the river because a lot of the floats were themed and built intentionally
and then the people just enjoyed throwing water at each other floating on the river. Um it was just very festive and fun. A quick picture of uh the Vienna Philarmonic that was that played on the square in front of the Müster that I
saw. Arent, the man in the middle that I'm standing next to is the current this year's president of the Rotary Club. And this is his family. Again, another example of they they brought me to their home. They welcomed me to an evening
meal. I had wonderful chats with them. Um, and this was on another occasion. I went to the children's school's um, kind of like a graduation party. The children weren't graduating, but the end
of the year had come and the children showed me around their school as well. And I can't say enough how dear these people are. This is the school part of it. And it's a beautiful It used to be I think I know it used to be a Catholic monastery. Uh so it was a
beautiful campus. Uh I mentioned this in one of my articles as well. I was at a festival with the same family that Rob and his family um that celebrated 800 years of existence this village. And this is the
tent um the band at the front and these tables. And to me it didn't seem too far off of some of our festivities. uh which was again kind of a bizarre experience to be in a different country and this is so charming and it's also kind of familiar at the same time.
Uh this is Anukica Fisher again. She works for Shank a cement company and she and she gave me a tour of her business and her boss came along as well and again fascinating uh and I spent the whole day with them. I was so great
grateful that they had taken the time to do that for me and um yeah it was another example of um just these connections that were made and how special that is. This is the last bit. Um this was toward
the end of the summer. Um my host family had relatives in Luterin Switzerland and I to went on the first leg with the kids. We took the train which is very common in Germany. Um they I do miss
that how convenient and how easy it is to go by train and you don't need a car. Um you can get by without a car easily. And then we met up and met um more relatives and I have this picture on here just to show
how wonderful it was to be with these people. They're just lovely and they were so gracious to me and I remember them very very fondly. We spent the weekend there. We went into the beautiful city of Lutern. Um, Switzerland is also German speaking with
a different accent. And we went hiking through the mountains and saw these cows. Um, Yonyi with the cow. And then this is the whole family together again at breakfast. A wonderful time to sit and enjoy each other's
company. And then this was at an evening meal. The same people. Um, it's very common to eat outdoors, which I thought was so pleasant. They don't have bugs and they don't have humidity as well. So, it's very pleasant to be outside.
Uh, but that's my that's my last picture. Um, again, I just want to reiterate particularly what the Rotary Club of M did for me. um they made this exchange uh just extraordinary and I'm grateful
to the Sisters Cities Commission and to the city of New because um in like I said in no other circumstance could I imagine um meeting the people I met and getting to know the culture like I did and representing my hometown which I was
just very proud to do. I'm very I I'm very proud to be from New Minnesota. Thank you. It's very uh informative and I it looks like you had a grand summer. Just a couple quick questions I have and then we'll open it up to see if the commissioners want to grill you further.
Uh to what degree do you feel your uh linguistic skills changed over the summer? >> Um I had come in with I would say advanced German. Um I have my master's degree in German and um have spent time
prior to the summer in Germany. Um but I think there is no replacement for being three summers in a location uh in that language and they yeah I became uh more and more comfortable as the summer went on.
>> And my other question is what is your current career? >> I am a teacher. I teach at Shorland Lutheran High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, north of Chicago. That's why I can't be in person today. I would have preferred that. Uh but we have school
today and uh tomorrow and I teach German and I teach history. >> Commissioners, are there any other questions for Martha? >> Thank you, Martha. This was absolutely wonderful. Very informative and interesting. Good job.
>> Thank you. I'm glad. you looks like you had a fun-filled summer and I'm glad we could accommodate and work with your schedule. Um, and I'm glad you spoke up that, uh, the internship wasn't going the right direction and that you needed to, you know, do that, but, you know,
that's, you know, we don't want anybody to go away with a bad experience, you know, and, you know, so you made a a win-win out of it and and you gained a a ton of friends, it looks like, and and uh it and great memories, so it
looks like. >> Yeah. Thank you. Well, at this time, we'll allow you to correct your papers from class. >> Thank you for your presentation. I'm glad the timing worked out that you could be with us at a regular
commissioner meeting. Have a good evening. >> Thank you. You too. >> Wonderful. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. According to uh my uh agenda, we have just a couple items to touch on.
And uh under the topic of announcements, uh Hansios information has been sent out by Lisa and city staff to colleges, high schools, uh
places uh where we hope we can glean some good candidates for outbound. And the last item is our next meeting will be in this room December 1st.
A motion to uh adjurnn would be in order. >> I move that we adjourn the meeting. Second. >> All in favor say I. I. >> Thank you for attending.