Briefcase

Sertoma Club hungry for corporate cooks

Heaving already cleaned up last year with their barbecued brisket, homemade cole slaw and apple cobbler smothered with vanilla ice cream, Dee Biesel and her all-business crew are hungry for another title during this year’s Lawrence Sertoma Club Corporate Cookoff.

Her Minuteman Press team — from left above, Andy Holzmeister, bindery operator; Eric Bowen, production manager; and Biesel, owner — took home the cookoff’s “best food” award in 2004.

“We’re going after best booth,” Biesel said. “They only give two awards, and we figure that since we won one already, we need to go in a different direction.

“We have a big surprise. Let’s just say we’re cooking steak this year, and that’s a clue to our theme.”

The club’s Corporate Cookoff & Chamber Mixer will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. May 6 at Broken Arrow Park.

The cookoff is a light-hearted grilling competition, pitting chamber-member businesses against one another. This year’s judges are Sue Hack, Lavern Squier and Gene Meyer. Chamber members who attend the mixer are offered sample tastes of competitors’ grilled items.

Thursday is the deadline for contestant entries, and the field is limited to 24. For an entry form, visit www.lawrencesertoma.com and click on the “Corporate Cookoff” button under the 48 BBQ link. Or, contact Barbara Braa by telephone at 838-9400 or by e-mail at barbarab@cornerbanks.com.

State

Lawrence residents join Leadership Kansas

Larissa Long and Vickie Randel, both of Lawrence, are among the 35 members of the 2005 class for Leadership Kansas.

Long is external affairs manager for Aquila Inc., 110 E. Ninth St. Randel is senior vice president of First State Bank and Trust, 609 Vt.

Leadership Kansas, supported and administered by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, is a program designed to educate and motivate Kansas leaders. The program was established in 1979 by former Gov. Robert Bennett and Gary Sherrer, with a mission to inspire people to maintain involvement in the social, business and political fabric of the state’s communities.

The program draws nearly 400 applications each year, and its alumni include U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.; Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger; and former Gov. Bill Graves.

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