Last forum of this election cycle: Menahga School Board

LWV Park Rapids Area held it final candidate forum of the year last night.

 

Thank you to the candidates for attending the forum and sharing your thoughtful answers:

• Andrea Haverinen (Incumbent)
• Katie Howard (Incumbent)
• Robert E. Smith 
• Durwin Tomperi (Incumbent) 

See the full video here

Thank you to all the LWV Park Rapids members and friends who put on these forums this year:

This was a group effort and each and everyone of us is needed to make things run smoothly.

• LuAnn Hurd-Lof for all the scheduling, contacting candidates and setting up the venues etc. etc.
• Terry Kalil, Harland Johnson, Sue Tomte, Carolynne White for moderating our forums
• Carolynne White for organizing articles, posters, Facebook, websites and handling the sound system
• Carolynne White, Harlan Johnson, Tom Petschl, Carter Hedeen, Cynthia Jones, Milica Stanfel, Lyn Pinnick for helping to prescreen questions submitted by email. 
• Milica Stanfel, Susan Bearden, LuAnn Hurd-Lof for being timers
• Carol Ashley, Cindy Gunsolus, Barb Wiebesick, for greeting people and handling sign in sheets
• Annamae Holzworth for organizing the hospitality team before she left on her trip.
• Florence and Carter Hedeen, Carol Moen, Hillary Stoltz, Mary Adams, Beth Baker-Knuttila and Susan Bearden for all the set up, treats and doing all the little things that kept us on track.
• A special thank you to all the members who passed along information about the forums, attended the forums, put up posters and flyers etc. etc.  Especially to any member I forgot to thank. 
• Laurie Conzemius: A very special thank you for video taping all the forums and so quickly processing and uploading them to youtube.