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Calling all Chefs and other talented dessert cooks

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Top Chef Veterans Showcase their Stuff ~ Season 5 set to begin

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A menu for all Candidates

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Title: Membership Services Administrator

Company: Ruth Lake Country Club

Website: http://www.ruthlakecc.org

Which Restaurant Segment best describes my company: Other

Which department at the restaurant corporate office: Not Applicable

What is your profession: Advertising / PR

Interests: Career Advancement, Consulting, Learning, Networking

Personal Quote: It is the journey not the destination. My current personal brand mantra is: Break the rules.

Biography: Education: BA-Education
Hospitality Experience: Server, Trainer, Day Manager, HR. For the last four years my career has lead me to become:
Membership Services Director (Communications, Publishing, Web site guru, New member orientations and processing, Marketing, Board of Director's laison, Entertainment procurer). Taking on new goals and challenges for the betterment of myself and my company!

Years in the Industry: Many

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A Snowy Welcome

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A Ruth Lake Christmas

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Steve's carved art

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"My kind of Town"

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Golf Cartoon Fun

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Starved Rock State Park

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Cheyenne

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Touched by his Pain

Posted on December 10, 2008 at 8:39am 1 Comment 0 Likes

I am sure that many (if not all) of you watched in horror earlier this week as fiery images from an F-16 jet crash into a San Diego neighborhood dominated the public airwaves. I was touched this morning by the pain of the very brave man who lost his family and home while he was away at work.

While trying to choke back the tears, he explained that he had lost his wife, 2 daughters and his mother-in-law (who had been brought from Korea to help his wife take care of his daughters) while he… Continue

Tapping into American "Tween" Dollars

Posted on December 3, 2008 at 2:30pm 4 Comments 0 Likes

American 'tweens' spend billions of their own dollars on purchases for themselves and carry major influence on family purchase decisions. How best then to market to this internet savy group? It is important to understand some generalities when planning to attract their attention online.

1. 'Tweens jump around. They do not spend all of their time in one environment, but do spend alot of time on the internet. You need to be where they most often are.

2. They want a voice. When… Continue

Marketing to Kids 6-11 ~ Caring for the Planet

Posted on November 18, 2008 at 11:21am 0 Comments 0 Likes

A recent study by Just Kid, Inc. reveals that children from ages 6-11 (from all socio-economic backgrounds) have a profound belief that they can and must make a difference in the environment. Six hundered young people were given a 15-minute online questionnaire.

58% of these children said they would buy a product that gave part of the profit to save baby tigers. An overwhelming 80% wanted to get involved in protecting endangered species and help create safe places for them to… Continue

"It's a Beautiful Day" ~ Thank You!

Posted on November 5, 2008 at 7:22am 7 Comments 0 Likes

To all of you who participated in the voting process, I thank you. You turned out in the millions ~ more participation than in the last 100 years. As a "boomer" how proud I am to see voters from every walk of life come together and peacefully cast their vote. Some of you stood hours in polling places and after in Grant Park (Chicago), New York, Atlanta the list is as endless as the optimism it invoked.

I have seen many elections and hard choices are always made, but yesterday your… Continue

"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff," or Remembering what's Important

Posted on October 24, 2008 at 2:09pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

I have had a great deal of fun with my last blog (engaging others must be a passion for all of us here), but politics often wears me out. Though politics and world affairs are extremely important for most of us the important elements of life are right at our fingertips. These are the things we will remember long after the political characters have retired to their beach chairs. To help me remember what's important (and to make me smile) I turn to one… Continue

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At 4:57am on October 14, 2009, Mohamed Alawdan said…: Hi Debra,
How are you ,
Mohamed

At 3:34pm on September 18, 2009, Brett Bartlett said…: Thanks Debra.

Glad to know some of my ideas are considered fresh.haha

Brett

At 2:05pm on August 27, 2009, Tom Knibbs said…: Hi Debra - I founded a Gourmet Food company based in Chicago. We are looking to branch out into the food service channel and this web site looked like it had great information. If you would like to see what we do check out www.urbanaccents.com. We're small but good & fun!

At 8:11pm on August 11, 2009, Alan Jusino said…: The Havana Club was a private smoking restaurant/club located in Downtown Miami the club operated from December 06 till June 09.

At 7:59pm on August 7, 2009, Derek Thompson said…: Thanks for the comment and you're right when you said that it's nice to see another CC.

At 2:04pm on August 7, 2009, David Aferiat said…: Here's the video.

At 2:03pm on August 7, 2009, David Aferiat said…: Thanks so much for the support. Any help sharing the vid within your circle is truly appreciated. I'll name a row at the vineyard in your honor! Thanks again for the encouragement. BEst, D

At 9:45am on August 7, 2009, Christopher McBrown said…: Thxs for stopping thru and leaving a comment; have a great weekend!

At 1:36pm on July 30, 2009, Non-OperatorAlyson Mar, RD said…: Hi Debra,

Thanks for connecting. I look forward to your insights on FohBoh.

Alyson
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