Holtz honored for 3 million accident-free miles
On Oct. 21, Walmart presented the keys to a beautiful blue Peterbilt to Walmart driver Dean Holtz, who started his career with Walmart on May 10, 1995 and achieved this amazing milestone on April 7, 2017. He has spent his entire career with Walmart at DC 6825 in Menomonie, Wis. Holtz had previously spent 10 years driving for Bob Dietrich out of New Ulm and seven years with Fingerhut. He has acquired approximately 6 million miles overall in his driving career. Holtz and his wife Joan were accompanied by many family members, including his mother who is 88-years-young and his dad, who was looking down from heaven. Also attending were six previously awarded 3 Million Milers and their spouses, several retired Walmart drivers, managers, current drivers, and shop and office associates. Holtz and his family enjoyed taking turns getting up into the cab and checking out the inside, including two nephews who work on trucks for a living. The entire team of Menomonie associates wish Holtz several more years of enjoyment working for Walmart in his new tractor.
ReConvenings event continues the conversation about living, dying well
Cathy Wurzer is back in town for a reConvening following this past spring’s engaging event, The Convenings, in Central Minnesota to inspire and motivate individuals and families to continue the conversations about living and dying well. Join Wurzer and special guests for an evening of music, storytelling and discussion from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 at the Paramount Arts Center, St. Cloud.
You will be invited into the home of Agnes Rogers, where her four adult-children and son-in-law gather following a visit to Agnes in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital in the play, “An Almost Murder Mystery,” written and produced by Light the Legacy executive director, Lynn MacKenzie. Actors from Great Theatre will bring the play to life, joined by Merryn Jolkovsky, a palliative care doctor at St. Cloud Hospital, who makes her acting debut as the “doctor.”
You won’t want to miss author, illustrator and musician, Doug Wood, a national bestseller who communicates through words and music inspired by nature.
The reConvenings is the follow-up conversation to The Convenings based on a series of remarkable broadcast conversations between Bruce Kramer and Minnesota Public Radio’s Cathy Wurzer, which inspired their book, We Know How This Ends: Living while Dying. Kramer was diagnosed with a life-ending diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS in 2010. Instead of viewing it as a “death sentence” he embraced it as a “life sentence.”
Kramer recognized to have a meaningful life, then embracing death was his only viable option. Kramer died in 2015.
To register or for more information, call 612-362-3724, email info@theconvenings.org or visit theconvenings.org/events. Seating is limited. The event is sponsored in part by CentraCare Health.
