CAREER ? Kuhlmey, Hanzlik join Crow Wing Recycling Ean Kuhlmey and Emily Hanzlik joined Crow Wing Recycling. Kuhlmey joined as an account executive.

? LASHO hosts OSHA update The Lakes Area Safety and Health Organization (LASHO) will host an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) update from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 6 at Jack's House, 300 Highway 25 NE, Brainerd.

Lakewood receives best-in-class STAPLES - Lakewood Health System was recently awarded the Best-in-Class seal by HR Solutions for the second year in a row.

CAREER KLJ Hires Zach Wamre KLJ, an employee-owned engineering, surveying and planning firm, hired Zach Wamre in the Brainerd office. Wamre is a surveyor with the survey group.

If you have a fire - no matter if it was a small garbage fire or a larger kitchen fire - what would you do?Would you try to put out the fire yourself? If so do you know where your fire extinguisher is, or do you even have one? Or would you call 911 to get the professional firefighters on scene to extinguish the fire?The Brainerd Fire Department always advises residents to first call 911 for their safety and then - if it is possible - to try to extinguish the fire yourself.

CAREER Interior designer from Brainerd featured in Traditional Home The design work of Mark J. Williams, an interior designer and the son of Donna and John Williams of Brainerd, recently was featured on the cover of Traditional Home magazine.Williams was the interior designer for a 1928 Mediterranean Revival home in Los Angles. The home is owned by Tracey and Mark Smolin. The designer attended Brainerd High School, Central Lakes College and the University of Minnesota.

CAREER Stout joins ChamberMaster Web Design TeamChamberMaster has recently made an addition to their web design team with Kim Stout as web design project manager working directly with ChamberMaster's web design customers. She has more than 15 years of marketing, graphic design, and web support experience in the Brainerd lakes area. Bedard completes HR management workshop

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota's only hospital for mentally ill and dangerous patients is in turmoil.

Swanson rejoins Brainerd DispatchSamuel Swanson, Baxter, rejoined the Brainerd Dispatch as vice president of revenue development.Swanson, a 1979 Pequot Lakes graduate, attended Austin Community College for radio-TV broadcasting in 1979-1980 before becoming an account executive at WJJY in Brainerd from 1980 to 1984. For the next 20 years, Swanson was an account executive at KCCO/KCCW/WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.

...April accident. Steve's Pallet Service must pay $58,925, as well as a $7,000 fine from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, after Brent Van Vleet severed his right arm at the elbow while working on a power-driven pallet-notching...