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Do what is right, not what is easy -By Harvey Mackay A butcher, who had a particularly good day, proudly flipped his last chicken on a scale and weighed it for a customer. “Almost 6 pounds,” he said. “That’s a little too small,” the woman said. “Don’t you have anything larger?” Hesitating, but thinking fast, the butcher returned the chicken to the refrigerator, paused a moment, then took out the same chicken and brought it out to the woman and said, “This one is 6.3 pounds.” The woman paused for a moment and then declared, “You know what, I’ll take both of them.” Business ethics, like chickens, come home to roost. Lying to customers, or anyone for that matter, will destroy all trust that you have worked to establish. I once again had the opportunity to speak at the 10th annual Integrity Summit last month in Phoenix, the brainchild of co-founders Gregg Ostro, CEO of Go Media Companies, and Jerry Colangelo, former owner of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks. Colangelo, who headed up USA Basketball for 14 years, said: “For us the “i” in winning is integrity. If you conduct yourself with integrity and your business with integrity, it will lead to very positive results.” Integrity Summit is a half-day event chock full of inspiration, education and real-life stories from leaders of business, government and non-profit organizations coming together to raise the Integrity Quotient® across their organizations and the marketplace as a whole. It’s like getting a PhD in integrity decisionmaking to give you competitive advantages and rewards. Each year Integrity Tiger awards are presented to distinguished leaders who are widely known and recognized for operating consistently with integrity in
business, education, government, sports and philanthropy. I was fortunate to be recognized one year as an Integrity Tiger. Larry Fitzgerald, the former superstar wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals and a previous Integrity Tiger Award winner, said: “Integrity is really the biggest thing in our lives. It’s who we are and what we want our kids to live by. It defines us in one direction or another.” Integrity is not something you show others. It is how you behave behind their back. I was shocked to hear some of these numbers: 60% of workers believe managers as well as 40% of their co-workers breach integrity; 60% of high school to grad school students admit to cheating; 52% of employees admit to stealing office supplies; and 43% of store merchandise losses are due to employee theft. Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing to do. I learned integrity from my father at an early age. He was looking at my report card and said, “One thing in your favor son – with these grades, you couldn’t possibly be cheating.” Speaking of college students cheating, Introductory Chemistry at Duke University has been taught for about a zillion years by Professor Bonk and his course is known affectionately as "Bonkistry." One year, four guys were taking Chemistry and doing pretty well on all the quizzes, midterms and labs. They were each earning a solid "A" going into the final exam. They were so confident that the weekend before the final exam they decided to go up to the University
of Virginia to party with some friends. Due to bad hangovers, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early Monday morning. Rather than taking the final exam then, they explained to Professor Bonk that they had driven up to the University of Virginia for the weekend and had planned to come back in time to study but they had a flat tire on the way back and didn't have a spare, so they didn't get back to campus until late Sunday night. Professor Bonk thought this over and then agreed that they could make up the final the following day. The four guys were elated and relieved. They studied that night and went in the next day. Professor Bonk placed them in separate rooms, handed each of them a test booklet, looked at his watch and told them to begin. They looked at the first problem, which was something simple about molarity and solutions and was worth 5 points. “Cool,” each of them thought. “This is going to be a slam dunk.” But they were unprepared for what they saw on the next page. It read: Which tire? (95 points) Mackay’s Moral: If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters. Reprinted with permission from nationally syndicated columnist Harvey Mackay, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller “Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive,” “We Got Fired!...And It’s the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us,” “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World,” and “Use Your Head To Get Your Foot In The Door.”
Craft & Bake Sale
THE JUNCTION
Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021
Convenience Store • Bait
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Hours: 6 AM to 10 PM
At the Burtrum Community Center and Burtrum Cabooze Charlotte Roe Lots of Drink Food Wagon! Specials! 11 AM-?
Pizzas • Cold Spring Bakery Schaefer’s Meats • T-Shirts Leanin’ Tree Gift Cards
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Upcoming Events
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6 • Our Savior’s Women’s Group Craft Sale from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Albany. • Craft & Bake Sale from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Burtrum Community Center & Burtrum Cabooze. See ad on page 2. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 • Melrose Legion Post & Auxiliary Meeting at 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 • Grey Eagle Senior Center Monthly Meeting at 10:45 a.m. at the center. NOV. 11-14 • Melrose High School Fall Musical 'Shrek'. Nov. 11-13: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14: 2 p.m. at the Marit Elliott Performing Arts Center. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 • Harvest Supper from 5-8 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church basement, New Munich. ALBANY TOWNSHIP • Meets the fourth Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Albany City Hall. • Planning Commission meets the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.
at the Albany City Hall. BURNHAMVILLE TOWNSHIP • Meets the last Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Burtrum City Hall. BURTRUM CITY COUNCIL • Meets the first Monday of the month at 7 p.m. FEET FIRST CLINIC • Meets the 1st Tuesday of the month from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at Holdingford City Hall. FOOD DISTRIBUTION • Ruby’s Pantry Food Distribution first Saturday of the Month from 10-11 a.m. at River of Live Church, Sauk Centre. FREEPORT CITY COUNCIL • Meets the last Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. FREEPORT SENIOR MEETING • Meets the third Thursday of the month at 1:30 p.m. with cards/Bingo/coffee/dessert. GREY EAGLE CITY COUNCIL • Meets the second Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. GREY EAGLE TOWNSHIP • Meets the first Monday of the month at 8 p.m.
MELROSE VFW #7050 POST/AUX. • Meets the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Melrose American Legion Clubrooms. STEARNS CO. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY • Meets at 7 p.m. on the 2nd Monday of the month at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Albany. SUNSHINE CLUB • Meets every Monday, weigh in starts at 8; meeting at 8:30 a.m. at the Village View Apartments, Grey Eagle. ST. ROSA CITY COUNCIL • Meets the third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Community Park building. SWANVILLE CITY COUNCIL • First Tuesday after the first Monday of the month at 7 p.m. SWANVILLE TOWNSHIP • Meets the second Tuesday of the month at 8:30 p.m. at the Swanville Fire Hall. TODD COUNTY REPUBLICANS • Meets second Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Church, Clarissa. UPSALA CITY COUNCIL • Meets the first Monday of the month at 7 p.m.
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Temperatures Date
High
Low
10/27 46 10/28 50 10/29 54 10/30 55 10/31 41 11/1 41 11/2 36
43 41 32 32 32 32 25
Friday
Showers. High: 50 Low: 40
Weekend Weather Saturday
Showers. High: 57 Low: 39
Sunday
Mostly sunny. High: 59 Low: 37
