First Employee Recreation Day in the Upper Peninsula a huge success

Rain might have been in the forecast, but that didn’t dampen the spirits of more than 400 MDOC employees, retirees and their guests, who attended the first Employee Recreation Day in the Upper Peninsula.
The Sept. 27 event at Bay Mills Resort and Casino in Brimley included golf, a softball and corn hole tournament, scavenger hunt, photo booth, horseshoes, lawn games, dinner and a silent auction.

Attendees also had an opportunity to create their own chalk art shadow box.
The event was organized by the Employee Engagement EPIC Team and was intended to offer another Employee Recreation Day opportunity to MDOC employees and retirees, especially one closer to home for those in northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.
Employee Recreation Day was first held in 1987 to give department employees a chance to relax and unwind together. The event returned in 2017 for the first time since 2005.
Planning for 2020 Employee Recreation Day events will be underway soon.
The 2019 Employee Recreation Day event winners at Bay Mills Resort and Casino in Brimley included:
Golf — Jim Myers, Kinross Correctional Facility; Pat VanSloten, Kinross Correctional Facility; Brian Masterson, and Barry O’Connor
Longest putt — Charlie Gimpel, Chippewa Correctional Facility
Longest Drive — Pat VanSloten, Kinross Correctional Facility; Angie Zellar, Alger Correctional Facility
Closest to the pin — Mark Swan
Skins —Todd Koski, MBP; Giotti, Bob Brown, MBP; Rick Hartzell, Retiree and
Charlie Gimpel, URF; Robert Reinhardt, URF; Jeff Winans, URF; Keith Izzard, URF
Putting contest — Matt Bush, Marquete Branch Prison
Softball —
First Place: Kinross Correctional Facility (Merle Vollick, Todd Menard, Derek Beseau, Mark Andrezjak, Jeff Clark, Brian Killips, Lisha Slater, CB Kemp, Don Basawa, Jeremy Davis, Jimmy Shaw, Chastin McKelvie)
Second Place: Carson City Correctional Facility
Third Place: Chippewa Correctional Facility
Corn Hole — Dean McGregor and Kyle Tejchma, Education; Cassie and Loretta Maleport, Kinross Correctional Facility; Team Beseau, Kinross Correctional Facility
50/50 winner — Mary Callentine, Baraga Correctional Facility
Large Raffle Winners —
Great Wolf Lodge — Cathy Carson, SMT
Bay Mills — Todd Massick, SRF
Beaver Island — Jennifer Metro, KCF
Pine Bluff — Dianne Koskinen, AMF
Thank you to everyone who made Employee Recreation Day a huge success.
You can find more photos from the day here.

