The Faces of the Press & Dakotan –
Cassie Brockmoller
vBy Tera Schmidt
Cassie & Skyler
Cassie & McKenzie
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Accounting Clerk Cassie Brockmoller has
enjoyed being a part of the Press & Dakotan team
for the past 13 years.
“My favorite thing is the people I work with, even
though we don’t always get along we’re like a family
and we’re always there for each other at work and
in our personal lives,” she said. “Over the years, I’ve
enjoyed learning all the parts and pieces that go into
making the paper and have realized how much it
really is a team effort.”
Cassie said she also enjoys getting to know some
of the regular customers.
“It’s enjoyable to see them when they come in and
see how they’re doing,” she said. “I’ve always liked
customer service and have worked in customer
service jobs my whole life.”
Cassie started as a part-time receptionist in
June 2005. About a year later, she moved to a fulltime position in the Business Office and has since
taken on more and more responsibilities in the
department.
“I didn’t really have any accounting experience
when I started,” she said. “I liked math in high
school, it was my favorite subject, but everything I
know about accounting I’ve learned as I’ve done it.”
She said there definitely is nothing boring about
working at the Press & Dakotan.
“You never know what each day will bring when
you walk in the door,” Cassie said.
Outside of the office Cassie claims she leads a
boring life, but she is more creative than she gives
herself credit.
“I just made my first queen-size full quilt,” she
said. “It took just over a year doing a block a month.”
Finishing a quilt is a feat in and of itself but
what’s even more impressive is this is one of the rare
projects, Cassie has made for herself.
“This one is for me,” she said. “I do enjoy making
things for everybody else more than I like making
them for myself.”
Cassie has crocheted more than 200 projects in
the last few years and most of them were gifts for
other people.
“I started seriously a couple years ago, I’ve done
probably 50 blankets alone,” she said. “My favorite
are baby blankets because they are soft and small
and easy to make. The weirdest was a beer can
crochet hat that was a request from a friend for a
Christmas gift.”
When she’s not working or working on a project,
Cassie is probably hanging out with her family
including her parents, Kevin and Nancy; her
brother and sister-in-law, Clint and Heather; and
her nephew and nieces, Skyler (16), Tia (13) and
McKenzie (9).
“I like to spend time spoiling my nieces and
nephew,” she said. “When they were younger I used
to take them individually for a weekend and we’d go
out to eat and then watch movies and eat popcorn
or play board games.”
Cassie also enjoys time with her parents, eating
supper with them a couple times a week and
watching some of their favorite TV shows.
“Dad and I like to watch ‘Deadliest Catch,’ and Mom
and I like to watch ‘The Great British Baking Show’,”
she said. “My whole family also gets together for
game nights every once in a while.”
For Cassie quality time is what really matters
in life, even if that time is spent doing a grueling,
monotonous task that is now fully automated.
“My favorite memory of work is hand stuffing
inserts into the paper for Black Friday,” she said.
“I miss doing that because everyone in the office
got together to do it and we all got to talk and
laugh while we worked and got to see people from
different parts of the building you usually don’t
get to interact with that much. We would all come
together as a team and take care of what needed to
be done. It was hard work and everyone was sore
and tired but it was a lot of fun.” n
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