CLC Has a New Security Chief

Ken Dickinson, Pillager, was recently named Director of Security and Safety compliance at Central Lakes College.

The former Waite Park Chief of Police is responsible for the Brainerd and Staples campuses' security programs.

Dickinson had served as interim Security Director at CLC last April.

He spent 18 months in Afghanistan, where he served as an international police adviser for Dyn Corp International, a government subcontractor. He is also a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War.

He was employed by the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Department as a 911 dispatcher and seasonal water patrol deputy from December 1999 to February 2009.

He is a Sylvan Township supervisor, serving a four-year term since January.