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Metropolitan Ford

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Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic.

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To the Editor:

Bob and I read every issue of the Gazette cover to cover. Found your fishhook on the Boogie Blast ad on page 8.

Betty Batzli, Excelsior, Minnesota

To the Editor:

Keep up the great newspaper.

Carol and Bob Ferris

Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:

Good morning! Sheriff Bud Olson would like to hold an informational Media Day. Please let me know if you are able to attend or have a representative attend on Wednesday, April 9th, at Waconia City Hall. We have had conflicts with several persons in the past due to spring vacations. Therefore I am attempting to find a date that will work for the majority of persons before I confirm the meeting date. Thank you for your assistance.

Leslie Michel

Administrative Services Manager

Carver County Sheriff’s Office

To the Editor:

Thank you, Sue, for a great newspaper. We love reading it and appreciate something else besides politics. I am the daughter of Ethel Ausink.

Corie Boyer

Excelsior, Minnesota

To the Editor:

Thank you for the article on Bryan’s service project for the Scout award. It was great. I sent it to his grandparents in Michigan and Arizona. They loved it.

The Cermaks, Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:

Matt and Tommy found the fishhook on page 8 in the Boogie Blast. It was hidden very well. They had to work hard as a team to find it. Hope you and Al are doing well. Take care.

Matt Shaw

St. Bonifacius, Minnesota

To the Editor:

I have just read your rant against having to visit your eye doctor after two years of neglecting to do so, to obtain a prescription. Your objection: being forced to do so.

Just how much would you be willing to fork out for new eyes if you suddenly found yourself gone blind by a hidden eye disease such as glaucoma, which gives no symptoms? Perhaps money would be no object. Only problem, there’s no way you can buy new eyes.

I am presuming that you are over 40 years of age, and my opinion is that after 40 or 45 you ought to visit an eye doctor every two years -- an ophthalmologist, not an optometrist. An optometrist merely measures your vision and is not on the lookout for developing eye problems.

In case you are not aware, the arteries within the eye are the only way a medical person can visualize your arteries without an invasive procedure. An ophthalmologist can spot developing problems such as diabetes, etc., just by viewing your arteries within your eyes after dilation.

Think about it. Maybe you consider your computers to be your windows to the world. When it all boils down, it really is your eyes.

Why do you pay so little heed to your windows to the world? Many people would pay a fortune to have the specialists we have available to help to keep our eyes healthy in this country of ours. Surely you wouldn’t begrudge a couple of hundred bucks to visit an eye specialist.

By the way, I have absolutely no connection to anyone in the medical world. I was only astounded by your attitude towards eye care, as well as the establishment.

Mrs. Olivia Harcourt

Bloomington, Minnesota

EDITOR’S NOTE: ‘Tis always an ophthalmologist (I corrected your spelling of that difficult word) that I see, never an optometrist, although the new law doesn’t require the former. With your reasoning, there’d be laws to force us to have every body part checked out on somebody else’s schedule and dubious agenda. Oofda! Of course I prize my eyesight, but also my God-given freedoms and rights. Give me liberty or give me death!

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