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952-474-9595

Tom O’Connell, CPA

Income Tax Preparation. 952-474-6509

To the Editor:

My husband and I are both retired veterans and we moved to Victoria in 2002. We just went to Nicaragua with a nonprofit group called Grounds for Health (groundsforhealth.org), working for a week in the City of Jinotega.

We screened 500 women for cervical cancer, and I would love to tell our story and somehow set up a fundraising effort so my husband and I can return on another NGO trip. The trip was fascinating, and the work that Grounds for Health does is life changing for the women in Central America. Could we set up a time to talk?

I currently work at Methodist Hospital. We have five children, three currently living at home. The two older children live in Texas; one is a school teacher and the other works at the prison counseling teens with addiction problems. Thank you for time.

Kimberly Martinz

Victoria, Minnesota

EDITOR’S NOTE: Wow! This Victoria community has such good people doing so many good things. Please feel free to submit photos and write a story for the Gazette about your experiences. I would love to hear the details, and so would the readers.

To the Editor:

It was a very good year! In March of 2007, we celebrated the 550^th anniversary of the founding of the Unitas Fratrum, which is known as the worldwide Moravian Church, the oldest Protestant denomination.

In honor of the 550^th milestone, the Moravian churches in much of America sponsored A Prairie Home Companion radio show the weekend of December 21^st and 22^nd, 2007, in Bethlehem, Pennsyl-vania.

The Moravian Church of North America includes the Southern Province with 67 congregations and the Northern Province which includes three districts comprised of 98 congregations. The Lake Auburn Moravian Church in Victoria is a member of the Western District in the Northern Province.

For more information on the Moravian Church in North America, please visit www.moravian.org.

Deanna Hollenbach

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

To the Editor:

The Carver County Sheriff’s Office reminds snowmobile operators to ride safely this winter and to follow all state statutes and county and city ordinances.

Operate at a safe and reasonable speed. Do not ride after consuming alcohol or drugs. Stay on marked trails. Carry a first aid kit. Use hand signals. Ride defensively. Practice common sense. Check the weather forecast and trail conditions before you leave. Never ride alone. Have a ride plan; let someone know of the plan and follow it. Know the laws of where you are going to ride. Ice is never “safe.”

The Sheriff’s Office has taken many snowmobile complaints since the first snowfall. A majority of the complaints are of trespassing and riding in areas where they’re not allowed.

You may ride in the bottom or out-side slope of a ditch of a county or state road, in the same direction as road traffic in the ditch, from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise. Other than this time, you can ride in either direction.

You may ride on most bridges, on state and local trails, on iced-over waters that have legal access, on township roads when not restricted by local ordinance, on public lands that are open to motorized vehicles.

You may ride in the seven-county metro area on your own land, on land that is posted “snowmobiles allowed,” on land with written or spoken permission of the landowner, on the groomed area of a snowmobile trail.

You may not ride on the roadway, shoulder, or inner slope of the ditch of a state or county road.

You may not ride on the median of a four-lane highway within the right of way of any interstate highway.

You may not ride on the right of way between opposing lanes of traffic against traffic at night within the road right of way.

You may not ride on any iced-over waters located in a restricted area or iced-over waters where you don’t have legal access.

You may not ride in any areas re-stricted by local ordinances or municipal-ities.

Municipalities, counties, and school districts, and other political subdivisions or state agencies, may impose further re-strictions on snowmobiling on property not owned by the operator.

Sheriff Bud Olson

Carver County, Minnesota