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Intense Beauty - Plants Up Close is a juried photography exhibit at the Arboretum running through February 7th. “Mushrooms in Leaves” (above) is by Kathy Aspenwall of Prior Lake. “Fiddlehead Fern” (right) by Matthew Moses of Victoria was a bronze winner in the photo show. Many others are on display in the exhibit.

Barb DeGroot

MN Landscape Arboretum

Chanhassen, Minnesota

Ben Wartman was recently named to the Division 3 All American First Team, quite the honor. Earlier in the season he had been named to the Academic All American First Team for Division 2 and Division 3 athletes. We are quite proud in Wartman Land over all of this. I am attaching pictures of Ben from the St. Thomas-Tommie sports website and also a write-up from the St. Thomas website when Ben was named All American:

“The 6-2, 205-pound Wartman ranked third among all NCAA players and closed with 1,827 yards, which ranks second in conference and UST history behind Gary Trettel’s 1,861 yards in 1990. Wartman also had 2,118 all-purpose yards. His 24 touchdowns in 2009 broke a 19-year old school record, tied for second most in Division II, and tied for third most in MIAC history. He’s surpassed 100 rushing yards 19 of his last 21 outings, and the Toms are 17-2 in those games. (He had 300 yards in a 2008 loss to Augsburg; 143 yards in the 2009 playoff loss at Linfield, and 90 and 80 yards in two games against St. John’s.)

“In 23 career games at running back, Wartman has 3,138 rushing yards and 37 touchdowns. He’s had a productive last 15 months in general. In baseball he played all 12 innings at catcher with two hits and threw two runners out stealing in a 3-2 NCAA championship game victory over Wooster (Ohio). He recently was named a first-team ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American with a 3.87 GPA in Business.”

Thanks, Sue. I know you put pictures from Victoria folks on the last pages of the Gazette each month. Hope this is okay.

Mike Wartman (former resident of Victoria)

Prior Lake, Minnesota

Our new Irish family. Granddaughter Tanya Holtmeier Cornely, her husband Kieran Cornely, and their son Quinlan Cornely, our 9th great grandchild.

Ron Holtmeier

Victoria, Minnesota

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