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To the Editor: Again a great December issue of the Gazette. Thank you for all you do for the Victoria residents in keeping us informed, for your Christian beliefs, for your family love. Merry Christmas to those who know we are not here by accident. Thought you would enjoy this Retired Health Message: As I was lying in bed pondering the problems of the world, I rapidly realized that I don't really give a rat's hiney. It's the tortoise life for me. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water, and is fat. A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years. A tortoise doesn't run and does nothing, yet lives for 450 years. And we are told to exercise? Now that I'm older I've discovered I started out with nothing and I still have most of it. My wild oats have turned into prunes and all bran. Funny, I don't remember being absent minded. If all is not lost, where is it? Malcolm Mac Alpine Victoria, Minnesota
To the Editor: The word "vermiculate" in your December issue intrigues me. I know that in French they use the word "vermiculaire" (biological use). Where did you read that sentence? Thank you for the nice pictures of your parents online in Sue's Album. Those of your Mom give me the impression she is becoming stronger. Is it so? Thank you, and freezing greetings. It's -5 degrees here today. Theofiel Keymis Dilsen, Belgium
To the Editor: Ethel Ausink is sure a spry Golden Girl. Not every 95-year old is that way. Neither one of my grandmas made it to 95. Grandma Meuwissen passed at 91. Grandma Poppler was 76. Grandma Meuwissen went to a nursing home when she was 76. Her eyesight was going bad and it was getting hard to walk. I was outside in the yard, I was 11 years old. Grandma's last words were, "Don't let the place turn to weeds." She was able to talk fine until she gradually started having mini-strokes. Three people owned Grandma's house until it was used by the Chaska Fire Department for fire practice in 1987. I took pictures. All the other four houses behind hers were torched, too, and the old Chaska City Garage was razed. That was next to Grandma's house. I have pictures of the City Garage getting down. I didn't know at the time what was going in its place. It was Auburn Manor. Auburn Manor used to be in Victoria and was called the Lake Auburn Home for the Aged. It then became a group home in Victoria for kids until that old brick building was razed. Auburn Manor's kitchen and dining area sits on Grandma's property. I can still see my cousins blow off firecrackers while other cousins and my little brother were sitting on the roof. Cousins in the yard would play catch and the ones on the roof would be the other catchers and toss it back to the ones in the yard. When the train passed by Grandma's, the house shook and the windows rattled. Her house faced Old Hwy 212 and Hwy 41. Everything is gone that was across the road except the depot for the train. Train tracks are gone too. The highway traffic today is worse than 36 years ago when Grandma went to the nursing home. She died 30 years ago this January. She died in 1983 at the age of 91. Kay Meuwissen Chaska, Minnesota
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