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8661 Deer Run Dr. * Victoria

952-443-2351

1915 Arboretum Blvd * Victoria

952-443-2808

On Stieger Lake * Victoria

952-443-1331

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33 West First Street * Waconia

952-442-4242

Lake Auburn Moravian Church

Victoria * 952-443-2051

Highway 5 in Victoria

952-443-2491

Take the worry out of winter..

Call 1-888-41-SEPTIC.

The Victoria Lions We Serve.

Sebenaler Chiropractic Center

Chaska * 952-448-9908

Sue’s Album

A symphony of photos

and fewer than a thousand words

at www.VictoriaGazette.com

Blaine Rutledge, a resident of Victoria and a 2004 graduate of Chaska High School, stroked three hits and drove in four runs to pace the University of Central Missouri Mules past the University of Nebraska-Omaha 11-6, and swept through the Central Regional with four straight wins. Blaine was also named to the MIAA all-tournament 1st team. The Mules now move onto the NCAA Division II Championship which began Saturday, May 24th, in Sauget, Illinois.

Regards,

Bret and Kelly Bjerken

(Step Dad and Mother)

Victoria, Minnesota

Welcome, Emma Katherine. The following is the birth announcement for our new granddaughter, Emma. Her photo is attached ...

Eric and Kelly Hanson of Waconia announce the birth of their daughter, Emma Katherine, on April 29th, 2008, at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia. Emma weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. and was 20 inches long. She was welcomed home by siblings Lauren and Carter. Grandparents are Jim and Kathy Wolff of Chaska, the late Nick Stockwell of Eden Prairie, and Kelly and Margaret Hanson of Victoria

Kelly and Margaret Hanson

Victoria, Minnesota

Lizzi Traxler of Victoria was selected by Holy Family Catholic High School of Victoria as the school’s 2008 Athena Award Winner. Public and private schools in the greater Minneapolis area select recipients to recognize young female athletes and because of excellence in individual or team sports. The Minneapolis Athena Awards Committee honored 52 senior women this year on May 9th at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Lizzi received nine varsity letters at Holy Family, including soccer, basketball, and football, served as captain in soccer and basketball, was twice elected most valuable player in soccer, received six varsity letters in soccer and basketball, and a state award in soccer.

Wrote Lizzi on her questionnaire, “I love all sports I play, but one of the sports I never thought I would be able to play in high school was football. I ended up getting my chance to play in high school when the football coach came to my soccer practice and asked me to be the extra point kicker for the varsity team. I held the starting extra point kicker position for the varsity football team during my senior year.”

Lizzi’s cumulative GPA at Holy Family is 3.9. Her school and community involvements outside of sports and academics include Eucharist Minister, mission trip to Costa Rica, Making Tracks for Celiacs, Yearbook Committee, hosting a foreign exchange student, high school ambassador, Feed My Starving Children, Families Moving Forward, National Catholic Leadership Conference/Called to Lead. She plans to attend the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, play basketball for the varsity team, and major in mechanical engineering.

Glen Z. Wilson, Minneapolis Athena Awards Committee

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Via Capistrano? During the first weekend of May, 2008, I saw this rather large flock of barn swallows taking a brief respite from their arduous migration north. They looked exhausted from the cold wind and rain. Sadly, a lack of food and only more cold on my lightly sheltered deck was the best I could do for them, fortunately for the orioles. I was able to get grape jelly out to them almost the moment they arrived!

Kurt Zuppke

Victoria Lion, MN

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