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To the Editor:
Maybe your Victoria readership in Victoria (and elsewhere) that includes girls and their parents would like to know about an opportunity for girls to learn or improve their chess skills, to be empowered to compete in the male-dominated arena of scholastic chess.
Scholastic chess (chess for school age children) has been around in Minnesota for at least 50 years. While it is true that the number of girls who play this intellectual game has been increasing steadily over the last decade, scholastic chess has typically been dominated by boys. At most chess tournaments and events in Minnesota, fewer than 25% of the participants are girls.
However, there is an upcoming event with the sole purpose of empowering girls in chess. The fourth annual Girl Power Chess Camp will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 14th, at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, 111 Mainstreet.
This all day event is less than a half hour from Victoria, and it's possible that several of your 5,000 subscribers (almost 20,000 readers!) would want to know about it. I have a 14-year old daughter and I'm always looking for events like this which might interest her. She, in fact, played in her first chess tournament when she was three and a half years old. Maybe some of your readers feel this way as well.
For more information or to register for this event, people can contact me at 651- 402-or 0588. Say yes to chess .
Daa Mahowald
St. Paul, Minnesota
To the Editor:
Time is running out to enter this year's Better Newspaper Contest and Better Newspaper Advertising Contest. The postmark deadline for entries is March 31st. Entries must be submitted to the National Newspaper Association (NNA) office in Columbia, Missouri. The entry form and more information is available on our website.
Winners will be notified in July and recognized at a Toast to the Winners occasion held in Oklahoma City in October.
There are early incentives. News-papers that submit more combined entries in 2006 than they did in 2005 will receive NNA bucks per entry. If your newspaper didn't enter the 2005 contest, just submit at least five entries to this year's contest and receive additional NNA bucks.
NNA bucks can be used to purchase tickets to the 2006 Toast to the Winners reception or toward the cost of your 2006 registration. The NNA Bucks can also be used to help pay contest entry fees in 2007, or you can use them to purchase NNA logo items or books.
Hurry! The postmark deadline for both contests is March 31st, 2006. The entry fee is $15 per entry.
Sara Dickson, National Newspaper Association
Columbia, Missouri
EDITOR'S NOTE: I have never entered the Victoria Gazette into any Best Newspaper Contest on the state level or national level or any other level. It just doesn't seem a proper thing to do. Also, it's very costly to enter such a contest by the time you add up all the entries in all the categories.
To the Editor:
True story: Sixty years ago three women came into a meat market in Chaska looking for a meat spread. There was spread available made from beef tongue. One of the women said she could not eat something that came from a cow's mouth. The butcher said, okay, how about a dozen eggs?
True story: A friend from Cologne was rushing to get home when he saw a light flashing in back of him and a cop flagged him to pull over. The friend quickly pulled his seatbelt on and rolled down the window. The cop walked over to the side of his car, took a look inside, and said, "Do you always put your seat-belt through the steering wheel?"
The rest of the story: I was 5 when my mother sent me to school to get me out of the house, but school was not my bag. In 1938 school started at 8:45 a.m. My dad died when I was 14 and I did not get higher education because my mother needed me for farm work.
I am writing this from Arizona, but we will be home in April. I golfed four times last week. This is the seventh winter we've been here three months.
My liking of man is not good since the City of Chaska put that assessment on my farm at home, back six years ago. It is unfair. Now I need to go to bed.
Truly,
Clarence Kelzer, Apache Junction, Arizona
To the Editor:
I know that you have been working with Heather Cole regarding the recent Hoedown Family Event that took place at Victoria Elementary School. Many thanks for considering including informa-tion about the night in the upcoming edition of the Gazette.
I have been gathering pictures from various sources and obtaining names and permission to print. I will send those to you as quickly as possible today.
The photos will be in two styles. Two of them capture the actual dancing and the band that provided live music. Sue Hulsether was the professional caller. She worked with the students for three days as an Artist in Residence.
The additional photos were taken by Dan Jackson, a high school senior, who volunteered his time to take the photos that evening. We had an Ol' Fashioned Booth, hence the "formal" but still fun groupings of families and kids. Hope that they capture the spirit of the night.
Thanks for being such a terrific sup-porter of the newest school in Victoria.
Natalie Larson
Victoria, Minnesota
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