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Holiday Care Packages. Cub Scout Pack 337, which includes boys from Victoria, Chanhassen, and Chaska, assembled holiday care packages for ten members of the U.S. Armed Service currently serving in Iraq. The packages include items donated by area businesses as well as by the boys. The project is one of several community service tasks that is required of Cub Scouts. Cub Master Terry Simon of Victoria is pictured here helping Connor Wilson of Chanhassen on how to properly fold a paper American flag that was included in the soldiers' holiday care packages.
Sarah Dale, Victoria, Minnesota
A First at Holy Family. Bria Wetsch, senior at Holy Family High School in Victoria, signed her letter of intent to run for the University of Oregon. She is pictured here with HFCHS Cross Country Head Coach Jim Kappel. Bria is the first athlete from Holy Family to be recruited to a Division I school. She signed her letter of intent in front of the student body. Former Coach Jeff Lenzmeier was also in attendance.
Katie Burke, Director of Communications, HFCHS, Victoria, Minnesota
Greetings from Chapel Hills Academy in Chanhassen, celebrating our recent victory in the Twin Cities Volleyball Championship! Victoria resident Julia Skeesick is a member of the Chapel Hills Academy Varsity Gold Girls' Volley Team.
The Twin Cities Championship pits the best teams from the South Suburban Youth Organization, a league of 20 private schools in Minneapolis and the southwestern suburbs, against league champs from the Monsignor Coates Youth Organization, and the Catholic Athletic Association, a league of 52 Catholic, Lutheran, Christian, and nondenominational private schools in and around the St. Paul Metropolitan Area.
Chapel Hill's champion 8th-grade Varsity Gold Team includes (back row, l-r) Jessica Carlin (Eden Prairie), Katie Sura (Eden Prairie), Toni Kaiser (Chaska), Laura McCleary (Shorewood/Chanhassen), Coach Jessica Santjer (Eden Prairie). Front: Julia Skeesick (Victoria), Lacey Hazel (Eden Prairie), Emily Michaelson-Robertson (Excelsior), Sarah Bremer (Eden Prairie).
Nina Wallestad, CHA Public Relations Committee, Chanhassen, MN
Coming home for Christmas. Tim Koehnen, son of Ardes and Lenny Koehnen of Victoria, and his family live in Portugal where Tim is a professor at an agricultural university. I believe this new addition to their family is their fifth child. Anita is now two months old. The family is coming home for a visit to Victoria in December.
Ron Holtmeier, Victoria, Minnesota
A Notermann Heart. My maiden name is Notermann and my family has been long time residents of Victoria. I was among 63 women from across the country chosen to attend the Science and Leadership Symposium for Women with Heart Disease this fall. My mission is to raise awareness that heart disease is a women's disease, the number one killer of women.
My dad, Bob Notermann, who was a lifelong Victoria resident, suffered his first heart attack when he was 40 years old and then experienced a fatal heart attack at the age of 52. At that time we were told that my brother should be monitored for heart problems, but nothing was ever said about me or my sisters. Even in all the years since then, I was never told that I was at risk for heart disease. Last December I found out that I had a 90% blockage in my heart and had angioplasty with a stent put in my coronary artery. Coincidentally I was 52 years old.
The Notermann family has been plagued with heart disease. My grandfather and great grandfather died of heart attacks. Most of my father's siblings also died of various forms of cardiovascular disease. So you can see that my mission is a personal one. I want to stop this from afflicting the future generations of Notermanns by raising awareness and educating them about prevention.
I will be seeking speaking engagements throughout the Twin Cities metro area. I am available for an interview. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Janice Notermann Schulz, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
Jenna and Kayla. Chaska U-12A Girls Hockey team captured 3rd place in the inaugural girls division of the 22nd annual United States Hockey Hall of Fame Tournament in Blaine, Minnesota. The 2005-2006 Chaska U-12A team is anchored by goaltender Chloe Billadeau, with Kelsey Berens, Leah Johnson, Anna Lano, and Jenna Wormuth (left, of Victoria) on defense. The forwards are Anna Bosacker, Paige Burgeson, Alex Citrowske, Mercede Davis, Lauren Kohler, Casey Lindquist, Erin McNeill, Kayla Mork (right, of Victoria), and Megan Williams. Kayla Mork tallied twice for the Hawks against the Ponies and the team held off a furious assault on the Chaska net in the closing minutes for a hard-fought 2-0 victory.
Kyle Billadeau, Victoria , Minnesota
Ray and Frannie. After more than 40 years of keeping the building and cemetery grounds at the St. Victoria Catholic Church manicured and mowed, Ray and Frannie Schmieg of Victoria have officially retired from a job that has been for them a labor of love. They have worked with six priests at the parish: Father Sam, Father Simon, Father Ronald, Father Agnellus, Father Elstan, and Father Bob. After this summer's season they donated their tractors and equipment to the church. This editor, among many others, will miss seeing them on their mowers working around the church. I took this new picture of them on the old grounds this past fall, 2005. Thank you, Ray and Frannie, for your long and strong gift to Victoria. Merry Christmas.
Editor Sue Orsen, Victoria, Minnesota
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