To the Editor Online:
Hey, Sue, thought you might be interested in The New School Prayer:
"Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule,
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights,
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple,
  orange or green,
That's no offense,
  it's the freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law
  is precise,
Prayers spoken aloud
  are a serious vice
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone
  with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited
  by the State.
We're allowed to cuss
  and dress like freaks
And pierce our noses,
  tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns,
  but first the Bible!
To quote the Good Book
  makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant
  Senior Queen,
And the unwed daddy,
  our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach
  right from wrong;
We're taught such "judgments"
  do not belong.
We can get our condoms
  and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires,
  and totem poles,
But the Ten Commandments
  are not allowed --
No Word of God
  must reach this crowd.
It's scary here, I must confess.
When chaos reigns,
  the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make,
Should I be shot,
  my soul please take."
Al Folden
Apple Valley, Minnesota
akjmfol@prodigy.net

To the Editor Online:
We are starting a new church in Waconia and want to do some advertis-ing.  Could you tell me your per column inch rates, deadlines, and if you have a paid or nonpaid church directory? 
Dan Rosenberg
Oakwood Community Church
rosendp@earthlink.net

EDITOR'S NOTE:  Display ads are $3 per column inch.  The Directory on the back page of the Gazette is only for Victoria businesses, services, and churches, but you are welcome to appear almost anywhere else in the paper.  Deadline is on page five.

To the Editor Online:
I recently received a phone call from Dorothy Rietz Smith informing me of the death of her husband Arthur.  He died in December, was cremated, and will be buried in the Rietz plot in the Lake Auburn Cemetery here in Victoria in late spring or summer.
Dorothy was the daughter of Elmer and Elizabeth Rietz.  The Rietz's were a prominent family in the Victoria-Lake-town Township area when I was grow-ing up.  Her folks and a sister Jane passed away in the early '70's and '80's.  I believe Dorothy still owns the family farm, which is located west of Victoria about a mile or so.
Ron Holtmeier
Victoria, Minnesota