To the Editor:
It's a new year now and we are all a year older.  I'll be an old lady of 39 in 2004.  Eeek! 
Everyone got their fill of Christmas goodies.  Santa brought out the loot, and those naughty ones got a lump of coal in the boot.   On New Year's I had Mom's favorite -- root beer and popcorn.  Grandma Meuwissen used to eat popcorn like cereal and put cream and sugar on it.  Even an onion sandwich at breakfast she'd have, and she lived to be 92.  Died 21 years ago this year January.  Mom died 13 years ago this February.
I saw your famous fishhook on page 34.  Get out the pole and bait for Father Conran Schneider.  Maybe he will play sheephead and outfox the opponents.
Nice article on the foodshelf.
Kay Meuwissen
Chaska, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Thank you for the nice photos of Bill and Maureen.  I reduced them in Photo-shop.  Cheers.
Gina Eaton
Waterbrooke Fellowship

To the Editor:
Do I live in the best part of the world or what!  First, my good friend Tony Aretz cleared my driveway.  When he wasn't able to continue, Bob Schmieg was Johnny on the Spot.  Bob moved and Dale Carroll stepped in with help from Skelly Vogel when Dale is hunting or fishing.  Do I get a bill?  It's your guess.  So here's a public thank you.  I am so blessed with wonderful neighbors.
Liz Diethelm
Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:
To the editor and all the Gazette households, I wish for peace and happiness at Christmas and throughout the New Year.  Thank you for your wonderful work.
Mrs. Frank Schneider
Shakopee, Minnesota

To the Editor:
I seem to have lost my November 2003 Victoria Gazette.  If you have an extra somewhere, could you send me a replacement?  I am trying to obtain the column by Ethel Ausink.
C. Chase
Mound, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Hi, Sue.  The Hungary trip put me in a different frame of mind this year, and I was able to let go of many of the stress-induced activities I normally would have indulged.  Attached is my article for the January Gazette.  I could have written pages.  My heart is in Hungary now.  I can hardly wait to see what God is going to do.  It's big. 
May God richly bless you and your family through the love, grace, and peace that is ours through Christ Jesus.
Love,
Pastor Maureen Bonner
Waterbrooke Fellowship

To the Editor:
Many thanks to all Victoria Chamber of Commerce members who helped with the Touch of Bavaria, the Home and Garden Business Expo, the Home-Based Business Expo, the High School Scholar-ship Program, downtown holiday decorat-ing, and the Annual Christmas Party.  Your help and participation have helped to make these events successful. 
Laura Wood
Victoria Chamber of Commerce
Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:
You are cordially invited and encour-aged to attend a resident design workshop meeting for the Parkside Estates Street and Drainage Improvement project to be held at Victoria City Hall on Thursday, January 15th, from 5:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
The city council has authorized the preparation of plans specifications for the street improvement project with the anti-cipation that the construction work would be completed in 2004.
This workshop is being conducted to present preliminary design layouts for the street and cul de sacs on Lilac Lane, and to receive resident input regarding prefer-ences for the various configurations.
Please attend this meeting so that we may address your specific needs and con-cerns.  If you are unable to attend or have any questions regarding this meeting, you may call me at 651-292-4552 or 952-443-4732.
Jack Griffin, P.E.
City Engineer
Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Attached in Word 2000 format is a good article from a nationally syndicated columnist named Charley Reese.  This information supports Ethel Ausink's last two columns in the Gazette and may be helpful to her.  After reading, you may want to forward or print a copy for Ethel.
This article came from the December 24th, 2003, issue of the Wright Way Shopper.  I get it in Long Lake.  It's an interesting little paper.  Charley Reese was at one time a speech writer for one of our past presidents.  You can write him and ask which one.
Blessings.
Charlie Chase
Long Lake, Minnesota

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