To the Editor:
I am pleased to announce that the Andrew Peterson Farmstead has been determined to be one of the ten Minnesota Historic Places Most Endangered for 2006.  A big thank you to Leanne Brown, Executive Director of the Carver County Historical Society, for all her great help in preparing the application for this designa-tion. 
The Andrew Peterson Farmstead is located in Laketown Township and is scheduled for orderly annexation to the City of Victoria in the future.  The area was formerly known as Scandia.  It encompasses nine buildings including the farmhouse constructed between 1867 and 1870, two barns, a log house used as a granary which was the founding parish site of the Minnesota Swedish Baptist Conference, and a smoke house. 
Andrew Peterson was a Swedish emigrant who pioneered horticultural work with northern apple varieties that line the produce sections of supermarkets.
Ron Holtmeier, Chair
Andrew Peterson Committee
Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Hi, and greetings from Dick and Ruth in Colorado!  Awesome getting the paper and keeping close watch on my other home.  I look forward to talking to you over email soon.  I have several questions for you.  The fishhook is on page 8 in the track on the excavator ad for MVT Exca-vating.  Take care and best of regards.
Ruth Cole
Denver, Colorado

To the Editor:
I was delighted to receive the Victoria Gazette from you and read your editorial regarding our Fatima-Lourdes trip.  I'm looking forward to meeting you again and Allan.  Say hi to Mary Moore and hope all are doing well.  Take care.
Rita Ellis
Mound, Minnesota

To the Editor:
We sure are getting the rain.  Not good for the fishing opener.  Found the fishhook on page 8 in the MVT ad.  Have a nice day and keep up the good job you do with the Gazette.  Good wishes and blessings.
I just have to enclose this humor ...
A foursome was on the last hole and when the last golfer drove off the tee, he hooked into a cow pasture.  He advised his friends to play through and he would meet them at the clubhouse.  They followed the plan and waited for their friend.
After a considerable time he appeared disheveled, bloody, and badly beaten up.  They all wanted to know what happened.
He explained that he went over to the cow pasture but could not find his ball.  He noticed a cow wringing her tail in obvious pain.  He went over and lifted her tail and saw a golf ball solidly embedded.  It was a yellow ball so he knew it was not his.
A woman comes out of the bushes, apparently searching for her lost golf ball.  The helpful male golfer lifted the cow's tail and asked, "Doe this look like yours?"
That was the last thing he could remember.
Marie Otten
Waconia, Minnesota

To the Editor:
I most certainly "dig" the Victoria Gazette.  Father Conran Schneider has been busy digging in his gardens.  Now the tulips are just blooming.  He will have the grounds of Talheim apartments color-ful again.  Our groundskeeper Dale Dollerschell does a great job here.  No weeds or dandelions around here.  Dale works a lot with our landscape.  I'm on the west side of the building and there's a rhubarb patch and a planting box right in front of my windows, in the backyard where residents can plant veggies or flowers, and it's high enough so it's not hard to bend.  It's about four feet high.
The man driving the backhoe in the MVT Excavating ad on page 8 of the May Gazette should call Father Conran to go fishing.  Happy Father's Day - and Graduation Day, Class of 2006.
Kay Meuwissen
Chaska, MN, Class of 1983

To the Editor:
Thanks for having a copy of the Victoria Gazette sent to our house.  We enjoyed reading about our pilgrimage and feel as though it is our hometown paper now.
Nancy Lambert
Fridley, Minnesota

To the Editor:
You surely have clever ideas in placing the fishhook every month.  Found it on page 8 in the MVT ad. 
Enjoy all your articles, especially "Seems Like Yesterday" where Father Elstan appears quite often.  In the 1950's when I lived in Chaska, he was an assistant at Guardian Angels.  Very nice of St. Victoria to use his name, "Elstan Hall."  Happy Father's Day to all the Fathers who are reading your paper, including Father Elstan.
Mrs. Frank (Ethel) Schneider
Shakopee, Minnesota

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