There was a scramble, after the fact, to get everyone from the fishing contest photos properly identified for the feature story this month.  I don't carry pad and pen out onto the lake because I'm wearing mittens and already carrying a camera and cup of hot chocolate.  And I simply can't know the first and last names of everybody in this growing town now, can I?  So what is a girl to do!
Well, after I made a few strategic calls and emails that were extremely helpful, I sent Allan to town on a fine Saturday morning with the difficult photograph (the one with Rick Plocher) and asked him to check around for me.  He did exactly that, and with great success, I might add.  Thanks, Al.
First he went to Floyd's, where he ran into some locals having a Bloody Morning Mary, and one of them said to Allan, "Tell Sue that if she had those people take off all their clothes before she took the pictures, they'd be a lot easier to identify."
I knew Kelly Hanson was just teasing.  He knows we don't need any more frozen tootsies at this annual Ice Fishing Contest than we already have.  Besides, it's not a matter of grin and bare it; it's a matter of grin and bear it!  (By the way, Kelly and Margaret, congratulations on your first grand-child!)
Anyhow, Allan got further help in photo identification at the Victoria House that morning and then Schmitty's.  When he got home he took a nice long nap.  He deserved it after working so hard for the editor. 
And Mike Johnson of Victoria deserves the $10 reward for finding the February  fishhook in the heart of Dr. Tim Sebenaler's ad.  Mike's name was drawn from among many, each one properly identified!
There's another fishhook hidden in this issue of the Gazette.  See if you can find it, then drop a line to Box 387 in Victoria telling of its location and sinker in the mail pronto pup.  And please keep your clothes on during the search.  Those fishhooks can be nasty!