It's becoming a place to do business.  It's becoming a place that means business.  When a small Chamber of Commerce can attract 65 vendors to advertise their various products and services at a Victoria Business Exposition, it's becoming in many ways.

The 2002 Victoria Home and Garden Business Exposition was held on Saturday, April 6th, in the spacious and accommodating gymnasium of the Holy Family Catholic High School in Victoria.  Thank you, Holy Family, for making your fine facilities available to the Victoria Chamber of Commerce and all of the visitors to the Expo.  We are grateful for your hospitality.
Businesses highlighted on these first pages of the Gazette were chosen from the Victoria pool, but there were also exhibitors from Chanhassen, Chaska, Waconia, Excelsior, even Eden Prairie, Edina, Norwood Young America, and Shakopee.  Each of the businesses, no matter their home base, is a friend and neighbor of Victoria residents.  Thank you, business people, for making the day possible.
Photographs and other pertinent information from dozens of vendors at the Expo, from the many neighboring communities as well as Victoria, can be found in Sue's Album at www.VictoriaGazette.com.  Simply scroll down to the appropriate site to find your friends, then give them a call for your home and garden needs.
Thank you to Laura Wood, president of the Victoria Chamber, and her husband Jeff for all of their work in organizing this event.  Thank you to Marlene Speltz, administrator of the Victoria Chamber, and her husband Dave for their continued guidance.  Thank you to the other Chamber officers -- including Vice President Jeff Hartman of Hartman Companies, Secretary Michelle Aspelin of Wintergreen Products, and Treasurer Barb Gunning of G & G Auto Sales.
For those readers of the Gazette who were able to attend this recent Expo, you might enjoy refreshing the day through extended coverage here and online.  If you were unable to attend, now is your chance to partake.  Call it virtual reality.  Call it visual reality.  Call it becoming ... a City of Business.

[Go back to the Home Page (www.VictoriaGazette.com) and click on Sue's Album for the story in photos!]