Kelzer Pond Clean Up Green Up
Here are some photos and information we hope you'll consider putting in the Gazette about a recent volunteer cleanup.
About 16 community members who live around Victoria's Kezler Pond turned out on Sunday, October 12th, to clean up the shores and hills around the Pond.  Afer a one-day rain delay on Saturday, clear blue skies provided perfect conditions on Sunday for the Second Annual Kelzer Pond Green Up Clean Up.
Armed with trash bags, garden carts, gloves, weed stabbers, and lots of energy, these volunteers, made up of both long time residents and new ones who just moved in, took on the task of picking up trash and other debris, working on foot and by boat.

Golden shoes.
Attached is the picture I was talking about.  Pic-tured are (front, l-r) Ethel Ausink, Myrtle Gubbe, Larry Gubbe, and (back) Beatrice Mechtel. 
The Victoria Senior Citizens track their number of steps daily with a pedometer.  Every two weeks they total their numbers and report to the Program Supervisor, Denise Sorenson, Health Educator with Lutheran Social Services.  Denise totals the steps for each of five communities, and the Golden Shoe Trophy is awarded to whichever community has the highest average of steps reported.  The five commu-nities are Victoria, Norwood Young America, Chaska, Watertown, and Waconia.
One Senior in each community is also awarded a monthly prize for highest number of steps walked.  In Victoria that is Larry Gubbe.  The Victoria group also meets weekly to walk together at the Chaska Community Center Track.
Sherrie Jones
City of Victoria
Victoria, Minnesota

At Valdez, Alaska.
Hi, Sue.  I thought I would share a couple of our extra Alaska photos with you.  It was 79 degrees on August 22nd, 2001, in the port city of Valdez.  This one is of storage tanks for the Trans Alaska Pipeline.  There's a stone monument at Valdez that says, "We didn't know it couldn't be done."  It was dedicated to the thousands of men and women who built the pipeline from 1969 to 1977.  As you reported in your own story of Alaska, the pipeline is history's largest privately constructed project.
Uncle Ron Holtmeier
Victoria, Minnesota

Taking the season by storm.
The girls' tennis team at Holy Family Catholic High School in Victoria took its first sub-section championship win and, following a sweep of the Individual Sub-section championship rounds, the team ended up in the Section 5A runner-up position. 
In only their third year of play and their first year with home tennis courts, the season's success was one of many "firsts."  Both individually and as a team, the FIRE tennis players took the season by storm.
Katie Burke, Media Contact
Holy Family Catholic High School
Victoria, Minnesota