To the Editor:
Enjoyed your article on Alaska.  Must have been a great trip.  I found the fish-hook on page 26 in the diamond ring.
Philomena Hesse
Edina, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Seems like the Victoria Gazette gets better and more interesting all the time.
Love,
Dad
Ghent, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Receive and enjoy your paper through my post office box in Victoria.  Our orchards open September 9th.  Come visit us.  Someday, according to the Master Plan, we will be part of Victoria, hopefully not too soon.
Lin Deardorff
Laketown Township

To the Editor:
The fishhook is in the Weinzierl ad.  It's in the ring.  That jewelry store has many beautiful settings available.  It's been a great summer to be retired.
Rosie Williams, Chaska, Minnesota

To the Editor:
One of my visions for the future of our congregation is to have an additional campus for our present members and for those looking for a new church home.  Our dream is becoming a reality at the Mount Olivet Church-West Campus, located at Mount Olivet Rolling Acres in Victoria.  We now have about100 family units worshipping at our West Campus.  Approximately half of these people are new members.
Mount Olivet Church-West Campus is Mount Olivet Church.  Our vision is to be one church with two worshipping and programming campuses.
I believe the real strength of Mount Olivet Church-West Campus is the many resources for ministry we provide.  Cathe-dral of the Pines Camp, Mount Olivet Retreat Center, strong and vital music, education, and youth programs are all a part of the unique offerings that Mount Olivet Church provides for its members.
I am grateful to the Mount Olivet Rolling Acres Board and staff for warmly welcoming our congregation's new campus.  To God be the glory.
Paul M. Youngdahl, D.D., Senior Pastor
Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
Minneapolis, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Hello, Sue.  I didn't get a chance to read the Gazette until this morning.  Great story.  My wife Sarah and I want to take a trip to Alaska some day.  We have rela-tives living in Anchorage.  One of my nephews is a semi driver and makes many a trip over those same roads, or should I say road, as you were on and does he have stories about close calls on the narrow roads.  He will be visiting us in Wisconsin with four semis.  He comes here every October with his brother and two other drivers to pick up Christmas trees to be sold in Alaska.  When I pay $30 for a tree here I cringe.  Up there he said he gets between $100 to $200 or even more for the same tree.
Your story and photos about your trip to Alaska were both beautiful and color-ful.  I'm looking forward to the next in-stallment.  I also visited your website on the net and viewed them in color.  Good work.  In the past I did a lot of black-white and color work in my basement darkroom.  At this time I'm reprinting a lot of old family photos from negatives, putting them onto a disk for my genealogy books.
Keep up the good work, Sue.  Love your stories and also Ron and Mike's stories about their old days in Victoria -- the farmer's market, the band concerts, and Notermann's store.
The last time I was in Victoria was last Christmas when my brother Steve and I had a chance to drive over and photo-graph the new bridge.  I'm sure the new one will be there for another 100 years.  I was also somewhat sorry to see some of the old homes across the tracks being burned down.  The old Ray Notermann house was until 1933 my grandfather John Kirsch's home.
There are a lot of old stories that could be written about Victoria.  Back in the mid 1940's and early '50's, when I attended the St. Victoria School, we didn't have anywhere to play indoor basketball or any other organized sports, so one of our friends from the public school (who will remain nameless) would sometimes leave a window unlocked and at night five or six of us "towners," as opposed to "farmers," would sneak into the gym and play all night -- with all the gym lights on too! 
I think it was Bill Hubbert, the Victoria cop at the time, who would drive up around to the back of the school, stop and watch us, and probably figure, "Well, at least they're not standing on the street corner."  He would drive away and not say a word.  When we were done we took out the mops, dusted the floor, and put everything back in its place.  I'm not sure if anyone ever knew.
John J. Kirsch
Neenah, Wisconsin

To the Editor:
Hello, Sue.  Thanks for putting Frankie's picture and announcement in the paper last month.  We will keep it always.  By the way, how can I get a few extra copies?  The grandparents would love to have some. 
Jenny Simonsen
Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearchr at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is thta the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.  The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.  Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.  Amzanig, huh?
Howard Wigfield
Shakopee, Minnesota
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