To the Editor:
Just got the latest Gazette.  Thank you for this wonderful paper.  I was surprised to read about all the damage done to your neighborhood from the August storm.  I remember the 1998 storm too, when Shakopee looked like your pictures of Victoria.  The Catholic cemetery here lost very many of the evergreen trees and many others were lost around town, some over 100 feet tall.  One fell on the back side of our house, across the yard, and over to the neighbors' within inches of hitting their family room.  It broke a window and screen and the roof off our back porch.  Quite a loss when all these things happen.
Just like Addie Sue, my nine-year old grandson is drawing pictures all the time.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Frank (Ethel) Schneider
Shakopee, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Hi, Sue.  Isn't the weather nice!  Always nice when the sun is out, as you know.  The Gazette is the best paper to read!  Fun to keep up with the latest hometown news.  Also, your fishhook is hidden on the lighthouse at Waconia on page 29.  Cool place to hide.  Have a nice day.
Marie Otten
Waconia, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Since Hartman Companies Inc. is in Victoria, home of the Gazette, why not do an article on the new Hartman Retail Nursery!  We're now open to the public.  We sell trees, shrubs, perennials, mums, pumpkins, and Christmas trees.  In the spring we'll be selling garden supplies and more.  What a great story for the Gazette!
Dan Stratman
Hartman Companies Inc.
Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Well, the wait is over.  All of the work is completed!  Here it is.  www.weinzierljewelry.com is up and running!  Let me know what you think.  We are excited.  It has been a work in progress.  See you all soon.  Update your address book.
Diann Weinzierl
Waconia, Minnesota

To the Editor:
Let there be light!  A fishhook is hidden on page 29 in your September Gazette on the Waconia lighthouse.
Hard to believe it's October already.  We were going crazy with the heat this summer and lack of rain.  Then comes the rain in August.  The leaves on the trees were already brown and curly in July because of not enough rain I thought.  In September the DNR was on the TV news saying exactly that was the cause of the leaves going bad so soon. 
We have had other dry spells - like in the summer of 1988 when I couldn't even walk barefoot in the grass in parts of the yard.  It felt like stepping on thumbtacks.  With shoes it would crunch and sound like you're eating popcorn.
We bellyache in the summer heat and then in the bitter cold temps of winter.  You can't win, unless we go south and hibernate there.
It looks like Orsen's Acre got a lot of storm damage in August.  I slept through it.  I only heard the thunder and lightning and zonked back to sleep.  We needed the rain but not the damage.  Blizzards are no fun either.  You can't flip a switch and turn off a storm. 
Kay Meuwissen
Chaska, Minnesota

To the Editor:
I regret to report the death of one of Lake Auburn Moravian Church's members, Rocky Weitz, who was killed on the way home from Brainerd on Saturday, September 1st.  He was driving a motorcycle and was hit by a vehicle towing a boat trailer.  He was dragged for some distance under the trailer.  He leaves a wife and two teenage daughters.
Ron Holtmeier
Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:
By a detour, I received a copy of the June edition of the Victoria Gasetten in Dilsen, Belgium.  Our congratulations for your well written life-story of your parents, Betty Ann and Joe Claeys.
You portrayed this "Diamond Married Couple" (60 years of wedding as said in Belgium) correctly.  They were and are still hardworking people.  Particular the dinner of your published article is striking.
I did not shut the enclosed envelopes, destined for your parents.  The reason is, I am missing their address!  Will you send my letters to your parents?  Let me know your expenses and how I can compensate them.  Can I rely on your understanding, Mrs. Sue?  Hope to hear from you again.
Theofiel Keymis-Vastmans
Dilsen-Rotem, Belgium

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