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I believe the Victoria City Council has done an excellent job of fostering a prosperous and solid future for this community. I'm sure they will do no less in weighing the merits of this proposal. As one citizen at the city council meeting suggested, let's make it easy by putting the issue to a referendum. Whatever the outcome, we all have to live with it.
Robin Hicks
Victoria, Minnesota
To the Editor:
Due to changes in elementary school boundaries in School District #112, we ask that you run this announcement in The Victoria Gazette ...
If you have a Cub Scout who will be changing schools this fall, and he wants to transfer to the new Pack, you and your son are invited to any of the following meet-ings to learn about your school's Pack. These elementary school sites in School District #112 will be hosting a "Join Scouting Night" for you and your son. Please join us for an informational meet-ing at these locations:
Chanhassen, Pack 330, Sept. 12,
7 p.m. Chan Elementary. (934-4503)
Chanhassen, Pack 303, Sept. 12,
7 p.m. St. Hubert's. (934-4503)
Chaska Elem., Pack 301, Sept. 10th,
7 p.m. CMS West. (48-4567)
Clover Ridge, Pack 391, Sept. 10th,
7 p.m., CMS West. (466-2243)
Jonathon Elem., Pack 589, Sept. 10th,
7 p.m., CMW West. (448-2084)
Bluff Creek, Pack 337, Sept. 11th,
7 p.m., Bluff Creek Elem. (361-6018)
Join us for more information and bring a buddy.
Bill Gafford
School District #112
To the Editor:
This fall marks the celebration of the opening of the Grimm Farmstead in Victoria. It is an event that has been anticipated since Hennepin Parks first envisioned the preservation of the farmhouse in the early 1990's.
Festival activities will provide a glimpse into immigrant life in the mid 1870's, and we will hear the story of Wendelin Grimm and his dedication to improving his farm by planting, harvesting, and replanting the winter-hardy alfalfa that was to become known throughout the nation.
Since I first heard this story, I have savored the image of Wendelin, striding his fields, sowing by hand the prized alfalfa seed that had been carried care-fully from Germany in a small wooden chest. I also can imagine that initial har-est, the meticulous collection of the tiny seeds that had been so tenderly cared for.
And then my thoughts take me to the repetition of those chores over and over again and the resulting sense of place that Grimm must have surely developed as the years went by. Over the 20 years that he planted, tended, watched, worried, and harvested, Grimm must have grown to know every detail of his farm: the curving of each field, the golds and greens of newly sprouted crops, the smell of bass-wood blossoms from bordering wood-lands, and the gurgle of the small creek that ran through his farm.
This knowing of one's place is rare today. Jobs take us on frequent trips, busy days are spent away from home, and daily chores keep us inside. Unless we faith-fully tend a garden, we are not often required to make a daily visit to the same outdoor spot, a task that can open us up to notice each small detail of the remarkable life that surrounds us.
This fall, I invite you to make time to find your place in Hennepin Parks - a wooded trail, a picnic spot, an overlook, a quiet lake. Frequent visits will reward you with the bounty of the natural world with all of its color and music and movement. And over time, your seeds of ex-ploration, like Wendelin Grimm's, will bear fruit that provides a lasting connection to the earth.
James Deane, Chair
Hennepin Parks Commissioner
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