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Stan officed first with Realty World Streeter Andrus at the old Chaska Depot, renovated for that purpose, and then where the old Chaska Hotel once stood, replaced with a new building which is now Coldwell Banker Burnet.

“A lot of my successful real estate work was tagging along with Fred,” said Stan. “Listing and selling Deer Run were fun days for me with Fred and Gayle Dungey.”

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Where were Jayne and the girls all this time? When the family got back from Detroit, they built a house in Deephaven and lived there from 1979 to 1984.

And then, when they bought Schneider’s Shore, they moved to a “little old prefab cabin” on the property. “It was so cute,” said Jayne, “but it only had two bedrooms and no heat in the winter, so we moved out and rented the Kerber home. Pete and Irene Kerber had built a house for his parents on Bavaria Road but they didn’t want to move from Chanhassen, so we lived there from 1986 to 1988.”

During this time, Jayne was not sitting at home. In 1984, when the girls were off to college and marriage, Jayne went to work at the Turf Club at Canterbury Downs. “It was a fancy dining room, like a country club, and I got to dress up every day,” she said. “At first I was just hired as temporary and my job was to organize all the entries coming in to name the race track, and when that was over, they called me back. At the Turf Club I did the seating and the pre-seating for all the patrons.”

Said Stan, “Jayne could work easily with the mechanical people and also the Carl Pohlads.”

In 1992 Jayne went to work for the second time in her life with her husband, this time in real estate with Burnet Realty rather than in the popcorn stand at the movie theater. Stan again commented on his wife’s talent to communicate easily with people.

By this time the Hamerski’s had moved to a Cape Cod model home in Chanhassen where they lived from 1988 until 2001 while doing a development for Bloomberg, selling properties in that neighborhood.

“We were going to build a house in Deer Run,” said Jayne, “but we were taking care of our aging parents, all four of them, and the location of a Chanhassen home was perfect for us.”

It wasn’t until 2001 that Hamerski’s moved to Victoria, to a spacious 3,400-square foot townhome in Deer Run, having decided not to build as planned on a lot they owned in Deer Run.

“When I told Jayne that this townhouse was for sale, within 24 hours we made an offer,” said Stan.

“I’ve always loved this place,” said Jayne. “We showed it for years as a model home. We like Victoria. We like the small town.”

Said Stan, “It’s a small town with big ideas, and with people from all walks of life and from all over the world, literally. It’s a wonderful place, especially this little peninsula. It’s quiet and private.” Stan is president of the Pointe Vista Homeowners Association.

The Hamerski’s first connection to Victoria goes back some 25 years when they began attending the St. Victoria Catholic Church. After they moved from Schneider’s Shore to Chanhassen, they had considered switching to St. Hubert’s, which was closer for them.

“But in 1988, the day of our move, Father Elstan called and said I had just been voted onto the St. Victoria Parish Council,” said Stan, “so the Lord took care of that decision for us.” They remain happy members at St. Victoria to the present time. As a matter of fact, they renewed their wedding vows at St. Victoria on their 40th wedding anniversary with the same priest who married them, Father Bob Turner, a friend of St. Victoria’s Father Bob White.

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