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To the Editor:

Can you believe that 2008 is already upon us? How was 2007 for your business? Hopefully this letter finds you at the end of your best year ever.

It’s time to start planning for next year, and we hope that you will include the Victoria Chamber of Commerce in your plans. Attached you will find the 2008 membership application form and the Victoria Community Expo packet.

This year the Expo will be held on Saturday, February 23^rd, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Victoria Field House. You are invited to set up a booth and introduce your business to all of Victoria.

Consider becoming a platinum, gold, or silver sponsor to have your business mentioned in our Expo advertising and get discounts on your Chamber membership for 2008.

Sincerely,

Chamber of Commerce Directors

Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:

I read a letter to the editor in the Gazette today regarding sending Christ-mas cards to recovering American sol-diers at Walter Reed Hospital. The cards will not be given to soldiers in Walter Reed Hospital; they will be discarded unless addressed directly to names of individuals. Check out Snopes.com.

I don’t know why that email keeps circulating. It would be a wonderful thing if the cards and letters would indeed be given to soldiers recovering in the hos-pital, but it’s just not true.

I think of you often, Sue, and our good times together. We enjoy the Gazette. Merry Christmas to you and yours and to all of Victoria.

Nancy and Dick Maynard

Kingston, Tennessee

To the Editor:

Would you email us the following article as a pdf file, from your December issue, “Snowmobiles Outlawed in Victoria Central Business District,” and a copy of the related ordinance amendment as it appears in the Gazette? I’m having trouble scanning your articles and would like to post them on our Association Bulletin Boards. Happy Holidays.

Randy Miller

Victoria, Minnesota

To the Editor:

Happy New Year! The 21^st Century is almost ten years old. I can still remem-ber New Year’s Eve 1999. People were hoarding food and soap and bottled water like an air raid was coming. People stocked and stocked. The news captions showed people in their homes and they looked like warehouses for a food shelf. I didn’t even worry about the world supply of anything. I figured it would be an ordinary day and it was. A lot of the hoarded supplies went to food shelves. Who wants 46 cans of tuna on their shelf? Or 50 jars of peanut butter?

Ice fishing season is here and no hook in the December Gazette of 2007. You fooled my 42-year old peepers (eyes). I looked for a week! No hook. Maybe Santa needed to borrow it. Maybe Noah has it, but he couldn’t fish because he only had two worms. Ha, ha.

Kay Meuwissen

Chaska, Minnesota

To the Editor:

Tom and I had a question. Your notice regarding your advertising rates said there was a “slight increase” for 2008. We figured it out to be almost a 50% increase and we’re wondering if that is right.

Candy Almquist

Victoria, Minnesota

EDITOR’S NOTE: Actually it’s about an 11% increase over last year. (50-cents is 11% of $4.50)

Considering my rate was $2.50 in 1979 and only now has finally doubled to $5 in 2008, that averages out to an annual increase of less than .1%. (Read: less than Point One Percent!) Maybe you can find another business that’s done this for the community, and maybe you can’t.

I suggest that you will not find another newspaper matching, simultane-ously, my high circulation, high reader-ship, and low advertising rate.

I don’t even fill my paper with pages and pages of paid-for classifieds and foreclosure notices to help pay my many bills. Amazing, huh? Thank you for giving me the opportunity to elaborate a little bit and get the hair off my chest ... or should I say chin?

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