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On Trails Near Victoria. The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum offered free admission to cross-country skiers and snowshoers on New Year’s Eve as part of its “Ar-BRRR-etum” promotion. With its 8.5 miles of cross-country ski trails and 1.25 miles of snowshoe trails, the Arboretum is a perfect place to enjoy a quick, refreshing loop, burn off those holiday calories, and bid 2007 goodbye. Arboretum grounds are open every day and normal admission is $7 for adults and free for members.

Barbara DeGroot , MN Landscape Arboretum

Chanhassen, Minnesota

Winter Scenes in Victoria. The early December snows covered the fields around Victoria, along with these high bush cranberries. Don’t forget our feathered friends this winter. Keep your feeders full. And dust off those cross-country skis that have been hiding in the garage.

Kurt Zuppke, Victoria Lion, Minnesota

Holiday Champions. Chaska 6^th Grade Girls “A” Traveling Team placed 2^nd in the Minnetonka Holi-day Tournament. Front (l-r): Olivia Wilder, MaKena Panning, Ellie Knowles, Mary Schreiner. Middle: Christine Piwnica of Victoria, Jill Wilder. Back: Coach Doug Wilder, Page Stanberry, Michaela Rasmussen, Kendall Baab, Angie Wenning, Coach Ryan Wenning.

Julie Panning

via email

One Hundred and One New Years. My mother Rosella Schmidt celebrated her 101^st birthday this past September 19^th. She was born September 19^th, 1906. She lives at Pres-byterian Homes in Spring Park and is doing very well, happy and still enjoys reading. She wants to finish reading the Bible before she dies. I think she will live a long time. She wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, including relatives in Victoria.

Ann Schallberg

Excelsior, Minnesota

Bags of Games Galore. Victoria Elementary students had the opportunity to participate in a community service activity in December. They gathered to promote family bonding and togeth-erness. This project entitled “Games Galore” was sponsored by the Victoria School Student Coalition. The games were donated to the CAP Agency for distribution to families.

According to Dylan Melby and Betsy Behun, 4^th grade members of the Student Coalition, Games Galore was a huge success. Victoria Lakers helped gather games for many families. We collected about 150 games for families that needed help with holiday shopping and for families that needed some fun added to their life. The bags of games were full and heavy. We hope that the families that received them enjoy them.

Lori Beth Warnberg, Lead Teacher

Victoria Elementary School

Victoria, Minnesota

Small World. Here is a picture of our son Kevin Eklund, his wife Julie, and their kids Kent and Kylie at Lake Tahoe when they attended the wedding of Ryan Kesteloot, son of your classmate at Minneota, Roger Keste-loot. Kevin and his family live in Chaska.

Sharon Eklund

Victoria, Minnesota

Hunting Gang. Here is the picture of four generations of Eklunds deer hunting at the hunting shack on the Cloquet River north of Duluth. L-r: Gary Eklund of Victoria, George Eklund (who is 92 years old) of Duluth, Kent Eklund of Chaska, and Kevin Eklund of Chaska.

Sharon Eklund

Victoria, Minnesota

Home with the Cow. The Chaska U12 team came home with the cow! They won the championship of the South St. Paul Thanksgiving Cowtown Tournament. This is their tourney picture. Sorry for the poor resolution.

The girls beat South St. Paul 1-0, Brooklyn Park 3-2, and Edina 4-1 for the championship. Front: Laura Chalpusky of Victoria. Middle: Samantha Peterson of Victoria, Brityn Ryshavy, Kerry Blake, Maddie Athmann, Sophie Beutow, Ashley Williams, Samantha Thompson, Madison Victorian. Back: Coach Pat Victorian, Elizabeth Roane, Audrey Heitkamp of Victoria, Morgan Herold, Coach Williams, Natalie Anderson-DeChantal, Maddie Zilka, Becky Cole, Coach Mike Chalpusky of Victoria.

Bonita Ann Jungels, Principal, St. John the Baptist

Jordan, Minnesota

Holiday Classic Champs. The Chanhassen 5B boys basketball team took first place defeating Waconia 39-18, St. Joe’s Waconia 53-23, and Orono in overtime 53-48 to win the Holiday Classic Tournament over the holiday break.

Front (l-r): Ben Khwice, Jake Tirevold, Matthew Baxter, Michael Olson of Victoria. Standing: Jimmy Killy, Peter Self, and Neal Smith. Missing: Drew Poppen. The team is coached by Pat Olson of Victoria and Mike Baxter.

Patti Taylor, CAA Basketball

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