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GAZETTE

September 2012

by Sue Orsen

         As people across the nation suffered weeks of unbearable heat and humidity this summer, so too in this city of lakes and parks.  Temperatures were just beginning to finally subside as the Volksfest was arriving.  In fact, it dropped below 90 degrees for the Victoria event.  It was perfect timing.

         After more than two months of detours all the way from Hwy 41 in Chanhassen west to Stieger Lake Lane in Victoria, those three miles of Hwy 5 finally opened up.  It was Thursday, August 16th, when the detours became shorter.  Volksfest started on Friday, August 17th.  It was perfect timing.

         A sizeable number of people gathered on the shores of Stieger Lake in downtown Victoria on Saturday night, August 18th, to watch the fireworks.  Victoria fireworks!  Not Chanhassen or Waconia or Excelsior fireworks.  After the long hot summer of heat and heavy equipment, it was good to look up and let off steam.  It was perfect timing.

         Kids and parents and friends of all ages were ooohing and ahhhing for nearly a half hour as Victoria fireworks commanded center stage.  Sometimes they were accompanied by God's fireworks as thunder and lightning made guest appearances in the night sky.  The crowd recognized the amazing collaboration.  It was perfect timing.

         And then people clapped and screamed as the grand finale burst brilliant over the lake.  Drops of rain began to slowly touch the evening during the finale, but only when the barge out in the middle of the lake -- from which the fireworks were shot -- was dark and the crowd was dispersing did it really decide to pour.  The show was over.  It was perfect timing.

 

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Perfect Timing

Paul and Tracey Douglas of Prior Lake, left, with their twins Chase and Tanner; Kelly and Tom Becker of Victoria, right, with son Casey in the Gap.