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Well if it has to do with winning $250, it is!

Just released is the first clue for the first ever Volksfest Medallion Hunt. Victoria residents should recieve postcards today or tomorrow with this clue.

Put on your thinking caps (your GPS device if you are directionally challenged) and see how well you think you know downtown Victoria. If you've never ventured downtown, well, it's about time, doncha think? Thre's $250 with someone's name on it.

Clue 1

Here are highlights of two of Volksfest’s great events coming up
on Sept. 20!

By Unsie Zuege

The backhoe looked like a mechanical tyrannosaurus, its metal
bucket head  dipping menacingly at  the roof of the blue house on Quamoclit
Street. And then it struck, clumsily but
effectively, crushing the worn leaky roof and then the walls. Within a half
hour all that was left was rubble and piles of splintered walls, concrete and
brick.

Victoria seniors
will have a picnic Wednesday, July 16 at the Victoria Lions Shelter 1. Card
playing begins at 4 p.m. and a pot
luck follows at 5:30 p.m. Bring a
dish to share; stay for the Concert in the Park featuring the Minnesota Valley
Community Band at 6:30 p.m.

  The city of Victoria General Election is Tuesday, Nov. 4. The following city council offices are up for election:

  Mayor—One (2) term beginning Jan. 1, 2009 and ending Dec. 31, 2010. Current mayor is Mary Hershberger Thun whose term ends Dec. 31 of this year.

The Chaska Area Chamber of Commerce, Chanhassen Area Chamber of Commerce and
Victoria Chamber of Commerce boards of directors recently voted to disband and
create a new regional Chamber of Commerce.

“This was a decision we took very seriously and considered very carefully,”
stated Lon Hand, current board chair of the Chaska Area Chamber of Commerce, in
a press release.

By Linda McNulty