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Sixteen youngsters gathered Saturday at Rez Park to take in the contest along with some 10 parents. Cody Fox of New Ulm presented the Minniaqua Program sponsored by the State along with the Sports Boosters which includes members from Beaver Creek, Hills and Steen. Cody explained to the kids the different kinds of fish. The kids tried their luck at pulling them in and caught small crappies, perch and bullheads which were mostly turned back into the water. A good time was had by all.Mae Top and Fae Aukes visited their cousins, Kenneth and Frances Lutz, in Sioux Falls Wednesday. Friday Fae left to visit friends in the Wheaton area. Wilmer and Betty Elbers attended the Boeve family gathering Saturday afternoon at Pipestone City Park. In the evening they attended the 50th wedding anniversary of Henry and Marlys Van Aartsen at Okoboji, Iowa.Chuck and Rheta DeBoer enjoyed dinner together Sunday with Jeremy and Rachel Van Beek of Doon, Iowa. Last week Chuck and Rheta spent the week in Rapid City, Iowa, with their daughter and husband, the Rev. David and Bonnie Fragery and family.Edyth and Don Briggs left for Springfield, Ill., on Aug. 3. Along the way they made stops in Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids and Dubuque, Iowa, and Galena and Moline, Ill., before reaching Springfield. They attended the Grand Session of the Universal Craftsman Council of Engineers. On Wednesday, Aug. 9, they had tours of the new Lincoln Museum, the Lincoln home, and the old State Capital Building. Thursday Don was installed as the Grand Chaplain of the group for the ensuing year. They returned home Friday, Aug. 11. Stacey Bommersbach and girls of Detroit, Mich., and Kent Kolsrud and girls of Sioux Falls brought noon lunch Wednesday to the home of Alice Kolsrud and enjoyed their meal together.Maxine Lorence and Janet Slater, Minneapolis, came Friday to spend until Saturday in the home of their aunt, Evelyn Rogness. Friday they helped Evelyn celebrate her 92nd birthday.The John Sandager family of Colorado Springs, Colo., the Jim Sandager family of West Des Moines, Iowa, the Mark Sandager family of Hills, the Daryl and Jane Schubert family and Fran Sandager spent all of last week vacationing at Lake Ida near Alexandria.Alan and Bonnie Leenderts and Tracie Brower and children visited in the Aric Leenderts home at Rosemount. Saturday they went to Thomas Train at Stillwater.

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