Baccalaureate service for the Hills-Beaver Creek seniors was Sunday afternoon at the Hugo Goehle Gym in Hills with Michael Blank of Beaver Creek as the speaker. Commencement exercises will be Friday, May 25.Daryl and Jane Schubert, Clare and Isaac, arrived in Hills Saturday after completing a six-year term as missionaries in Shinyanga, Tansanzia. They will spend some time in the area before moving on to other commitments. Tuesday noon dinner guests in the Wilmer Elbers home were Ron and Faith Talsma of Artesia, Calif., Ed and Iva Elbers, Luverne, Alvina Kroese, Hull, Iowa, and Ruth Verbrugge, Worthington. Wendell and Kathryn Erickson and Evangeline Opheim attended the dinner and program last Wednesday, May 17, Syttende Mai Day at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls. The speaker for the evening was Dr. Kathleen Stokker from Decorah, Iowa. The Sioux Valley Singers sang. Also on the program was the opera singer, Emily Lodine. Tuesday evening Betty Elbers attended the Middle School band concert at Brandon, S.D., where her grandson, Mitchell Elbers, was a trumpet player. She also attended the choir concert at Washington High School in Sioux Falls in which her granddaughter Kelsi, daughter of Darwin and Kim Elbers, was a participant. Dean and Peggy Goettsch, joined by her mother, Helen Schoen, Albert Lea, attended the wedding of a friend of the family on Sunday at New Richland. Anna Schoenberg, Henrietta Schouwenburg, and Lucille Schouwenburg attended the 3:30 p.m. wedding of Ashley Gacke and Anthony Bartholomaus at the First Presbyterian Church in Luverne Saturday. The bride is the daughter of Kurt and Joni Gacke, Luverne.Wednesday noon Betty Elbers joined others at the Luverne Pizza Ranch to celebrate the birthday of Betty Boeve, of Luverne. Friday, Betty accompanied the Valley Springs Elementary School on their field trip to the zoo in Omaha, Neb. Don Schouwenburg is at his home in Luverne recuperating from surgery last week.