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Keith and Marj Hellie of Detroit Lakes were recent visitors of Don and Edyth Briggs. Bob and Twila Kirsch attended the piano recital Sunday at Shalom Farm in the Windom area in which their granddaughter, Jessica Lentz, participated. Luella Schlueter returned to Hills last week Monday from the Cities where she spent the weekend with her daughters and their husbands, Bonnie and Brian Olson and Laurie and John Hynes and family. Saturday night she was present at the Hynes home when John celebrated his 50th birthday. Sunday she, along with others, attended the baptism of her great-grandson, Shawn Ryan, at Northwood Lutheran Church in Plymouth. He is the son of Ryan and Kelli Lokeman and grandson of Gerry and Sue Schlueter. Kris and Kelly Schleuter were sponsors. Sunday, April 30, Chuck and Rheta DeBoer attended the baptism of their granddaughter, Maggie Ann Hofman, at the Cornerstone United Reformed Church in Sanborn, Iowa. She is the daughter of Seth and Susan Hofman, Melvin, Iowa. The Rev. Jeff and Karen DeBoer and children of Garner, Iowa, spent Sunday night, April 30, in the Chuck and Rheta DeBoer home. Jo Wulf and Ellie Sandager motored to the Cities Thursday and on Friday attended the graduation service at the University of Minnesota in which Jo’s son, Andrew Norton, was a graduate. Saturday they attended a Rugby game when the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota alumni team played. Andrew played on the university team while his brother, Sheldon Norton of Amarillo, Texas, played on the alumni team of Minnesota as he also is a graduate. They also visited with the Merle Muckala’s and Nita Johnson and Carolyn Schubbe Randall at Stillwater and the Lee Sandagers at Marine On St. Croix. Audrey Heidenson was a guest of Martha Bakken Friday night at the Mother-Daughter banquet at Palisade Lutheran Church. Ida Langstraat of Hawarden, Iowa, was a Sunday dinner guest of Fran Sandager. John Sandager, Colorado Springs, Colo., spent a few days with his mother, Fran, and also with the Mark Sandagers. Madison Ray, daughter of Jesse and Karin Gaugler, was baptized Sunday, April 30, at services in Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Her sponsor was Jesse’s sister, Sarah Gaugler, of Almont, N.D. Present were Jesse’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Gaugler, and Eric and Amy Gaulger of Hensler, N.D., who also spent the weekend here. Also celebrated was the Gauglers’ daughter, Leanna, who was two years old on Saturday, April 29.

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