A boy, Gavin Blake, weighing 7 pounds 14 ounces, was born Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, at Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D., to Jason and Suzanne Johnson, Beaver Creek. He joins a brother, Quentin, 20 months old. Grandparents are Alverne and LaRay Johnson, Jasper, and Kerry and Janet Lutter, Beresford, S.D.Beth Sandager left Hills last Monday and the Cities on Tuesday for San Jose, Calif. There she is taking a course in Spanish and working part-time in a hardware store where she meets the customers and which helps to improve her Spanish vocabulary.Brian Kirsch was a Sunday dinner guest in the Bob and Twila Kirsch home.Chuck DeBoer, joined by others from the Sioux Falls American Reformed Church, left Monday for Pella, Iowa, where they will be attending Classis meetings.Bob and Twila Kirsch motored to Okabena Friday to attend basketball games of their children. Riley Lentz accompanied them back to Hills to spend until Monday there.School was not in session Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Day. The teachers had an in-service meeting.