Don and Edyth Briggs returned to Hills last Wednesday after spending about a month in California. They visited Don’s brother, Rod Briggs, in Seal Beach, Calif., Joyce Brooks and also Jack Winter in Escondido, Calif., also a cousin, Helen Weitman, in Arizona and Willi Mae and Bob Bance. Ray Nelson has recently received word his niece, Connie Astrup, Howick, South Africa, has resigned her duties as manager of a nursing home due to poor health. Her sister, Evangeline Murphy, Fox River Grove, Ill., has flown there for a visit. Fran Sandager and Beth Sandager enjoyed dinner out Saturday night and then attended the ice show at Blue Mound Ice Arena in Luverne. Friday afternoon guests of Mae Top were Vernon and Annet Wiese, Sioux Falls, S.D. Evening guests were Jerad, Kristen and Tess Top, Valley Springs, S.D.Chuck and Rheta De Boer spent the weekend in the home of David and Bonnie Fagrey in Rapid City, S.D.Tuesday Cliff and Vi Van Wyhe visited her brother, Mervin Warner, at Fellowship Village in Inwood, Iowa, and her uncle and aunt, Elmer and Leona Warner, in Rock Rapids, Iowa. Mae Top attended the baptism for her great-grandson, Dylan James Top, in Sibley, Iowa, on Sunday. He is the son of Kelley and Shannon Top. Sunday night, Ray and Lois Nelson attended the opera, "Carmen," at Washington Pavilion. Lois and Twila Kirsch took in the Quatrocelli performance there on Thursday night.