Tess Louise, infant daughter of Jerad and Kris Van Maanen, Valley Springs, S.D., was baptized Sunday morning at services in Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Her sponsors were Justin Van Maanen and Mike Top. They were dinner guests along with the grandparents, Randy and Brenda Van Maanen and Alan and Judy Top, all of Hills; great-grandparents, Louise Stegemann, Cliff and Carrie Boom, all of Beaver Creek, and Mae Top, Hills. Also, Marv and Melissa Top and Chantz, Sioux Falls, and Pastor Lowell and Sonja Berg attended. Barry and Carla Helgeson, Amy, John and Peter, Shoreview, were in the area over the weekend visiting with friends. The adults also were in attendance at Barry’s high school reunion at Beaver Creek Golf Course.First Lt. Chris Schubbe, son of Steven and Flora Schubbe, San Diego, Calif., spent from Saturday until Monday morning with his grandmother, Erma Schubbe. He is being transferred from Maxwell Air Force Base in California to Mt. Home Air Force Base in Idaho. A time for reunionsCanadian relatives of the Opheim family came to Minnesota to be part of a reunion of Cherland relatives at a lake near the Twin Cities. Henrik Cherland from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, came first to Hills to visit his aunt, Evangeline Opheim, and cousins, Alan, Mark and Paul. Ruth Cherland Hilderman from Abbotsford, B.C., joined her brother, Rick, in Hills and they joined other family members at the resort near the Cities. More than 200 Cherland relatives came from various parts of the U.S. for the reunion. Afterward, Ruth Hilderman returned to Hills, together with her sister, Susan and her husband, Volker Griefenhagen, and their two sons, Isaac and Jacob.On July 7, Ruth Hilderman and her aunt, Evangeline Opheim, drove to Manhattan, Kan., for a two-day visit with Alicia Opheim (widow of Milton Opheim). They returned to Hills on Saturday and Ruth flew home to British Columbia on Sunday, July 11. Bonnie Olson, St. Paul, and Laurie Hynes, St. Louis Park, came Friday evening for a visit until Sunday afternoon with their mother, Luella Schlueter. Saturday morning they went to Canistota, S.D., to help decorate a Schlueter float which was entered in the parade at the annual Spot Day that afternoon. There were 24 Schlueter relatives riding the float and it took first prize in the family division. They also visited briefly with Clayton and Shirley Ziebarth. Clayton was a member of the Experimental Aircraft Assn. when George was a member and he was the chief pilot of the "Breezy" aircraft that was in the Hills parade one year. Later, there was a picnic supper at the Steve Schlueter place.Attending funeral services last Wednesday for Robert Larson, 77, at Armour, S.D., were Dennis Roning, Deneise Swanson and Scott, Paul and Mat Swanson.The H-BC high school class of 1979 had a reunion Saturday. Some members golfed in the afternoon and at 6 p.m. a dinner was served in Driver’s Restaurant at Beaver Creek Lodge. Nineteen members attended with the fartherest member, Linda Tilstra Gannon, coming from Blackduck. Lars and Cheryl (Boeve) Nielsen and children, Conner and Caitlin, returned to their home in Denmark Monday after spending two weeks in the home of her parents, Jim and Sharon Boeve. Lars was a foreign exchange student at the Mark and Karen Sandager farm. On Thursday of last week the family was entertained at supper in the Mark Sandager home. On Saturday morning Lars visited Vic and Fran Sandager. There were other get-togethers for them during the time spent here as well as celebrating Cheryl and Conner’s birthdays. Leona Goehle, Tyler, and her daughter Lorelee of California, were guests Friday afternoon in the Vic and Fran Sandager home.