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Dick and Audrey Heidenson returned home Tuesday after spending five days at the resort home of their son, Steve, at Battle Lake. Jill Kolsrud, Charlotte, N.C., visited her grandmother, Alice Kolsrud, Thursday afternoon.Wendell and Kathryn Erickson spent from Wednesday, June 23, through Tuesday, June 29, in the home of their daughter, Anna and Mike Gilman, Eden Prairie. Sunday, June 27, they attended the 50th wedding anniversary of Wendell’s brother and wife in Coon Rapids. Wilmer and Betty Elbers joined relatives at a gathering Saturday evening at the Edgerton Park to greet Lee and Renee DeBoer of Boulder City, Nev. Evangeline Opheim’s niece and nephew, Ruth Hilderman, British Columbia, and Rick Cherland, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, came Thursday for a visit and left Friday for the Cities to visit relatives of the Cherland family.Wendell and Kathryn Erickson went to Worthington on Sunday, the 4th, to take in the celebration at Prairie Village.Chuck and Rheta DeBoer attended the 4th of July parade at Inwood Saturday. Monday night friends from their church came for a picnic. Mae Top’s niece, Linda Ziegahn and husband, stopped to visit overnight Saturday. They were moving from California to Ohio. To visit with them, Bill and Judy Top, Sibley, Iowa, Jim and Gerry Sandstede, Luverne, and Allan and Judy Top, Hills, came. On Sunday for dinner were Allan and Judy Top, Jared, Kristen and Tess VanMaanen, Valley Springs. Vi Thompson, Springfield, Mo., a sister-in-law of Evelyn Rogness, and her daughter, Dawn Olney, Kansas City, Kan., spent from Tuesday until Friday of last week with Evelyn. Lexia DeWit, Sioux Falls, was a last week Wednesday visitor in the home of her parents, Cliff and Vi VanWyhe. Steve and Robie Horsman had a neighbor picnic supper at their home Sunday, the 4th of July. Also present was their daughter, Kally Horsman, Steen.Noreen and Gary Greves, Verona, Wis., came to Hills and along with Harriet Skattum, on June 26, to visit relatives and enjoyed a reunion at Volga, S.D. Harriet spent over the 4th in the home of her daughter, Margo and DeWayne Edwards, Forestburg, S.D.Weekend visitors in the home of Howard Hoyme were his son, Neal and wife, Kathy, of Pierre, S.D.Anita Rogers, cousin of Faith DeBoer, Cypress, Calif., spent two weeks here and have returned home. While here she and Faith went to Harmony to visit the Amish colony, saw a play put on by the Calumet Players, "Sound of Music," and attended Jesse James’ Days at Garretson, S.D., while also visiting relatives and friends. Sunday evening, the 4th of July, Jim and Gerry Sandstede, Luverne, took their mothers, Mae Top and Florence Sandstede, to supper and fireworks in Flandreau, S.D.

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