Surprise visitors at the home of Mae Top on the 4th of July included cousins Mr. and Mrs. Richard Forde, Greenview, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lutz, Sioux Falls, S.D., and Millie Lutz, Omaha, Neb.Enjoying dinner Tuesday night at the home of Harlan and Bonnie Kolsrud in Worthington were Andy and Stacey Bommersbach and girls, Kent and Paula Kolsrud and girls, all of Sioux Falls, David and Char Kolsrud and Chris, Beaver Creek, and Alice Kolsrud, Hills. Alyce McClure, Luverne, visited Mae Top on Thursday, July 7.Don and Edyth Briggs traveled to Detroit Lakes on Tuesday, July 5, to visit Marge Hellie, who was in the hospital there with a hip replacement. On Wednesday, Don and Edyth attended a funeral for a friend in Fergus Falls and returned home to Hills that day. Marvin and June Albers celebrated the first birthday of their great-granddaughter, Tabitha, of Sioux Falls on July 4. Her parents, Jeremy Albers and Judy Garretson and boys were also guests.Cliff and Vi VanWyhe, Hills, celebrated Cliff’s birthday in Sioux Falls on Sunday, July 10, with son Tom and grandson Matthew VanWyhe, daughter, Lexia and girls, Lyndsey and Ashley DeWit, all of Sioux Falls, and son, Steve and Justin VanWyhe, Steen.Don Briggs participated in the parade in Valley Springs, S.D., with the El Riad Big Band on Saturday. After the parade there was a get-together at George Gulson’s home west of Brandon, S.D., which Edyth and Don attended. A daughter, Anna Marie, weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces, was born to the Rev. Jeff and Karen DeBoer, Garner, Iowa, on June 28. She joins two older brothers, Josiah, 4, and Micah, 2. Grandparents are Chuck and Rheta DeBoer, Hills, and the Rev. Mark and Corrie Zylstra, Allendale, Mich. Great-grandparents are Frank and Berdella DeBoer, Hills.Saturday, July 9, Chuck and Rheta DeBoer and Berdella DeBoer, all of Hills, and Allen and Mary Van Raalte, Larchwood, Iowa, traveled to Sioux City, Iowa, where they attended the wedding of Mark DeBoer, Hills, and Kelly Tucker, Sioux City, Iowa. Lynwood Johnson, who formerly lived in our area, is a patient at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls.