Bruce Nelson, Brooklyn Center, and Vicki Nelson, Mankato, spent Easter weekend with parents, Ray and Lois Nelson.School news: Jodi Ackerman took her Hills-Beaver Creek vocal group to the small group music contest at Fulda last week. Tanja Zunic, foreign exchange student, sang a solo and received a superior rating. The group of four girls comprised of Sonja Elbers, Amanda Tilstra, Missy Streeter and Brittany Olson were rated high excellent. The accompanist was Amber Decker. Augustana Band and College-Community Concert Band presented their Spring Scholarship Concerts at Washington Pavilion last Wednesday night. They closed with a mass group of 155 members playing a Sousa march and Battle Hymn of the Republic. Lois Nelson and Al Berdahl are members of the latter group. Ray Nelson was in attendance. Gregory and Diana Spath, Wells, greeted friends in Hills Sunday. They had spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Spath, in Sioux Falls. There was a gathering in Sioux Falls on Saturday. Attending the gathering were Jill and Shawn Swenson, McKenzie and Macie of Luverne and Mike and Robin Spath and Madison of Hills. Roger and Ruth Jackson and son Lee spent Sunday at Roger’s mother, Muriel and Arnie Wadsworths, in Lake Norden, S.D., and also met Roger’s brother there from Porter. Jan Solberg went to Wheaton Wednesday to visit her mother, Hattie Watz. Also there was her sister, Carol and husband Bill Hutter, of Bay City, Mich. Jan returned home Friday.Charlene Vermeer recently returned home from Massachusetts where she attended the wedding of her sister. Charlene’s daughter, Beth, arrived here from Phoenix, Ariz., where she will spend a week visiting relatives and also friends in Sioux Falls.Easter guests Sunday in the home of Al and Judy Top were her sister, Carol Beck, Granite Falls, Jared and Kristin Van Maanen, Valley Springs, Mike, Melissa and Chanz Top, Sioux Falls, Mark Top and Mae Top.The Goehle families had their Easter Saturday in the Joanne Goehle home. Present were the Michele and Pat Nester family, Winona; Steve and Leanne Carmany and family, Tyler; Brenda and Mark Hadler and family, Edgerton; Tom Goehle; Dorothea Hamann; and Vivian Holst, Luverne. Easter guests in the home of Bob and Shirley Walraven were Sarah and Mark Dodge, Hartley, Iowa, Marie Walraven and Del. Easter Sunday guests of Bob and Twila Kirsch were Luke, Deb, Dylan and Alison Mathias, Heron Lake, Ted and Cindy Pohlman, Breann, Jessica and Riley, Lakefield, and Brian Kirsch, Sioux Falls. Joanne Goehle, accompanied by Dorothea Hamann, went to Tyler Friday to attend Elliot Carmany’s musical. Margaret Erickson and friend, Jose Lamas, Worthington, and Kirsten and Pat Anderson, Sioux Falls, were Easter dinner guests in the home of their parents, Wendell and Kathryn Erickson.Easter visitors in the home of Dick and Audrey Heidenson were their daughter, Jan and Mark Ausland, Teresa and Sean, Apple Valley. Their anniversary was Friday so all went out for dinner. Sunday the group spent the day at the Ray Heidenson home in Brandon. Orval, Bonnie and Ashley Sundem were Easter guests in the Dewey Dooyema home in Edgerton. Wilmer and Betty Elbers attended an Elbers family reunion at the Jake Willemsen home in Buellton, Calif. Harlan and Bonnie Kolsrud, Worthington, came Sunday and took Alice out for their Easter dinner. Vic and Fran Sandager and Jim and Louisa Sandager spent some time in Branson, Mo., and later Vic and Fran spent several days with Jim and family in West Des Moines, Iowa. They returned to Hills Sunday night.Dennis Roning entertained his family over the Easter weekend: his daughter, Deneise and Bill Swanson, Big Fork, and her children, Scott and family, Woodbury, Matthew and family, Duluth, Paul, Plymouth, and Dennis, New Hope.Wendell and Kathryn Erickson attended the 80th birthday party Saturday in Pipestone for Lorraine Johnson. They got acquainted when Lorraine’s daughter worked with Wendell in the Legislature. Easter guests in the home of Elden and Karen Soehl were their children, Dennis and Brenda Hoogeveen and family, Maple Grove, Craig and Tracy Soehl and family, Marshall, Stuart and Jean Soehl and family, Marshall, and Brad and Stephanie Baker and family, Rock Rapids. John Berdahl and fiancée, Tamme Williams, Rochester, spent Saturday and Sunday in the home of his parents, Al and Joan Berdahl. John will graduate from medical school on May 20 and the couple is planning a May 27 wedding.