PROBATE COURTDISTRICT COURT—COUNTY COURTPROBATE DIVISIONORDER AND NOTICE OF HEARING FOR FORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN SUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION AND NOTICE TO CREDITORSSTATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF ROCKIn Re: Estate ofAlbertus Koedam DeceasedTO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND CREDITORS:It is Ordered and Notice is hereby given that on the 3rd day of May, 2004, at 9:00 O’clock A.M., a hearing will be held in the above named Court at Rock County Courthouse, Luverne, Minnesota, for the formal probate of an instrument purporting to be the will of the above named deceased, dated August 11, 1997 and for the appointment of Marie Koedam whose address is 402 Central Lane, Luverne Mn. 56156, as personal representative of the estate of the above named decedent in supervised administration, and that any objections thereto must be filed with the Court. That, if proper, and no objections are filed, said personal representative will be appointed to administer the estate, to collect all assets, pay all legal debts, claims, taxes and expenses, and sell real and personal property, and do all necessary acts for the estate. Upon completion of the administration, the representative shall file a final account for the allowance and shall distribute the estate to the persons thereto entitled as ordered by the Court, and close the estate. Notice is further given that ALL CREDITORS having claims against said estate are required to present the same to said personal representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this notice or said claims will be barred. Dated: April 8, 2004 /s/Timothy K. ConnellTimothy K. ConnellDistrict Court Judge/s/ Daniel W. Vis /s/ Sandra L. VrtacnikDaniel W. Vis Sandra L. VrtacnikAttorney for Petitioner Court AdministratorEisma and Eisma130 East Main, Box 625Luverne, MN 56156(507)283-4828I.D. #271238(4-15, 4-22)

NOTICE OF MORTGAGEFORECLOSURE SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of that certain mortgage, dated the 15th day of April, 1999, executed by Sharon M. McClure, a single person, as mortgagor, to The First National Bank and Trust, as mortgagee, filed for record in the office of the County Recorder in and for the County of Rock, and State of Minnesota, on the 19th day of April, 1999, at 10:05 o’clock a.m., and recorded as Document No. 145420; and that thereafter the said mortgagee duly assigned the same to First National Bank of Luverne on the 20th day of November, 2000, and that said assignment was duly filed for record in the office of the County Recorder in and for the County of Rock, and State of Minnesota on the 24th day of July, 2001, at 10:40 a.m. and recorded as Document No. 150518; and that thereafter the said mortgagee duly assigned the same to Minnwest Bank Luverne on the 6th day of February, 2004, and that said assignment was duly filed for record in the office of the County Recorder in and for the County of Rock, and State of Minnesota on the 19th day of February, 2004, at 1:00 p.m. and recorded as Document No. 158135;That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that there has been compliance with all notice provisions and conditions precedent as required by law; and that the mortgagee or assignee has elected to declare the entire sum secured by the note and mortgage to be immediately due and payable as provided in the note and mortgage; That the original principal amount secured by said mortgage was Twenty-seven Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty and no/100 ($27,960.00) DOLLARS; That there is due and claimed to be due upon said mortgage, including interest to date hereof, the sum of Twenty-eight Thousand Sixty-seven and 36/100 ($28,067.36) DOLLARS, and the amount of tax paid by the mortgagee or his assignee on the lands hereinafter described in the sum of no/100 DOLLARS; And that pursuant to the power of sale therein contained, said mortgage will be foreclosed and the tract of land lying and being in the County of Rock, State of Minnesota, described as follows, to-wit: Lot 8, Block 4, in Blue Mound First Addition to the City of Luverne, Minnesota; and the West ten (10) feet of Lot 1, Block 2, in Blue Mound Second Addition to the City of Luverne, Minnesota; will be sold by the Sheriff of said county at public auction on the 6th day of May, 2004, at 11:00 o’clock a.m. at the west side steps to the Law Enforcement Center in the City of Luverne in said county and state, to pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements allowed by law, subject to redemption by the mortgagor, her personal representative or assigns within six (6) months from date of sale. Dated this 2nd day of March, 2004.Minnwest Bank Luverne, Mortgagee/s/ Jeff C. BraegelmannGISLASON & HUNTER LLPAttorneys for Mortgagee2700 South BroadwayP. O. Box 458New Ulm, MN 56073-0458Phone: 507-354-3111(3-11, 3-18, 3-25, 4-1, 4-8, 4-15)

Beaver Creek NewspapersThe following was printed in the Rose History in 1911:"The third newspaper founded in Rock County and the first of the five that have had an existence in Beaver Creek was the Beaver Creek Graphic. The little village on the Beaver had developed during the early ‘80s into a lively place and its citizens offered support to a paper which would champion its cause. A plant was installed, and on Aug. 27, 1885, appeared the Beaver Creek Graphic, founded by Charles Y. Knight and F.A. Knapp. The new journal started off like a winner and received liberal support during the early part of its history. Three months after its founding Mr. Knight sold his half interest to Rev. H.W. Knapp, and the publishing firm became H.R. Knapp & Son. They conducted the Graphic with indifferent success until January 1887 when Mr. Knight secured the interest of the elder Knapp and the founders of the paper again became the publishers. R. Knight becoming the editor. John Park, who had been in business in Beaver Creek, took charge of the paper in July 1887, and managed it until it suspended in September 1888, to be revived a few weeks later as the News-Letter. In opposition to the Graphic, on March 27, 1886, appeared the Beaver Creek Bee, published by the Beaver Creek Publishing company and edited by Col. Harrison White. The Bee was printed from the office of the Rock County Herald. After the election in November 1886, publication was suspended. Early in October 1888, Frank N. Robinson bought the old Graphic plant and commenced publication of the Beaver Creek News-Letter. He conducted it one year and then sold to Leon F. Carr. The News-Letter under Mr. Carr’s administration was ‘published for fame, not for lucre’ and succeeded in living under that motto until July 1890. Publication was then discontinued, the proprietor having received an offer of support for a paper at Sioux Center, Iowa. After a month spent in raising the mortgage from the plant, Mr. Carr moved it to the new location. For a little more than a year Beaver Creek was without a paper. Then A.B. Vines moved a plant from Highmore, S.D., and on Sept. 25, 1891, issued the first number of the Beaver Creek Magnet. For a time the Magnet drew well and in June 1892, was enlarged to a six-column quarto, in which form it was published until January 1897, when it was made a folio. Mr. Vines conducted the Magnet without much success or ability until August 1897,when he moved the plant to Rushmore and founded the Rushmore Magnet. The Beaver Creek Banner, the last paper founded in Beaver Creek, has had a life of eight years. This publication was started by Howe & Misener early in May 1903, as a six-column quarto. Lincoln Misener edited the paper until November 1905, when he departed and the plant was bought by O.J. Nash at a mortgage foreclosure sale. That gentleman conducted the paper until Feb. 16, 1906, when J. Roland Doan leased the plant and conducted the Banner until May 10 of the next year. The next two months Fred W. Gluck edited the journal. On July 5, 1907, A.E. Caldwell took charge of the paper for the Beaver Creek Publishing company, which was controlled by Finke & Nash, of Hills. Mr. Caldwell bought the Banner plant September 1907, and conducted the paper until February 1909. He was unsuccessful in putting the paper on a sound financial basis, and on Feb. 26 announced that the plant had passed into the hands of the following named Beaver Creek businessmen: S.L. Todd, F.E. Henton, E.C. Brooks, E.W. Timm, William T. Jennings, H. Ohs, J.C. Claussen and M.O. Page. Mr. Howe of Valley Springs, was employed to conduct the paper, which he did until April 9, 1909. At that time H.H. Peters, who had bought the plant a few weeks before, took possession and he has since presided over its destinies. He changed the form to a five-column quarto, added machinery and material, and has brought the Banner up to a prosperous condition. Donations to the Rock County Historical Endowment Fund can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.

A single news item on the radio got me reminiscing about a pivotal day in my life in 1995. The item concerned the sentencing of the mastermind of the gas poisoning of a Japanese commuter train in March of that year. Seven months following that event, I was on vacation and trekking toward a Japanese spiritual symbol — Mount Fuji. I had somehow over the years believed that I would find my spiritual oasis on Fuji amid my confusion about North American religions. I was to take a train from Omiya to Tokyo where I would transfer to the train to Shinfuji, the city near Mt. Fuji where Ms. Ishikawa (friend of a friend) would be my host. Instinct is required when traveling where no one speaks your language and words appear as chicken scratches, so it was more or less guesswork to find the proper track. Once aboard, I found myself shoulder-to-shoulder with businessmen clones and teenage students — no older men or women. Most of the businessmen were perspiring heavily, and Japanese culture denied them the temporary pleasure of removing their jackets or loosening their ties. Instead, they dabbed the perspiration from their faces with white hand towels. Monday morning may be identical around the world — no one smiled on my train this first morning of the work week. At each stop during rush hour, commuters queued up politely. But when the train doors opened, it was a free-for-all, whether you were a fragile woman or distinguished businessman. With strained expressions they rushed the door, pushing those ahead until they were getting their leverage at a 45-degree angle. It reminded an American of the musical chairs game at the chaotic point when the music stops. Meanwhile, the passengers on the train don't give any ground to the mass of onrushing commuters. I believe I managed to board effortlessly only because the politeness of the Japanese supersedes their crazed commuter dance. They recognized a tourist and parted as a "Yellow Sea." Even though we were packed in like sardines, there is no concern in Japan for pickpockets or wandering hands. As other commuter trains pass, I could see the sardines pressed against their windows, some looking grotesquely uncomfortable, others forced to awkwardly hug total strangers. In my car, I was King Kong. At 6 foot, 8 inches, I had an unimpeded view, a Mt. Fuji to the crushed populations below.On the train leaving a bustling Tokyo I found myself one of only a few travelers aboard. Beyond my window were the low mountains and hills of the lakes district of Japan. And then there it was — Mt. Fuji — a mass of volcanic rock halfway around the world that I had come to sanctify for some yet-inexplicable reason. But isn't much of our spirituality irrational? I was merely joining the rest of humanity, searching for a key to unlock my soul.The accommodating Ms. Ishikawa greeted me at the train platform and was soon pushing forward her car's front passenger seat so I could sit behind it for more legroom. I slipped my "Fodor's Travel Guide to Japan" into my backpack — why bother when you have a personal guide! The drive to Mt. Fuji to the departure point for my spiritual hike was 45 minutes. In that time I learned that my gracious host spoke very little English, but enough to relate that she had climbed to the very top twice before to see the sunrise — a very Japanese spiritual ritual. I had to wonder if Mt. Fuji would bring similar spiritual rewards to me? (Continued next week.)

A possible solution for some of the problems associated with aging has both literally and figuratively come to a head. However, one word of warning — what follows may be unsettling to some people. It might also remind others of Jonathan Swift’s "Modest Proposal," when the author suggested eating small children in times of famine. Case Western Reserve University researchers have revealed that cockroaches do not age gracefully. After the crawly creatures have lived about 60 weeks, they get stiff joints (necessary for climbing), and hardened footpads, making it impossible for them to stick to vertical surfaces. According to the Journal of Experimental Biology, one of the researchers, noticing that aged roaches seem incapable of escaping predators, reasoned that the problem might be brain-based. He tested his hypothesis by removing a roach’s head (along with the brain), and the roach once again was able to flee like a youngster. If we take the study one step further, we might clearly see that decapitation, or voluntary beheading, may be the answer to arthritis and the other conditions that keep us from being as active as we once were. Granted, it’s extreme and it may make us look shorter, but anything is worth a try. We may not want to stick to vertical surfaces, but living without stiff joints and being able to give predators the slip admittedly sound good. Before any of us do the Marie Antoinette thing and jump headfirst into this new solution, we should consider all of its possible side effects. On the negative side, we may not survive the ordeal. If we do, people will no longer say we’re a head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd. That’s it, plain and simple. However, surviving in an acephalous (fancy talk for headless, a word which might tend to make people squeamish) condition could improve our lives rather dramatically. We will no longer have to worry about paying for expensive makeup and face care products, losing earrings, balding or experiencing split hair ends. We will suddenly weigh less than we did before. Whether or not to have a facelift will no longer be a major decision in our lives. Headaches and head colds will be health problems and miseries of the past. We will no longer be expected to carry on half of a conversation in social situations. We may not be able to instinctively head off trouble before it happens, but we will definitely never find ourselves in problems over our heads. People will never be able to say that we’re headstrong. Not headstrong perhaps, but we may be out of our heads. Although we may never again be given a head start or have the possibility of winning by a nose, we will be able to dance and run like youngsters. When we think about it, there must be something to the well-worn expressions, "Losing one’s head" and "Running round like a chicken with its head cut off." However, there’s one thing we might really miss, in spite of the many headless benefits — falling head over heels in love. We would really miss that.

I would like everyone to take a brief moment and contemplate the life of a squirrel. You always see them scurrying about, scrambling for food, chasing up one tree and racing down another. Each one is desperately engaged in the frantic business of living. Then, BAM! Out of nowhere a car flies by and the squirrel lies dead on the road. In honor of National Library Week (April 18-24) let’s all learn a lesson from the squirrel. Quit scurrying about. Quit scrambling and chasing and racing through life. Take a moment. Take a deep breath. TAKE TIME TO READ. If you are a resident of Rock County, you can get a free library card. Many of your friends and neighbors already have one and they get the latest bestsellers, check out CDs, magazines, videos, and recorded books. They can surf the Internet, type a resume, send an e-mail. You can too, when you get a library card at the Rock County Community Library. Special Notice: In honor of Library Week there will be an Open House at the Hub Library located in Tuff Village on Sunday, April 18. It runs from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Garden Community Room, and snacks will be served. The Hub Library collection includes general fiction, books on cassette, large print books, and children’s books. If you don’t have a library card you can apply for one at Tuff Village. The Hub Library is open to the public from 9 to 11 a.m. the first and third Saturday of the month and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month. Stop in and see what they have. New on the fiction shelf at the Rock County Library is "The Art of Mending" by Elizabeth Berg. It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets, secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family’s restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness. Also new on the shelf is "Glorious Appearing" (#12 in the Left Behind Series) by Tim LaHaye. Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of Tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment. At the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem, nothing seems to be able to stop the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia. But God has another plan.

I would like everyone to take a brief moment and contemplate the life of a squirrel. You always see them scurrying about, scrambling for food, chasing up one tree and racing down another. Each one is desperately engaged in the frantic business of living. Then, BAM! Out of nowhere a car flies by and the squirrel lies dead on the road. In honor of National Library Week (April 18-24) let’s all learn a lesson from the squirrel. Quit scurrying about. Quit scrambling and chasing and racing through life. Take a moment. Take a deep breath. TAKE TIME TO READ. If you are a resident of Rock County, you can get a free library card. Many of your friends and neighbors already have one and they get the latest bestsellers, check out CDs, magazines, videos, and recorded books. They can surf the Internet, type a resume, send an e-mail. You can too, when you get a library card at the Rock County Community Library. Special Notice: In honor of Library Week there will be an Open House at the Hub Library located in Tuff Village on Sunday, April 18. It runs from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Garden Community Room, and snacks will be served. The Hub Library collection includes general fiction, books on cassette, large print books, and children’s books. If you don’t have a library card you can apply for one at Tuff Village. The Hub Library is open to the public from 9 to 11 a.m. the first and third Saturday of the month and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month. Stop in and see what they have. New on the fiction shelf at the Rock County Library is "The Art of Mending" by Elizabeth Berg. It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets, secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family’s restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness. Also new on the shelf is "Glorious Appearing" (#12 in the Left Behind Series) by Tim LaHaye. Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of Tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment. At the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem, nothing seems to be able to stop the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia. But God has another plan.

Village Voice:The hours of the library in the Garden Room at the Tuff Village are from 9 to 11 a.m. the first and third Saturday of the month and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday evening of the month. Come in and check out our selection of books available. We will celebrate National Library Week with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 18.Are you interested in planting a garden but have no space available? Tuff Home Village can help you. We have available garden plots 4x4. If interested contact Deb at 962-3500.Prairie Smoke Floral delivered a beautiful bouquet of flowers to Palma Sundem. The floral arrangement was sent from her granddaughter who lives in North Dakota. Palma is sharing the flowers in the dining room. We would like to thank her for sharing the flowers with us.Major league baseball season began on April 6. The tenants enjoy watching the Minnesota Twins play on television and are thankful these games are available on our television.Tuff Home notes: The Tuff Memorial Home and Tuff Village are planning to publish and sell a cookbook. Recipes are wanted for the cookbook which will be sold at our Fall Bazaar in November. Open submissions are accepted from tenants, residents, staff, family members and former staff members. Label the recipe with your name. Submissions need to be in by May 31 to allow time for proofing and printing. Sample contents to include: appetizers, sauces, beverages, breads, rolls, pastries, meat, main dishes, soup, salads, vegetables, bars, cookies, cakes, desserts, pies and misc.National Volunteer Week will be observed April 18 – April 24. There will be a volunteer dinner at 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 23, in the Activity Room. Anyone who has volunteered their time in any way at the nursing home are welcome and invited to attend. R.S.V.P. to Tuff Memorial Home by Tuesday, April 21. A volunteer is needed to deliver Hills Home Delivered Meals on Tuesday starting in the month of May. If interested contact Glenda McGaffee at 962-3275.Einar Thorin was admitted to the Luverne Community Hospital on Thursday and remains a patient there at the time of this printing. Our thoughts and prayers are with him at this time.Tuesday afternoon in place of our weekly Bible study a video of Pastor Raedeke from Beaver Creek Presbyterian Church was shown. Students from Hills Christian School presented their Easter program on Tuesday afternoon. Songs included in their program were: "Praise The Lord With The Sound of Trumpet," "Hosanna-Hosanna," "Christ The Lord Is Risen Today," "Easter Song," "The Wonderful Cross" and the "Hallelujah Chorus." We thank the students and their teachers for their gift of music. It touched the hearts of our residents and staff.A good number of volunteers assisted with manicures on Saturday morning. We thank our volunteers for helping with so many different projects. Be sure to mark your calendars and attend our volunteer dinner on Friday, April 23.Easter was observed at Tuff Home with a number of our residents going out and enjoying the day with their families. On Good Friday we had church services in our chapel with Pastor Dan Ramaker and Pastor Lowell Berg. Saturday residents enjoyed coloring eggs for Easter which were served for breakfast Sunday morning.We would like to thank the choir from Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Hills for providing the special music at our Easter church services on Sunday morning.

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.