Sheldon and Ellie Sandager returned from South Africa to spend overnight in the Cities and returned to Hills, Thursday, March 16, after attending the wedding of their grandson, Sheldon Norton and Desirae Valnes. Desirae is from Luverne where her parents, Curt Valnes and his wife Kellie, live.Sheldon is the son of Jo Wulf and Fraser Norton. Also attending were Gene and Shirley Sandager, Brittany and Kelly, Hills, Jo and Floyd Wulf, Herreid, S.D., the groom’s sister, Carolyn Norton, Sioux Falls, S.D., his brother, Andrew, and his father, Fraser Norton, Roseau. The wedding was at Kingswood Chapel in Grahamstown, South Africa, where the couple resides. Sheldon works for the Cargill Company there. Sheldon and Ellie also got to see some of their former exchange students who came from that area and also spent a couple of days in Johannesburg, S.A. Melvin and Violet Hecht drove to Howard, S.D., Sunday to visit her brother, Chester Erland, 95, who is a resident of the assisted living center, the Whispering Winds, where Jim Iverson Jr., a former Hills resident is the administrator. They also visited Violet’s cousin’s wife, Martha Abrahamson, at the assisted living center in Madison, S.D. Martha is 100 years old. Dick and Audrey Heidenson and Wendell and Kathryn Erickson attended the U.S. Army jazz band at the Orpheum Theatre in Sioux Falls on Tuesday, March 15. Chuck and Rheta DeBoer attended the 90th birthday party Saturday afternoon for Jessie Dykstra in Worthington. Luella Schlueter spent from Thursday until Sunday in the home of her son, Gerry and Sue Schlueter, at Lake Park. Gerry belongs to the Great Plains men’s chorus in Fargo, N.D., and she got to hear this chorus sing at the Waterford Home in Fargo Friday night. Then Saturday she attended the afternoon and evening performances of the "Skipper’s Chorus" of Detroit Lakes of which her son is a member. This was at the historic Holmes Theater in Detroit Lakes where a special guest quartet, called Downstate Express, was performing. This group consists of members from the Wabasha, Winona, and Rochester areas in Minnesota and one who just moved to Indianapolis. They recently won the International Seniors quartet championship in Biloxi, Miss. Gerry likes barbershop singing. Dick and Audrey Heidenson attended the Side Street Strutters jazz band at Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls Sunday night. Wendell Erickson was among many of the Rock County rural board members who attended the District’s 25th anniversary on Thursday, March 17, at Sharkee’s. Wendell was on the steering committee that helped get Rural Water in our communities, and he was the speaker of the evening.
