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Vicki Nelson, Mankato, spent Labor Day weekend with her parents, Ray and Lois Nelson, who attended an annual meeting at MRCI with Vicki. They also attended "Bears" at the Sioux Falls CineDome Theater on Saturday. Aric Sundem, Maple Grove, spent the weekend in the home of his parents, Orval and Bonnie Sundem. Fran Sandager flew to Ft. Thomas, Ky., to attend the wedding of Lindsay Goehle, daughter of Jim and Chris Goehle, on Sept. 1. Edyth Briggs went to Luverne Tuesday of last week to attend a luncheon at Sharkee’s at which Doris Busby of Texas and Joyce Wessels and Lois Ahrendt, both of Luverne, attended. Lois Nelson, Al Berdahl and Stan Nelson played their 38th and final concert of 2003 with the Sioux Falls Municipal Band Saturday morning just outside the Washington Pavilion as a part of the Sidewalk Arts Festival. Jo Wulf, Herrick, S.D., and her parents, Sheldon and Ellie Sandager, motored to Ft. Thomas, Ky., to attend the wedding on Labor Day of the granddaughter of Leona Goehle, Lindsay Goehle and Henry Bronwyn of Hill City, S.D. Both the bride and groom are airplane pilots. En route, they stopped at an antique airplane center which sported a 1946 plane that Sheldon was permitted to take to the airway for a few minutes of flying. Wilmer and Betty Elbers went to New Hampton, Iowa, on Friday to attend the Honda Bike Rally.Ray and Lois Nelson were Sunday night dinner guests of Jean Hanson in Sioux Falls, along with her sister and husband, Jackie and Erling Linde, Moorhead. Erling was the former band director there for 30 years.Don and Edyth Briggs motored to Rochester to attend their Conclave of Sovereign Mason Order of the Temple of Jerusalem on Saturday and Sunday and the banquet following at Gaylord. It was the 50th anniversary of the Mason band which included 60 bands. Friday afternoon Joanne Goehle met her sister and husband, Carole and Marvin Gies, Gregory, S.D., in Sioux Falls and enjoyed lunch together and visiting. Marv and June Albers returned home Thursday from Salisbury, Mo., where they spent six days visiting Marv’s Army buddies.Joanne Goehle spent Saturday in the home of Mark and Brenda Hadler at Edgerton and on Sunday she visited in the home of Leanne and Steve Carmany and family in Tyler. Wendell and Kathryn Erickson attended the State Republican Convention in St. Cloud Saturday. Sunday they attended Wendell’s home church which his great-grandfather founded in 1866 at Stanchfield. Sunday afternoon they attended a legislative alumni meeting which included a cruise on the Mississippi River.Vicki and Jay Meier, Daniel and Meggie, Cedar Bluffs, Iowa, spent from Thursday until Sunday in the home of Duane and Marilyn Nelson. Vicki is the daughter of Wendell and Donna Marshall, former Hills residents when Wendell was superintendent at the Hills school.

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