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Many families gathered in honor of Father’s Day on June 17. Travis and Sharon Koehn invited Clayton and Betty Wiebe and Wayne and Loralee Wiebe and family to be their dinner guests.
The Gene Redger family came home to the farm for a cookout on Father’s Day.
The Isaac Dirks family annual reunion was June 17 at Sugar Creek School near Galva. The Gus Dirks family members were the hosts. There was a good turnout for the potluck dinner.
Calla Wengar prepared supper June 16 in the Bruce Dirks home. Her guests were Bruce and Cheryl, Ransom and Lillian Wiebe, and Wendell and Linda Wedel.
Jasper and Joni Zeiset were weekend guests of their parents, Mark and Kris Wiebe.
Ron and Dora Unruh had a hamburger cookout June 17. Guests were Jim and Brenda Enns, Lon and Deb Hiebert and Matt, Mark and Barb Unruh and Sarah, Warren and Anita Unruh and Nathan, Kyle, and Jenna, and Darren and Corina Enns.
Guests for dinner June 17 at the home of Doyle and Kara Wiebe were Ken and Sandy Wiebe, Teresa Wiebe, and Terry and Robin Schultz. Terry is doing some brick work at Cottonwood Grove Christian School.
Roy and Nadine Davis went to Clarksdale, Miss., for the weekend of June 17. They attended the wedding reception of Larry and Eileen Schmidt.
In honor of Children’s Day on June 10, the Gene Redger family had a potluck dinner in Newton.
Dinner guests of Merlin and Karletta Wiebe, Jana, and Janessa on June 17 were Ransom and Lillian Wiebe, Anthony and Beth Wiebe and family, Kendall and Susie Wiebe and Abigail, and Leonard and Dianne Peachy and Tyrel. Jana came home June 12 from California where she had been teaching. She will soon leave for Rochester, Minn., to do some volunteer work at a hospital.
Jasper and Joni Zeiset, Kris Wiebe, Karalee, Lance, Luke, and Kayla joined Ransom and Lillian Wiebe on June 18 at Main Street Café.