By DORA UNRUH

Northwest of Durham correspondent
(620) 732-2647

Wendell and Linda Wedel returned home Thursday evening after spending 10 days in California. They visited their daughter, Maria, and Newt Jantz and Gavin at Livingston, and Linda’s sister, Janet, and Junior Giesbrecht at Glenn.

Guests for Sunday dinner at the home of Ransom and Lillian Wiebe were Wendell and Linda Wedel, Doug and Starla Koehn, Anthony and Beth Wiebe and Tylan, Katie Unruh, Sarah Peachy, Beth Koehn, Katie Stutzman, Jana Wiebe, Kendall and Susie Wiebe, and Dale Jantz.

Bruce and Cheryl Dirks, Ruston and Lydia Dirks, and Marlin and Bethany Wiebe with the Sheldon Smith family, Monty and Bonnie Smith and Molly, Mitch and Katie and twins, Sarah Smith and a friend, had dinner together Easter Sunday with their mother, Verna Smith, near Hutchinson.

Gene and Jaraine Redger had their family for dinner Easter Sunday at their house.

The Melvin Dirks family had a post-Easter dinner Sunday at the home of Chris and Jodie Ratzlaff. Enjoying the dinner were Melvin and Vera, Bruce and Cheryl Dirks, Gavin and Donnalee Johnson of Texahoma, Texas, Howard and Charlene Becker, Brad and Joyce Dirks, Ashley, Misty, and Josh, Ty and Karmetta Johnson, Ruston and Lydia Dirks, and Marlin and Bethany Wiebe.