Feb 17, 2008
Lions Club sweethearts' dinner reconnects seniors
“I'm amazed that they put this on”
HOWARD -- After 50 years it's hard to put a name with a face, but at the annual Sweetheart Dinner in Howard, there's plenty of time for remembering.
That's what Josephine Woodring was doing while she ate her turkey and ham dinner on Saturday at the event hosted by the Howard Lions Club.
Woodring and her sister Sara Jane Shearer, who are both Blanchard natives but now live in Pleasant Gap, scanned the crowd of 300 seniors to find old friends from school or the neighborhood.
'I've been away since 1956 when I got married,' Woodring said. 'They've changed a lot, but you know the face and you just have to figure out the name.' Read more
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