Supportive Shoes and People Make Dancing Possible
Billy Maxey hamming it up in style, as usual. Escorted by his wife Elaine. PHOTO | Greg Wells
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By Greg Wells
CCN–Editor
There was a prom last Friday in Burkesville. The attendees were in fancy dress, music played, and pictures were taken to remember the event. The only difference between this prom and the one at the high school was that this one took place at the Cumberland Valley Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation.
Burkesville’s Opportunity Store donated dresses and accessories for the ladies and gentlemen, and the Salvation Army donated a red carpet with the stanchions and the velvet rope. Staff members even donated their time, getting participants ready, organizing things, and helping to get that party started.
There were reportedly giggles as ladies told each other about who invited who to the dance.
Family, young and old, came to take pictures and visit with their prom-going grandparents.
And there was dancing, and punch, and oh but it went on for, well, a couple of hours or so.
There were those rarest and most precious of things, such as this smile and that bit of laughter, as those who live there enjoyed some bits of time like those before they lived there, all because those who see to them now tried their best to care for them.
