Archive for Friday, August 6, 2010
Spaghetti dinner becomes special night for memories
Mitchell Jones, right, son of former Senior Center director Nancy Johnson, helps serves spaghetti Friday at the annual Senior Center Spaghetti Dinner. Also pictured are Elizabeth Hatfield, left, and Mike Walker.
August 6, 2010
As people began to fill the Fellowship Hall of the First Christian for the annual Senior Center Spaghetti Dinner, thoughts of the event's founder was on most of their minds.
The annual event, which raises money for scholarships to be given to Bonner Springs High School seniors, took place Friday night. Attending the event was Mitchell Jones, the son of Nancy Johnson, the former Senior Center director who died in March.
Johnson founded the event 20 years ago, and Jones said from the beginning of the night memories of his mother kept flooding back.
"It feels good to help out," Jones said. "We want to keep it going right just like mom would have."
This is the 20th anniversary of the all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner. In that time, the center has given about $13,000 to 27 Bonner Springs High School students.
"We look at the youth and say that's the future," said Senior Center board member Barbara Johnson.
For more about this event, see the Aug. 12 edition of the Chieftain.
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