For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face. The pen pal ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- An important field trip for a group of Pearson's Corner Elementary School second graders to Hermitage Richmond Senior Living began with a serenade. But the point of the trip was for ...

After writing as pen pals since the first of the year, 51 Willett Elementary fourth-graders and their “senior buddy pen pals” at nearby Atria Covell Gardens exchanged gifts and letters in person for ...

The lost art of letter writing was recently revived in Pomeroy Living senior living communities, providing a technology-free way for senior citizens to connect with people of all ages. “I decided to ...

One of the teachers, Donna Arntson, retired in 1985 when the term "tick-tock" only referred to the sound of a clock hanging on a wall rather than an entire subculture. Katie Van Sickle, a retired ...

Jan. 7—LEWISBURG — The Lewisburg Senior Center launched a program in the new year to have the older patrons become penpals with sixth grade students from North Dakota. BJ Smith, the manager of the ...

Bridges Community School fourth grader Mollie Miller and her senior volunteer pen pal Mick Emehiser might be years apart in age, but since they started writing this past fall, they’ve found out they ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The third graders at West Tualatin View Elementary in the Beaverton School District have been writing back and forth with a group of seniors all year. “We’ve just been writing notes ...

Be a Pal provides pen pals to seniors in assisted living facilities in the Brainerd lakes area. The nonprofit began in December 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. There are five facilities ...

MEREDITH: IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A NEW HOBBY, BECOMING A PEN PAL IS A GREAT OPTION ESPECIALLY FOR OUR SENIORS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. JOINING US THIS MORNING IS DRAEB FOSCOLO FROM HOME INSTEAD ORLANDO. HOW ...