100 Yr Old Nebraskan Notices KC Irish Dancer
I know some of you like to know anything remotely Irish that moves in Kansas City circles, so you’ll probably be interested to know that in a feature in American Profile 100 year old Mildred Heath of The Beacon-Observer newspaper in Overton, Neb. (pop. 646), was reported taking note of a young Irish dancing visitor from Kansas City.
Heath has been reporting on the news in Overton for an astonishing 70 years (she was a late starter).
Shortly before noon each weekday, she locks up the office and drives her scooter to the Overton Community Center for lunch. After a meal last spring, 8-year-old Kelsey Scanlon of Kansas City, MO, performed some Irish dances for the senior citizens. Kelsey was visiting her great-grandparents Bob and Jean McTygue of Overton.
Heath took out her paper and pen and said to her tablemates, “I’ll need to get something about this for the paper.”
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