Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Serious crime almost never happens here; crack and heroin come to town only on TV news shows. Boasts the mayor, Thelma Bisenius: "This is a place where you don't have to lock your door and you can let your children come into downtown alone." Clay Center citizens care about one another, and about outsiders too. The 55-member Rotary Club has raised $30,000 in three years to help administer polio vaccinations around the world. In short, this should be an idyllic place to live. Yet something is wrong here. Clay Center (pop. 4,700) has lost hundreds...
...started my class because the person who used to teach it got ill. People said to me, 'Why don't you teach the class? You like music.' So now I do," says Thelma Tyndall, who teaches a class called Music in our Lives. "Sometimes people ask me why I'm qualified to teach a class in music appreciation, and I just say, 'I like music and I like people. That makes me qualified...
...File on Thelma Jordan...
...Paschal's, near downtown, a coffee shop and restaurant that has been a meeting place for black politicians since the early '60s, where the fried chicken is at its crackling, greaseless best. Also dependably authentic are Mary Mac's, a huge and casual midtown restaurant, and the seedily relaxed Thelma's Kitchen, which is within walking distance of the Omni Arena. Careful eaters, however, should avoid two hyped, touristic embarrassments: the schmaltzy, pricey Pittypat's Porch and the dank, depressing Aunt Fanny's Cabin...
...memorial service for Thelma K. Letteney, former assistant dining hall manager in Quincy House will be held today at 2 p.m. at St. John's Methodist Church in Watertown...