A Raleigh senior’s dream-date with an old flame – Today in Triangle history

A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.

On this day in 2010, a 79-year-old resident at a Raleigh assisted living center took a limousine ride to see “Annie” in downtown Raleigh, part of a new monthly program to grant a dream for one lucky senior.

Asked by the staff from Elmcroft at Northridge, Joanne Strickland confessed that all her life she wanted to see a Broadway play — and while she was at it, see an old flame from 60 years ago, a blind date she called her first love…

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