Skating through the past: ‘Rink rats’ reconnect through social network
July 15, 2011 at 6:49 am in Worthington Daily Globe
WORTHINGTON When Mavis Walbran began to read the comments that had been posted on the Silver Skate Reunion Facebook site, she got a bit choked up.
“It just overwhelmed me,” she said. “Actually, I was in tears when I read it all.”
The Walbran family Mavis and her ex-husband Bob and their children, Pat and Brenda owned and operated the Silver Skate roller skating rink in Worthington from 1977 to 1985. The Facebook site was started as a way for people who used to hang out there to reconnect. One of the social networking participants shared the link with Brenda, who passed it along to her mother.
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