Warren school kids swap letters with St. Joseph Health Center staff

WARREN — In an age of e-mail and text messaging, who could imagine that an old-fashioned letter would be the instrument to bring together students from an inner-city elementary school and staff from a community hospital.

That’s what happened this year, however, when St. Joseph Health Center’s mission committee sponsored a letter exchange between fourth-grade students at Horace Mann Elementary School and hospital employees.

Three sets of letters were exchanged — first Valentine’s Day greetings and, later, more thought-provoking themes, such as: “The luckiest thing to happen to me has been ...” which was scheduled around St. Patrick’s Day, and “What have you planted that has grown” for the spring.

For the complete story, see Wednesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com