Henry Carpenter, a Lincoln High School junior, launched the Memory Care Connections pen pal club after volunteering at Emerson House, a memory care facility in Southeast Portland. He wanted to ...

Ruth Russell, 75, has never met the woman she exchanges letters with once a month. But over the past two years, the pair have forged a friendship through handwritten notes, postcards, photos and ...

with the serviceman sending his pen pal birthday cards, a book about Vietnam and even a doll that was inscribed with their names. “Just to see something that came from Vietnam at that time ...

ON WEDNESDAY, SHE GOT THE CHANCE TO MEET HER PEN PALS IN PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME AS THEY CELEBRATED HER 95TH BIRTHDAY. THAT WAS FUN. I LIKED THAT BECAUSE I KNOW DIFFERENT THINGS ABOUT EACH ONE ...

Henry Carpenter, a Lincoln High School junior, launched the Memory Care Connections pen pal club after volunteering at Emerson House, a memory care facility in Southeast Portland. He wanted to ...