Dinner Table at the Friendship House
The College Heights Friendship House hosted one of the events for the recent Abilene Dinner Table.
About a dozen friends and neighbors gathered at the College Heights Friendship House on Saturday evening, January 24, for the fifth annual Abilene Dinner Table. The evening was sponsored by Connecting Caring Communities.
"We were so excited to be able to host one of the tables," said Dusty Garison, College Heights Community Coordinator. "It was a delight to be able to open our home to a cross-section of the community and meet new friends."
The group enjoyed a delicious meal of roast beef with potatoes and carrots, green salad, fruit salad, and hot rolls, and hot fudge sundae cake and ice cream for dessert; while they ate they discussed issues facing the Abilene community.
Partcipants agreed that one of the things they enjoyed about living in Abilene was the convenience of light traffic and a friendly community. They also praised community leaders for being generally forward-thinking, and looking ahead to future needs.
Dinner-goers also identified some of the challenges facing Abilene, including crime problems in some neighborhoods, as well as the isolation some segments of the community face. Everyone agreed that events like Abilene Dinner Table were helpful in bringing the community together and looking for solutions.
The Friendship House event was just one of many venues across Abilene where Dinner Table meetings were taking place. About 115 people at 15 separate locations took part in the evening's activities. For more on the dinner at the Friendship House, click here to see the video story from the Abilene Reporter News website (will open in a new window).