"If you felt the ground shake and the wind blow with a kind of 50s sound here in Hart, you were not mistaken. What you heard was over 50 adrenaline-filled, full-of-life residents of the Oceana County Medical Care Facility singing, stomping their feet and enjoying the music of Elvis Presley and Patsy Cline," OCMCF Recreation Therapy Director and Volunteer Coordinator Heather Wathen recounted.
At 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 8, Elvis took the stage at the OCMCF. "Decades vanished, memories floated like butterflies, and the room was transformed to yesterday as those present were in a malt shop, riding in a car and 'I Can’t Stop Loving You' filled the air accompanied by screaming females shouting, 'Elvis, Elvis, Elvis,' Wathen explained. "And then, into the room - believe me - Patsy Cline began to sing, 'Crazy for trying, crazy for crying,' when a backup choir of mixed voices began to sing, smiles reappeared, hands clutched their hearts and the room was filled with the 1950s."
She added that some eyes filled with joyful tears.
"There is no doubt - there is no energy shortage at OCMCF," Wathen exclaimed.
