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August 8, 2017 6:07 PM By Cherri Gregg

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) The Salvation Armys Roxborough Corps Community Center started a new tradition Tuesday thats designed to inject life into a segment of the population many forget.

Tea,scones, finger sandwiches and a bit of dessert on fancy china drew dozens of seniors to the Salvation Army Roxborough Corps.

Tuesday was their first annual Afternoon Tea Party, but what they got once they sat down was so much more.

Tea is actually kind of like a bit of a medicine, saidMarcy Cooper.

She came up with the idea to roll out the tea pots and parasols.

For many of us, this is family, she said. Some of us share our joy, we share our tears with one another.

They also share memories, and new adventures.

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Iwas the first one here, said88-year-old Amelia Wexler.

She lost her husband Mike a while back and for this place has become her place.

We really and truly have a great, great community together, she said. Life can be lonely and its fun to be with other people and experience different events.

Freda Gowling got all dolled up for the occasion.

Its kind of the thing to do, wear a hat when you go to a tea, she said.

And later this week shell travel with the groups Ever Young Club.

They are always involved they are always involved they have high spirits

Pastor Lt Jessica Kelly says Ever Young provides programming during the week to slow the hands of time.

They go to the theater, they go all kinds of places, she said.

And they do all sorts of things, like have tea, eat scones and that opens the door to so much more.

Cherri Gregg is the community affairs reporter for KYW Newsradio 1060. She reports on a variety of public affairs and social justice related issues, producing news reports, podcasts and other materials for KYW Radio, CBS-3 TV...

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