Every time Brian and Lisa Buxton take in the sights, sounds and tastes of Octoberfest they can’t help but remember their first official date 16 years ago on College Avenue.
Brian was working at the First United Methodist Church’s Octoberfest stand, selling pizza, and invited Lisa to meet him downtown after his shift.
“We spent the whole day together and we’ve been together ever since,” said Brian. “We walked the avenue, listened to bands and then we agreed to see each other again,” recalled Lisa.
Married 14 years, the Appleton couple returns every year, she said, “Unless it’s raining.”
Retiree faces crowds
Retiree John Stolla of Neenah volunteers for everything from Quarry Quest to St. Gabriel Catholic Church’s annual Round-Up, “Because I’m retired and I like to keep busy.”
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AFTER a transcontinental romance, former Dowerin correspondent for the Avon Valley Advocate and now Muresk Ph.D. student Karen Crute has become engaged.
Karen will marry wheat, corn and soyabean irrigation farmer Michael Schwarz of Beaudesert in Queensland.
The couple met at the Grainsweek Conference in Brisbane in April as two of the 70 delegates selected as Rural Leaders.
Michael sat next to Karen at the conference dinner and kept in (Karen says "businesslike") touch afterwards although they began to find they had more in common.
For some unexplained reason Michael broke the habits of a lifetime and took a holiday
A couple with a combined age of 186 became one of the world’s oldest to marry when they tied the knot today.
Raymond Robson, 96, proposed to Faye Webber, 90, several months ago after a whirlwind romance at The Grange residential home in Goring, Berkshire.
The couple clicked straight away when Raymond moved in last summer and love blossomed as he began reading the newspaper aloud to short-sighted Faye.
He popped the question out of the blue one day and “elated” Faye, who is originally from Ireland, agreed – even though he was not able to get down on one knee.
The widowed Quakers
First came singles bars, dating services, and click-and-date Web sites. Then young urban professional searching for a little tenderness turned to speed dating.
Now a pair of French cooking schools are blazing another, somewhat less frenetic, trail in the quest for modern romance: “cook-dating.”
“I came up with the idea when I noticed how much the students in my classes had in common,” said Frederic Chesneau, who runs a small cooking school in the Marais district of central Paris.
“There were a lot of thirty-something professionals with
Dion Houston tells the story with a wink. It began 2 1/2 years ago, before the flood.
"I was just a handsome young man walking down the street and she accepted my conversation," said the 43-year-old New Orleans native of the day he met his fiancée. They are among the 215 evacuees at the Palm Meadows Training Center who began arriving Sunday night courtesy of owner Frank Stronach.
Miata Gipson, 25, laughs and fixes a look of tender exasperation on Houston, a short man with the names of former girlfriends etched on his arms. The couple spoke Thursday from a balcony outside
Noelle Guerin, formerly of Centerport, talks about the first time she saw her husband, Keith.
I was always skeptical when I'd hear people talk about "love at first sight," believing instead that true love evolves over time beginning with friendship that transforms with the infusion of romance and the communal endurance of life's ups and downs.
Now I know that both beliefs are accurate. I realized that the first time I saw my husband, Keith, in February 2001.
Keith, 19, was a sophomore at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Mass. I was 20 and a junior at Gordon College in