Walking group in Orono wins award for fighting senior loneliness

Walking group in Orono wins award for fighting senior loneliness

The sheet of ice on the sidewalks cracked and creaked as five seniors and two dogs walked a loop from the Orono Public Library, through Orono’s Tough End neighborhood, and back to the library. Bundled up in corduroy, denim and puffy winter coats, the group only broke stride to talk about what Orono used to look like or wait for one of the dogs, a black lab named Bailey and a cairn terrier named Fitzroy, on what one senior called a “two-dog day.”…