Friends and Neighbors in the News III

From Friday's Clinton Item:

Spragues of Lancaster recall dental service in Kenyan clinic

By Kathy Tamburri
ITEM STAFF

LANCASTER-- A visit to Sprague Family Dentistry, 240 Main St., is more than a visit to the dentist. It's a step into one aspect of a family's life together, where any piece of furniture or art could start a long conversation about the Spragues' encounters with people and places of different cultures.

In an interview at the Spragues' home (upstairs from their dental office) recently, Dr. Howard Sprague and his wife Rosemary talked about their most recent adventure - a four-month missionary trip to Kenya, where they worked at a Seventh-day Adventist Church-run dental clinic in Nairobi, the capital city.

They said the clinic had two other full-time dentists, and another was coming, but the third dentist's wife had been diagnosed with throat cancer and so that couple was delayed. The Spragues were asked to fill in part-time during that waiting period. Rosemary, a registered nurse, assists her husband in their Lancaster office and performed the same job - along with many other clinic tasks - at the Nairobi clinic.

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