A 102-year-old Nova Scotia woman has lived her life with few regrets, but one thing is always on her mind: Minerva Boran wishes she’d gone to see The King.
That wish came true, sort of, when an Elvis Presley impersonator showed up at her birthday party on Wednesday, at the White Birches Retirement Residence in Amherst, N.S.
Boran, a retired school principal, is famous for her dancing, so it wasn’t surprising that she managed to avoid stepping on the impersonator’s blue suede shoes… make that white sneakers.
Cathy Wilson, who co-ordinates activates at the nursing home, said Boran is an inspiration to her fellow residents. She said they will clap along even if they can’t get up.
“She just performs and they absolutely do love watching her,” Wilson said. “Some of them actually do think, ‘Well, if she can do it maybe I can get back and try?’”
Boran called her birthday party “beautiful.”
“I love it,” she said. Asked whether she thinks her friends can top her 102nd birthday party next year, Boran paused for a second and then responded, “Maybe?”
With a report from CTV Atlantic’s Jonathan MacInnis
