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Sherrie Napier (top photo)
Jackie Lonon (bottom photo) is a former director of Fayetteville Senior activities center. Charles Heathco (right) is a new volunteer driver for Meals on Wheels.
Sherrie Napier, the new director of the Fayetteville Senior Center highlighted in a
Northwest Arkansas Times article on Senior Center plans on Friday, understands what is needed to increase participation and utilization of the center.
The simple fact is that volunteers are always needed, and new ones seem to sign on just in time to fill the gaps and keep things moving properly. There are never too many, it seems, unless you consider the occasions when students appear to help at lunch and such.
As wonderful as those days are with the glow of youthful energy brightening everyone's day, the need is for more people to come every day or at least dependably on one or two days a week.
A surpising number of the most faithful volunteers are themselves older than the average person who comes for lunch or to exercise or socialize. The habit of working that some developed during the Great Depression simply makes them unable to sit and watch. So they provide much help to others and to the few paid staff members.
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