PROJECT COMPASSION

PROJECT COMPASSION

The mission of Project Compassion is to bring joy, companionship, and enhanced quality of life to residents in long-term care and senior living facilities. Project Compassion is a local nonprofit formed in 1972 by the late Gloria White. As a nurse and wife of a local...
A Golden Anniversary

A Golden Anniversary

  Nancy Zornes has lived a life of service to her community. Now retired, the Fort Smith resident spent years volunteering for worthwhile organizations, sixteen of them with Project Compassion, giving nursing home residents the love and companionship so many were...
Dance With Me

Dance With Me

First with Jazzercise and then with the meteoric rise of Zumba, dance cardio has long been a trend that gets people not only moving, but dancing, enjoying the rhythm of music as well as their body’s ability to move. But the fast-paced atmosphere isn’t for everyone—nor...
A Lifeline to the World

A Lifeline to the World

[title subtitle=”WORDS and IMAGES Dwain Hebda”][/title] The elderly woman shifts in her chair and looks out the window. The room in which she finds herself at the long-term care community where she lives is quiet and small, some days suffocatingly so. She...

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