Volunteers needed for Adopt a Grandparent Day
Joining us in studio are Kathy Rogers and Kimberly Dunn to talk about the need for volunteers for Adopt a Grandparent Day. Adopt a Grandparent Day takes place September…
Adopt a Grandparent Day
Adopt-A-Grandparent Day coming up
Adopt-A-Grandparent Day is September 9th and many local nursing homes are looking for volunteers. Adopt-A-Grandparent Day is the day before ‘Grandparents Day’ and serves a community of senior citizens who are feeling…
Adopt a Grandparent Day celebration in Gulfport
Adopt a Grandparent Day is set for September 11th and they are in need of volunteers to help pack the senior gift bags. Lee and Kathy Rodgers founded Adopt…
Saturday is ‘Adopt a Grandparent Day’
Saturday, September 12th is ‘Adopt a Grandparent Day,’ a day that has been set aside each year to honor South Mississippi’s elderly. On average, 60 percent of residents in senior care facilities don’t get any visits from friends or family…
Support local seniors by helping with 'Adopt a Grandparent Day'
Often what’s called the ‘golden years’ of life aren’t so golden. On average, 60 percent of residents in senior care facilities don’t get any visits from friends or family members, but it was a first-hand encounter that prompted a South…
Adopt a Grandparent Day
This weekend will be dedicated to visiting, cherishing, and celebrating our senior citizens who live at nursing homes on the Coast for ‘Adopt a Grandparent Day.’ Sixty percent of residents at nursing homes do not receive visitors. On Saturday, volunteers…
Adopt a Grandparent Day: What You Can Do To Help
Next month is the annual Adopt a Grandparent community outreach day, set aside to visit, cherish, and celebrate the elderly. Kathy Rogers joined us live in the studio to tell us more about what you can do to help.
Adopt a Grandparent Day
Saturday is the fifth annual Adopt a Grandparent Day. It’s a day founder Kathy Rogers set aside to visit and honor the elderly, specifically those in nursing homes. Rogers says after her mother was put in a nursing home in…
Coast Gears Up for Adopt A Grandparent Day
It's hard to believe, but 50 percent of nursing home residents have no close relatives. Forty-six percent have no living children, and 60 percent have no outside visitors. These are only statistics. Sadly, there are faces behind every "number." That's…
Adopt a Grandparent Day
Not everyone who lives in a retirement community gets visitors or at least enough visitors and that’s why Kathy Rodgers created Adopt a Grandparent Day. Adopt a Grandparent Day is Saturday, September 8th. Eight hundred volunteers are needed. Sign up…
Adopt a Grandparent Day
September 9th will be the fourth annual Adopt a Grandparent Day. The nonprofit aims to make the golden years a little bit more golden, at least for one day. Last year they were able to increase their reach to include…
Adopt a Grandparent Day Tomorrow: Volunteers Needed
Hundreds of South Mississippians are getting ready for “Adopt a Grandparent Day.” The event is held throughout South Mississippi each year the day after National Grandparents Day. A year of preparations and hard work pays off for this local nonprofit,…
Adopt a Grandparent
It’s time for the third annual “Adopt a Grandparent Event” presented by Marston Rogers Insurance. Last year, the event put 527 volunteers to work visiting 20 of South Mississippi’s nursing homes to deliver gifts and spend some time with seniors…