Benton County Senior Activity Center feeling the financial Stress

By Tonya McKiever Sunday photographs by Charles Fowler

Nutritious meals, socialization and exercise are offered to older residents of the area every day the Benton County Senior Activity Center is open. Hundreds of seniors are healthier and happier because of the center and consider it their “home away from home.” Vanessa Reece-Snodgrass, director of the center for the last three years, is worried about the effect the slowing economy is having on the place and its services. - Sunday, July 20, 2008