Volunteer ombudsmen are making a difference
at long-term care facilities
By Marcia Siegal
Reading an ad in Milestones began a great adventure for Peggy and Kai Schroeder. The ad announced an upcoming breakfast event at Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) to recruit volunteer ombudsmen.  More

'Knitting Nook' group at Klein JCC
creates gifts for hospital patients

By Leslie Feldman
Esther Gold makes patients and families cry on purpose.

Whenever her "Knitting Nook" group at the Klein Branch of the Jewish Community Centers of Philadelphia delivers finished projects to a hospital, eyes fill with tears.

"They just really love the items we donate," says Gold, who has been heading the knitting group since its inception four years ago. "Receiving a blanket or scarf that has been created with love touches people's hearts and makes them feel good." "More