Cole Warner, lead zookeeper at Keystone Safari, loads newspapers, plastic bottles and milk jugs collected by the residents at The Addison of Lowrie Place to donate to Keystone Safari's enrichment programs into his vehicle on Tuesday, April 8. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Morgan Phillips
BUTLER TWP — Carol Warner, director of resident programming at The Addison of Lowrie Place, organized a drive that ended up filling eight garbage bags with milk jugs and nearly a dozen boxes with newspapers and cardboard by Tuesday, April 8.
Her son, Cole Warner, the lead zookeeper at Keystone Safari, came to pick up the donations — animal enrichment toys — from the senior living community that afternoon.
“All animals get enrichment every day,” Cole Warner said. “We use the cardboard to make puzzles, hide the jugs with scents on them to find. Some of the smaller animals like hedgehogs will climb on it.
“They will all get used.”
Animals at Keystone Safari get daily enrichment from playing with items like plastic bottles, jugs, cardboard trays and boxes, he said.
Cole Warner said he sometimes brings an animal from the safari with him for residents to meet, but he didn’t have a special guest with him Tuesday.
The drive was easy to organize, Carol Warner said, and allowed the residents at The Addison of Lowrie Place, as well as their families, get involved with helping animals at Keystone Safari.
The fact that Cole Warner picked up the donations on April 8, National Zoo Lovers Day, was a fun bonus for the residents, Carol Warner said.
“This is our third year of ‘Purposeful Projects,’ it helps residents get involved and still do purposeful things,” she said. “We put signs up, and families would come in and see them and then drop stuff off.”
Cole Warner, lead zookeeper at Keystone Safari, loads newspapers, plastic bottles and milk jugs collected by the residents at The Addison of Lowrie Place to donate to Keystone Safari's enrichment programs into his vehicle on Tuesday, April 8. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
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Cole Warner, lead zookeeper at Keystone Safari, loads newspapers, plastic bottles and milk jugs collected by the residents at The Addison of Lowrie Place to donate to Keystone Safari's enrichment programs into his vehicle on Tuesday, April 8. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
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Sue Hasychak, left, and Carol Warner bring out newspapers, plastic bottles and milk jugs collected by the residents at The Addison of Lowrie Place to donate to Keystone Safari's enrichment programs on Tuesday, April 8. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
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Cole Warner, lead zookeeper at Keystone Safari, loads newspapers, plastic bottles and milk jugs collected by the residents at The Addison of Lowrie Place to donate to Keystone Safari's enrichment programs into his vehicle on Tuesday, April 8. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Morgan Phillips
Cole Warner, lead zookeeper at Keystone Safari, loads newspapers, plastic bottles and milk jugs collected by the residents at The Addison of Lowrie Place to donate to Keystone Safari's enrichment programs into his vehicle on Tuesday, April 8. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Morgan Phillips
