Lowrie Place residents Joanne Sergeant and Tom Hughes painted empty tissue boxes last week for Keystone Safari to use for exercises to improve animals’ brain functions. Employees put food in the boxes and hide them in the animal’s habitat. Wildlife Safari will be bringing an animal to visit the facility Wednesday. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle

Residents of Lowrie Place, 100 Stirling Village Drive, were busy last week doing their part to help improve animals’ brains.

Six residents worked to paint empty tissue boxes in anticipation of a visit from personnel of Keystone Park, an animal park near Grove City, and an animal visitor, possibly a kangaroo, to the senior living facility Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Carolyn Warner, life enrichment coordinator at Lowrie Place, said in three weeks residents have painted 73 boxes, which will be given to Keystone Park during its visit.

Warner said the park personnel put food in the boxes and hide them in the animals’ habitat. Finding and getting at the food inside is believed to sharpen the animals’ brains.