Residents and staff at Valle Verde, an ABHOW retirement community in Santa Barbara, Calif., recently pitched in to help victims of the Jesusita wildfire, which raged through the hills outside the city May 5-9.

The Hopi Mission School in Kykotsmovi, Ariz., dedicated its newly completed Volunteer Center April 18.

In 1955, when Ginny Palmer was 9 years old, she and three siblings were placed at Central Baptist Children's Home in Lake Villa, Ill., following a devastating house fire and the death of their mother.

DeWilla Dameron, known to her friends as Dee, brings a wealth of life experience and an enthusiastic outdoors spirit to Eaton Terrace Residences in Lakewood, Colo.

Valle Verde, an ABHOW community in Santa Barbara, Calif., was honored last fall for its pioneering green initiatives.