{"id":176766,"date":"2026-02-23T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:23:10","slug":"el-paso-woman-donates-dolls-for-seniors-at-memory-care-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176766\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso woman donates dolls for seniors at memory care center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- The Legacy at Cimarron says that a local woman named Dawn dropped off a collection of dolls for the memory care residents.<\/p>\n<p>The residents are apart of the Connections Program, which the Legacy at Cimarron says, is an approach for residents with dementia that focuses on relationship building through Connect, Move, and Learn activities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dolls-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1447831\" style=\"width:401px;height:auto\"\/>The Legacy at Cimarron<\/p>\n<p>Legacy at Cimarron explains that with this donation of dolls it offers residents a tactile, emotionally engaging object to interact with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment those dolls came out, the whole group came alive,\u201d said Jacob Boggs, Senior Executive Director at The Legacy at Cimarron. \u201cResidents were holding them, checking out every little detail, and debating very seriously about which baby was the prettiest. It turned into this whole back-and-forth between everyone in the group. Dawn had no idea how much those dolls would do for our residents, and we\u2019re so grateful she thought of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dolls-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1447833\" style=\"width:411px;height:auto\"\/>The Legacy at Cimarron<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- The Legacy at Cimarron says that a local woman named Dawn dropped off a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-176766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}