CONWAY — Sharon, a resident at the Merriman House Nursing Home at Memorial Hospital, touches a computer screen to open her favorite game, “Piggy Bankers.”
Sharon is the game’s ringleader — she corrals many of other residents to play the word scramble game alongside her.
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