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Linking Generations is grateful for our wonderful community partnership with Strathcona Museum. Our OLPH students and Clover Bar Lodge seniors puzzle over some of the items from a long time ago, trying to guess what they are and what their use was.  Click here to see other pictures !

Our Share and Care students brought smiles and laughter to our Sherwood Care seniors this morning, with an array of board games followed by reading to the seniors.  Click here to see other pictures !

Our OLPH students had a great time with their "linked" seniors from Heartland Housing- SilverBirch, today, while sharing conversations about Heritage items. Students were stumped on many items. We had added some 8-tracks to the items, and none of the students had even seen these before. The antique telephone and encyclopedia were big hits. Thank… Continue reading Heritage items with OLPH Students with their Silver Birch Lodge/Haven Seniors Residences Seniors

While students from St. John Paul Middle school visited with their linked seniors at Dr Turner Lodge , various items were passed from table to table for our Heritage Visit today with Fort Community Care seniors. Seniors saw items from their earlier years while our students puzzled over what that item could be. The highlight… Continue reading St. John Paul Middle school visited with their linked seniors at Dr Turner Lodge

Our Share and Care students participated in our Heritage Visit today with Fort Community Care seniors. Seniors saw items from their earlier years while our students puzzled over what that item could be. The highlight was seeing an old typewriter !!!  Click here to see other pictures !

Thank you to our Share and Care program students who visited Summerwood seniors, and created paper stained glass windows to display and brighten the senior facility. Click here to see other pictures !

Each year, our long time Volunteer Grandparent Marianne, teaches a class of young students at St Nicholas Elementary School how to grow their own tomatoes from seed. They don't need much work. After dividing the class into five groups, the students named their team. Now the students wait anxiously for that small little tomato sprout… Continue reading Teaching our Young Generation to Grow Tomatoes !

Linking Generations Executive Director Debbie Sinclair was chosen to receive the prestigious honor of being presented the King Charles III Coronation Medal today, recognizing her for her community involvement and commitment to the County of Strathcona and The City of Fort Saskatchewan. The King Charles III Coronation Medal was created to mark the Coronation of… Continue reading Congratulations to Debbie Sinclair – Receiving the King Charles III Coronation Medal

Our elementary students created paper stained glass windows with our Sherwood Care seniors. The paper stained glass windows were then hung in the activity room and dining room for all seniors to enjoy.    Click here to see other pictures !

Like fashion, slang changes with the times. Our seniors and students explored the different slang expressions used by youth, young and middle-aged adults, and seniors to describe the same items or ideas over the past 70 years. This activity heightened the awareness of how our written and spoken language has changed over the past 10… Continue reading “What does that mean?”