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One of Linking Generations' Volunteer Grandparents received this heartwarming card from his assigned teacher and students. The teacher shared her sentiments: "You've made a difference- Your contributions haven't gone unnoticed!" while inside the card, the grade four students wrote our volunteer personal messages.  Click here to see other pictures!

Our programs continue to be grounded in sharing, caring and learning. Our Christmas visit at Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge brought our Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) students together with their linked seniors, to share traditions and stories from past and present days. Our linked teams also decorated cookies and played a snowman dice game.  Click here to… Continue reading 2025 was a year of Connection, Growth, and Celebration for Linking Generations.

Our Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent Program offers seniors more opportunities to help bridge the multi-generational gap. The Volunteer Grandparent Program was created in response to a lack of opportunities for young and older generations to relate in an increasingly age-segregated society. Click here to see other pictures!

Our Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) students arrived at Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge ready to celebrate Christmas with their linked seniors. A game of Christmas Trivia was played, with a resounding amount of laughter following. Question: Which popular Christmas beverage is also called “milk punch?” Answer: Eggnog Question: What did the other… Continue reading Our Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) students arrived at Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge ready to celebrate Christmas

Our Chartwell Emerald Hills senior participants enjoyed their afternoon visit with their linked students from Lakeland Ridge Junior High School. The teams played Christmas Trivia and spent time crafting together. Our students were very interested in hearing some old traditions of Christmas past that our seniors shared. Click here to see other pictures!

This visit was a huge success.   Linking Generations assisted in bringing 45 grade 3 & 4 students from their school choir group to perform for the seniors at Capital Care Strathcona with generous help from their school principal, the help from Alyre Morin. Approximately 30/35 seniors attended along with some Capital Care staff and family of the seniors.  Students were accompanied by their music teacher and choir leader on piano and they sang an… Continue reading Capital Care Strathcona and Ecole Pere Kenneth Kearns Elementary School celebrate Christmas Early !

What a great intergenerational connection: Our St. Nicholas Elementary School grade two students and our Sherwood Care seniors made handmade Christmas cards, which are to be left at Sherwood Care, and helped their seniors create cards as well.  We sang some Christmas carols and brought in the Christmas spirit. Some students were able to colour a Christmas manger scene as well to be… Continue reading Our St. Nicholas Elementary School grade two students visited our Sherwood Care seniors

What a fantastic visit today with our junior high students from JP Paul School and our Heartland Housing Dr Turner Lodge seniors. Teams did "school life" questions together asking what school was like in the seniors' youth vs school life now.  Later, everyone played some trivia.  Some great conversations were heard. Click here to see other pictures!

What a fun afternoon! Our Ecole Pere Kenneth Elementary students read to their linked seniors from Capital Care Strathcona and played charades.   Some of the seniors got very involved acting out the charades along with their matched students. Click here to see other pictures!

Our elementary students played cards with seniors from Summerwood Seniors Residences this week, and fun was had by all. Everyone enjoys playing cards for a variety of reasons, including the social interaction and bonding they provide, the mental stimulation and challenge of strategic thinking, and the stress relief and mood improvement from a fun, engaging activity. Click here to see other pictures!