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Linking Generations is very fortunate to have been chosen to receive $6,700.00. from the recent crowdfunding evening hosted this week. There are so many notable and worthy organizations within our communities, that this is equally more of an honor. Click here to see more pictures !

Our Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparents play an important role in creating and strengthening intergenerational relationships and lives of seniors, children, and families. One of our volunteers, Opa Bernie, volunteers at 2 schools. A grade 3 class and a Kindergarten class. Thank you Opa Bernie. Click here to see more pictures !

Simply put, it’s a 60-second game – Participants attempt to see who can finish a challenge first or who can complete a task the most times in under a minute. The students of École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) & the seniors of Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge played games. Click here… Continue reading Linking Generations Students and Seniors play “Minute to Win It”

Simply put, it’s a 60-second game – Participants attempt to see who can finish a challenge first or who can complete a task the most times in under a minute. The students of École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) & the seniors of Heartland Housing Silver Birch Lodge/Haven Seniors Residences played games.… Continue reading Linking Generations Students and Seniors play “Minute to Win It”

Valentines Day!  Celebrating Valentines Day with our Share and Care program residents and our elementary students.  Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone !  Click here to see more pictures !

Valentines Day!  It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine, and through later folk traditions it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. Happy Valentines Day Country Cottage residents and ABJ Students !  Click here to see more pictures… Continue reading Valentines Day with Archbishop Jordan Catholic High School & Country Cottage Retirement Residence

There are lots of reasons that playing games is great for both seniors and students. Short-term memory, especially games that require strategy and thinking ahead. Playing checkers and chess, putting together a puzzle, or playing card games regularly have been proven to improve short-term memory and cognitive skills. Games also help critical reasoning skills necessary… Continue reading Linking Generations – Strathcona Christian Secondary Academy & Summerwood Village Retirement Residence Playing Games

Linking Generations Share and Care Programs allow our younger generations of students to visit regularly with seniors who are now in their latter stages of life and living in a long-term care facility. Students read their "easy readers" to our seniors or sit at a table playing snakes and ladders. Both activities bring the seniors so much joy, and a sense of belonging… Continue reading Linking Generations Share and Care Program – École Père Kenneth Kearns Catholic Elementary School & Capital Care Strathcona

Linking Generations and Ecole Pere Kenneth Kearns Elementary School (EPK) collaborated to assist Adopt A Senior Sherwood Park Program in the collection of Valentine Day Cards for Seniors in Care. Students each created a Valentines Day Card with shared messages of kindness and love so as to cheer our seniors in care facilities. Thank you… Continue reading Linking Generations and Ecole Pere Kenneth Kearns Elementary School (EPK) created 250 Valentines Cards for the Adopt A Senior Sherwood Park Program

Simply put, it’s a 60-second game – Participants attempt to see who can finish a challenge first or who can complete a task the most times in under a minute. The students of St. John Paul II Junior High School and the seniors from Heartland Housing Dr. Turner Lodge played games. Click here to see… Continue reading Linking Generations Students and Seniors play “Minute to Win It”