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We shall miss you !  It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye until we meet again. Our program is over for the year, and it has flown by. We cannot thank our students and seniors enough for the stories shared, laughter spent, and the friendships you’ve so freely given to each other. We… Continue reading Last Visit – Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help students and Heartland Housing Silver Birch seniors

Each spring, Linking Generations partners with Greenland Garden Centre to bring a ray of sunshine into our seniors' lives. Students and seniors spend an afternoon painting a special clay pot for their "linked' senior and then planting a petunia. Seniors are given this special pot and can watch it bloom and grow over the summer months.  Thank you Greenland Garden… Continue reading Lakeland Ridge Junior High School and Chartwell Emerald Hills

Each spring, Linking Generations partners with Greenland Garden Centre to bring a ray of sunshine into our seniors' lives. Students and seniors spend an afternoon painting a special clay pot for their "linked' senior and then planting a petunia. Seniors are given this special pot and can watch it bloom and grow over the summer months.  Thank you Greenland Garden… Continue reading École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) & Heartland Housing Silver Birch Lodge/Haven Seniors Residences

Each spring, Linking Generations partners with Greenland Garden Centre to bring a ray of sunshine into our seniors' lives. Students and seniors spend an afternoon painting a special clay pot for their "linked' senior and then planting a petunia. Seniors are given this special pot and can watch it bloom and grow over the summer months.  Thank you Greenland Garden… Continue reading École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) & Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge

Each spring, Linking Generations partners with Greenland Garden Centre to bring a ray of sunshine into our seniors' lives. Students and seniors spend an afternoon painting a special clay pot for their "linked' senior and then planting a petunia. Seniors are given this special pot and can watch it bloom and grow over the summer months.  Thank you Greenland Garden… Continue reading Strathcona Christian Secondary Academy & Summerwood Village Retirement Residence

Once again this year, our treasured Volunteer Grandparents taught our younger student generation how to grow beans for themselves. It was exciting to know that over 265 students participated in this special intergenerational visit.  A special Thank You to Greenland Garden Centre for partnering with us in the bean planting visits. Click here to see more pictures ! rpt

Each month , Linking Generations students from Strathcona Christian Academy (SCA) visit with seniors from Aster Gardens, scribing their stories into a journal. Our seniors have much to share, and sharing these stories and tidbits through the written word will allow others to also hear these rich sentiments.  Click here to see more pictures ! rpt

Each spring, Linking Generations partners with Greenland Garden Centre to bring a ray of sunshine into our seniors' lives. Students and seniors spend an afternoon painting a special clay pot for their "linked' senior and then planting a petunia. Seniors are given this special pot and can watch it bloom and grow over the summer months.  Thank you Greenland Garden… Continue reading Bedford Village Seniors and Students from St. Theresa Middle School 

Spring is here and what better way to celebrate it than inviting our Linking Generations seniors from Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge to a tea in their honor at our partner school Ecole Our Lady  of Perpetual Help School Thursday afternoon.  As seniors entered the school, students quickly rose to greet them and usher them into the library,… Continue reading Linking Generations Brings Sunshine to Clover Bar Lodge Seniors

Spring is here and what better way to celebrate it than inviting our Linking Generations seniors from Heartland Housing Silver Birch to a tea in their honor at our partner school Ecole Our Lady  of Perpetual Help School Tuesday afternoon.  As seniors entered the school, students quickly rose to greet them and usher them into the library, where… Continue reading Linking Generations Brings Sunshine to our Seniors