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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”

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. Theresa Catholic School played games with the seniors of Christenson Developments Bedford Village! 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 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”

Playing games is a great way to let conversation start. These students and seniors from Linking Generations enjoyed playing games like Sorry, Jenga, Trouble, and card games. The students of St. Theresa Catholic School played games with the seniors of Christenson Developments Bedford Village! Click here to see more pictures !

The Volunteer Grandparent Program provides senior volunteers assignments in elementary schools in our community. Senior volunteers enjoy the chance to share life skills, knowledge and experience, while providing a valuable community service to our youth. Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent Programs works in partnership with educators to develop, place and support volunteers in the Grandparent Program.… Continue reading Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent Program 2023-2024

Thank you to the Fort Saskatchewan Rotary Club for your continued support for our Fort Saskatchewan Programs. Linking Generations is about stories. The stories that we hear from seniors and the stories that our students tell. This is the passing on of our local oral history and the new insights that youth can provide to… Continue reading Fort Saskatchewan Rotary Club continued support for Linking Generations Fort Saskatchewan Programs

The holiday break is over. The students caught up with their seniors. Everyone is happy to be back. Heartland Housing Silver Birch Lodge/Haven Seniors Residences seniors show our École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) students the skills needed to play the Dice Game, Word-Winks, and several other games.  How do you play the Dice Game?… Continue reading LG – New Year starting with Fun and Games

Bedford Village seniors show our St. Theresa Middle School students the skills needed to play the Dice Game and Word-Winks.  Object of the game is to color in all the squares using the  numbers that are rolled on the dice. For example if a 2 and 3 are rolled a 2x3 portion of the graph will get… Continue reading LG – New Year starting with Fun and Games