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For our Community Visit this year, we chose to support our Strathcona Foods Bank. Students were asked to bring  in items to donate to our local Food Bank just in time for the holidays!  We  displayed these items and each team then had to guess the cost of the food item in 1940, 1980, 1980… Continue reading Linking Generations – The Price Is Right and the Food Bank

board gamenoun1. any game played on a board, especially one that involves the movement of pieces on the board, such as chess or checkers. Playing board games, can invoke memories of our past, at any age. When the weather is cold or warm, it’s always a great time for cookies and conversation over a competitive… Continue reading Linking Generations – Students from Strathcona Christian Academy Secondary and Capital Care Strathcona Game Day

For our Community Visit this year, we chose to support our Strathcona Foods Bank. Students were asked to bring  in items to donate to our local Food Bank just in time for the holidays!  We  displayed these items and each team then had to guess the cost of the food item in 1940, 1980, 1980… Continue reading Linking Generations – The Price Is Right and the Food Bank

Students from OLPH Junior High School spent a lovely lunch hour visiting with their partnered seniors from Heartland Housing – CloverBar Lodge at Greenland Garden Centre. They walked amongst the beautifully decorated trees, while doing a scavenger hunt. To witness and hear the stories that were shared by our seniors, of the differences of Christmas’s… Continue reading Linking Generations Students and Seniors at Greenland Garden Centre

board game noun 1. any game played on a board, especially one that involves the movement of pieces on the board, such as chess or checkers. Playing board games, can invoke memories of our past, at any age. When the weather is cold or warm, it’s always a great time for cookies and conversation over a competitive… Continue reading Linking Generations – ABJ and County Cottage Play Board Games !!

For our Community Visit this year, we chose to support our Strathcona Foods Bank. Students were asked to bring  in items to donate to our local Food Bank just in time for the holidays!  We  displayed these items and each team then had to guess the cost of the food item in 1940, 1980, 1980… Continue reading Linking Generations – The Price Is Right !!

Linking Generations is an inspiration, while supporting seniors and youth on a journey from strangers to friends in a structured, and supported environment. In September, Linking Generations began the Volunteer Grandparent program , created in response to a lack of opportunities for young & old to relate in an increasingly age-segregated society. Seniors volunteers enjoy… Continue reading Linking Generations – Picture of Our Special Volunteer Gramma Dorothy enjoying her Brentwood Elementary School Students. !!

Does anyone remember the white canned snow you used to buy? Some people would spend hours spraying it on their living room windows with little triangles in the corner to resemble snowflakes on the window. Other people would spray the trees with it to make their Christmas Trees look like they had just been brought… Continue reading Linking Generations at Greenland Again !!

Students from Lakeland Ridge Junior High School spent a lovely lunch hour visiting with their partnered seniors from Heartland Housing – Silver Birch Manor and Lodge at Greenland Garden Centre. They walked amongst the beautifully decorated trees, while doing a scavenger hunt. To witness and hear the stories that were shared by our seniors, of… Continue reading Linking Generations Students and Seniors at Greenland Garden Centre

Students from St. Theresa Middle School spent a lovely lunch hour visiting with their partnered seniors from Bedford Village at Greenland Garden Centre. They walked amongst the beautifully decorated trees, while doing a scavenger hunt. To witness and hear the stories that were shared by our seniors, of the differences of Christmas’s past, was so… Continue reading Linking Generations Students and Seniors at Greenland Garden Centre