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2022-2023
Last Visit – St. John Paul II Junior High School students & Heartland Housing Dr. Turner Lodge seniors
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 hope to see everyone in September once again.
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Last Visit – Lakeland Ridge Junior High School students and Chartwell Emerald Hills seniors
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 hope to see everyone in September once again.
Game Day – Country Cottage and Archbishop Jordan High School
What is a board game?
Well, according to the dictionary it is:
plural noun: board games
any game played on a board, especially one that involves the movement of pieces on the board, such as chess or checkers.
Did you know:
Playing board games triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural “feel-good” chemicals.
“Happy hormones” have the power to improve conscious and unconscious mind functions, leaving a person feeling cheerful, compassionate, and ultimately content.
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Last Visit – Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help students and Heartland Housing Silver Birch seniors
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 hope to see everyone in September once again.
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Volunteer Grandparents Teach our Younger Student Generation
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 bean planting visits.
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Writers in Residence
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.
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Seniors and Students spend afternoon Painting and Planting
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 centre, Sherwood Park, Alberta.
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Lakeland Ridge Junior High School and Chartwell Emerald Hills
École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) & Heartland Housing Silver Birch Lodge/Haven Seniors Residences
École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) & Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge
Strathcona Christian Secondary Academy & Summerwood Village Retirement Residence
St. Theresa Catholic School & Christenson Developments Bedford Village
Lakeland Ridge Junior High School and Chartwell Emerald Hills
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École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) & Heartland Housing Silver Birch Lodge/Haven Seniors Residences
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École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) & Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge
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Strathcona Christian Secondary Academy & Summerwood Village Retirement Residence
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St. Theresa Catholic School & Christenson Developments Bedford Village
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 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, where tables were decorated and set with china from years past and cookies and cake. “I used to have this china pattern”, remarked one senior. as she shared memories with the students on bringing her china out for’ special occasions’.
Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) has been involved with Linking Generations since 2004 and estimates that over 500 students have shared their lunch hours with our community seniors from Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge and Silver Birch Lodge/Haven.
Thank you OLPH teachers, and principal Alyre Morin.
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Linking Generations Brings Sunshine to our 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 tables were decorated and set with china from years past and cookies and cake. “I used to have this china pattern”, remarked one senior. as she shared memories with the students on bringing her china out for’ special occasions’.
Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) has been involved with Linking Generations since 2004 and estimates that over 500 students have shared their lunch hours with our community seniors from Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge and Silver Birch Lodge/Haven.
Thank you OLPH teachers, and principal Alyre Morin.
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Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent shares her own culture with our Junior High Students
After a small presentation about Arabic calligraphy art, each student was taught how to write their name in Arabic.
Each student was gifted a 8X8 canvas with their name written in Arabic.
Thank you Azra.
This is a moment the students shall always remember.
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Heartland Housing Dr. Turner Lodge and St. John Paul II Junior High School Students
After numerous outbreaks/shutdowns and visit cancellations in the past two years, it is so rewarding to be back planning and hosting our Family Meet and Greet events at our partnership senior facilities.
Our Linking Generations Students and Seniors become extremely excited about this evening visit, as it gives both participants an opportunity to introduce their ”linked” student or senior to their family.
This visit also allows all of us at Linking Generations to recognize how much each senior and student is an integral part of Linking Generation’s success. Each student and senior can invite one parent or family member over the age of 18 years to attend this visit with them.
The Family Meet and Greet is similar to a regular Linking Generations visit, as we will have a structured activity to do together plus, we have some fun planned for everyone!
A great time for all !
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Our Volunteer Grandparents are amazing!
A big thank you to our Linking Generation Baba, Pani Marianna Zacharko who helped plant over 250 tomato plants with students from St. Nicholas School.
These students have worked very hard growing and nurturing these tomatoes that they are hoping people are interested in having.
The tomato plants are for sale in our community, with all proceeds going towards funding 2 fully equipped ambulances which are to go to Ukraine.
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Heartland Housing Foundation Cloverbar Lodge and Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help Junior High Students
After numerous outbreaks/shutdowns and visit cancellations in the past two years, it is so rewarding to be back planning and hosting our Family Meet and Greet events at our partnership senior facilities.
Our Linking Generations Students and Seniors become extremely excited about this evening visit, as it gives both participants an opportunity to introduce their ”linked” student or senior to their family.
This visit also allows all of us at Linking Generations to recognize how much each senior and student is an integral part of Linking Generation’s success. Each student and senior can invite one parent or family member over the age of 18 years to attend this visit with them.
The Family Meet and Greet is similar to a regular Linking Generations visit, as we will have a structured activity to do together plus, we have some fun planned for everyone!
A great time for all !
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Heartland Housing Silver Birch Lodge and Haven and Ecole Our Lady of Perpetual Help Junior High Students
After numerous outbreaks/shutdowns and visit cancellations in the past two years, it is so rewarding to be back planning and hosting our Family Meet and Greet events at our partnership senior facilities.
Our Linking Generations Students and Seniors become extremely excited about this evening visit, as it gives both participants an opportunity to introduce their” linked” student or senior to their family. This visit also allows all of us at Linking Generations to recognize how much each senior and student is an integral part of Linking Generation’s success. Each student and senior can invite one parent or family member over the age of 18 years to attend this visit with them. In prior years, we have hosted this event over two evenings, so as not to exceed program participants.
The Family Meet and Greet is similar to a regular Linking Generations visit, as we will have a structured activity to do together plus, we have some fun planned for everyone!
A great time for all !
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Linking Generations Resumes Annual Family Meet and Greet Visits
Our Linking Generations Students from St. Theresa Middle School and their “linked” seniors from Bedford Village were extremely excited about this evening visit, as it gave both participants an opportunity to introduce their” linked” student or senior to their family.
Each program student and senior was encouraged to invite one parent or family member over the age of 18 years to attend this visit with them.
This visit also allowed all of us at Linking Generations to recognize how much each senior and student is an integral part of Linking Generation’s success.
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