The Lakeland celebrated Alberta Seniors Week with fun, facts, and food. Community organizations offered enjoyable and informative activities all week long, with plenty of socializing and lots to eat. St. Paul Regional FCSS conducted their annual Seniors Week tour with luncheons in St. Paul, Heinsburg, Mallaig, Elk Point, and Ashmont. The events included games, local […]
Cold Lake Palliative Care Society (CLPSCS) is passing the torch to the palliative care committee of Age Friendly Cold Lake (AFCL). CLPCS has advocated and fundraised for improvements to local palliative and hospice care in Cold Lake for the past 30 years. Board member Corinne Hetherington says dissolving the society and turning over its mandate […]
The fourth annual Cold Lake Ice Fishing Tournament ran from Friday to Sunday this past weekend, and the anglers are going home happy. Four hundred entries were accepted for the tournament, which is Age Friendly Cold Lake’s single biggest fundraiser. Prizes are awarded in several categories for the biggest lake trout caught and released. There […]
Two-day training session attended by a variety of interested individuals It’s a natural and (to a certain extent) healthy instinct to fear death. But it’s not healthy to deny the inevitable truth that we and our loved ones will die one day. In cooperation with Age Friendly Cold Lake, the Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association […]
According to Age Friendly Cold Lake (AFCL), one of the ongoing issues facing seniors is transportation. To help address this, the organization has teamed up with Drive Happiness, an Edmonton-based nonprofit. AFCL received a grant late last year to provide transportation support for seniors in Cold Lake, the M.D. of Bonnyville and the Town of […]
You can use a minnow to bait a fishing hook. But if you want to attract fishermen, you need to lure them with some bigger fish. Age Friendly Cold Lake’s (AFCL) third annual Cold Lake Ice Fishing Tournament brought the anglers to town this weekend and sent them home happy. The tournament was limited to […]
Two years ago it was the intense cold. Last year it was arctic winds. Whatever challenges the weather comes up with, ice fishers are undaunted. For the Cold Lake Ice Fishing Tournament organized by Age Friendly Cold Lake (AFCL), it’s a bonus to host an outdoor winter fundraiser that the weather can’t spoil. When the […]
Coping With Christmas program helps soothe the pain Christmas is typically a time to be together and to make memories. That’s why the loss of a loved one can be especially painful when Christmastime rolls around. Age Friendly Cold Lake (AFCL) is conducting a Coping Through Christmas session December 15 as part of its Grief […]
Age Friendly Cold Lake (AFCL) needs more volunteers so they can build on the success of their NavCare program NavCare matches a volunteer “navigator” with a client who could use some help finding their path to better living. The clients are usually older people with health concerns or care needs; the navigators volunteer an hour […]
The members of the Cold Lake Men’s Shed feel there is an opportunity—and a need—for the movement to take root in other Alberta and Saskatchewan communities. To help this along, they are hosting a conference of other Men’s Sheds as well as communities who might want to start a Shed of their own. Men’s Sheds […]