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McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
26 Fev 2026 - This is an excellent shared FREE resource to support Veterans and Seniors in Healthy, Active and Engaged Aging. Please feel free to share this resource with your Veterans and Seniors, and encourage them to register.
The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal is a free, evidence-based online resource created and hosted by McMaster University that helps people access trustworthy health and aging information derived from high-quality research. It's designed for a wide audience—including older adults, caregivers, clinicians, public health professionals, and policymakers—to support healthy, active, and engaged aging.
🧠 What the Portal Offers
Content on the Portal spans 70+ topics related to healthy aging—such as physical activity, mental health, chronic disease management, nutrition, cognitive health (e.g., dementia), mobility, social engagement, caregiving, and more.
📌 Why It's Useful
The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal is a free, evidence-based online resource created and hosted by McMaster University that helps people access trustworthy health and aging information derived from high-quality research. It's designed for a wide audience—including older adults, caregivers, clinicians, public health professionals, and policymakers—to support healthy, active, and engaged aging.
🧠 What the Portal Offers
- Evidence Summaries – One- or two-page plain-language summaries of the best available research on aging topics, with clear, actionable key messages.
- Blog Posts & "Hitting the Headlines" – Short articles that explain what research means in everyday life and connect current news to evidence.
- Web Resource Ratings – Evaluations of other online health resources to help users know which ones are trustworthy.
- E-Learning & Videos – Educational modules and multimedia to help users learn about specific health and aging topics.
- Professional Content – Detailed scientific abstracts and bibliographic databases for clinicians and policymakers, with email alerts for new evidence.
Content on the Portal spans 70+ topics related to healthy aging—such as physical activity, mental health, chronic disease management, nutrition, cognitive health (e.g., dementia), mobility, social engagement, caregiving, and more.
📌 Why It's Useful
- Helps cut through the information overload online by summarizing only high-quality research.
- Written in clear, understandable language for everyday users.
- Includes tools to help you make evidence-informed decisions about aging, health behaviours, and services.
Ruck 2 Remember
- interview regarding the Ruck 2 Remember that took place lately
- a few photos
- news item - https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/veterans-walk-from-windsor-to-chatham-to-support-homeless-veterans/?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvwindsor%3Atwitterpost&taid=68c37b1f07c2bb0001e1c256&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Veterans Coffee on Tuesdays
1 Nov 2025 - We will commence the retired veterans Coffee gatherings at our Legion (Upper Lounge) on every second Tuesday mornings beginning November 4 from 10 am to 11:30 am. Access is from the upper parking lot to the upper entry door to the building. (it is handicap accessible). I propose to schedule the Coffee club meetings for every Tuesday morning throughout the winter – depending on the level of interest and attendance. Depending on interest, we may need to scale back to a meeting every other Tuesday.
The group normally chats about hobbies and recreation stuff, fishing stories, golf scores, humorous personal events/stories, travels etc. Of course, emphasis is on offering a friendly social chat session – in a pleasant relaxed setting - with opportunity to establish new kindred friendships. I look forward to meeting and chatting with many of our respected retired veterans over a tasty Coffee. They are special Canadians.
Best Regards,
Alf Alfred Read CD
Veteran Service Officer
Branch 92 Legion dedicates memory stones at Carveth
13 Aug 2025 - Royal Canadian Legion Branch 92 held a special service in the Memorial Garden at the Carveth Care Centre in Gananoque. Established in 2012, the garden is filled with stones dedicated to the memory of veterans who have lived at Carveth and passed on. In attendance were veterans, families, Legion members and Carveth staff.
“The Scottish Clan Farquharson had a sacred monument, the Cairn of Remembrance,” said Harold Miller at the original dedication. “To the clan, this cairn was the most sacred spot on earth. It was but a loose pile of granite stones thrown together at the top of a heather hill, but every stone had a precious worth. Throughout the generations, as the clans sallied forth to battle, each man took a stone and placed it on the cairn. When he came back, he took his stone away. The stones that were left were in memory of those who had never returned. Every city, town and village in Canada has its equivalent of the Cairn of Remembrance, a memorial to those who heard the call of sovereign and country, who went away and did not return.”
The stones are placed around the edges of the garden, each carrying the name and dates of honoured veterans.
“The Scottish Clan Farquharson had a sacred monument, the Cairn of Remembrance,” said Harold Miller at the original dedication. “To the clan, this cairn was the most sacred spot on earth. It was but a loose pile of granite stones thrown together at the top of a heather hill, but every stone had a precious worth. Throughout the generations, as the clans sallied forth to battle, each man took a stone and placed it on the cairn. When he came back, he took his stone away. The stones that were left were in memory of those who had never returned. Every city, town and village in Canada has its equivalent of the Cairn of Remembrance, a memorial to those who heard the call of sovereign and country, who went away and did not return.”
The stones are placed around the edges of the garden, each carrying the name and dates of honoured veterans.
This year’s service was presided over by the Reverend Canon Margaret Johnston-Jones. Blessings were placed on the stones for Maurice “Lynn” Peterson, Donald Emerson White, Richard “Dick” Harding, Ed Tryon, Hugh Dillon, Norman Brown, Roger MacGregor, and Leonard “Bob” Marion.
“Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord,” said Reverend Canon Johnston-Jones. “And let light perpetual shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.”
“Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord,” said Reverend Canon Johnston-Jones. “And let light perpetual shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.”
Pictures and Text © Lorraine Payette
Lorraine Payette/For Gananoque Reporter – first rights only
Lorraine Payette/For Gananoque Reporter – first rights only
