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You’re Invited to Park Your Stories’ Grand Opening!
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You’re Invited to Park Your Stories’ Grand Opening!

Park Your Stories kicks off on June 4th, 2025, at Heath Park & Pool, and everyone is invited. Join us for an afternoon of storytelling with friends & neighbours as we unveil the benches crafted by Westgate High School students and munch on snacks catered by the Westgate High School foods class. The event will run 1 pm - 3 pm, rain or shine. Looking forward to seeing you then!

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Join Me for Movement and Memoirs in Newfoundland!
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Join Me for Movement and Memoirs in Newfoundland!

Nancy Angus is pleased to partner with Ageless Grace® instructor Elaine Dunphy to present Movement & Memoirs, a workshop set for Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. We'll be moving, grooving and working our pens across the paper in our mini-memoir sessions. If you're lucky enough to be in Newfoundland on June 22, join us!  

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Curling Days in Thunder Bay
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Curling Days in Thunder Bay

It was an exciting time as Thunder Bay welcomed the best women curlers from all across Canada to the 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian Women’s Curling Championship, in early February. My mother, Sis Angus, lived to be over 101 and right until the end she curled along with the athletes on television.

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3 Minute Stories
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3 Minute Stories

Here's a couple of writing prompts to get you thinking AND writing!  We like to write in 10 or 15 minute blocks.  Your life is worth writing and talking about.  Set your timer and get started

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Sis-or-Ella
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Sis-or-Ella

Sis' digital story: At 101+, Sis appreciated a good story.  And she loved to tell a story!  She wrote and voiced this digital story in January 2020 while she was a patient at our local hospital. 

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Nancy Angus Recognized as Changemaker
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Nancy Angus Recognized as Changemaker

Nancy Angus, the founder of Age BIG, a Thunder Bay-based program for people to embrace aging boldly, inquisitively and gratefully, has been recognized by 8 80 Cities as one of thirty Ontario Community Changemakers for 2024. 

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