Tag Archive for: Seniors

Financial Literacy: Just Widowed

If you have experienced the recent loss of a partner, join us to learn the right strategies for financially recovering after your loss and maintaining good financial confidence moving forward.

Just because you’ve experienced a major loss doesn’t mean you can’t carry on with strength and determination. Understanding the steps needed to help prepare and move forward is key to maintaining financial momentum. Striking the right balance of confidence, knowledge, and support will ensure you have everything it takes to forge a positive future for yourself.

  • Learn where to start and how to manage finances during a difficult period
  • Understand how to assess financial needs, budget, and plan long-term
  • Learn how to prepare your estate and recognize the importance of wills

This session will be presented live and streamed online via Zoom. All registered attendees will receive the Zoom link.

Midday Movies: A Christmas Carol: The Musical

Join us for an afternoon movie on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 1-3 pm. We will screen lighthearted movies and enjoy some camaraderie, upstairs in the iConnect Lab.

This month we watch A Christmas Carol: The Musical, starring Kelsey Grammer stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in this musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novella. Set in Victorian London, the story follows the miserly Scrooge as he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. These spectral visits reveal the impact of his greed and lead him on a journey of redemption. The film features a star-studded cast including Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Jason Alexander.

Midday Movie: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Punctuate your day with some shared entertainment.

This month we watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019, 2 hours 1 minute.

Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day and secretly paints her at night. Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Héloïse’s first and last moments of freedom, all whilst Marianne paints the portrait that will end it all.

Midday Movie: Sometimes Always Never

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Punctuate your day with some shared entertainment.

This month we watch Sometimes Always Never

2019, 1 hour 30 minutes.

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He’s spent years searching for his missing son, Michael, who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son so he can finally move on and reunite his family.

Falls Prevention

Did you know that falling is the leading cause of hospitalization and death in older adults? Many factors can cause people to fall, but there are many easy changes we can make to decrease the likelihood of falls happening.

Join the falls prevention team from Fraser Health to learn some important tips and tricks to reduce your risk of having a fall. Bring your questions!

Midday Movie: Mid-August Lunch

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Punctuate your day with some shared entertainment.

This month we watch Mid-August Lunch

2008, 1 hour 15 minutes.

An utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday. Broke, and armed with only a glass of wine and a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni resides with his 93-year-old mother in their ancient apartment.

The condo debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager’s mother, all will be forgiven. Then the manager also shows up with an auntie, and then a doctor friend appears with his mother in tow… Can Gianni keep these lively mamas well fed and happy in these cramped quarters?

Midday Movie: The Bookshop

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Punctuate your day with some shared entertainment.

This month we watch the Bookshop

2017, 1 hour 52 minutes.

England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one?

Midday Movie: To Dust

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Punctuate your day with some shared entertainment.

This month we watch To Dust

2019, 1 hour 31 minutes.

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick), a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.

Midday Movie: Wicked Little Letters

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.

This month we watch Wicked Little Letters

2023, 1 hour 40 minutes.

Local women investigate the mystery behind a series of letters filled with hilarious profanities.

Rated 15+ for lots of profanity (integral to the plot!)

Midday Movie: My Old Lady

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.

This month we watch My Old Lady

2014, 1 hour 47 minutes.

When Mathias inherits a sumptuous Parisian apartment, he is surprised to learn that it comes with two stubborn tenants who are not required to leave according to French law. But a complex labyrinth of secrets unites them all in unexpected ways.

Rated 14+