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Senior Spotlight

The adventure of a lifetime on a budget

June 10, 2010 Senior Spotlight
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Traveling 12 countries in 12 Months
By Kelly Neufeld
For seniors, the number one goal after retirement is travel. While retirement frees up your time to travel, finances can be an issue. But what if you could travel the world, for the amount it would cost you to live at home? Sound impossible? It’s not, Rick and [...]

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Nothing Can Stop 80-year Old From Competing

May 17, 2010 Senior Spotlight
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Jean Duncan has always been active. In 2003, while in her 70’s she was regularly participating in yoga, biking and aerobics. Then at the family Boxing Day dinner her granddaughter began talking about the Vancouver Sun Run, an annual 10 kilometer race with over 50,000 participants. She loved it so much that she encouraged [...]

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Barbara Boldt: A Colorful Life

April 2, 2010 Senior Spotlight
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Barbara Boldt is not someone who paints as a hobby, she is a painter. That is not to say that she doesn’t enjoy painting but as her only source of income, painting is her full-time job. At 79, she paints as often as she can in between promoting her painting and her daily activities.
In [...]

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No Dress Rehearsal

March 4, 2010 Senior Spotlight
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No dress rehearsal – live your life, says cancer survivor and athlete

by Lise Diebel
Her story: A breast cancer diagnosis 12 years ago transformed Alexis O’Connor’s fitness level from ordinary to extraordinary.
O’Connor, 65, had always made time for fitness, but the diagnosis led her into the world of sports and over the past five years, [...]

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Carol Hoyt: Working Towards Meaning

December 15, 2009 Senior Spotlight
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by Carol Hoyt
I am about to retire in exactly two weeks. For me, the “when” was a difficult decision, as I love my job of over twenty-five years. I’m a social worker in a geriatric psychiatry unit in a rehabilitation hospital and have been engaged in very meaningful work that has been fulfilling in [...]

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Living the Life After 60 Contest Winners

November 17, 2009 Power of 60+
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Thanks to all who submitted your stories to the Living the Life after 60 contest. We were inspired by Pamela Kent’s story and as a result she’s taking home top prize! Her winning entry and our runners up are below.
A WONDERFUL HOBBY
by Pamela Kent
I had always had a hankering to write, but a [...]

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David Esworthy

October 23, 2009 Senior Spotlight
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By David Esworthy
There is the old cliché that “you are only as old as you feel”. There is a lot of truth in that. I have found that in many ways my thoughts are not that different than they were 40 or 50 years ago except they have a lot more experience to [...]

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Mary Landell

October 12, 2009 Senior Spotlight
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By Mary Landell
As a 60+ single career woman who is running two successful businesses, every decade in life gets better. The Impowerage mission is all about “Empowering yourself to living a life of passion and contribution”. I see myself as a pilgrim in the Christian context, and I’m here to say that my source [...]

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John McLellan

October 2, 2009 Senior Spotlight
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By John McLellan

I was raised in a very stable and loving family in a modest home in East Vancouver. My father was born in Ontario and later raised on a farm in Manitoba. In WWI, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corp in Scotland where he met my mother and [...]

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Sherry Baker

September 29, 2009 Senior Spotlight
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By Sherry Baker
2009 was a defining year; I turned 70 in June, which caused me to reflect on all the events that brought me to this milestone, still healthy and vigorous despite all the twists and turns in my life.
I grew up In Vancouver and graduated from UBC in 1960 with a Home [...]

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