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ELMSDALE\/NOEL:<\/strong> Senior-related programs and projects across Kings-Hants, including several in East Hants\/Hants North, have received upwards of $135,000 in funding from the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MP Kody Blois made the announcement April 1 with a post on his Facebook page regarding the funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the feds were announcing this year\u2019s recipients under the New Horizons Seniors Program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is one of the best initiatives of the Government of Canada (in my view) that provides direct grants (up to $25,000) for organizations supporting seniors in our communities.,” said Blois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year\u2019s recipients include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valley Community Learning Association – $24,400 a project that will bring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

together residents of multiple generations, including seniors to participate in workshops, and information sharing between seniors and youth in a mentorship program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memory Cafe of Nova Scotia – $25,000 has 18 locations across the province. The program supports seniors with dementia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enfield\/Elmsdale Lions Club -$24,770 to support lawn bowling for seniors and activities around active fitness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aging Well Nova Scotia $25,000 to support mental health first aid workshops and training for various groups working with seniors across the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolfville Legion $17,000 to support activities for seniors\u2019 fitness and health classes to be held at the Legion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising Tide New Horizon Group (Noel) $18,738 to help provide free healthy lunches, quilting and knitting workshops, as well as educational programs on telephone fraud and elder abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ELMSDALE\/NOEL: Senior-related programs and projects across Kings-Hants, including several in East Hants\/Hants North, have received upwards of $135,000 in funding from the federal government. MP Kody Blois made the announcement April 1 with a post on his Facebook page regarding the funding. He said the feds were announcing this year\u2019s recipients under the New Horizons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[196,10706,1989,1281,10707,908,10708,300],"class_list":["post-63563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-enfield-elmsdale-lions-club-2","tag-kings-hants","tag-kody-blois","tag-new-horizons-seniors-program","tag-noel","tag-rising-tide-new-horizon-group","tag-seniors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}