By Dave Flaherty/Active Senior’s Digest When Julie Meisner nervously stepped onto a stage to audition for the Whitby County Town Singers 27 years ago, it’s highly unlikely that she knew how the decision would...
By Anthony J. Minna The NFL has a marketing campaign that proclaims “Football is Family.” It’s a feel-good promotion intended to improve people’s perception of a league whose reputation has taken a few concussion-level...
By Graeme McNaughton/Active Senior’s Digest For the first time in nearly three decades, Peter Mansbridge is no longer the host of CBC’s flagship news program The National – and he is excited for what’s...
By Joel Wittnebel/Active Senior’s Digest Before it’s too late, Colin Sanders wants to do something epic. In the mind of an active, seasoned outdoorsman, the 64-year-old has a few options. He can bike across...
Fall is one of the most picturesque times of the year in Ontario, especially in famed Kawarthas cottage country. Pair that with the fact that temperatures are cooler, and the roads are less travelled...
By Joel Wittnebel/Active Senior’s Digest The ship is fully stocked. Medical supplies, surgical tools, sterilizing equipment, operating rooms, and all the personnel and expertise in order to put those items to good use in...
By Graeme McNaughton/Active Senior’s Digest He was the first in history to land a triple lutz. In fact, no other professional figure skater was able to manage the feat again in competition for another...
By Graeme McNaughton/Active Senior’s Digest It was in the mid-1960s that a teenaged Sandy Hawley would first get the notion of what would later entail much of his life. “I had no horseracing background...
By Graeme McNaughton/Active Senior’s Digest Buck Woods, a homicide detective with the NYPD, needed a break from the big city, and made the choice to go back to his roots, heading to Orono, Maine...
By Joel Wittnebel/Active Senior’s Digest From small talk, to card games to care giving, as an Alzheimer’s companion Terry Rutledge is a swiss army knife of kindness and compassion. A lifelong volunteer, his dedication...
