BAIE VERTE, N.B. –
It’s one of the best parts about the holidays, Christmas baking, made even sweeter when shared with friends.
“The idea is they bring a dozen or two dozen cookies and then they get to go home with, however many they brought they can go home with of other people’s cookies,” said Melissa Trenholm, a seniors’ navigator.
Nursing Homes Without Walls – Port Elgin did its first ever Christmas cookie exchange on Wednesday morning as a seasonal addition to its weekly seniors coffee group.
Seniors’ navigator Terissa Salmon says she originally came up with the idea in hopes of increasing the weekly attendance.
“Seniors tend to get really isolated in our area in the winter, so we wanted to show them that there is a fun and safe space to go to help break up those winter blues each week,” she said in …