Westmount senior centre knitting for women’s shelters [Video]

Maureen McCrory never imagined Westmount’s Contactivity Centre would become like a second home.

“I would go by Contactivity at their former site and I’d look at that and I’d say ‘Oh, that’s for old people,’” she said.

After 53 years of working at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, McCrory was ready to retire. Though with her family living away, she was in search of social ties.

“I looked at Contactivity and I thought you are old … so I went in and I became a member,” McCrory told CTV News.

The non-profit community centre for adults over 60 aims to minimize social isolation and other forms of exclusion by offering arts, technology, fitness programs and other activities.

On the list is a weekly knitting and crochet group known as the Busy Bees. While the goal was initially to produce and sell products to help fund the centre itself, executive director Benita …