June is Seniors Month!

Jun 14, 2023

This June, Rural Frontenac Community Services is celebrating Seniors Month! The theme for this year is Working for Seniors. At Rural Frontenac CS, we work for seniors every day by providing social services, such as PSW, home help, meals on wheels, transportation, foot care, social programs, and more. We work diligently to enable seniors in rural Frontenac to live their lives fully and independently.

We also want to acknowledge the contributions seniors in rural Frontenac do for Rural Frontenac Community Services. Our meals on wheels program and transportation services rely on volunteers. Rural Frontenac Community Services is very appreciative of the seniors who volunteer and help keep programs running: a big sincere thank you from us!

We want to continue to honour and celebrate seniors this month so be sure to check out our Facebook page for some fun activities. First, we will be hosting a photo contest, with the theme “What I am enjoying most in retirement.” Share photos of you doing the things you love to do! Do you enjoy cycling or woodworking? Maybe painting or quilting? We would love to see! Photos can be submitted via e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., you will be entered into a draw and a winner will be selected on June 28, 2023. The winner will take home a $25 gas gift card. We would love to share the photo submissions we receive onto our Facebook page or website throughout the month and celebrate our active and diverse senior population.

We also want to get to know more of our seniors! While there are many with deep roots in the community, we know there are also many seniors who moved here in more recent years. On our Facebook page, we will be posting some “fill in the blanks” to learn more about our seniors, their hobbies, experiences, or words of wisdom! We encourage participation in the comments section of those posts and hope it may spark connections with others who share those interests.

Through our Community Café social program for seniors, we have been able to bring many topics of interest and information to seniors. We had the privilege of working with Hospice & Palliative care, Alzheimer Society, The Canadian Frailty Network, Frontenac Paramedics, The Legal Clinic, Connections Adult Learning, the Kingston-Frontenac Public Library and more. All the above agencies offer a multitude of services, programs, and support for older adults. We are there to connect seniors to information and services: they may not require them all right now, but we are empowering them with knowledge.

We have noticed how active the seniors of rural Frontenac are! We had a Tai Chi demo, intro to pickleball, and a self-defense demo by Sharbot Lake Karate. Participation has been excellent at the Community Cafes. We are seeing the interest for more interactive components. More recently, we have turned the tables onto the participants by asking them to share their hobbies or interests with the group. Attendees are bringing their nature and wildlife photographs, reading poems, and sharing their craft with the group. It stimulates conversation and ideas, and creates opportunities for others to want to share. We are so happy to create this environment where seniors can feel comfortable, share who they are and what they like, and connect with new people and others who share those interests.

There is so much action and participation from our seniors in rural Frontenac, and we want to give them the spotlight and appreciation they deserve this month. Please join us in celebrating our rural Frontenac seniors! Let them know you love and appreciate them; encourage them to be active community participants; celebrate their accomplishments and milestones. From Rural Frontenac Community Services, we wish you all a very happy Seniors Month!