February’s engagement question was a reflective one. We asked, “What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?” Take a look at the responses our members and visitors have contributed.

A new year has begun – hello, 2019! There are many people setting out on new goals and plans, in addition to keeping up previous activities and habits.

For this month, we asked, “What do you want to do this year and how will you achieve it?” See the responses we received at Barclay Manor, below.

Don’t forget that if you don’t come into Barclay Manor, you can still participate in our questions! There is a link published with each question in the newsletter, and the Manager of Programs transfer these to the paper. Everyone looks forward to seeing what people say!

The City of Vancouver is collecting ideas about how to spend $100,000 to improve our neighbourhood. To learn more about this participatory budgeting process, please visit:

https://vancouver.ca/participatory-budgeting

You can submit your ideas in any of the following ways:

• Attend any of the community assemblies or public engagement pop-up events
• Complete the survey
• Visit our Barclay Manor or Kay’s Place locations to complete an idea card

You can submit your ideas up until February 21, 2019.

Men, have you recently retired? Do you have retirement concerns? Is retirement living up to your expectations?

West End Seniors’ Network has a new peer support group for recently retired men. The program will run for a period of 6 weeks and it is based out of our Kay’s Place location (118-1030 Denman St).

For more information or to register, contact Veronica at 604-669-7339 or veronica@wesn.ca. The registration deadline is January 16, 2019.

We also have a quick survey that can be done here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T8PCZSB