To celebrate this day, the Vancouver Public Library has partnered with the city of Vancouver’s Seniors Advisory Committee to host an all-day seniors fair at the library’s Central Branch (350 West Georgia) from 11am-4pm. WESN and other community organizations will be there.

Find a poster at National_Seniors_Day_poster. For more information, click here.

112 members – plus 15 guests! – packed the WECC auditorium last on September 12th to review the 2013-14 year with the WESN board and staff and to elect a new board.

For 2014-15, your board of directors are: Avril Sawyer, Andrea Banks, , Angie Natingor, Bonnie Quam, Frank McCormick, Josh Rottenberg, Matthew Lynam, Philip Waddell, Sara Johnson, Seyed Ali Mousavi, Toni Mehrain, Troy Iwanik.

This will come as no surprise to our 200+ volunteers, but a new study by the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences in Toronto says that volunteering increases both physical and mental health and those who reap the health benefits of volunteer work log at least 100 hours per year or 2-3 hours per week.