Local seniors and support staff at various seniors’ organizations “busted” a positive move recently to celebrate Seniors Day during the 12 Days of Positivity in C-K.
Seniors and staff for the organizations took part in a short music video, where participants lip synched to a mash-up of songs, including a couple of classics, followed by hip hop and pop tunes.
Mindy Jenner, community and client relations manager for St. Andrew’s Residence, organized the video. She said people from St. Andrew’s Residence, Meals on Wheels, Family Services Kent and the Active Lifestyle Centre teamed up to make it.
“It’s a four-minute video. We did 10 hours of practice and 13 hours of filming,” Jenner said. “There were 43 volunteers and participants.”
Emily Kennedy did the choreography, she added.
Jenner said the long hours filming brought people closer together.
“We ended up getting a sense of community more so than before,” she said. “It gave our staff and our residents an opportunity to work together. Some people who weren’t participating before are now doing so because of the dancing.”
In fact, she’s looking to soon start a dance class at the facility.
Jenner urged people to check out the video and, more importantly, let others know about it.
“Share it with your friends and family to spread the joy,” she said.
Capt. Positive, who is part of the video, stopped by to enjoy a screening of the video, held Sept. 4 at St. Andrew’s Residence.
“I want to thank you guys for being who you are and rocking that video,” he told the seniors who attended.
Darrin Canniff, the mastermind behind Positivity Day in C-K, said he would like to see the video spawn others.
“We’re going to use this as a challenge for workplaces, not-for-profits or schools to have a little fun with it,” he said. “We will have some cool prizes.”
Canniff said the plan is to roll the challenge out sometime next year.
