Caledonia Activity Place 2025 – A Year in Review and Beyond!


Article & Images Submitted by Beverly Terris, Activity Director, Caledonia Activity Place 

Wow, how quickly a year passes! This has been an exciting year full of change, development, and lots of relationship building.

As the Activity Director and most recent member of the ACDC/CAP (Albert County Development Centre / Caledonia Activity Place) Team, I have the pleasure of working with a great team within my community and getting to know our local residents. Lot’s of research, planning and elbow grease went into the last year enhancing our visibility and activities at the centre and I would like to take you through what that looked like.

In January we created our Facebook Page and started offering a Coffee House on Wednesday mornings from 11-2 pm followed by our very successful Crib & Crokinole afternoons on Thursday from 1-3 pm. Those Crokinole players’ can get really excited!

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In February we updated our First Aid Training and had our First Paint Day of the year and March was busy creating a marketing strategy for upcoming events such as “How to use your Smartphone and Tablet” and our fundraising event “Grease Lightening Bingo”, which was a great success in April. We ended the month with the first of our “Learning to Crochet” classes and they continue today as the “Stitchers’ Club” every 2nd Wednesday evening from 6:30-8:30 pm.

Spring was busy with relationship building while attending local Farmers’ Markets and the Senior’s Expo; thank you NHWW and Horizon Health for this event. We also held a Service Canada Presentation at the centre in June. Our second Paint Event took place in July and a Family Craft Day in August where we made wind chimes. Our first time at the Albert County Exhibition was a huge success enhancing our visibility to the residents of Fundy Albert, we definitely want to attend 2026!

We ended 2025 with an Afternoon Kitchen Party at the centre as part of the CCRC Neighborhood Socials program in September, a Halloween Movie Night in October featuring the movie “Casper”, ‘Bingo for Chocolate’ and a Craft day building wreaths in December.

For 2026 the sky is the limit!
As part of the New Brunswick Mental Health Activity Centre Association (NBMHACA), Caledonia Activity Place follows the values and objectives of the association.

Values

• Access to social support, self-help, recreational and advocacy activities are essential ingredients in the recovery process.
• Activity Centres are a key component in relapse prevention within a support network.
• Activity Centres complement the formal services delivery system.

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Objectives

​Activity Centres should aim at achieving the following objectives:

• provide a place where people can meet, exchange and develop a sense of belonging;
• provide citizens living with mental illness with opportunities to participate in meaningful activities which will contribute toward increasing their well-being and self-esteem;
• foster community integration;
• assist citizens living with mental illness access to community resources;
• where possible educate the public and service providers about the needs of those living with mental health challenges.

​Planning for 2026 has begun, be sure to watch for our ‘Wellness Socials’ starting in late February and we will definitely continue with craft and painting events, just to list a few. If you have any activities you would like to see in the community please contact Caledonia Activity Place by calling 506-882-2604, email [email protected] and our Facebook page.

We look forward to 2026 and new opportunities! ​