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Mount Allison student’s Community Engaged Learning project encourages intergenerational friendships in Tantramar region 

  SACKVILLE, N.B. -- A group of Mount Allison University students in New Brunswick has launched a new program in hopes to ease loneliness and isolation among seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Third-year university student Hannah Crouse says she noticed a trend last year when volunteering to deliver food to seniors in need. "These seniors were quite lonely. Perhaps some were a little nervous to go out to grocery stores and those sorts of things with the pandemic, but the biggest thing w...