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Trachter's Milk Store, 71 Kensington Ave., Toronto, May 1925. Photo from the Ontario Jewish Archives. SHARE YOUR LIFE STORY! The Baycrest Foundation is excited to announce the creation of a video archive to preserve the history of Toronto's Jewish community. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Miriam and Larry Robbins Foundation, and produced by Keepsake Video Inc., your story could become one for the ages! Want to share a biographical vignette from your life on video that will last for generations? Then contact Baycrest's Toronto Jewish Video Archives project at tjva@baycrest.org or call 416-785-2500 ext. 3166. We can't wait to hear your story. C o u rt esy o f V a l e ne C a m p b e l l P ho t o c r e d it : M r . Ko a 28 • BrainMatters • Spring/Summer 2022 Writer Valene Campbell is part of the sandwich generation. She is the mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and has moved back home to support her parents because her mother is living with dementia. Her mom and daughter are the inspiration for "The Amazing Zoe and Grandma's Memory Box," one in a series of books that promote diversity in children's literature. The touching story is designed to help kids understand Alzheimer's disease and find ways to create a rapport when a grandparent's memories are fading. In her own family, Campbell says her mother and daughter share a special relationship. "They just like to hang. They like to have their quiet time in her room. My mom spends a lot of time in her room now being withdrawn because of her condition "MEMORY BOX" STORY CONNECTS GENERATIONS but my daughter is THE person, the only person, who can get my mom out of those moments of withdrawal. So it's nice to see. They laugh together. They play together." Campbell was delighted to see so many interested young people at Baycrest's inaugural A Walk for the Ages fundraiser last year, where she had a booth set up. "It's great to have younger faces as part of the conversation. It will help change the idea of who is affected by dementia, the various age groups that are affected, and will help put a focus on what the family goes through." "The Amazing Zoe and Grandma's Memory Box" is available at Indigo, Amazon and other online retailers.

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