In Vernon this October, a free community expo quietly challenges one of aging's oldest assumptions — that growing older means gradually withdrawing from life. The Young at Heart Seniors Expo, gathering more than 25 exhibitors at the Prestige Vernon Lodge on October 7, offers older adults in the North Okanagan a practical map to the resources, communities, and possibilities already surrounding them. It is, at its heart, a reminder that the question retirement poses is not how to stop, but where to begin.