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The Compass - Kelly Stettner
Get to Know Springfield
Ice cream and kids, a winning combination! Big thanks to the staff and managers at Friendly's Restaurant in the Springfield Shopping Plaza for their fund raising support of the Parks & Rec Youth Wrestling Team. Between the sale of raffle tickets and the 20% of food sales that Friendly's donated, the wrestling team got roughly $300 closer to their $2,000 goal. Check upcoming issues of The Compass for the next Friendly's voucher -- eat at Friendly's during the week indicated, hand in the voucher to your server, and the restaurant chain will donate 20% of your total food bill to the Youth Wrestling Team. Raffle tickets are still available for a wide variety of prizes; visit Parks & Rec at 139 Main St to buy them at $1 each or 6 for $5. The team also wishes to thank the many business-owners who donated prizes for the raffle, including Friendly's, Bromley Sun Lodge, Headquarters for Men, McDonald's, The Gallery at the VAULT, Jasinski's Market, Hole In the Hill Restaurant, Shanghai Garden, and the Springfield Food Co-Op.
Free Community Dinner
On Friday, Aug. 3rd, bring friends and family to the North Springfield Baptist Church at 69 Main St for a yummy free dinner from 5 - 7 pm. The meal includes casseroles, baked beans, salads, soups, desserts, and beverages and is open to everyone, as the church is handicapped accessible. Need this meal to go? Take out is available. Give a call to (802) 886-8107for details.
Yankee Male Chorus
Don't miss the free concert offered by this popular ensemble on Thursday, Aug. 9 at the United Methodist Church at 10 Valley St in Springfield. The fun kicks off at 7:30 pm; there are no tickets to purchase, but free will donations to the church are warmly welcomed. For details, call (802) 885-1916 or 885-3456.
Never too old to learn
My friend Marita Johnson invites everyone to jump on board the coming semester of exciting programs offered by the Vermont Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, OLLI. With the rare exception, OLLI programs occur at 2 pm every other Tuesday at the Nolin Murray Center on Pleasant St, next to St Mary's Catholic Church in Springfield. This year's lineup includes: Aug. 28 - "What to Look for in a Cemetery Walk" by Charles Merchant, Townshend Cemetery Commissioner; Sept. 5 (WEDNESDAY) - "George Gershwin: The Mozart of American Music" by Frank Behrens, Music Historian; Sept. 18 - "Solar Astronomy Primer" by Claudio Veliz. Many more programs are featured throughout the semester, so consider joining OLLI for just $40. That fee gets you into all of Springfield's programs for free, plus the other 7 Osher Institutes around the state of Vermont. Brochures are available at your local library, town hall, and Chamber of Commerce or online at www.learn.uvm.edu/osher. Mail your check for $40 made out to The University of Vermont, to Joyce Lindamood, Treasurer, PO Box 92, Springfield VT 05156. Non-members are warmly welcomed for just $8 per program. Local benefactor for this semester's programming is once again Barbara Sanderson; the Ascutney Mountain Audubon Society is also thanked for co-sponsoring one of the programs.
Yikes, the formatting on that website makes it very difficult to follow.
ReplyDeleteHey, you under-40's!
ReplyDeleteWould you like to see how you feel about retirement? At the Market Madness event on September 1st there will be an Ideas Exchange booth, where you can be interviewed at the age of 72!
You will get a free DVD with your interview and a picture of you aging to 72. There will be no charge for the service (the $5 cost of the photo is being eaten by an angel). The information will be exclusively for you; you won't even be asked your name, unless you'd like it to be on the disk.
Here are the questions you'll be asked:
It’s ____, and you’re 72 years old now. You’ve just retired.
Every year while you were working, you got a statement from Social Security that showed the complete history of your earnings subject to the payroll tax. What would you say were your best earning years? (Note: If you don't have such a statement, a typical one will be provided. You should state the age range, not income amount of your best years.)
The recommendation given by financial advisors is that a worker should set aside in savings 600 times the amount of his weekly paycheck. Were you able to do this? If so, how? If not, why not?
How many different jobs did you hold over the fifty years of your working life?
In terms of helping you prepare for a comfortable retirement, was there any employer who was particularly attentive to your needs? If so, why was that employer better than the others?
“Livable wage”-- the amount of money needed to get by in Vermont-- for you and your wife as retirees is around $36,000 a year ($3,000 a month). Unfortunately, in 2013, Congress reduced the Social Security payout for people your age and raised the retirement age to 72. You and your spouse/partner are getting $1100 a month from Social Security; with what you’ve been able to save up, can you continue to live in your home and make ends meet?
Don't MISS OUT on INTERNATIONAL BEER DAY !!!!!!!!
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(somehow this missed the Upcoming Events List for 05156)
What day is this, my honey and I don't want to miss it. How could they not get this on the Upcoming Events List. My daughter wants to go and mingle as well, she is good at swilling beer...but may have to find a low cal brand as ahe doesn't want to lose her shapely figure it was hard geting down to that attractive 250 lbs. I tell you.
DeleteI recomend Duff Beer
ReplyDeleteWe try to drink local so we prefer Harpoon.
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