A Benefit of Age

YOUR GOLDEN BUCKEYE CARD

ALMOST-FOREVER MEMORIES

Most of us have CDs, 8-millimeter movies, photo negatives and other music, video and images whose once cutting-edge technology now seems quaint and outdated at best; obsolete at worst.

Don’t let old tech threaten your favorite music, home movies and photos. Digitize them at one of Geauga County Public Library’s Digitization Labs. After you’ve digitized them, you can edit and restore those memories with the library system’s Adobe Creative Cloud.

The cost is nominal. A one-hour mandatory orientation is required to use a Digital Legacy Lab, offered monthly. Learn more at Geaugalibrary.net or call a local branch library.

If you want a Golden Buckeye Card, you have to apply for it. While you may already know that, some people don’t. And by some people, I mean me.

A friendly clerk at an Aurora thrift store gave me a paper application and also directed me to the state’s website, aging.ohio.gov, so I could get a Golden Buckeye Card and shave a few dollars off my purchase. I assumed a computer in Columbus would spontaneously send me one. Turns out, I was wrong.

When you turn 60 (and I’m nearly three years beyond that), you can apply for a card and get discounts at participating retailers and Ohio's state park lodges and campgrounds.

I applied online and got my card within a few days. Ohio residents aged 18-59 with a disability also are eligible for the Golden Buckeye Card. Don’t miss out. We’ve earned this.