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Guilderland, NY- Despite that late-April cold snap and accompanying snow showers, I do believe that it’s now safe to say that spring has finally arrived. I suspect that the vast majority of Guilderland’s residents are pleased with the change of seasons, too. We are seeing clear evidence of that with the reappearance of large numbers of walkers and runners on the trails at Tawasentha Park, the full use of the various sports fields at Nott Road, Di Caprio, and Keenholts Parks, and the large numbers of golfers enjoying themselves at Western Turnpike. Our residential neighborhoods are full of bagged leaves and brush at the street edges, a sure sign of residents getting their lawns and gardens in shape for the warmer weather. The sounds of lawnmowers are starting to fill the air as new growth takes hold. Yes, springtime really is one of those times of year when it feels wonderful to live in Guilderland! Sidewalk projects are underway on Western Avenue in Westmere and on Main Street in Guilderland Center. We ask everyone to be courteous and considerate in work zones as these important additions to Guilderland’s infrastructure take shape. Information on lane closures is posted on the Town website, www.townofguilderland.org, as we receive it to help keep residents aware of possible delays. It may be fairly early in the spring season, but we are starting to see quite a few Guilderland families enrolling their children in the Town’s popular summer program, which encompasses both a half-day day camp and a broad array of sports and enrichment camps. These programs have been a familiar part of Guilderland’s summer landscape for many years, and many of the camps fill up early. Program brochures were distributed last month, so take a look to see what works best in your house. You can register in person at the Parks and Recreation Office on Route 146, by mail, or on-line at www.guilderlandrec.com. Please call the Parks and Recreation Office at 566-3150 if you have questions. Western Turnpike Golf Course is open for the season, and is in full swing with both leagues and recreational golfers. Despite a really harsh winter, the course is in good shape for play, thanks to the efforts of our hard-working groundskeeping crew. There are some springtime specials available for golfers in May. Please call the Pro Shop at 456-0786 to inquire about these specials and to reserve a tee time.
The schedule has been set for the 36th season at the Guilderland Performing Arts Center, the home of free Thursday evening concerts at Tawasentha Park. The first event of the season will be the annual “Nervosity” show, featuring a battle of local high school bands. That event will take place on Friday, June 19. The Thursday evening concert series will launch on June 25 with a performance by the Guilderland Town Band., and continue until August 13. The performance schedule is available at www.townofguilderland.org. Sunday, June 21 will mark the return of “Mudmania” at Tawasentha Park for the fifth consecutive year. This allday event includes multiple competitive and “fun run” components throughout the day, along with food and entertainment. Whatever the weather may be on the day of the event, participants are always guaranteed that there will be plenty of mud on the actual racecourse! You can find complete information and on-line registration forms at www. tawasenthamudmania.com. The Guilderland Town Board, at its April 7 meeting, approved a new local law designed to give the Town more clearlydefined authority to deal with abandoned and neglected properties throughout Guilderland. The law requires that properties which are unoccupied for significant periods of time be registered with the Town, and that such properties be maintained by their owners so that they do not become eyesores for neighbors and for others passing through the Town. Residents who believe that there are properties like this in their neighborhoods should report them to the Guilderland Building Department at Town Hall. I urge all our Town residents to get outside and enjoy the many recreational opportunities available to them in Guilderland. We have certainly waited long enough for the opportunity this year!
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JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN, DOES IT MEAN YOU SHOULD? Guilderland, NY - The job of a lawyer is to advise her client as to his options. While the lawyer must advise as to the pros and cons of each option, ultimately, it is for the client to decide for him or herself as to what s/he wants to do, and what the consequences will be. In making any decisions regarding the course and strategy in a matrimonial or family law matter, the following things must be taken into account, much more so than any other legal action: 1. Long term ramifications – When your case is over, the judge, lawyers, experts, and everyone else involved in your process packs up their bags, and goes on their way to their next case. However, you have to live with the fallout. If you have children, you have a lifetime connection with your spouse or partner. Have you said or done things that will prohibit you from ever being able to participate in any events? Is it better to sometimes take the high road than to place your children and family in a lifetime situation of discord? 2. Cost – This is an issue that we have frequently discussed in this column. Are you going to invest more money in fighting about something than it is worth? If you are arguing over the snow globe from your trip to Niagara Falls, you might be able to make another trip and buy a dozen snow globes with what you may pay to fight about it.
3. Chance of success – As a lawyer it is always interesting to bring a novel argument and see where it goes, however, do you want to be the leading case for the next half century? A friend of mine was lecturing at a family law seminar when a woman approached her and identified herself as the child in one of the leading custody cases. She explained to the lecturer that her childhood was awful, and she wished her parents had just worked something out and not spent her childhood fighting in court. 4. Motions and other legal devices – While these are great tools and often need to be used, are you taking an action such as a motion, deposition, etc. to obtain a certain result, or simply to harangue or prolong the process? As lawyers we are lucky to have many tools at our disposal. However, many of these are powerful instruments must be utilized only when needed. Certainly, there are times when you have no good choice but to spend time, money, and energy to fight for yourself and to protect your children. It is important to make sure that is what you are doing, and not simply trying to cause someone else emotional and financial pain. As I always tell my clients, litigation is a very poor means of revenge.
Margaret C. Tabak is a partner at Tabak & Kiosse, LLP, a law firm located in Great Oaks Office Park (near Crossgates Mall). Along with her partner (Leyla A. Kiosse), Attorney Tabak counsels clients on all matters related to matrimonial and family law. A resident of Guilderland for more than 20 years, Margaret received her undergraduate degree from SUNY Albany and her law degree from Albany Law School. If you have questions about a matrimonial or family law issue, contact Attorney Tabak for a consultation by calling 464-4095 or visiting the firm’s website, www.tklawllp.com.
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DOES YOUR PORTFOLIO MATCH YOUR RISK TOLERANCE? Guilderland, NY- How much risk are you comfortable taking with your investments? This key question in portfolio construction is very difficult to answer, given a world of high volatility in stock returns, constantly-changing economic conditions, and the fact that none of us can say with certainty how any financial asset will perform in the future! Financial experts often break down an investor’s risk tolerance into three categories: need to take risk, ability to take risk, and willingness to take risk. The “need” and “ability” factors are a function of one’s financial situation – for example, a retiree with a multi-million dollar investment portfolio and no need for portfolio income has a very high ability to take risk (his/her life isn’t negatively impacted if the portfolio drops in value by a lot), and a very low need to take risk (earning high returns won’t help his/her situation). In fact, we find that for many investors, the “need” and “ability” factors merely offset one another. As such, we turn to the critical third factor, one’s “willingness” to take risk. Another way to think about willingness to take risk is how various levels of declines in your portfolio impact your ability to sleep at night. Do you shutter with fear if you hear that the market is down 3% today? Or, do you welcome these downward movements, believing that what goes down will soon go back up? We encourage investors to try to quantify their willingness to take risk by thinking about the maximum portfolio value that they could emotionally tolerate to lose in a down-market. When considering this, try not only to think about your reaction, but how such a drop would impact your financial life, if at all. For example, a 30-year old investor with stable employment may have a difficult time stomaching a 20% loss on her retirement portfolio, however such a loss will likely have little impact on her financial future, as she still has a lot of time prior to needing the money.
Once you settle on a maximum tolerable loss, we suggest that you consider an investment portfolio that has at most two times that maximum loss invested in risky assets, such as stocks, real estate, high-yield bonds, commodities, etc. In other words, if you believe you can tolerate a loss of 20%, we recommend that you hold no more than 40% in risky assets. This follows from the notion that you should be prepared for risky assets to drop in value by 50% from time to time. We’ve seen broad stock market indices suffer losses of this approximate magnitude 3 times in the past 40 years (2007-2009, 2000-2002, and 1973-1974), and it will likely happen again. We suggest that the remainder of portfolio assets should be invested in relatively safer alternatives, such as cash equivalents or investment-grade bonds. Please review your portfolio or consult your financial advisor to determine if your current mix of investments aligns with your tolerance for risk.
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SPACE, A COMPLETELY NECESSARY AND ADMIRABLE GOAL Guilderland, NY - I showed my students a video of a recent a empted landing of the Falcon9 launch vehicle developed by SpaceX (a private company that now provides, among others things, resupply missions to our Space Sta on). They are a emp ng to conserve costs, and achieve other goals in Space explora on by returning the launch vehicle safely to earth byy rocket. The landing that I showed was not successful (h ps://vid.me/i6o5) but SpaceX will eventually succeed, and the pursuit of such a goal is cri cal for ourr con nued growth. As we discussed this example of human achievement at the character board before taekwondo class, it occurred to me that I should write the following ar cle for this month’s installment. Are you happy that millions of women worldwide now benefit from earlyy detec on and the curing of breast cancer? Do you like the fact that you can communicate with people worldwide and do extensive research in any field that interests you from a small device in your pocket? Is it a good thing that people can be warned of arriving hurricanes and lives can be saved? Do you enjoy the ac vity of viewing virtually any program you wish from the comfort of your own home? Do you agree that a large parachute that deploys from an aircra in jeopardy and has already saved 200 lives is wonderful? Have you benefi ed from a GPS in anyway these days? If you answered no to these ques ons, then I cannot help you. But if the answers were yes, as I suspect they were, then you support, whether you think you like it or not, our planetary ini a ve to explore Space. This includes both privately and publically funded research and development. The most renowned organiza ons that pursue this ini a ve are of course, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX.
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Five Common Eye Problems for Baby Boomers… Guilderland, NY - Although our bodies are impressively built machines, they unfortunately are not immune to aging. This reality is now being recognized by an increasingly large por on of baby boomers as they find themselves not seeing as well as they once did.
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The Singing Anchors perform at GPL I want to remind you that The Singing Anchors will be performing a free concert at GPL on Sunday, May 17, at 2 pm. WNYTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Benita Zahn and Jessica Layton, and Jerry Gretzinger (no longer an anchor, but so what?) will fill GPLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Helderberg Room with their deligh ul harmonies and comedic riďŹ&#x20AC;s.
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What Happens if You Die Without a Will? by Bob and Denise Randall
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Summer 2015 - Our 36th Season! Guilderland, NY- In a previous column we explained the many things Our Thursday Night Summer Series is Free and you can do with a Will that you cannot accomplish without one. Open to All with Free Parking! Nevertheless, by most estimates, fewer than half of all adult Americans have a Will. The reasons for not creating a Will are varied and often complicated. Is it because that although everyone has got to die, we Friday - June 19 – 6-10 P.M. Thursday - July 23 - 7:30 P.M. harbor a secret belief that an exception will be made in our case? Is it Battle of the High School Bands! The Chris Dukes Band because we think we don’t have enough assets to bother? Or is it because Nervosity Concert Rockin’ Country! we think our property will be distributed the way we want it to be even Free event - Open to all Middle without a Will? The answer to the last question may surprise you. & High School Students! Sponsored by Thursday – July 30 – 7:30 P.M. If you die without a Will, your estate will be distributed in accordance Christ’s Church Guilderland with New York State’s Law of Intestate Distribution. In other words, if Audiostars you die without a Will, the New York State Legislature has determined Rockin Cover Band! how your property will be distributed. Does their plan for your property Sponsored by Thursday - June 25 - 7:30 P.M. match your wishes? Let’s look at a few common scenarios. Crossgates Mall Kathleen Ehlinger Conducting If you die leaving a spouse and no children, your spouse will take all. the Generally, most people want this outcome. But let’s say you die leaving Guilderland Town Band Tuesday – August 4 – 6:00 PM a spouse and two children, ages 5 and 7. The law requires that the National Night Out spouse receive $50,000 plus one-half of the rest. The other 50 % goes Sponsored by to the two minor children. The surviving spouse would need a court Thursday – July 2 – 7:30 P.M. Guilderland Police Dept order to access any of the children’s money, even to spend on necessities. Albany Pro Musica Community Service Unit In effect, your surviving spouse is forced to raise the children on only Sponsored by half of your estate. Stewart’s Holiday Match Thursday - August 6 - 7:30 P.M. If a person were to die with no spouse and no children but with surviving Kathleen Ehlinger Conducting parents, New York’s law says the parents inherit. This is usually a poor the plan because the parents many soon be going into a nursing home. Thursday – July 9 - 7:30 P.M. Bluz House Rockers The money from the estate will pass to the parents and disappear into Sponsored by nursing home expenses. If the parents were already in a nursing home First Niagara Bank and receiving Medicaid benefits, their inheritance would most likely disqualify them from Medicaid. Is this consistent with your wishes? The law mandates a similar outcome if you were to die leaving only grandparents surviving you: one half of your estate would pass to your Thursday – July 16 – 7:30 P.M. Kathleen Ehlinger Conducting maternal grandparents, and one half to your paternal grandparents. the We could present a number of similar scenarios where the result is Guilderland Town Band not what you presumed would happen or intended to happen. To ensure that your wishes with respect to your property are fulfilled, you should consult with an attorney experienced in trusts and estates law to consider the preparation of a Will and/or a Trust. THE RANDALL LAW FIRM is comprised of attorneys Denise M. Randall and Robert G. Randall, Jr. They provide a full range of estate planning services including preparation of wills and trusts, and estate administration (probate). Denise is also an adjunct professor at The College of Saint Rose where she teaches Estate Planning to MBA candidates. Denise is admitted to practice in New York State, and Bob is admitted in New York and Florida. Bob is also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
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TRASH TALK by Vince Coppola, owner of Scrapster LLC, Scrap & Junk Removal Service
Spring Cleaning Con nues as Summer Approaches! Finally some warm weather. The best thing about this past winter is that if now every single day was 40 degrees out, raining and windy, I’d be like “Wow, this weather is totally awesome!” It is just that perfect me of year, not too hot, not too cold, and WE ALL need to take advantage of it before we start gearing up to curse the upcoming humidity! Yeah, you almost forgot about that, right, back when you were pulling icicles out of your nose every 5 minutes. So here is the plan… At Scrapster we have expanded our focus (is that actually possible? Yes!) on Junk Removal. We have found our niche locally. Our reputa on for fair pricing and great service is growing, thanks to our customers and an increasing amount of referrals. A big advantage is that we separate out scrap metal and appliances don’t typically don’t charge for that, which really can keep costs low on your clean out project. One of this month’s themes is Home Safety. Look around your home-do you see any of the following? • Heavy refrigerators or other large appliances in a basement or garage that are not easy to move. • Gas grills, old propane cylinders or empty metal gas cans. • Rusty metal objects with sharp edges. • Lawn mowers, lawn tractors or snow blowers star ng to leak gas or oil. • Water heater or oil tanks in danger of rus ng through and causing water or property damage. • Broken metal chairs that someone might accidentally sit on. • Bikes or scooters with missing parts, bad brakes or flat res. • Le over yard debris you need to remove before having problems with animals or if you are planning on selling or ren ng a property. • Too many items stacked against a wall or near fire exits that represent a hazard for small children playing nearby. As a scrap metal recycler we operate 100% to make sure appliances and other metal items we pick up are broken down correctly into basic components (wire, motors, etc.) for more effec ve re-use. We also do the same type of separa on when we do clean outs, which involves dona ng items such as clothing, toys and some furniture, while separa ng cardboard, metal, magazines, etc. so they can all be recycled properly. We can help. Scrapster is family owned local business which provides a NO COST/LOW COST scrap metal & appliance pick up and removal service. We also offer LOW COST junk, furniture and TV removal and clean outs. Yes, we do provide television removal! Everything is properly recycled, disposed of or donated. We are convenient, reliable, insured, and we do all the work. “Don’t Worry…We Can Take It!”™ Please call us today for more details about our programs at (518) 505-5055 or visit our website to set up an appointment online at www.Scrapster.com. 28
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