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about responsible money management. Here are a few things to consider and discuss.
• Creating a budget: Break down expenses to show where money is spent and how it’s wasted. Introduce the concept of the 50/20/30 rule of thumb, which encourages budgeters to apply half their monthly budget into fixed costs (i.e. rent, cell phone plan), 20 percent into financial Unfortunately, money is not always goals (i.e. car, vacation), and 30 discussed at an early age. Indeed, percent into flexible spending (i.e. 36 percent of Americans say they food, shopping, entertainment, dayare uncomfortable talking about to-day expenses). Encourage students to investigate money, and 18 percent say money these opportunities. is a taboo subject within their • Building credit: Credit can family, according to the American influence or limit future financial • Free resources. Free resources Psychological Association. As a opportunities, even potentially exist which can help get the result, many students start college harming job prospects. Talk about conversation going. For example, without good money management the importance of establishing and consider checking out Wells skills. What’s more, the rising cost maintaining good credit. Fargo’s new “Preparing and of tuition, housing and other fees Paying for College” webinar makes it even more challenging to • Funding college: Whether it’s a series. Families can take part in graduate in good financial standing. work-study program, an off-campus free instructor-led events that job or applying for and receiving a offer financial planning resources, While students are home for the merit-based scholarship, there are information on responsible money holidays (and perhaps hitting many ways students can contribute management and best practices for parents up for cash), consider to their college education financially paying for college. Webinar topics initiating a productive conversation and ease potential loan debt. (StatePoint) While college students earn their degrees, paving the way for future success in their chosen fields, they should also be paving the way for a healthy financial future.
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The Right to Challenge the IRS’s Position and Be Heard - Taxpayer Bill of Rights Taxpayers have the right to challenge the IRS’s position and be heard. This is one of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which clearly outline the fundamental rights of every taxpayer. The IRS wants to make sure taxpayers know about their rights when dealing with the agency.
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-May call the number listed on the letter or bill for assistance. -Can expect the agency to make the necessary adjustment to their account and send a correction if the IRS upholds the taxpayer’s position.
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Rescinding your response It is improper etiquette to agree to attend a party only to cancel at the last minute if a better invitation comes along. Unless it is an emergency situation or someone is sick, canceling an RSVP without a good reason is rude.
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unwanted sweaters that don’t fit or books you never plan to read, consider these clever ways to clear out unwanted gifts.
Plenty of holiday gifts hit the mark in terms of usefulness and • Return or exchange: Courteous desirability. But not every gift-giver gift-givers often facilitate returns or has a knack for finding the perfect exchanges by including gift receipts gift. with the gifts they give. Without a receipt, chances are you cannot get According to an ING international a refund. But you may be able to survey, 81 million unwanted gifts exchange the gift for store credit were received in 2015. One in at the price the item is currently four people didn’t want, use or showing. Something is better than appreciate the gifts they were given. nothing.
• Regift: According to research by Menulog, a food-delivery service in Australia, 52 percent of people are expected to pass on an unwanted gift on to someone else. Toiletry products are often the first to go. If you choose to regift, try to find someone who will make good use of the item. Don’t regift opened packages or used items. Also, be careful not to regift an item to the original gift-giver.
Even though it’s the thought that counts, keeping duplicates of gifts or items that are simply not needed is wasteful and can create clutter around the home.
• Swap: Invite friends or family members over for a post-holiday swap party. Encourage everyone to bring a gift they can’t use. Make sure you don’t offer up something that one of your invitees may have Rather than filling the dark crevices given you. of a seldom-used closet with
• Transform: Turn gifts into something else that can serve a purpose in your life. That itchy sweater may make beautiful doll clothing for a child’s imaginative
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Preserve Family Memories For Years To Come Families enjoy many moments together throughout the years. However, in today’s digital world, quite often those experiences fail to see the light of day past an initial tweet or Instagram post. Too often file upon file remains in a digital graveyard on a mobile phone or external hard drive. Instead of letting photos, videos, drawings, and memorabilia from vacations and other family experiences linger unappreciated, families can preserve these memories. Explore the various ways to share occasions with others. Photo books Don’t procrastinate and let photo files pile up. Promptly upload them to your favorite photo printing site or bring them to a retailer that has photo machines, such as a nearby pharmacy. Such businesses
routinely offer coupons and steep discounts on photo books. The software is user-friendly, and, in a week or two, you can have a photo book ready to go. This is less timeconsuming than making photo albums, printing photos and then placing them behind plastic-lined pages. The photo book software also may include background designs and funny captions to help customize pages even further. Photo collage If you are a purist and like to have photo prints in hand, then have several of a particular occasion made and then attach them to a decorative piece of wood. Using a decoupage product or a shellac, coat the collage so that it can be preserved. Hang your collage as a piece of handmade artwork on display. Artwork gallery Children routinely bring home artwork they made in school, daycare and other organized classes. Sometimes these items get
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WINT ER 2 0 1 8 March 10th Knights Of Columbus Pasta, Sausage & Meatball Dinner PUTNAM, CT – There will be a pasta, sausage and meatball dinner on Saturday, March 10, from 5pm to 7pmat the Cargill Council 64 Knights of Columbus Hall, 64 Providence Street, Putnam. Tickets are $10 per person and are available at the Council Hall, Joseph’s Jewelers in Putnam and Danielson, or by calling 860-928-4525. Proceeds benefit the Council 64 Member’s Benefit Fund.
March 11th Annual “Spay”ghetti Supper BRIMFIELD - Please join Brimfield’s Here Today Adopted Tomorrow Animal Sanctuary for their annual “Spay”ghetti Supper on March 11. There are 2 seatings: 4:30-6pm and 6:30 to 7pm. Advance ticket prices: $10/Adult; $5/ senior 60+ and kids under 12. Ticket prices at the door are: $15/Adult; $10 seniors 60+ and $5 kids under 12. Kids 5 and under eat free. Gluten free option available. Take out available at the above prices. Pickup time for take-out is 4-4:30pm. Tickets available by visiting www.heretodaysanctuary.org or call 413-324-8224. Location: Brimfield Congregational Church, 20 Main Street, Brimfield.
March 12th Charlton Garden Club Meeting AUBURN - Come and join us! The Charlton Garden Club’s Monday, March 12 meeting will feature Don Post of the Farmer’s Daughter in Auburn. He will speak on Annual & Perennial Vines and their support. Charlton Garden Club meetings are open to all interested in gardening and related themes. Whether you’re a novice or accomplished gardener, the Charlton Garden Club is a great place to meet other gardening enthusiasts, learn about plants and planting, and to share your gardening tips and experiences. Meetings are held at 7pm at the Charlton Federated Church. A $5 donation
is suggested for non-members. If interested in joining the Garden Club, please contact Co-Presidents, Virginia Charette at 508-248-7300 or Marcia Liedigk at 508-434-0507.
Harrington Auxiliary Irish Night On St. Patrick’s Day everyone is Irish! The Harrington Auxiliary invites the general public to its annual traditional, all-you-can-eat Irish Feast, which will be held at the Publick House on Monday, March 12, 2018. There will be two seatings: 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. Adult tickets are $14; tickets for children age 4 to 12 are $5. Advance tickets are available at Harrington Volunteer Services or may be purchased at the door. Call 508765-6473 for more information. Proceeds from the event enable the Auxiliary to provide equipment and programs that benefit the health and well being of the members in the communities the Harrington HealthCare System serves.
March 13th Talk, Tears, & Tea (a Substance Abuse Family Support Group) LEICESTER - Do you have someone struggling with an addiction? Do you feel lost and alone? Please join us for Talk, Tears and Tea on Tuesday, March 13 from at 7pm in the Police Department Community Room. Talk, Tears and Tea is a circle of support for those needing help in dealing with a loved one suffering from opiates and other drug addictions. We are offering our support, experieneces from the journey’s we have traveled while on the path of a loved one suffering. We will help you navigate where to turn for treatment, share resources and offer advice from our hearts. Anything said at the meeting stays at the meeting. This is a no judgement safe zone. Meetings are held every 2nd Tuesday of every month.
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WINT E R 20 1 8 March 14th Monthly Writers Group Meets WEBSTER - Wednesday, March 14th, 5-7pm - Monthly writers group meets at Booklovers’ Gourmet, 55 East Main Street, Webster. New members welcome! Open to all genres and styles. Bring a piece to share or just come listen. Free. Call 508-949-6232 for more information.
March 15th Deathbed Scenes as Death of Community in Mid-20th Century Irish-American Fiction with Beth O’Leary Anish SOUTHBRIDGE - For the first 100 years that the Irish lived in cities of the northeastern United States, they mostly inhabited ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods, with Catholic parishes at their center. Just after World War II, however, thanks in part to economic incentives provided to returning soldiers, the Irish in America began dispersing to the suburbs. The environment in which Irish Americans lived began to change drastically during this time period. In rising up and out of the urban ghetto, they had gained material comfort, but they had lost the safety net that was their Irish neighborhoods. This loss provoked anxiety over blending anonymously into the rest of white America, losing their uniqueness and possibly their values. Irish-American novelists in the decade after World War II strove to capture the Irish-American community of their grandparents they saw fading away. This presentation to be held on Thursday, March 15 from 6;30pm to 7:30pm at the Jacob Edwards Library will discuss some of the historical factors that caused this change in make-up of the Irish-American community. It will then examine how novels from this time period use the death of a community elder to symbolize the disappearance of the concentrated
ethnic neighborhoods, those familiar Irish-American environments, of the authors’ youths. Edward McSorley’s Our Own Kind (1946), Mary Doyle Curran’s The Parish and The Hill (1948), and Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah (1956) express concern for what the Irish had become when they lost the core of values represented in the immigrant generation. Wakes, keening, and deathbed confessions function in these novels both as literal, traditional send offs for elderly immigrant characters, and as symbolic farewells to the set of values they represent.
March 16th United Services 17th Annual Irish Night WOODSTOCK, CT - United Services 17th Annual Irish Night, 6pm, Friday March 16 at The Mansion at Bald Hill in Woodstock. Irish Night features a corned beef and cabbage dinner, with fish and vegetarian options available, live music and Irish sign-a-longs and a silent auction. Tickets are $40 each or $350 for a table of 10 and available until March 9 by visiting unitedservicesct.org/ events/irish-night or by calling 860774-2020 or emailing info@usmhs. org.
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WINT E R 20 1 8 from his newly released second Friday, March 23, 9am - 5pm novel, The One-Eyed Judge, on Saturday, March 24, 9am - noon Thursday, March 22 at 6:30pm at the Jacob Edwards Library. The reading TRI-VALLEY INC. is free and open to the public. MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTHBRIDGE - March is “March The One-Eyed Judge is a fictional for Meals” month nationwide. This account of a complicated and emo- annual fundraiser supports the tional child pornography case. Set Meals on Wheels program which in western Massachusetts, the plot provides nutritious meals to seniors. emerges through the eyes of the Join us on March 22 at 6:30pm at the arresting police officer, the judge’s Southbridge Community Center for law clerks, the defense attorney, the a Pasta Dinner, Entertainment and prosecutor, the witnesses, and the Ticket Auction. To go is also availdefendant himself. Most important- able. Tickets are $10 and can be ly, the book presents the viewpoint purchased at the SouthbridgeComof the judge on the bench, caught up munity Center, 153 Chesnut Street, in the cross currents of his personal 508-764-1469. life, and facing the nearly impossible task of giving both the defense March 23rd and the prosecution an impartial St. John Paul II Parish Youth Minand unbiased trial. istry Fish Fry When Springfield federal Judge SOUTHBRIDGE – Every Friday Michael Ponsor semi-retired af- during Lent, February 16 through ter three decades on the bench, he March 23 from 4:30pm to 7pm at started to enjoy two privileges of the LaSalle Reception Center (Tuspart-time work, selecting the cases can Room) located at 444 Main he would oversee, and having more Street, Southbridge, MA. The menu time for fiction writing. His first includes Fried Fish Dinner, Fritters, novel, The Hanging Judge, reached Chowder, French Fries and Beverages. Eat in or take out! Please call the New York Times bestseller list. 508-765-5126 for take out orders. The One-Eyed Judge features the Delicious! Don’t miss out! same main character, Judge David Norcross, who Ponsor insists is only loosely based on himself. “Judge Norcross is far less experienced than I am,” Ponsor said in a recent interview. “In some ways, he’s a nicer, sort of more ingenuous person.” Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library. Friends of Jacob Edwards Library Book Sale SOUTHBRIDGE - The annual Friends of Jacob Edwards Library Book Sale organized by the Friends of Jacob Edwards Library will take place on Thursday, March 22 at 9am to Saturday March 24 at 12pm. Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library. Thursday, March 22, 9am - 8pm
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A day to do as you wish... sightseeing, shopping, visit a museum, dine at a special restaurant, attend a broadway matinee performance or visit the 911 Fountains and the new Museum via a ticket through www.911museum.org. The possible activities are many. Departure from Southbridge is 6:30am and the return departure from New York City is 6:30pm. The cost is $57 per person. For early reservation please call 508-764-7909.
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A 12 noon luncheon at the Red Lion Inn followed by the 2:30pm concert with reserved seating in the Koussevitsky Music Shed. Andris Nelsons, conductor, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra with music of Mendelssohn and Beethoven, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductor and guest pianist, Yuja Wang. Cost is $125 per person (transportation, Evening at the Boston Pops concert and all inclusive luncheon). May 25th A payment plan is available. Features the best of the Boston Reservation deadline is July 1st. Pops Orchestra's broad repertoire Departure is 9am, RMV parking lot, Southbridge.
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Three Day Excursion and $57 per person. Always sold out, early reservation is recommended. Performance September 11th-13th Festival of Christmas Lights Three day excursion and the performance of “Jesus” at the Sight December 8th and Sound Theatre in Lancaster, PA, Amish Country Tour and historic Philadelphia and more. Two nights at the Crowne Plaza Hotels, 4 Meals, wine and cheese reception, a post dinner show, trip insurance, all gratuities included (2 local guides, escort and driver). Cost is $519 per person. A budget payment plan is available.
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Enjoy a day of sightseeing, visit a museum, shopping, dine at a special restaurant, attend a Broadway matinee performance, or any number of possible activities. Departure from Southbridge at 6:30am and return departure from New York City is 6:30pm. Cost is
Our Lady of LaSalette Shrine, concert with Fr. Pat, the singing priest, the International Museum of Nativities, Gift and Book Shop, Chapel of Light, a Bistro for refreshments and snacks, a Carousel for the children, optional trolley Ride to view the display of over 400,000 lights, and a complete inclusive luncheon at Wright's Farm Restaurant. Cost is $49 per person; $39 for children; under 3 years free. Reservation deadline is December 6th. Departure is 10:45am from Southbridge and the returns is about 7:45pm. As in the past, departure from Webster is a possibility.
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Qualified job seekers should apply online and attach a resume at www.ipaper.com Select the “Careers” tab and click on Search Open Positions, Location: Connecticut. All complete applications and attached resumes will be reviewed International Paper is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/ Females/ Individuals with Disabilities/Veterans STB
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interest rate and type, and the ending date of your separation or grace period. • Tap technology. Set up automatic payments so you’ll never have to worry about missing a payment. You’ll avoid late fees and you might qualify for a discount on your interest rate. For example, Sallie Mae customers may be eligible to receive a 0.25 percent interest rate reduction when they pay on-time via auto-debit. In addition, with the lender’s award-winning mobile app for Android and Apple, customers can make and manage payments anytime, including from an Apple Watch or by using Siri.
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LOOKING FOR RELIABLE PERSON TO PROVIDE RIDES: To do monthly errands. Call Ted: 508-949-2979 POWER EQUIPMENT REPAIRS: Husqvarna, Gravely & Ariens specialists. CITY POWER EQUIPMENT. Rt 20 Charlton, MA. 508-248-7464
FOR RENT DUDLEY: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor. Off street parking, washer/dryer hookups, appliances. No pets. First & last. $725 plus utilities. 508-304-5742 WEBSTER: 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments. $650-$950 per month. For details call: 508-943-0040
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