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• Many places are named for historical events, persons or naturally occurring landmarks, but some names are just weird, seeming to have come from sarcastic comments or drunken explorers! • A funny dot on maps of Quebec is Baie des Ha! Ha! This is a hamlet near the Ha! Ha! River, which has five dams, all named Ha! Ha! (numbered 1-5). There is also a Pointe des Ha! Ha!, Bridge Lake Ha! Ha!, Park Ha! Ha!... and more. The areas are all interesting and beautiful spots in Quebec. Remember that Canada has both English and French as their national languages. The French meaning of “haha” is “an unexpected obstacle on the path,” which pretty well explains how the names originated. • Another interesting place in eastern Canada is Blow Me Down Provincial Park near Deer Lake, Newfoundland. But the wind no longer blows across and over the Blow Me Down Mountains since the park now has lots of trees that shield visitors from those windy blasts. Odd Dots on the Map: Turn to page 3

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A: Q: I am so into the CW show “Reign,” and I wondered about the actress who plays Clarissa. Can you tell me what else she has been in? -- Mary Ellen F., via email

The show you’re thinking of is “The Next Joe Millionaire” -- a follow-up to surprise hit “Joe Millionaire” -- which aired on Fox in 2003. Rodeo-cowboy David Smith of Midland, Texas, went to Italy to find “true love” -- by masquerading as a millionaire to a group of European women who were unaware of the show’s actual premise. At the end of the season, David and Linda Kasdova rode off into the sunset together, only to break up a short time later. ***

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quiry fees, transaction statements, including paper and other, customer service fees, bill payment fees, fees to add or “load” funds, dormancy fees, fees to get remaining funds when closing the account and ® overdraft or “shortage” fees. by Freddy Groves Whew! That’s a lot of fees. by Mary Hunt In the case of credit cards, the issuers expect to earn a profit by charging interest. And with debit cards, fees are what keep the issuers in the black. And that makes me see red. Where were you on Feb. 3? Were you at a cer If your employer has gone the payroll debit- emony honoring and remembering The Four Chapcard route, contact your human resources departlains? If so, you were likely in the minority. ment or finance/payroll department; you can often If you are hoping that one day soon I, your In 1988, Feb. 3 of each year was declared to be opt out of getting paid with cards. 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Or you could do what I’ve been advising request this readjustment procedure. It is done autopeople in your situation for years. And that is to do matically after he turns age 66. Correction: In a recent column, I wrote that nothing. Just let your Social Security checks contin- the Social Security Administration automatically ue to flow into your bank account -- remembering all along that you aren’t due any of those benefits and mails benefit estimate statements to anyone 60 or older who is not yet getting retirement benefits. I will eventually have to pay them back. have since learned they longer do that.These At some point down the roadPlease (it might be review carefully. Double check:  no Phone Number(s) Spelling  P statements can only be obtained online at www.solater this year, or it may even be early next year), cialsecurity.gov. Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corr SSA will learn that you have been working Contact -- either your because of earnings reports from your employer or Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 If you have a Social Security question, Tom Marthrough a computer data exchange with IRS. Once they learn you are working, they will stop your genau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comchecks. And they will send you an overpayment let- cast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate ter. But, you will be expecting it and, assuming youHELP U HEAR c/o JNS Media writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at didn’t lose all the proceeds of your Social Security1/4 www.creators.com. pg. 4C 26x disc. checks in a wild gambling spree in Las Vegas, you COPYRIGHT 2014 CREATORS.COM will have the money sitting in your bank account ready to pay them back. There are two advantages to doing things this way. One: You can pocket what little interest you might have earned on those benefit payments before they were stopped. And two: You avoid all the back and forth hassles with SSA -- the calling and waiting on hold and recalling and starting and stopShould I buy ping Social Security checks that the guy who sent the cheapest? the first letter experienced. Should I buy What I am suggesting you do isn’t exactly the newest kosher, but it’s not illegal. You’d simply be bending the rules a bit. As long as SSA eventually gets its technology? Should I buy money back, they’ll be satisfied. the smallest? And finally, here is a message to both of these guys, and to any of my readers who are under age 66, getting Social Security checks, and who decide to return to work thus forcing a suspension of those checks. Once you reach age 66, you will get credit for those months in which you did not receive Property of a benefit - in the form of an adjustment to your initial AdVenture Media, Inc. benefit reduction. Here is an example. Mike started his Social Security benefits FREE at age 62. Those benefits would have come with a of Coachella Valley The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read 25 percent reduction. In other words, his monthly 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 checks were 75 percent of his full retirement (age 66) rate. At age 63, Mike returned to work and his All Rights Reserved Discuss these important benefits were suspended. He kept working even considerations right away, with beyond age 66, but his Social Security checks were your Doctor of Audiology at reinstated at that point because the earnings limit Help U Hear Hearing Centers. rules no longer applied to him. At about the same time, they will recalculate his benefit rate to give him • Our objective is to help you determine credit for the three years he didn’t get any Social Sewhich hearing aid is appropriate for you, curity checks. So, instead of a 25 percent reduction, and to provide the best service for they will apply only about a 7 percent reduction -for the first 12 months he received Social Security YOUR individual needs. benefits before the suspension. Mike doesn’t have to

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