| Week of April 12, 2007
Students (kindergarten through eighth grade) and staff of Creswell Christian School invite community members to a Spring Open House to be held from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 12 at the school, located in the Creswell Christian Center building on Holbrook Lane.
Attendees will be able to tour the facility, meet the staff, view curricula, admire students' special artwork and science projects and partake of refreshments.
SOFCU Credit Union's Creswell branch will hold a "Financial Wellness Day" on Tuesday, April 17. Jacki Holcomb, financial representative for SOFCU Financial Solutions will answer questions about retirement, IRAs, mutual funds, annuities, educational funding, long term care and life insurance. If you are interested in meeting with her, please call 895-3061 to set up an appointment.
Social Security is April 26 lecture topic
Retiring baby boomers and the future of Social Security will be topics of a lecture on April 26 hosted by the Economics Department at California State University, Fresno. It will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the University Business Center, room 192. Guest speaker will be Dr. Randall Wray, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Attempting to tackle the issues surrounding the future of Social Security, Wray will address the question, Can America afford to grow old? Wray also serves as a senior research associate at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and is a senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. He researches and writes on full employment policy, monetary theory and policy, Social Security and budget policy. For more information, call 559.278.2672.
A New Direction for Retirement Savings
Looking for another way to benefit from tax breaks on saving for retirement? Then take a gander at the new, improved health savings account. HSAs started out as a way to help pay medical expenses. To qualify, you had to sign up for a health-insurance plan with a high deductible--at least $2,200 for family coverage and $1,100 for individuals. You could then open an HSA and contribute an amount up to your deductible, with a maximum in 2007 of $5,650 for families and $2,850 for individuals. But in December, Congress passed a last-minute law that lets you contribute the maximum amount to an HSA regardless of the amount of your deductible. So, for example, you can buy a family policy with a $2,200 minimum deductible and contribute as much as $5,650 to your HSA. The change makes it more appealing to use an HSA for long-term savings instead of just medical expenses.
2007 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards Announced
Results of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundations eighty-third annual United States and Canadian competition have been announced by Foundation president Edward Hirsch. The 2007 Fellowship winners include 189 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from almost 2,800 applicants for awards totaling $7,600,000.
Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors and are approved by the Foundations Board of Trustees, which includes six members who are themselves past Fellows of the Foundation Joel Conarroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard A. Rifkind, Charles Ryskamp, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Edward Hirsch. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The 2007 Fellows range from the 30-year-old fiction writer Daniel Alarcn of Oakland, California, and the 29-year-old video and sound artist Kalup Linzy of Brooklyn, New York, to the 75-year-old medieval and Renaissance historian, Meredith Parsons Lillich, of Syracuse, New York.
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