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Knowing Your Options: Planning and Paying for Long-Term Care

October 4, 2019

It’s difficult for a person in good health, someone with no past or looming health issues to be concerned about, to understand the need to plan for long-term care once they’re too old and frail to care for themselves. But the numbers bear out the wisdom of doing so. It’s estimated that more than 50 percent of people turning 65 will require some form of long-term care.

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History of Memorial Day

May 4, 2019

The practice of decorating soldiers’ graves with flowers is an ancient custom. Soldiers’ graves were decorated in the U.S. before and during the American Civil War. A claim was made in 1906 that the first Civil War soldier’s grave ever decorated was in Warrenton, Virginia, on June 3, 1861, implying the first Memorial Day occurred there. Though not for Union soldiers, there is authentic documentation that women in Savannah, Georgia, decorated Confederate soldiers’ graves in 1862

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Just Listen and God will Lead You: Reverend Wally Chappell’s Story

April 3, 2019

We celebrated Rev. Wally Chappell’s accomplishment of writing and the subsequent publishing of his book When I Listen – which is certainly no small feat! His book is a collection of his writings over a 60 year time span and is a compilation of poetry, over 70 Christmas pieces and his “Conversations with God,” as he describes it.

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