Should You Wait?
 Are you procrastinating on starting your retirement savings or investments? Are you eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan, but have not yet started to contribute? If so, the following will show you the impact of waiting. As you can see, time is a vital factor in accumulating wealth, and procrastinating will likely cost you money. These charts don’t take into consideration the impact of taxes and inflation. Both of these also negatively impact your ability to accrue assets for your future…and provide another topic for a future article! More...
Happy Healthy Friends
 By Joan Sewell
Do you forget what’s-her-names phone number or where you put your keys? Recently, I have spent a good deal of time hunting things. One of my friends advised me to take a good look at my diet. It seems what you eat affects how clearly you think and concentrate, your intelligence level and even how quickly your brain ages. This is because the brain is a hungry tissue. More...
South Gwinnett High School Class of 1959 has Reunion
Back row, from left to right: Larry Gilleland, Alvin Bennett, Bennie Buice, Ronald Ford, Jerry Downs, and Raymond Butler. Middle row, from left to right: Jack Britt (teacher), Jimmy Johnson, Harold Bowman, Lorraine Davis, Harriet Bagby, Frances Thomas, Betty Hughes, and Doris Ann Johnson. Front row, from left to right: Jenette Fowler, Emma Dickson, Mary Ann Hicks, Judith Martin, Runell Walker, Sonja Bowman, Vesta Orr, and Winnell Freeman.
Belong at the Cottages of Monroe
 Unsung Hero. What does that represent? To Margie Briscoe, Community Manager of The Cottages of Monroe, it simply means loving what you do for the people you love. Managing her active adult community is a passion of hers and it is so much more than just sitting behind her desk directing office traffic. More...
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Happy Healthy Friends
 By Joan Sewell
I know that several of my friends are cutting down on their vacation travel this year. Heat and high gas prices are contributing factors I’m sure. So let me tell you about a terrific short and relatively inexpensive trip I took with a group of ladies most of whom are members of Snellville Church of Christ and H2U. More...
Designing Grandmothers'
Club of Snellville
 By Phylecia Wilson
Did you know there is a national club for grandmothers and that the Snellville chapter is one of the most active in the country? The Designing Grandmothers’ Club of Snellville has been around since 1989 and two Snellville members have served as president of the National Federation of Grandmothers Clubs of America (NFGCA), including the current Snellville Club President, Barbara Hewatt Rawlins. More...
Staying strong - a senior priority
 By Jerry Chapman
Jack Lalanne passed away in January this year. The name won’t mean much to many of you young readers, but the iconic fitness guru was an example to Americans of the positive results of exercise. He opened the first health club in America in 1936 in Oakland, CA, and designed the world’s first leg extension machine, pulley machines using cables, and weight selectors, now a standard in the fitness industry. He was 95 when he died and he exercised daily until his death. More...
What do I do - I'm 62???
You’re getting close to being 62, and wondering whether or not you should apply for your Social Security benefits. If you are eligible for benefits, you may begin receiving payments as early as age 62 - but is that a wise decision? At age 62, you would receive only 75% of your benefit amount – a reduction that continued for the remainder of your life. If you wait until age 66 you will receive 100% of your Social Security benefit. If you can wait until age 70, you will get a 32% boost in your benefit. More...
You may not be aware, but everyone is eligible for Medicare at age 65, even when the normal retirement age for Social Security benefits is later. We recommend anyone turning 65 contact the Social Security Administration (www.ssa.gov or 1.800.772.1213) three months before the month of their 65th birthday. The initial Medicare enrollment period runs for seven months, starting three months before the month you turn 65. More...
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