Archive for Family
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A Family Meeting Can Complete your Estate Planning
By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford It takes a lot of thought and consideration to complete your well-designed estate plan. You’ve considered who should receive which assets, what charities you want to benefit, and who will be executor of your estate. To help ensure that your plan pro...
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Stories about your father?
By Bob Morrison and Mary Huebbe Marketing & Development Director Ridgecrest Village Father’s Day is an important day here at Ridgecrest Village. Memories of your father are important to reflect on, especially as we approach Father’s Day. We like honoring our fathers with a day of telling st...
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Your Advocacy Connection – Having a Special Needs Family Member
By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Many families have a family member with special needs. In our family, it is a sister with developmental challenges. In one of our church families, it is a person severely injured in a car accident as a teen. One classmate had a stroke very young, leav...
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The Merry Month of May…
By Eloise Graham May seems to have a theme all to itself – the letter “M.” May Day, Mother’s Day and Memorial Day all take place in the merry month of May. Even its birthstone is the “M”erald. (Emerald) May Day, celebrated on May 1, is an ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festi...
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Safety First
By Pam Haumann New Parent Services Manager Child Abuse Council There are several safety rules to remember when children are in or around water. Is there anything more fun for children than playing outdoors in the water during the summer? Whether you are a parent, grandparent, guardian, or o...
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Your Advocacy Connection – Patient Advocacy is What We Do
By Glenda Thomas GolderCare Solutions Recently, I was asked to be part of an expert panel. I was honored, and so I accepted the position to speak to incoming freshmen and their parents at our local high school. I would not exactly call myself an expert, yet I have been through the registration ...
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What’s Your True Legacy?
By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford May is a month of celebrations – Mother’s Day, graduations, Memorial Day – not to mention a month of grand events, such as the Kentucky Derby and the Indianapolis 500. Lesser known but still celebrated in May are Teacher Appreciation Day, Armed Force...
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Sandwiched, Part 1
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home You’re caring for someone – an elderly parent, perhaps – and along the way, you’re getting quite an education. With a great deal of hard work and sacrifice on your part, you’ve been able to keep them in their own home. Or, perhaps...
