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APOSTOLIC LIGHTHOUSE The public is invited to attend all activities at the Apostolic Lighthouse, 111 N. A St.
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A Day of Celebration
Once Upon a Cure and Women Supporting Women invite all Breast Cancer Survivors to a Bras & Breakfast from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 22.
Hinds Career Center students to compete in Make 48 contest
Four Hinds Career Center students will compete in the Make 48 competition July 17 through July 21 at Purdue Polytechnic in Anderson. The contest is a 48-hour competition in which teams are presented with a challenge and tasked to build a physical prototype, create a sales sheet, and create a one-minute marketing video.
ASK AMY:
Dear Amy: My wife and I have been married for 57 years. We love each other very much and demonstrate this every day.
ASK RUSTY:
Dear Rusty: I’m a retired firefighter and live in Ohio. I earned Social Security from my side employment, but the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) hit my Social Security very hard.
PLAIN VANILLA
Gangly, skinny, his forehead presenting with acne, the Boy at six feet, three inches towered over the Dean. Yet inside he felt about the size of the spies of the children of Israel alongside the descendants of the Anakim.
LOOKING BACK
APRIL 9 - APRIL 15 1973 • Famed artist Pablo Picasso died at the age of 91. • A group of participants in the Indiana Guides program at the Anderson YMCA were pictured in the Call-Leader as they detailed the program to a group of Elwood men and their sons who were interested in initiating the program at the Elwood YMCA.
Ask Amy
Dear Amy: I need your objective opinion. I'm a divorced mom of two and last year, my boyfriend moved in with me, followed by his daughter (age 12).
Ask Rusty: Why should a non-working spouse be entitled to Social Security Benefits?
Dear Rusty: Why can a non-working spouse claim half of their working spouse’s benefit even though they have not contributed to the Social Security system? This doesn’t seem right or fair to those of us who have contributed for years from our paychecks. Signed: Inquisitive Dear Inquisitive: This is a question which needs a bit of historical background to properly explain: Social Security’s original purpose when it was enacted in 1935 was to prevent America’s seniors from living in poverty (remember, Social Security was enacted during the “Great Depression”). Even before the first Social Security check was sent to a retired worker in 1940, Congress had already changed the original Social Security law to, as well, provide antipoverty benefits to nonworking spouses of a worker (a predominant family reality at that time) and surviving spouses, as well as to their minor children. Social Security’s fundamental goal has always been to lift eligible Americans out of poverty, which it still does very effectively.