Archives
11,156 results were found for your search for all stories
-
Planning Key To Get Retirement Income You Need
May 27, 2004The truth for most Americans is that retirement means living on less. As a result, when planning for retirement, your best friend may be your calculator to help you determine how much you need and what you can afford. Conventional wisdom among financial planners is that you should retire with at least 70-80 percent of […]
-
Retirees Have Social Security Choices To Consider
May 27, 2004Each year, many Americans receive a letter that results in a variety of emotions from excitement to great anxiety. It is a statement from the Social Security Administration with their projection of the monthly benefits the recipient will receive in retirement. These projections are based on several variables and Social Security assumptions including that earning […]
-
Parishes Should Consider Seniors’ Needs, Resources
May 27, 2004Many parishes throughout the United States have senior groups whose members get together for prayer, social activities, lectures or travel. And yet as this segment of the population is growing at a rapid pace, these groups alone can’t possibly tap into the varied talents nor serve the needs of seniors, according to some who work […]
-
For Some, Retirement Offers New Work Options
May 27, 2004Bill Reed of Westbury, N.Y., sees retirement as a new chapter in life, not a final chapter. After 23 years of working in human resources for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the last several of those years as vice president of employee relations, Reed, who at the time was in his late 50s, took early […]
-
Loneliness, Disorientation Challenge Newly Widowed
May 27, 2004When your spouse dies, it’s disorienting enough to deal only with the funeral preparations and the grief and mourning that follows. When your spouse dies and you are a senior citizen, the disorientation can be magnified because of the longer number of years spent together. Even in an interdependent marital relationship, the surviving spouse is […]
-
Marist Honors Outstanding Alumnus, Volunteer
May 27, 2004Each year Marist School honors two outstanding individuals for the Distinguished Alumnus Award and Rev. James L. Hartnett, SM, Service Award respectively. This year Edward (Ed) Fechtel, Jr., a 1953 Marist School graduate, was selected as the Distinguished Alumnus for dynamic leadership in his profession and community. Asbury (Major) Snow, a parent of Marist alumni, […]
-
St. Benedict Couple Receives Donoghue Award
May 27, 2004Honored for their 11 years of dedicated service to their parish and the archdiocese, St. Benedict Church parishioners Elva and Dominic Saltaformaggio were presented with the 2004 Archbishop Donoghue Award from Catholic Social Services, Inc. The Saltaformaggios were honored at a special Mass and breakfast celebration held April 30 at St. Benedict. A nominating committee […]
-
‘Life Is But A Dream’ On The Chattahoochee
May 27, 2004It’s a beautiful spring day, the first in over a week that the sun has won the battle over late afternoon rain showers. Behind the off-white stucco building of St. Andrew’s Church echoes the sound of laughing teenagers. There is a gravel drive just outside the parking lot that leads down to what the church’s […]
-
Voice Of The Shepherd Experienced Through Parents
May 27, 2004Mass is over, and we are walking into the narthex when we spot Jude, 3, the beloved son of our neighbors, who is carrying a piece of paper in his hands as if it were a priceless vase. I lean down to examine the paper and discover it is a sheet from Sunday school, which […]
-
Priest Kicks Up Dust At Charity Motorcycle Ride
May 27, 2004For Father Vincent Sullivan, participating in “Vinny’s Ride,” an annual motorcycle ride to support the St. Vincent de Paul Society, was an easy decision. It combines two of his great interests—motorcycles and charity. Father Sullivan, a priest at Christ the King Cathedral in Atlanta, is one of more than a hundred priests, bikers and community […]