Looking to make some major home improvements? Have you considered a cash-out refinance on your existing home? Refinancing is a low-interest way to get tax-free cash for remodeling your kitchen, building a pool in the backyard—or anything else you choose to do. Let us look at an example. Say you bought your home for $450,000,…
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Features, August 2020
Dollars and Sense: How a Cash-Out Refinance for Home Improvement Works
Features, August 2020
Word of the Month: Contumacious
David Zapatka Sister and reader Judy Haberstroh wrote after reading the June column, “This one is interesting. Initially I was leaning toward using ‘yet’ but once I saw the specific definition of ‘still,’ I felt that was the correct word. However, when talking, I would more likely place the word ‘still’ after ‘it’s’ rather than at the end…
Features, August 2020
Contrails
J. Tayburn (Written February 2018) The other day I noticed several jets moving across the blue Wending their way, they left a contrail as they flew The fast-moving planes disappeared before too long But their contrails lingered awhile before they were gone It got me to wondering what contrails do we leave? What stories about…
Features, August 2020
What You Need to Know About Zoom
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg and Sharon Cotter It goes without saying that the last few months have been difficult for everyone. Being sequestered at home has meant a feeling of isolation. For some, this isolation creates a feeling of hopelessness. There is no telling just when our lives will return to “normal.” But there is…
Generals, August 2020
Unit Happenings
Unit 24 Independence Day Parade Jan Arruda Everyone loves a parade! On July 4, Unit 24 celebrated our country’s birthday with a golf cart parade. There were 15 lavishly decorated carts led by Pat Arruda on his Harley. Patriotic parade music was playing as we went through the neighborhood. It was a wonderful opportunity to…
Generals, August 2020
And Two More Make the Five Directors for CCP’s Fall Production An Evening of One Acts!
Andrea Molberg Meet the other directors for this fall’s Community Circle Players’ (CCP) dinner theatre production. SaddleBrooke audiences have enjoyed David Fuller on stage in CCP’s dinner theatre performances, and this fall he will be in the director’s chair for one of the production’s one acts. David, who retired from his Bend, Ore., dental practice in…