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IN THIS ISSUE:
lVolunteer
Openings
lAdvertising
lWhat Did You
Say?
lOregon Berries
lTip of the Month
l Recipe
of the Month
lFinancial
Corner
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Volunteer Openings |
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Haven't yet
volunteered? There are many areas where help is
needed. Find a place to help and jump right
in! Options include volunteering for a day, a
project, or an ongoing need. Commitments can be
small or large, short or long. For additional
info, please email Kathryn.
A few
options:
Reporter for sale
info from any of the health food stores for our
weekly Grocery
Specials.
Internet researcher
to explore other group ordering
possibilities.
Website
developer.
Website
maintenance.
Newsletter
contributors for Tip of the Month and Recipe of the
Month.
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Advertising |
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expressed an interest in advertising their businesses
through the network. After much discussion, the
board has agreed to allow members only limited
advertising options on the website or as a newsletter
sponsor.
This will help offset network operating
costs as well as provide a service to network
members.
PPN continues to protect the privacy of
our members. Please see our privacy policy at the
bottom of this newsletter.
If you are interested in advertising,
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Happy
summer, everyone!
Kathryn
Vander Meulen
Director
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What Did You
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Thank you to each of you who
took the time to respond to our survey of what
kinds of products you would like to see PPN
offer. We are currently beginning to contact
different companies to determine what kind of
discount pricing might be available to us.
We'll keep you posted. Listed below are the
responses we have received so far. It's not
too late to add to the list! Just email Dawn
with your ideas.
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Oregon Berries
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We will be offering Oregon
berries from Bithell Farms late this summer. We'll
keep you posted as details become available.
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Tip of the Month
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Emergency Supplies -
FEMA recommends everyone take personal
responsibility for emergency preparedness. We
should each have a 72 hour "grab & go" kit stored at
home, work, and in our vehicles. Additionally, we
should be prepared to be on our own for a minimum of two
weeks.
Fixing Food - OK,
you either have or are working on building up those
emergency food supplies. Do you have what it would
take to prepare meals using them? A few basics
would include things like a manual can opener, canned
heat or a camp stove. In the event of evacuation,
you might need things like mess kits or plastic cups
plastic utensils and paper plates.
FEMA has a wonderful
disaster preparedness guide titled Are You
Ready? It is available in hard copy as well as
on the web for download. For more information, click
here.
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Recipe of the Month
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Thanks to Dawn
Shelstad for contributing this month's
recipe.
For a
delightfully pink sparkling clear jelly, try this recipe
for Rhubarb Jelly! The secret to this fabulously clear
and sparkling product is extracting the juice using a
steam juicer.
Rhubarb
Jelly
3 ½ Cups
rhubarb juice
1 Pkg. powdered pectin
4 cups
sugar
Wash rhubarb and cut into chunks.
Place in steam juicer to extract juice-following
manufacturer’s directions.
Measure juice
into a 6-8 qt. sauce pot. Gradually stir in powdered
pectin and bring mixture to a full rolling boil over
high heat, stirring constantly.
Add
sugar, stirring to dissolve and return mixture to a
full, rolling boil. Boil hard for 1 minute stirring
constantly. Remove from heat and skim foam if necessary.
Fill prepared jars to ¼” headspace. Wipe
rim with a clean, damp cloth and adjust 2-piece lids to
fingertip tight. Place in canner and process for 15
minutes (written for high altitude).
Makes 6 half pint jars.
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Financial
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About to receive a pension distribution from your
employer? What should you do?
Caution: How
you handle your pension distribution may impact the
pension funds you’ll rely on for the next 20 to 30 years
of retirement.
First, you’ll
want to place your lump-sum distribution in the
financial vehicle best suited to meet your retirement
goal. Secondly, you’ll want to minimize the amount of
federal and state taxes and Internal Revenue Service
penalties you will pay.
You could
receive the lump-sum distribution in a check, but your
employer will withhold 20 percent from the total to
apply toward federal taxes. And if you’re not yet age 59
½, you may incur an additional 10 percent premature
distribution penalty.
You could roll
the funds into a certificate of deposit, but that’s a
temporary solution. When the CD comes due, you’ll once
again have to decide what to do with the
funds.
A better
option may be to roll the funds into an IRA. The
funds you place in an IRA grow on a tax-deferred basis
under current tax laws and are not taxed until the money
is received, often when your income is lower and taxed
at a lower rate. Additionally, IRAs have flexible
funding guidelines, so you can choose from annuities,
mutual funds and other investment
products.
Kristine V. Barager,
FIC
District Representative
Modern Woodmen of
America
kristine.v.barager@mwarep.org
(719)
532-0570
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A registered
representative. Securities offered through MWA
Financial Services Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary
of Modern Woodmen of America, 1701 1st Avenue,
Rock Island, IL 61201, 309-558-3100. Member: NASD,
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