Milestones, misprices and missteps in daily life
A reflective Viewpoint piece chronicles personal misadventures with shoes and stocks. The writer laments inadequate footwear causing foot pain, recalls attempts at athletic activity, and admits recurrent bad stock picks. They confess buying land they’d regret and purchase of inexpensive but flawed fertilizer spreaders leading to scorched lawns.
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Benefits counselor helps older adults with entitlements
The Area Agency on Aging benefits counselor offers free confidential guidance on Medicare Medicaid housing transport discounts social security food stamps guardianship alternatives and more. Contact Shannon Franz at (512) 443 7653 for information and counseling by phone office or home visit.
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Hays County Sheriff Names Deputy Mark Graves Crime Prevention Unit
Hays County Sheriff's Department announces Deputy Mark Graves joins the Crime Prevention Unit to supervise community outreach, safety programs, and neighborhood watch efforts. He will coordinate public education and crime-prevention initiatives across the county.
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Hays County Sheriffs Department
Mark Graves
Don’t invite a car burglar in Hays County
A public safety note warns residents that car burglaries target purses, phones, and stereos even in rural areas. It urges rolling up windows, locking doors, and storing valuables out of sight, preferably at home or in a trunk, to avoid TWIGOT behavior and costly losses.
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Hays County
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Equity in Social Security for Working Women
A reader asks if a married working woman should receive benefits based on both her earnings and her husband’s. The explanation covers how a woman can collect on her own or a spousal record, with the higher benefit applying, plus advantages like disability benefits and earlier retirement based on her own eligibility.
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Advisory Council On Social Security
National Night Out 1994 Campaign Invitation
The 11th Annual National Night Out event is set for Tuesday August 2 1994. It invites communities to join a nationwide crime prevention effort. In 1993 26.5 million people participated across 8650 communities in all 50 states and abroad. See Night Out page 11.
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National Association of Town Watch
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