| Motion Sensors Help Care For Family From Afar
A new system aims to make it easier for people to care for elderly family members from a distance. The system, called QuietCare, allows family members to track the movements of their loved ones and alerts them of possible emergencies. Helen Zajak, 93, lives in a studio apartment in assisted-living facility Mulberry Gardens in Southington. .
Retirement savings should begin with 1st paycheck
As soon as you start working, goes the mantra of financial experts, with their spreadsheets showing the miracle of compounding. Save even small amounts over a very long time horizon and you are likely to have more than the people who started socking away big percentages of their incomes in their 30s and 40s.
Sounds easy enough, but a newly minted college graduate frequently has education and credit card debt, not to mention a rather paltry starting salary and a need to set up a new household and wardrobe for working life. How to balance it all?
Instead of aggressively paying down student loans, pay the minimum and sign up for your 401(k) plan at work, said Carrie Schwab Pomerantz, chief strategist for consumer education at Charles Schwab & Co.
Then cut out one excess in your daily spending--did anyone say latte?--and open a Roth individual retirement account, she said.
School calendar plan: one religious holiday
TAMPA - Good Friday is the only religious holiday recognized in the latest version of Hillsborough's controversial school calendar. But the idea of treating Christians differently from Jews and Muslims divided the committee of teachers, parents and school administrators who are making calendar recommendations. "I think that opens a can of worms," said Leigh Crosson, a teacher at Bevis Elementary in east Hillsborough, during the committee meeting Tuesday. It marked a reversal of the group's stance in the fall, when it proposed a calendar recognizing no religious holidays. Necropsies indicate 17 whoopers drowned The 17 young whooping cranes killed in last week's strong storms drowned, according to preliminary necropsy results.
City planners impressed by mixed-use proposal
A proposed mixed-use development at the corner of South McClelland Street and Inger Drive is on track to become a model project, reflecting what the Santa Maria officials have sought, according to planning commission members.
The commissioners seemed pleased by a proposal by Santa Barbara-based Hochhauser Blatter Architecture and Planning to construct the project on a 2.9-acre vacant lot.
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In 2022, assisted living needs an assist
Guy Fontaine, a 72-but-looks-62-years-old transplant to California, is playing golf when he feels the ground shift. Only it's not an earthquake. It's a mind quake, and in minutes, Guy discovers he is putt-putting along in a golf cart on the Harbor Freeway. Soon he's got a highway patrolman in his face. And soon after that, Guy finds his bewildered self in Mission Pescadero in Half Moon Bay, an assisted-living facility populated by aging hippies and run by a martinet who makes Cruella DeVil seem like Mother Teresa. .
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