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A-8 Local Wednesday, Januar y 29, 2020 The Press-Dispatch AREA HAPPENINGS Celebrate Recovery–Will meet every Monday at 6 p.m. at the River of Life Church, 342 E. CR 300 N., Pe- tersburg. For more information, contact Pastor Jim at 812-354-8800. Pike County History Center—Will meet the fourth Monday of each month at the History Center, 1104 Main Street, Petersburg at 6:30 p.m. New members welcome. For more information, contact Jeannine Houchins at 812-766 -0463. History Center hours Monday,Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. DAR—Local chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution meet the second Monday of each month September through June at 6 p.m. at the History Cen- ter in Petersburg. Free Clothing Bank–Oak Grove Church in Oakland City offers a free clothing bank each Tuesday 9 -11 a.m. (Oakland City time) for everyone. They carry new and used clothing. Location is on Morton Street, just past Chuckles. Come to the gymnasium door located at the back of the church. Women's Cancer Support Group – The Lange- Fuhs Cancer Center at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center offers a support group for women who have had cancer of any type or are currently undergoing can- cer treatment. Sessions are the third Tuesday of each month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center Conference Room, located at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center's Dorbett Street entrance. For more information about the "Women's Support Group," visit www.mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events," or call The Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center at 812-996 -7488. Winslow Alcoholics Anonymous – will meet ev- ery Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Call 812-789 -8535 for location of the meeting. Al-Anon meeting – Meetings are each Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., located at 424 W. 7th St. in Jasper. For more information, call 812-887-0349. Narcotic Anonymous – Every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at River of Life Fellowship Church. Parent Cafe - 4th Thursday evening every month, the Otwell Wesleyan Church hosts Ireleand Home Based Services, "Parent Cafe" from 5:30 -7:30 p.m. EST at the fellowship hall. All people of all ages who want to learn more about parenting/raising children are welcome. Foster parents receive training hours. Free meals and free child care with RSVP to Deb Coo- per at 812-483-8369. Gathering Place—Will be open every Thursday from 2-4 p.m. at 207 Lafayette Street, Winslow for the Food and Clothing Pantry. For more information, call 812-582-5210. Odd Fellows IOOF Pacific Lodge #175 meeting– the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. All area members are encouraged to attend. Otwell Ruritan–will have its monthly meetings the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Pike Lodge #121 F&AM regular stated meet- ing–the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. All area Masons are invited to attend. Jefferson Township Community Center of Ot- well–will have its monthly meetings the first Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. All members are urged to attend. "Creating Hope" For Cancer Patients–Memori- al Hospital and Health Care Center is offering Creat- ing Hope® sessions on the first and second Tuesday of each month from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. These sessions are de- signed for cancer patients, their families and caregivers. Art materials and an instructional book are available at each session. No previous art experience is needed. Ses- sions are free and are in the Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center Conference Room located at the Dorbett Street entrance of Memorial Hospital, 800 West 9th Street in Jasper. For more information about this class, visit Memo- rial Hospital's website at www.mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events," or call The Lange-Fuhs Cancer Cen- ter at 812-996 -7488. Perinatal Loss Support – Expectant parents who suddenly lose their child often experience a wide range of emotions and grief. Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center offers "Perinatal Loss Support" to assist those who have experienced the loss of a child (con- ception to one month of age) through the grieving pro- cess, and provide an atmosphere of confidentiality and comfort. For more information about Perinatal Loss Support, contact Theresa O'Bryan, Pastoral Care, at 812-996 - 0219 or tobryan@mhhcc.org. Right To Life Aluminum Can/Paper Drive - Sat- urday, Feb. 1 in Daviess County at the Tractor Supply Co. parking lot in Washington. This is the main loca- tion for this Paper Drive with hours from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. All other locations around the county from 9 a.m.-noon. Volunteer are needed for just one hour. Contact Louis Kavanaugh Jr. at 812-486 -3658 4-H Pancake Roundup - Free all-you-can-eat pan- cakes from 9 -11 a.m. on Saturday, February 15 (rain date will be February 22), at the Pike Co. 4-H Fair- grounds. Come sign up for 4-H. $20 for grades 3-12, $5 for grades K-2. Contact Becky Steinhart for ques- tions at 812-766 -0667. Freewill donations for break- fast accepted. PH: 812-743-2382 HEATING & AIR-CONDITIONING Perry ' s LLC Serving the area since 1950. Perry ' s Perry ' s 303 Breckinridge Rd, Monroe City Email: perryshvac@gmail.com Craig Perry Vance Perry Chase Perry Stock Up on Warm and Cozy. Years of comfort. Years of savings. The year's best offer. There's never been a better time to upgrade to Carrier ® quality and efficiency. For a limited time, you can claim up to $1,650 in Cool Cash rebates on a new system or receive up to 60 months of 0% financing.* Don't wait. 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The year's best offer. There's never been a better time to upgrade to Carrier ® quality and efficiency. For a limited you can claim up to $1,650 in Cool Cash rebates on a new system or receive up to 60 months 0% financing.* Don't wait. Cool Cash is only available for a limited time. *Purchase of qualifying products required. 0% financing cannot be combined with Cool Cash. ©Carrier Corporation 8/2017. A unit of United Technologies Corporation. Stock symbol UTX. COOL CASH $1,650 REBATES UP TO ON A QUALIFIED HOME COMFORT SYSTEM BY CARRIER By David Ackley 4-H Youth Development, Ag and Natural Resources Educator With a mix here lately of cold and rainy weather some people might think there is not much I can do with my yard or garden. Well that is not entirely true. There are a few things that can be do- ne, even in this cold weather. Home Section (houseplants and in- door activities): • Keep holiday poinsettias and oth- er plants near a bright window. Water as top of soil becomes dry. • Increase humidity around house- plants by grouping plants together, placing them on a pebble-water tray or running a humidifier. • Check stored produce and tender flower bulbs and roots for rot, shrivel- ing or excess moisture. Remove and discard damaged material. • Repot houseplants as they out- grow current pots. Yard Section (lawns, woody orna- mentals, and fruits): • Check young trees for rodent inju- ry on lower trunks. Prevent injury with hardware cloth or protective collars. • Keep road and sidewalk salt away from plants. Construct a screen of bur- lap, if necessary, to keep salt spray off plants. • "Leaf" through nursery catalogs or visit websites and make plans for landscape and home orchard addi- tions. Order plants early for best se- lection. • Early spring-flowering trees and shrubs such as forsythia, crabapple, flowering quince, and flowering dog- wood can be forced for early indoor blooms by placing cut branches in wa- ter in a warm location. Garden Section (vegetables, small fruits, and flowers): • Send for seed catalogs for the gar- den. • Sketch your garden plans on pa- per, including what to grow, spacing, arrangement and number of plants needed. • Order seeds and plants as early as possible for best selection. • Wood ashes from the fireplace can be spread in the garden, but don't over- do it. Wood ashes increase soil pH, and excess application can make some nu- trients unavailable for plant uptake. Have soil tested to be certain of the pH before adding wood ash. Clean up dead plant materials, synthetic mulch and other debris in the vegetable gar- den, as well as in the flowerbeds, rose beds and orchards. Rosie Lerner, Home/Consumer Horticulturespecalisit is just one of the many experts that Purdue Exten- sion has to offer to Pike County, her information can be found by going to the Horticulture and Landscape Archi- tecture homepage at the following link https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/. The full calendar can be found at Purdue Con- sumer Horticulture webpage https:// www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/yardan- dgarden/. If you have any questions free to reach out the extension office at 812-354-6838 or emailing ackleyd@ purude.edu. Dear Rusty: My birth date is 1947 and my wife's 1950. We both took our Social Security years ago at age 62, due to health concerns be- cause we questioned if we would live to age 78 to equalize the extra payout if we would have waited to age 66. Tak- ing early at 62 may have been a mistake and I am wondering if there are any options available to maximize my and/or my wife's monthly payment with a restricted application or any oth- er available options? My gross month- ly is $ 946.60, and my wife's is $543.60 before the deduction for Medicare. Together our gross monthly is about equal to the per person individual av- erage monthly payment of $1,479. Signed: Regretful we took SS early. Dear Regretful: I'm afraid the op- tions for either you or your wife in- creasing your benefit at this point are extremely limited. You cannot file the restricted application you mentioned because that can only be done by some- one applying for the first time (and who was born before 1/2/1954), and only by someone who has not yet reached age 70. Neither can you sus- pend your benefits to earn delayed retirement credits (DRCs) because DRCs are only earned up to age 70. Your wife has a very small window until she reaches 70 in March during which she could suspend her benefits, and by doing so immediate- ly she could perhaps earn, at most, an additional 1 per- cent in DRCs (about $5 more per month). That leaves only two other things which could increase your benefits: 1) Annual Cost of Living Adjustments (COL As) granted each year depending upon inflation, and 2) returning to work and having sub- stantial current earnings which may replace the earnings in a lower-earn- ing year in your lifetime work record (SS uses the highest earning 35 years over your lifetime to compute your ben- efit amount). If you have some years in that 35 -year history with no or very low earnings, working now could replace one or more of those years. I have no way of determining whether that is a possibility; you would need to get your lifetime earnings record from Social Security and see if that is pos- sible by examining your earnings for each year over your lifetime. But re- member, all early years of earnings are adjusted for inflation, so for exam- ple, $10,000 earned in 1990 would be equal to about $25,000 in today's dol- lars, and you'd need to earn more than the higher amount to have any effect on your benefit. I wish I had better news for you, but the unfortunate reality is that once someone claims their Social Securi- ty, the benefit amount is quite fixed. Although it's possible to withdraw an application within 12 months of initial filing, and it's also possible to suspend benefits once FR A is reached, neither of those is available to you. And your wife only has a very short window to suspend her benefits, which will reach maximum when she reaches 70 in March. So, except for the COL A increases and returning to work op- tions I've discussed above, I'm afraid you have no other opportunity to in- crease your Social Security benefit amounts. Social Security Matters Pike County Purdue Extensions News We took benefits early; can we get more now? January horticulture tips Saturday, February 1 8am-4pm (CST) Sunday, February 2 8am-2pm (CST) Warrick County 4-H Center 133 E. Degonia Road, Boonville BRING THIS AD AND RECEIVE $ 1 OFF Admission Doors Open at 8am For more information or table rental, contact Tammy at; 812-897-3844 Southern Indiana Gun Collectors Association GUN SHOW net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet Streamline the Headline! The Press Dispatch PIKE COUNTY'S NEWS NETWORK