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Show Sunday, March 27, Prime Time 1983 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, their senior years As It Looks The Governer's conference will be held at the Orem Senior Citizens Center April 11 from 9 to 11 A Decade Passes; A Friend, Too a.m. Health Screening clinic is Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. until noon. Reservations are still being taken for the Orem Senior Citizens' Nevada-Sa- n Francisco tour scheduled July 10. Brochures are available at the Orem Senior Center, at 93 N. 400 E. Tour includes: Reno, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Bay Cruise, dinner at Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown, Golden Gate Park and the Oakland LDS Temple, round trip tra importation hotel and motels for seven nights, 10 meals and all as listed in the brochure. The tour is filling fast, officers said. An train ride to Denver will be held later this season. sight-seein- g Am-Tra- Provo Seniors Accept Tour Reservations Provo area seniors may now register for the upcoming Denver Train Tour, June and for the 27-2- 9; Amazing California Tour, August Interested participants may register with deposit at the Eldred Center Office in Provo. Seniors needing help with spring yard work and house cleaning may contact the Eldred Center for information on free assistance. All volunteers assisting with the Community Health Fair at the Eldred Center on April 14 are encouraged to attend a training session scheduled for Monday, April 11, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Contact the Eldred Center office for more information. Guests from the Friendly Neighborhood Senior Center in Salt Lake 7. will provide entertainment for seniors during the luncheon on Wednesday. A new aerobic exercise class has been started at the Eldred Center on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This class, which will a.m. provides be held from excellent exercise for the heart. Seniors may receive assistance in preparing their taxes at the Eldred Center on Mondays from 4 p.m. and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This service is a courtesy of the VITA program. Government surplus cheese and butter will be given out to seniors 60 years of age and older on Thursday, April 7, beginning at 9 9-- a.m. 51 Opinion and news for people in Governor's Confab Set by Orem Seniors On April 21 Duane Bunnell will on San Francisco. give a travel-lo- g Golden K Kawanis holds its meeting at 10:15 a.m. each Monday. The special Saturday Night Ball is held from 8 until 11 p.m. each Saturday night. Live music is featured and best dress is required. Matinee dance is scheduled each Thursday and Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. until noon. Ceramic class is conducted each Friday at 10 a.m. All seniors are invited. Cheese and butter will be distributed at the Orem Senior center for those seniors who are 60 years of age and live in Orem City. Seniors need to have his or her social security number with them. The dates for the cheese are April 6 at 10:30 a.m. and April 7 at 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. each day. - Page To Luke By THERON H. LUKE A decade as you all know is 10 years. Why am I stating so obvious a fact? I'm started on another one. My 71st birthday seemed to draw a lot more attention than my 70th, or my 60th, or even my 40th. The 71st was more pleasant than the 40th, as I look back. Wini Jones, then a colleague on the Herald, said she nursed me through the worst case of depression that day she ever hopes to see. This year there were more informal parties than I could count. Breakfast with a select group at the Riverside. Lunch with another select group (most of the newsroom) at a restaurant, another luncheon with still another select group (friends from the Utah Tech faculty), and dinner out with the most select group of all, my wife and daughter. It stretched over a week and was a gala time. I guess the biggest thing that happened to me during the past year was a victory over a complicated, intricate, newspaper editing computer. It's a lot tougher than just sitting down and punching out a story on a keyboard that duplicates a typewriter. It has a million different codes (I swear I've counted them); one for every headline, nameline, cutline, you name it. I had two handicaps. One, only working two days a week you forget what happens in between. And second, the older you get, the less is the instant recall. In the third grade I memorized "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" in one evening, and that's a long, long, poem. As long as his ride and a little more, because Longfellow never spared words. Today I couldn't memorize the first verse. It may sound out of balance, but mastering that computer was the hardest thing I have ever done on a newspper. Frankly, I m proud of myself . During the war I abandoned to tbe the mountain and-we- nt j And I probably will never climb Timpanogos again without thp aid nf- -a hplirnnter or a horse. I climbed it the year I was 66, almost climbed it twice. A trek that year with my eldest daughter ended at the saddle. I few weeks later, with the moral support of Dr. Ted Warner, I made it to the top. I have a feeling that's it. Unless they build a bicycle path to the top. Do I feel old? No, but maybe when I reach 81 I'll start to think about it. We have lost a friend. Some- ining very precious out of our past. It's the morning of the big -snow, and as I look out my . window I can see our littlest on the ground, bro- apricot tree . T 4 r, iuieiMse. it for our grandson when he was four. He is now 23 and a strapping Marine stationed on Okinawa. The year we planted it he was staying for :fh us. When we were awhile ready to leave for Seattle at the end of his visit, we couldn't find him. He was out watering his tree. We planted Weekly schedule: 9 a.m. aerobic exerMonday cise class; 9 a.m. ceramics I class; 10 a.m. Golden K Kiwanis meeting; 11 a.m. harmonica band and dancing; noon luncheon; 4 p.m. VITA tax assistance; 2:30 p.m. square dancing with Doren & LaRella Boyden; 3:15 p.m. bowling for seniors at Regal Lanes. 11 a.m. Roma Tuesday at piano; noon luncheon; 6:30 p.m. ballroom dance instruction with Don Christiansen ("cha-cha"- ); Os-bo- rn 8 p.m. senior citizens dance club dance. All seniors invited! 9 a.m. aerobic Wednesday exercise class; 9 a.m. ts sewing-handicraf- class with Kathryn Binks; 11 a.m. harmonica band and dancing; noon luncheon; 12:15 p.m. Friendly Neighborhood Senior Center, 1 p.m. creative writing class; 1 p.m. textile painting class. 9 a.m. sewing class Thursday with Norma Long; noon luncheon; 12:15 p.m. dinner music by Maggie Griher; 1 p.m. duplicate bridge; 2:30 p.m. beginning square dancing with Doren & LaRella Boyden; 3:15 p.m. bowling for seniors at Regal Lanes. 9 a.m. aerobic exerFriday cise class; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. VITA tax assistance; 9 a.m. advanced oil painting with Steve Parsons; 9 a.m. quilting (daily); 11 a.m. harmonica band and dancing; noon luncheon; 1 p.m. beginning oil painting with Steve Parsons. St. Francis Seniors List Program for Coming Week The St. Francis Senior Citizen Center, located in Provo's St. Francis Church, announces its schedule for the coming week: Luncheon. Dancing Monday to recorded music. Luncheon. Dancing Tuesday to the music and entertainment of the "Funtastics" (Pleasant Grove Senior Citizens Novelty Band). Luncheon. DancWednesday ing to recorded music. Luncheon. Dancing Thursday to recorded music. Luncheon. Dancing to Friday the organ music of Hal Curtis. Seniors Cautioned Not To Miss Out on Tax Benefits If you're a senior citizen, be sure you're not missing out on some important tax benefits. How to avoid this is detailed in the following release from the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury. For instance, did you know that anyone 65 or older is entitled to an extra exemption of $1,000 on his or her tax return? And if your spouse is 65 or older, and you file a joint return, you may claim at least two age four $1,000 exemptions exemptions and two individual exemptions. Then there's the "Credit for the Elderly." This could reduce the taxes you owe by as much as $375 if you're single, or $562.50 if you're married filing a joint return. If you think you might be eligible for this credit, ask the Internal Revenue Service for Schedules R&RP of Form 1040. As a senior citizen, you may not have to file a return. If you are single and 65 or over, you need not file a return if your individual income was less than $4,300. If you would ordinarily file a joint return, and both you and your spouse are 65 or older with a joint income of less than $7,400, no return is required. If only one of you is 65 or older, the limit would be $6,400. Except for these special income limits based on age, tax returns not age. And concern income remember, Social Security payments are not considered taxable income. Are you thinking of selling your home? If you're 55 or older, you can take advantage of a $125,000 exclusion on the gain of sale ($100,000 for sales before July 21, 1981). Write the IRS to find out how tax laws affect you before you sell your home. If you're age 60 or over, free tax counseling is available through Tax Counlocal seling for the Elderly (TCE) programs. Through these programs, specially trained volunteers provide tax assistance on such matters as tax credit for the elderly, special treatment in reporting certain pension income and paying tax on it when necessary, and other subjects of special interest and concern to older persons. They also help fill out returns. If you are eligible, and need the assistance of this program, call the Internal Revenue Service toll to learn the free location of the Tax Counseling for the Elderly site closest to you. Also, the Internal Revenue Service has more than 90 free publications on various tax subjects which can be ordered by using the handy order form included in the tax package. Herald Want Ads Bring Results i WW JCPenney Orwn-Unlvtfsl- ty Mall Morohondtoo ooVHtood to not owHobIo outojdo SinB onTQ tor cMtwiry normal ctoWvory wttMn nonMl tfoBvoiv wml Phono lu dotoNo |
