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Show Fill SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1, 1889 Community 6 your pockets with more money each payday Who couldnt use more money each time they receive a According to IRS District Director Jack Cheskaty, There is a way to get more money each time you are paid. Its called the Advanced Earned Income Tax Credit. This advance credit allows families with at least one qualifying child, who normally quality for the Earned Income Tax Credit, to be eligible to receive pay-chec- k? in their regubetween lar paychecks. The amount you receive depends on your marital status, wages and how often you are paid. According to Cheskaty, For many parents, receiving the advance payments in each paycheck could make a difference in paying rent, buying groy ceries and meeting other expenses, To see if you qualify for this credit, ask your employer for a $1-$1- day-to-da- '4 ZZ r: 15 f ,M and worksheet entitled Earned Income Credit Advance Payment Certificate. Complete the worksheet to deForm W-- 5 termine if you qualify. If so, the W-- 5 will allow the employer to begin including the advanced payments in each payroll check. For additional information regarding this program, call the IRS (FORM) and request Publication 596, Earned Income Credit. toll-fre- e, m By Carolyn Mitchell I yeaups X w State Bank of Southern Utah To make the event special, salute to the keeper of the cemetery cats A weve created a Briggs says. My daughter, Julie, a senior at Highland High, received a community service award this year for her volunteer work feeding the ferals. Briggs Jeep stays stocked with kitty provisions. During a trip to Price, Briggs relied on her cat supplies to nourish two stray kittens that wandered up to her motel. She carried the orphans fresh water, upscale winter home, paid for their vaccinations housing and veterinary exams. and found adopters for them. Ive done thi s kind of thing all Briggs attention to the cem10 my life, says Briggs, who etery dwellers over the last years - and her lifetime of com- brought home bewhiskered passionate deeds - earned her strays as a girl and continued to Individual of the Year honors in harbor purring waifs in college. Over the years Ive had hunthe 1999 Utah Awards for Distinguished Service to Animals, dreds of cats in my house, she says. I never took them to shelsponsored by Best Friends. The healin teacher ters because they put them to at Hillside Intermediate School sleep. Id run ads in the paper shares cat colony oversight du- and find homes for them. ties with her twin sister, Anne Nowadays, Briggs has seven cats at home, incIudingSimon, a McQueen We discovered them while we cemetery cat. Hes the biggest, were jogging, Briggs says. We fattest little lap cat ever, Briggs started leaving food under the says. We knew him as a baby. cemetery bushes for them. We He seemed more tame than the have done that every day for 10 rest so I brought him home. ' Last year someone with a years. The cats dine on Friskies, gun killed four of the cats and wild dogs have threatened the Purina Cat Chow, and IAMs putting away some 20 pounds a colony. But for the most part, week. We wont buy them the the cemetery offers a lot of shelcheapest brands, Briggs says. ter, Briggs says. Bushes and All the cats have names - Spice hedges and wonderful trees. Girl, Cookie, Freckles, and so Briggs talked about her colony forth.. We call the one who at the Distinguished Service to doesnt like anyone around her Animals awards banquet in Salt Spitfire, Briggs says with a Lake City. laugh. They all know us and People came up afterwards know their names. and donated money for cat food, they Last year the sisters began she says. And Lance King and the process Kathy Allred, two animal lovers considered the humane way to in the audience, spent $500 to manage a feral colony. The buy the cats three beautiful igwomen have trapped and steril- loos, the best kind of shelters for ized and returned to the cem- the winter. etery 20 of the cats in the 30 community. When I cant go to the cemetery or my sister is out of town, my children substitute for us, A graveyard may seem an unlikely spot for a pleasant outing, but a Salt Lake City teacher takes great delight in her almost daily visits to a local cemetery. Susan Briggs provides comforts of home to a colony of feral cats residing in the Salt Lake City cemetery. Her care includes a daily round of Friskies and ld An opening balance of $500 - $24,999 earns (I CID o i 4$ B-- w annual percentage yield An opening balance of $25,000 or Greater earns -- trap-neuter-retu- n annual percentage yield rn odd-memb- er Don't let this opportunity pass . Purchase the Anniversary CD at any State Bank office through December 10 , 1999. 6-mo- nth REPOSSESSED Bank State OF SOUTHERN UTAH !i4 X O A penalty may he imposed for early withdrawal State Bank of Southern Utah is a member of FDIC. " Ill lHl PIANO Assume small monthly payment. H See locally. B |