Angela Cortez

Your reliable landline phone service is at risk. The Colorado Legislature is considering four bills that could:

Consumers today have many questions about hearing loss and hearing aids. How do you know if you need a hearing aid? Where should you go for testing? What testing will be done? What are your options among hearing products? What level of technology is best for you? How much is it going to cost? How long will the whole process take? How will you adjust to hearing with a hearing aid?

AARP is fighting for older Americans and their families in states across the country, focused on the key issues they are facing, front-and-center, in their daily lives. Our state advocacy work is driven by AARP’s state offices – located in every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands – where we work with governors, state legislators, other policymakers and in collaboration with numerous community partners. In 2014 AARP is focusing on:

Centro San Juan Diego will celebrate the 10 th anniversary of its Las Madrinas Tribute event in May, and AARP multicultural outreach director Roberto Rey will be among the honorees.

By A.J. White

AARP Colorado sent out a mailing to its members about potential, upcoming legislation that could threaten telephone land-line service and possibly impact 911 emergency services.

This year, AARP Foundation is again providing free tax assistance and preparation for taxpayers with low to moderate income through the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program. Now in its 45thyear, the nation’s largest free tax assistance and preparation service, is giving special attention to those 60 and older. Membership is not required and all ages may use this free service.

AARP is informing our Western Slope members, as well as all 50-plus residents, about some special events at the Fruita Community Center, 324 N. Coulson St. in Fruita.

Colorado has a rich history of Chicano activism during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and AARP Colorado, along with the History Colorado Museum and Regis University, are keeping that history alive through oral-history recordings, digital collections and stationary exhibits and an event to kick off a celebration of those significant contributions.

AARP Colorado was a proud sponsor of KUVO’s Eighth Annual signature event, Live at the Vineyards, last month at the Balistreri Vineyards, just north of downtown Denver.