Jeremiah Mora

Veterans and their families are sometimes targeted by unscrupulous financial and legal professionals who claim to offer free help with paperwork for pension claims. The scheme involves scammers who persuade veterans to make decisions about their pensions without giving them the whole truth about the long-term consequences, such as losing eligibility for Medicaid services or losing the use of their money for an extended period of time.

What is a crisis? It is anything that changes an individual’s emotional or physical path. Isn’t that just about everything that happens to us on a daily basis?

How well does your cat ride in the car? Does your cat hide when the doorbell rings, or does she want to sit in visitors’ laps within the first 10 minutes of their arrival? Does your cat enjoy being brushed and groomed, or does she have a “don’t touch me” attitude about any kind of body handling?

Congratulations to Richard for being selected the winner of the 1/2 Marathon Life Reimagined Contest. Follow his weekly blog as he begins to prepare for the 1/2 Colfax Marathon to be held on May 18, 2014 at City Park.

Blog by Jane Barton

AARP would like you to know of the following event...

Join AARP staff, volunteers and other members at the Arvada Center for a performance of The Great Gatsby. Stop by the AARP Meet and Greet and mingle with local staff, volunteers and fellow members and hear what AARP

The AARP Foundation in Colorado is working with a variety of community partners to present the second annual Fraud Prevention and Safety Summit—a one-day, no-cost event to empower you with tools and information to stay safe and avoid fraud before it happens. The event is organized by the 18th Judicial District Office of the District Attorney and will be held Thursday, May 15, 2014, at the Parker Arts, Culture and Events (PACE) Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Avenue in Parker, Colo.

Blog by CJay Smith, CEC

So I’m leaving one of my favorite neighborhood garden stores, and once again, for about the third year in a row, (no pun intended,) I think about planting a garden. Not a big garden, but something that would yield me some of the summer harvest I so enjoy. I think about my grandmother having a garden and so did my mother. I remember collard and turnip greens, squash, red, yellow and green peppers, and my favorite, cabbage. At Sunday dinner, if we ran out of tomatoes, someone would volunteer to make a trip to the grocery store and my grandmother would say, “No need to do that, just go out back to the garden and pick two or three, and while you are at it, pull up some onions too…”