Boomer Weekly

Church Painting Obstacles.  In The End, Wood Ladders Got It Done! Upon recently bidding on a church painting job in Perth Amboy,NJ I called in a scaffolding erection company to set up scaffolding around the alter, the cost $7500.00 to erect and dismantle, not happening. Next I contacted a lift company to scope out job [...]

The kitchen — everyone wants a bigger one, a better one, a more beautiful one. In fact, in a 2009 Consumer Reports poll, homeowners chose the kitchen as their favorite room to remodel. Check out what some local experts have been doing for your neighbors around town … and start planning your own kitchen remodeling. [...]

Originally, the primary reason Long Term Care insurance (LTCi) was created was because it would help cover the high costs of a nursing home. But, over the years, the policies have changed dramatically. Now LTCi is a comprehensive product that helps cover the cost of a variety long term care services. Consider the real-life, long-term [...]

John Hancock Long Term Care has provided us first with some pertinent information regarding 2013 premium deductions. We would like to thank them for proving us with this information. Please contact our office at 804-339-3532 if there are any questions about the information below. The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has announced its annual cost-of-living and [...]

BY KYNDALL S. DRUMHELLER “The Forgotten War,” “The Unknown War,” whatever the name, the Korean War remains a significant part of American history that has sadly been overlooked for the past sixty years. For one young Virginia soldier, Private First Class George Washington Jackson, Jr. and his family, this forgotten cause came with a high [...]

A HERO BY PAMELA S. McELRATH Clarence Singleton is a motivational speaker, author, former United States Marine, a veteran of the Vietnam War, and a Purple Heart Medal recipient. Singleton is also a decorated former New York City Fire Fighter whose unit responded to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, where [...]

A VETERAN’S PATH INTERVIEWED BY DANIEL JONES When you saw Gregg Tomes in BOOMER’s Aug.-Sept. issue, the 32-year-old was an unemployed military veteran with no job prospects. Yet he’d served our country proudly as a Marine; and he had war experience – his unit was the first deployed to Afghanistan, in September 2001.Two years later, [...]

Cowboy Preacher-Vet Honors Those Never Coming Home for Christmas BY MARTHA STEGER   Many of us have placed Christmas wreaths on the graves of deceased family members as an old Virginia tradition. Since 2007, the tradition has had a new twist for deceased veterans, thanks to Chesterfield County veteran and “cowboy preacher,” Rev. R. J. [...]

A Marine’s Marine Remembering one Richmond veteran BY DANIEL JONES Missouri-born, raised in Colorado, the late Col. Carl Sitter called Richmond his home for the second-half of his life. Now, with several of his medals (including his Congressional Medal of Honor for his “gallantry” and “intrepidity” in Korea) and pictures of him with several U.S. [...]

MY FATHER, A VETERAN BY CATHY TYLER My father, Colonel David W. Schumaker, USMC, retired, is a veteran. He served in WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam. In 1991 he was eager to march off for Desert Storm. At age 72 that year, he didn’t get the call; however, I began to understand “veteran.” “Once a [...]