October Community Meeting Review

Information posted November 7, 2014

For our October meeting we invited Financial Planning expert Leony deGraaf to explain how the essence of Retirement Income Planning is to get a dollar to spend in the most efficient way possible. Key steps include:

  • reduce the strain on your savings by minimizing the number of pre-tax dollars you have to withdraw to deliver the required after tax income.
  • take advantage of the lowest marginal tax rate and use federal/provincial tax credits in the most effective way to minimize taxes.
  • structure your income today to achieve future efficiencies.

Please CLICK HERE to see Leony’s full presentation….and make sure that you “Don’t Make the Government YOUR Beneficiary”.

CARP October 2014 meeting Burlington 008
Guests enjoying Leony’s presentation

Our Chapter meetings provide a great opportunity to meet and socialize with fellow CARP members and their friends

Guests enjoying the opportunity to meet fellow members and friends
Guests enjoying the opportunity to meet fellow members and friends

Our CARP display always draws a crowd who can gather a lot of useful information both about our Chapter plus other useful community information.

Visitors to our Halton Chapter display
Visitors to our Halton Chapter display

Dave Stempin representing Burlington’s own Drury Lane Theatre, is always a welcome guest at our meetings and is shown here promoting the current production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Mikado”

Dave with two of our guests
Dave with two of our guests

Our meetings conclude with prize draws this time beginning with donations from Leony who had people eagerly searching beneath their seats for her prize winning business card.

Leony is shown here with the three winners
Leony is shown here with the three winners

Next Dave Stemptin donated two tickets to “The Mikado”

Brent Gasson was the lucky winner
Brent Gasson was the lucky winner

Last but not least we have our 50/50 draw. Thank you to everyone who bought tickets as proceeds help defray the cost of putting on our meetings.

Lois Frederikse, shown with Chapter volunteer Hugh Cass,  won $95
Lois Frederikse, shown with Chapter volunteer Hugh Cass, won $95