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Three local legal and financial professionals are donating an evening to help community members develop financial survival skills. Not only will Donna (DL) Lescoe, Susan Murray, and Charlotte Vincent simplify complex subject matter, they'll pay special attention to the needs of GLBT taxpayers, investors and consumers.
Best of all, Money, Law, and Taxes is free.
Lescoe, an independent financial professional and registered representative of Community Investment Counselors, will speak about the importance of understanding and planning your finances. She will cover the new Roth IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs and other beneficial retirement programs available to individuals and small businesses.
A partner with the Burlington and Middlebury law firm of Langrock, Sperry & Wool, Murray has years of experience helping lesbians and gay men with their unique estate planning needs. She will talk about drafting wills, powers of attorney, health care proxies, guardianship nominations and partnership agreements designed to protect and define g/l families.
Independent tax professional Charlotte Vincent will explain 1998 tax changes in residential purchases and sales, educational tax credits, capital gains, IRAs. She will also address the evolving implications of Vermont 60 and point out tax-free income available to employees.
Money, Law, and Taxes takes place Wednesday, February 17, from 6:30-8:30PM at the Fletcher Free Library at 235 College Street in Burlington. Bring your families, bring your friends, and bring your financial, legal and tax questions.
For more information contact Donna Lescoe, 2 Maple Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-1357
Besides helping to facilitate educational programming, networking and communications, the program also provides resource materials, training and development, advising, mentoring, assessment and research. LGBTQA Services debuts under the leadership of interim coordinator Paij Wadley-Bailey. An experienced student mentor, graduate assistant and event coordinator, Ms. Wadley-Bailey has been involved with LGBT issues, women's rights and civil rights advocacy for more than three decades.
The Center for Cultural Pluralism is hosting an open house for those interested in learned more about the LGBTQA Services Program and related issues. The event runs on Friday, January 29th from 4pm - 6pm.
Third Annual True Spirit Conference will be held at the Best Western Maryland Inn in Laurel, Maryland from February 26 - 28, 1999. This three day conference focuses on the social, physical, emotional, spiritual and relational health of all gender variant people on the FTM spectrum and their significant others, friends, families, and allies.
For the third year, The True Spirit Conference will provide the only annual east coast conference event for people of transgender experience, their friends, families, allies, and service providers to gather together for education, networking and support.
"True Spirit offers many unique opportunities for participants that address a variety of the real life needs and concerns of people of transgender experience," says Trey Maurer, True Spirit 1999 media coordinator. One of those unique opportunities is making health screening available on site including breast exams, blood pressure checks and other health maintenance services. "Getting routine health checks can be an exceptional challenge for some trans people," continued Maurer, "so we try to remove one of the barriers to access by bringing the health care provider to the conference rather than sending people out to find a provider on their own."
Conference registration fee ranges from $60 - $80 with work scholarship and housing assistance available on a first come first serve basis. The Vermont contact for Free Spirit is Hank Weiss. Call 802-453-5370 or email.
