Page 2 September 3, 2015 Change How You Think About Estate Planning to Avoid Procrastination By R Christine Brown, southbayelderlaw. Museum from front page Chelsea Hogan, museum educator at ESMoA, with a group of children. Photo by Nancy Peters. where she biked to work in El Segundo for two years! She teaches a youth Improv class at El Segundo Recreation and Parks---ever the educator. “One thing I know—there is never a wrong answer. Know your audience. Listen to their question. Respond and make them feel understood! Art makes me feel great!!” • Southern California Regional Occupational Center The Leader in Providing Career Technical Education for Over 48 Years! 2300 Crenshaw Blvd. Torrance, CA 90501 Contact us at 310-224-4200 Neptunian Woman’s Club Logo Design Contest The Neptunian Woman’s Club of Manhattan Beach (NWC) calls all local students, artists and designers to create a one-of-a-kind logo! NWC is updating their visual identity and this is a contest to design a new logo. The logo should be unique and recognizable to help promote our organization’s mission. The logo will be used online and in print. To begin, email NeptunianWomansClubMB@ 2015 Great Shakeout communications, ICS, triage, and medical. All skill levels and physical abilities are welcome. CERT members and citizens over the age of 18 wishing to play the role of “Victims” also needed. Sign up with your name and CERT organization as a responder or a victim at: http://mbcerta.org/shakeout/ or contact training2015@bcjco.org Reserve Officer Receives Distinguished Service Award patrol assignments when there are staffing shortages. Manhattan Beach Police Department is proud of Reserve Officer Michelle Darringer and congratulates her on being recognized for her outstanding achievements. Community Strategic Plan Input Wanted Fall Semester Begins 9.8.2015 ENROLL NOW!!! Career Technical Education classes for high school and adult students. Visit our website to see list of courses at www.socalroc.com com The simple and unpleasant truth of estate planning is this: few people enjoy spending time contemplating their own mortality. Estate Planning requires recognition that at some point in the future you will no longer be alive, which leads to anxiety. This is the biggest reason, advisors say, that people put off estate planning. Unfortunately, our heirs pay the ultimate price when we fail to plan. Many people are reluctant to dig into the issues of estate planning, according to an article on financial-planning.com, “3 Biggest Barriers to Successful Estate Planning.” The anxiety associated with estate planning leads to three major behavior responses: procrastination, indecision and inattention. Our advice? “Get Going!” Make an appointment to speak with an estate planning attorney and get the process underway. Sometimes just having the appointment can lessen some of the anxiety. 1. Procrastination. Fear is a major contributor to procrastination. You know, dealing with your own mortality… who likes to think about that? We’re always too busy, and there’s always something better to do, like clean the garage or organize your sock drawer. It’s easier to let that fear of our mortality grow than to face it. 2. Indecision. Some folks put off doing anything because they are riddled with indecision. There are too many decisions to make, so it’s easier to not make any. Sometimes people get hung up on selecting a guardian for their minor children. Because they can’t choose one, they don’t do anything else in their estate planning. Another example is the person who is so worried about giving money to her kids. Because she knows they can’t handle it, she makes no plans at all! 3. Inattention. Outdated plans are a major problem in estate planning. If folks don’t review their documents and update them when necessary, their estate plans become obsolete. The complexity of the subject, the constantly changing tax laws, and “estate planning fatigue” can contribute to frustration and anxiety, which causes people to avoid taking any action or to procrastinate. Your estate planning attorney can give you an annual analysis of your total assets available for heirs. You can then re-examine how much you want to give to your heirs. Think of it not as making lifelong decisions, but as making decisions twelve months at a time. Look at it as re-comforting yourself every twelve months, and you can feel better knowing you’re doing OK. Please visit our website for information on elder law, Medi-Cal Planning and estate planning issues, and sign up for our free monthly e-newsletter. The archive on our website contains numerous blog posts on these legal areas as well. You can also “friend” us on Facebook (R Christine Brown) to receive periodic posts on elder law issues. • Community Briefs Waste Management of Southern California and the City of Manhattan Beach announced today the roll out of a full-scale food waste recycling program for both residential and commercial customers aimed at converting food scraps into green, renewable energy. Food waste collection will now be offered as part of standard waste and recycling services provided by Waste Management. This is the first program of its kind to launch in a Waste Management of Southern California served city. Residents will receive a small kitchen container where they can place their unused food. Participating residents will then be asked to transfer their scraps to a compostable or gmail.com to obtain the official Creative Brief for the logo and Logo Contest Entry Form. The contest is open to everyone. There is no fee to enter. Two entries per person maximum. Original entries must be submitted by email to NeptunianWomansClubMB@ gmail.com by 5:00 pm., September 15th, 2015. The winning logo creator will receive a $500 cash award. The 2015 Great Shakeout will be held Saturday, October 17th, 2015, from 10am to 2pm at the Manhattan Beach Studios lot. Approximately 200 CERT Responders from our South Bay CERT organizations will practice their complete array of CERT skills: fire suppression, cribbing, light search and rescue, hazmat, utility hazards, Michelle Darringer received the 2015 California Reserve Peace Officer’s Association Distinguished Service Award. Photo courtesy of MBPD. On August 7, 2015, Reserve Police Officer Michelle Darringer was honored with the 2015 California Reserve Peace Officers Association’s Distinguished Service Award at a luncheon in Sacramento. Officer Darringer has been a volunteer member of the Manhattan Beach Police Department’s Reserve Officer Corps since 1993. Over her twenty-two years with the Department, Officer Darringer has served well-above and beyond her monthly minimum requirement of 20 hours. Officer Darringer continues to be a committed member of the MBPD Corps, and provides strength to MBPD staffing efforts by attending all of the trainings and meetings required by all full-time officers, and offers her assistance wherever and however possible. Officer Darringer is also a member of MBPD’s Crisis Negotiations Team, and is the only reserve officer to ever be appointed to this team. Officer Darringer can be counted on to work Food Waste Recycling Program regular trash bag and place it in their green waste cart for regular pick up. Business establishments will sign up for the program by requesting a site visit from Waste Management to customize their food waste collection based on their business needs and a staff training program will be established. Beginning August 3, residents with green waste containers may begin recycling food waste by placing their food waste inside a plastic bag, securely tied, then placing the bag inside their green waste container. To learn more about Waste Management’s expanded residential and commercial food waste recycling programs, visit http:// manhattanbeach.wm.com/index.jsp. The Manhattan Beach Police Department is seeking community involvement in the development of a new Strategic Plan for 2016-2018. The Strategic Plan will serve as a road map for the next three years to guide the Police Department in our delivery of service to the community of Manhattan Beach. Citizen involvement is essential to the process, as it ensures the Strategic Plan and police services are responsive to our community’s needs. The Police Department will host two workshops where it will gather input regarding the new strategic plan. In addition, there will be a review of the progress made under the current strategic plan, which ends on December 31, 2015. The following public workshops are offered (please select one): Tuesday, September 8, 2015, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM or Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM in the Community Room of the Police Station located at 420 15th St., Manhattan Beach. For more information about the public workshops, please call: Julie Dahlgren (310) 802-5118. •
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