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Page 42 The OSCAR - OUR 37 MAY 2010 th YEAR By Karen Kelly There are memories from childhood that we all cherish. Perhaps we remember a favorite toy, a special corner of a classroom, or a game played outside. For 15-year-old Lauren Kniewasser, many of those memories were from the Rainbow Kidschool, a preschool and after-school program located at Lady Evelyn Alternative School. She spent five years there, so when she began to think about completing her community volunteer hours required for graduation, she knew immediately where she wanted Rainbow Kidschool Where I Met Friends for Life to go. “I’d been wanting to come back to Rainbow since the day I left, they were like my second family,” recalls Kniewasser, who’s now a student at Canterbury High School. “As a volunteer, I was excited to have a reason to visit.” When Kniewasser returned, she says she was immediately transported back to her preschool days. “It looked almost exactly the same – familiar toys, the same songs.... The first thing I did was start playing with the toys again,” she says with a laugh. She had lots of company, of course. The school’s preschool group was excited to have a “big kid” there to join in their playtime, and the afterschool students, aged 5-10, tapped into her artistic and creative knowledge to pursue art and sewing projects. Kniewasser says the structure and consistency of the Rainbow program was important for her when she was growing up, and she sees it helping the children who are there today, as well. “There are some kids who barely talk at first,” says Kniewasser. “But as they get to know the routine, they really become comfortable and open up.” And there may be benefits down the road, too. Kniewasser pulls out an old yearbook and points to three close By Bob Jamieson friends she met at Rainbow a decade ago. “This is where I met friends for life.” Rainbow Kidschool offers a morning preschool program for children 2½ - 4 years of age, as well as an afternoon program for 4 & 5 year old kindergarten-age children. At the end of the school day, schoolage children, 6 – 9 years of age, join the kindergarten-age group for the afterschool program. Please call Nancy, the Director, at 613-235-2255 for information. When Can You Retire? You may greatly enjoy your career and be in no hurry to retire. Or you may be looking forward to retirement so that you can pursue your hobbies, travel or even open your own business. But whatever your plans may be, you’ll need to ask yourself this: “When can I retire?” To answer this question, you’ll need to take three steps. First, you’ll have to identify your potential sources of retirement income. Second, you must determine if a gap exists between the financial resources you can expect and the amount you’ll need to retire comfortably. And third, you’ll have to decide how to fill that gap. Let’s look at these three steps in a bit more detail: Identify your potential sources of retirement income. Your retirement income is likely to come from three main sources: the government, your workplace and your personal savings. From the government, you might be entitled to assistance in the form of <strong>Old</strong> Age Security (OAS), Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) and the Canada Pension Plan/Quebec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP). Depending on your employer, you may receive workplace pension coverage or participate in a company retirement plan. As for personal savings, you’ve got your Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Tax- Free Savings Account (TFSA) and other savings and investment accounts. Typically, government and workplace programs provide about 25% to 40% of retirement income, so you can see how important it is to build your personal savings. Determine if a “retirement gap” exists. You may have heard you’ll need between 70% and 90% of your pre-retirement income to live comfortably in retirement. While this figure may be generally accurate, it doesn’t take into account different retirement lifestyles. In other words, how you choose to live in retirement will determine how much money you’ll need. If you can develop a good estimate of your retirement income needs and then compare this figure to your estimated retirement income from all sources, you should be able to determine your retirement gap. Of course, these calculations can be challenging, so you may want to work with a professional financial advisor who has the tools and expertise to help you identify any gaps. Decide how to fill the gap. If you have indeed identified a retirement gap, you can attempt to bridge it in a few ways. You could, for example, decide to scale down your lifestyle in retirement so that you’ll need less income. Or you could work more years than you had originally intended. But if you want to stick with your initial plan in terms of your desired retirement lifestyle and preferred age at retirement, you may need to invest more to your retirement and other investment accounts. But just boosting your contributions isn’t enough — you also need to own an appropriate mix of investments to help your money grow over time. Your financial advisor can help you choose the investment mix that’s appropriate for your risk tolerance and time horizon. But in any case, don’t wait too long before you tackle the “When can I retire?” question — because the sooner you start working on it, the better the answer you’ll get. To get more information, or to attend the upcoming May 19th seminar on Planning for Retirement, please call my office at 613-526-3030. Bob Jamieson, CFP Member – Canadian Investor Protection Fund
MAY 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37 th YEAR Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books All Hail the Queen! Well, it’s May – that special month where we spend a solemn few moments contemplating the glorious reign of Queen Victoria while camping, watching fireworks, or just generally enjoying a sunny long weekend. What better season to celebrate the commonwealth than by spending time immersed in some of the great books by British authors? In the picture book world, it’s difficult to select just a few Brits, but I’ll do my best: Jez Alborough writes about a specific duck you may know – he’s called “Duck”? His popular titles include Fix it Duck, Super Duck, Duck in the Truck, and Ssssh! Duck Don’t Wake the Baby. Duck likes to think he’s an expert hand at everything, which will leave you and your young reader chuckling at his predicaments! Julia Donaldson is well-known for her classic picture book The Gruffalo. With titles like A Squash and a Squeeze, The Snail and the Whale, and The Fish Who Cried Wolf, there are a lot of options to choose from, with most stories written in charming rhyme and humourously illustrated by Axel Sheffler. For those looking for something a bit different, have a peek at her book The Magic Paintbrush, where vibrant verses bring fresh life to a traditional tale of how a little girl’s integrity can withstand the corruption of power and greed in her hungry village. Lauren Child may be most associated with creating those lovable characters, Charlie and Lola, but her picture book adventures all started with the irrepressible Clarice Bean as she started her search for a little peace and quiet amid the wonderfully wacky chaos of a large extended family in Clarice Bean, That’s Me. With her unique collaged illustrative style and generous use of different typefaces and sidebars, these books are a great way to keep young readers engaged, with a dry sense of humour that allows adults to read them again and again. For me, Emily Gravett has a way of creating simple yet mischievous illustrations and spare text that really resonate. My new favourite is Dogs, which is all about the different kinds of dogs to love, but that’s followed closely by Meercat Mail (with postcards attached inside!), The Odd Egg, and Monkey and Me. Timeless. In our kid fiction section, there are many titles to choose from – here’s a sampling: Enid Blyton’s wonderful works of fiction are always in demand. Anything that can maintain popularity for over 70 years is worth a read, don’t you think? We’ve got the Mallory Towers and Twins at St. Clare’s school books, as well as a threebook set of the Magic Faraway Tree Collection. Those who are Harry Potter fans might be interested in having a look at Jenny Nimmo’s popular Charlie Bone series. The stories centre on Charlie Bone, a descendant of The Red King, who reluctantly possesses a powerful “endowment” (he seems to be able to communicate with people in photographs and pictures), along with many of his friends who he meets at a special school he attends called Bloor’s Academy. His family, the Yewbeams, have many dark secrets and Charlie Bone embarks on a series of mysterious adventures to find out the truth about his past. Some of you may be familiar with Cressida Cowell’s clever series, which she has “translated the stories of Hiccupp Horrendous Haddock III from the <strong>Old</strong> Norse”. Recently released in movie theatres, How to Train Your Dragon is just one title in this popular series. According to her official web site, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn’t always like that. Why not take a peek at some of his hilarious adventures the next time you’re in the store? Who wouldn’t want to read about a 12 year old millionaire, genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind? Add in a fairy kidnapping, a LEPrecon unit to police an underground world, and a butler/bodyguard named Butler, and you have an Artemis Fowl adventure. Irish author Eoin Page 43 Colfer has many titles in this series, as well as some younger reader chapter books. Funny and fantastical, with loads of adventure thrown in for good measure! Teen pix: Helen Dunmore writes the Ingo books, a popular fantasy series, set in a tantalizingly beautiful and dangerous world of adventure under the sea, where Mer people live. Through their quest for their missing father, Sapphire and Conor discover they have the power to enter the mysterious world of Ingo. They learn they have both human and Mer ancestry, and that as their Mer blood grows strong, they have powers they never knew they possessed… Spy story fans should check out Charlie Higson’s Young Bond series. File Note: Strictly Confidential - Authorized Personnel Only. Subject: James Bond. Description: Age 13. Dark hair; blue eyes; tall for age; surprisingly strong; fluent French; good German. Need we say more? Robert Muchamore has two great series for fans of action, adventure, and intrigue. The CHERUB series of books starts with James Adams joining the CHERUB organization in The Recruit and tells the story from the day his mother dies. You can read about his transformation from a couch potato into a skilled CHERUB agent, and meet Lauren, Kyle, Kerry and the rest of the cherubs for the first time and learn how James foils the biggest terrorist massacre in British history! The Henderson Boys series, which sets the stage for the modern-day CHERUB organization, occurs during World War II with Hitler’s army advancing towards Paris. Gritty and fast-paced! There are so many more British authors we’d love to tell you about – drop in any time and ask us! Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books is located at 1095 Bank Street, three doors south of Sunnyside.
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