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EAST COAST TAX & FINANCIAL PLANNING

Your Accountant, Financial Advisor, & Insurance Agent...

By Gabby Gregory

When was the last time you sat down with your accountant, nancial advisor, and insurance agent all in one room or on a conference call to talk about you, your money, and your goals? If you’re like most other people, then your answer is “never.”

At East Coast Tax & Financial Planning, however, you receive comprehensive advice about all three — accounting and taxes, insurance, and investment/ nancial management — during each and every meeting. After all, as the owner and CEO of the business — Danny Howes, EA, RFC — says, “You can make the best nancial investment decisions in the world, but if you’re giving most of it to Uncle Sam, it’s not a good investment strategy.”

Discovering the Dangers & Disconnect

For the past 20+ years, Danny has been working in the nancial services industry with a speci c mission in mind: to prevent people from going through the same unfortunate scenario that his family did.

Indeed, Danny’s father had no plans in place when, suddenly, he died of a heart attack at 60 years old. This tragedy led to a dif cult and challenging journey to put the pieces back together and ensure his mother and family were taken care of properly. In response to the experience, Danny transformed his whole approach to nancial planning and went to the drawing board, designing a planning process to help others avoid similar situations.

As he spent more time in the nancial industry, Danny realized that there was a “huge disconnect” between taxes, insurance, and investments. He decided the best solution would be to bridge those gaps himself, as he had the training, experience, and licenses for each.

All in One!

Comprehensive Financial Planning for Everyone

East Coast Tax & Financial Planning is a full-service accounting rm and insurance agency that offers investment management and nancial advice. Even if the experts at East Coast Tax & Financial Planning aren’t providing services in all three of these areas, they are happy to collaborate with your other providers to ensure that the advice and guidance given in any of these areas is accurate.

Danny and his professional team strive to educate and empower their clients to make smart nancial choices, whether they are business planning, saving for retirement, or already retired. Their process meets their clients where they’re at now, and they work together to develop a plan and a strategy to help their clients get where they want to go.

“It’s essential to look at potential pitfalls that can derail your plan and then proactively add measures of protection and maneuvers to navigate through the ‘what-ifs’ in life.

Like in science, we look at your nancial plan and apply pressure. We want to see what your plan looks like in alternative environments. For example, economic downturn, disability, premature death, long-term care, etc. Planning for these things makes it much easier to handle them when they arise, instead of dealing with them in real-time with no clear plan in place.”

— Danny Howes, EA, RFC

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” —

Benjamin Franklin

Visit East Coast Tax & Financial Planning sooner rather than later to make the proper plans to protect yourself, your family, and your loved ones! Danny attests that his clients have expressed that they wish they had started the process much sooner.

Danny Howes, EA, RFC

Wealth Management and Investment Advisory Services are offered through Truvestments Capital LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor.

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OPENING SOON! Aunt G’s Kitchen

Fort Pierce’s Best Place to Take a Date

It’stime to go on that long overdue date! Maybe your night on the town will be spent with a loving spouse, or maybe it will be a whole family affair. Whatever you have in mind, why not try something completely different? Introducing Aunt G’s Kitchen — a unique Italian restaurant/coffee and dessert café that will impress even the nickiest of appetites!

The owner of the new restaurant, OJ Molinaro, is excited to bring his experience and family recipes to Fort Pierce when Aunt G’s Kitchen opens later this month. Originally a Canadian resident, OJ began in the restaurant and food industries 47 years ago when he became part of his uncle’s pizza empire, Molinaro’s Pizza. Of course, OJ knows what it takes to create a rst-rate pizza! Quality ingredients and a well-crafted crust make what OJ refers to as “pizza worth eating.” He continues, “To me, a good pizza is when you take a slice, it stays rm, [and] it doesn’t fold.”

Today, OJ is eager to welcome the Ft. Pierce community to his rst Florida restaurant, which will feature not only delicious pizza, but also a full menu of other tasty items, including specialty coffees, homemade desserts, and beer and wine service. “When you walk into the restaurant, you will see our gelato display case, which includes 20 different types of cones to choose from,” explains OJ, who can’t wait for his customers to try his made-from-scratch, authentic Italian gelato. So, be sure to save room for one of Aunt G’s deep-fried gelato sundaes!

Always Homemade

Aunt G’s Kitchen has a patio/coffee and dessert café on one side, and a dining room on the other, which offers something for everyone. The menu includes a variety of appetizers, pizzas, pastas, dinner items, and tantalizing desserts… all made from scratch! Even the salad dressing is homemade!

Indeed, Aunt G’s Kitchen is named after OJ’s Aunt — Glida Bosco — who immigrated from Italy and is the inspiration behind many of the awardwinning recipes used at Aunt G’s Kitchen. The signature menu item, Pasta Prosciutto, is a baked masterpiece consisting of delicious layers of lasagna noodles,

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prosciutto, and cheese rolled together and topped with cream. Leave your diet expectations at home!

The restaurant will also feature specials, such as the “pizza square,” which includes a square-shaped personal pan pizza and a soda for just $5.00. Additionally, at Aunt G’s Kitchen, Monday will become your new Friday, as the restaurant will feature all-youcan-eat mussels on “Mussel Mondays.”

Get ready to enjoy extraordinary homemade recipes at Aunt G’s Kitchen, which will be open for business in a few short weeks. It’s sure to become Fort Pierce’s best place to take any type of date!

Aunt G’s Kitchen is located in the Sabal Palm Plaza at 2321 South U.S. Highway 1 in Fort Pierce. The restaurant will be open for dine-in and take-out services on Sunday-Thursday from 11AM to 9PM and FridaySaturday from 11AM to 10PM. For more information, or to learn about employment opportunities, call 772-3323378

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does very good work and is very reassuring and explain what he is doing. I’ve never felt more comfortable. He xed my broken front tooth and made me smile again. He’s amazing! And the staff and dental assistant are all awesome.”

Get The Wet

For What It’s Worth by

It appears that my last two columns regarding the di culty which many patients are facing when attempting to make an appointment with their physician, or attempting to get someone to call them back regarding their medical issues, from doctors who are employed by the large hospital(s) in our communities have struck a nerve. I am used to receiving responses (thank you very much) from some of my articles, but never have I received so many at one time, and they keep coming. I thought this was a big problem for me personally, but apparently, it is an even larger problem than I thought. e emails that I have received are upsetting and at times heartbreaking. Elderly people without a doctor, when their physician of many years suddenly takes a leave of absence or retires, with no one to replace them. People who have to wait months, some nearly a year, to get on their physician’s schedule for treatment, some without the resources to know where to turn, and without guidance from the very institution with which they placed their trust.

In my opinion, and the opinion of others, the system is broken. We all deserve better than this. When people are sick, when people are hurting, when people expect to be treated, and are turned down, they feel abandoned, lost, bewildered, and angry. What’s worse, many of you have asked me to help. I wish I could, but like you, I don’t know where to turn. Still, since I have some public

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voice, and a conscience that realizes we all have to do our part to help, I reached out to the hospital to see if they employed a patient advocate who could eld all the calls/complaints and frustrations, and guess what? I found a department that allegedly can help. It is known as the Patient Experience O ce, and the phone number is 772-223-4995. A er two phone calls and several hours later, my call was returned by a very nice woman who was willing to give me the opportunity to voice my concerns. She said she understood the frustration of having to wait for appointments for months, or having a doctor who no longer works there, nor replaced, leaving patients without a physician. She told me her o ce is open to any and all concerns, and she does what she can to allay those concerns, and will contact individual physician o ces to attempt to get earlier appointments.

When I asked her why there is such a long wait to get appointments, even for long-standing patients with doctors of record, she said that with the growth of the community and the large in ux in the population coming to Florida, there are simply not enough doctors to see patients. I nd that answer truthful, but frankly, unacceptable. She also stated that many doctors have le this facility, and have not been replaced, but that they are “working on it.” I don’t doubt what she says is true, but why are doctors’ leaving, and by leaving, I mean leaving our community unattended? Something has to change. is should not be accepted

as the new normal. Sick people need to get well, it’s as simple as that. e question is, how can we do that without appointments or physicians? I am all for nurse practitioners. I am a nurse, rst and foremost, but nurses are not doctors, regardless of how intelligent they are (and they are!).

As well, I reminded the woman I spoke with that at the least, the front line of sta workers elding calls should be held to a higher standard of professionalism, by being kind, considerate and courteous, not rude and dismissive, like some of you have encountered. She agreed. So how much can she help? I don’t know, but personally, I still have to wait until the end of August to see my physician, even though I have been a patient of his for the past ten years.

For What It’s Worth, l appreciated her empathy on behalf of all of us, but it didn’t get me into my doctor any sooner. Maybe a few letters to the administration would be the incentive for change. en again, maybe not.

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1 Day light?

2 “-- Had a Hammer”

3 Relating to Plato’s teacher

4 Dugout seating

5 Plumbing woe

6 Einstein’s birthplace

7 CBS logo

8 Semitic language

9 Region

10 Sediment

11 Seeger or Sampras

16 Winslet of “Titanic”

19 Pen uids

20 “Huh?’

21 Sitarist Shankar

22 Odometer reading

23 On the rocks

25 Cracker spread

26 Natives of Rome

27 Poet Sandburg

28 Young foxes

30 Borscht veggie

33 Gushes with pride

34 Street edge

36 Bakery array

37 Canyon sound 38 Incite

39 Actor’s quest 40 Gulf War missile

2.) Danny Howes is an Enrolled Agent (EA), which is the highest credential awarded by the IRS. This designation means that he is unrestricted as to which taxpayers he can represent, which IRS offices he can represent clients before, and what types of tax matters he can handle.

3.) East Coast Tax & Financial Planning is a year-round tax firm, meaning that if you ever have questions about or issues with your taxes, then you can get in touch with the actual person who completed them... no matter the season!

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