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S P J S T Benevolence
H E R A L D
Humanity
ISSN —07458800
Brotherhood
September 7, 2011
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month
Grand Salute on pages 12 to 15 Lodge 130, Dallas members enjoyed a trip to the Czech Republic and Poland. The group visited Dr. Simecek’s museum, located in Lichnov, dedicated to Immigration to Texas. “We were all very excited to find information about our ancestors and learn about the history of their immigration,” writes Lodge 130 Reporter Suzanne Vrla. More pictures on page 34.
Lodge 130, Dallas visits Czech Republic
Interest Rates/Mortgage Info..............3 Important Dates ...................................3 Job Posting..........................................4 Supreme Lodge Minutes.....................5 District News......................................17 Readers Write ....................................18
Life insurance can do some pretty age? When was the last time you had amazing things for people. It can buy your life insurance needs reviewed by loved ones time to grieve. It can pay an insurance professional? To make sure Americans are reoff debts and loans, providing surviving family members with the chance to minded of the need to include life inmove on with a clean slate. It can keep surance in their financial plans, the nonprofit families in L I F E t h e i r Foundahomes and tion coorpre-fund a dinates child’s colSEPTEMBER 2011 Life Insurlege education. It can keep a family business in ance Awareness Month. Each Septemthe family. It can provide a stream of ber, LIFE is joined in this educational income for a family to live on for a pe- initiative by more than 100 of the nariod of time. Life insurance can do all tion’s leading insurance companies and of these wonderful things for your fam- industry groups. LIFE’s website is the leading source ily . . . there’s just one small catch. You of objective information about life inneed to own life insurance. There’s a growing crisis of too surance. Spend a few minutes learning many Americans not having adequate more and trying our interactive tools life insurance protection. According to like the Life Insurance Needs Calculathe industry research group LIMRA, tor. If you find that you have a need for 30 percent of United States households coverage, we strongly urge you to act have no life insurance whatsoever. by contacting your SPJST sales agent. Today, there are 11 million fewer Your family’s financial future is too imAmerican households covered by life portant to leave to chance. Visit insurance compared with six years ago. www.spjst.org to link to LIFE’s webHere’s the bottom line: A majority of site. Or, visit www.lifehappens.org. families either have no life insurance or The Vestnik is coming together with the not enough, leaving them one accident life insurance industry in support of or terminal illness away from a finan- Life Insurance Awareness Month. The goal of the national campaign is to encial catastrophe for their loved ones. What if you were suddenly gone and courage more Americans to evaluate your family had to manage on their their life insurance needs and take steps own? When was the last time you did to get covered. The Vestnik will feature the math to make sure your loved ones life insurance articles and information would be OK financially? Have you throughout September to help educate checked with your employer to find out our members and the public about the what kind of life insurance benefit you importance of having adequate life inhave through work and whether you surance protection. —SPJST— have the option to increase your cover-
Inside This Week’s Vestnik
Lodge Section....................................19 Youth Section ....................................35 In Memoriam ......................................40 Czech Culture ....................................43 Advertisements..................................45 Lodge Calendar .................................46
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Lodge 29 Taylor hosts barbecue appreciation dinner
A Polka Love Story
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Lodge 49 Rowena youth enjoy lock-in