Meeting Monday, February 9th, 2008
February is the time to start thinking about TAXES!!!! CHHA-Calgary has an exciting guest speaker this month who will be talking about the thing on everyone's mind!!!
The guest speaker is former teacher and librarian, Pauline Mathezer, who will be speaking about completing income tax returns. A trained volunteer for the Canada Revenue Agency, she has been an active volunteer for over twenty years helping people complete their income tax returns. Pauline helps seniors, and people with limitations who are on low income. On average, Pauline will help file about 300 tax returns a year. Pauline will be discussing the importance of filing and claiming all credits to which a person is entitled such as medical, transit, employment and the Disability Tax Credit.
Pauline also the volunteers as the Director of the Stroke Recovery Association of Calgary.
Pauline is a member of CHHA-Calgary and has worn hearing aids since January 2006. She has attended two speechreading courses offered by Deaf & Hard of Hearing Society.
Come join us for her presentation and ask questions regarding your tax returns on February 9th, 2009 at 7:30 PM!!
Can't wait to see you all there!!
For more information about CHHA-Calgary Meetings and the location, please visit About CHHA.
To read about previous guest speakers, please choose one of the links below:
- November 2009 - Sylvia Bird, currently the part-time Tinnitus Coordinator at Deaf & Hard of Hearing Society (DHHS) in Calgary, Alberta, spoke about tinnitus and some of the treatments available to help in managing this condition.
- September 2009 - Recap of the 2009 St. John's Conference from members who attended.
- June 2009 - Representatives from Phonak shared information about current technologies that help improve hearing for hard of hearing individuals in the presence of background noise and to connect to modern communication devices such as cell phones.
- April 2009 - Dave Evans, the Medical Base Manager and Flight Paramedic for STARS explained how knowing what to expect in an emergency situation requiring transportation by STARS will reduce the stress of a traumatic experience.
- February 2009 - Pauline Mathezer, a trained volunteer for the Canada Revenue Agency and member of CHHA-Calgary, spoke about completing income tax returns.
- November 2008 - Stacie Tidlund, graduate of the Disability Studies program at Mount Royal College, spoke about her CHHA-Calgary sponsored practicum in Malaysia working with people with hearing loss.
- October 2008 - Stephen McKibbon, SeniorConnect Coordinator and services provided by Calgary Senior's Resource Society
- September 2008 - CHHA-Calgary members who attended the Canadian Hard of Hearing / International Federation of Hard of Hearing Congress held in Vancouver this summer presented information from the workshops they attended. The Congress attracted speakers and delegates from around the world and focused on hearing loss management in other countries.
- May 2008 - Pacific Assistance Dogs
- April 2008 - James Zackowski - Executive Director of Calgary Rotary Challenger Park
- March 2008 - Michael Lepitre - financial and tax education
- February 2008 - Dr. Carrie Scarff - researcher and private practice Doctor of Audiology
- January 2008 - No Meeting
- December 2007 - Christmas Party
- November 2007 - Pacific Assistance Dogs
- October 2007 - Marianne Flanagan, Speech/Language Pathologist