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Living the dream on a Manchester teamBy Jana MillerHeritage Newspapers

It’s choking on dust and riding in the rain, and sitting in the saddle until both you and your horse are sore. It’s learning that pattern until you can recite it in your sleep, and washing your animal’s white socks until they shine.

Manchester’s equestrian team is about a bond between me and my horse that pulsates until we are the same. His heart beats in place of my own. Exhaustion and burnout will come later, but for right now I want my team at its best—the best.

Last year I joined the ranks of our district’s saddle seat elite. Let’s just hope I can con-tinue the record. Being riding royalty is something I’ve got to constantly guard, a first place that I want so very badly but I’ve got to fight tooth and nail for to win.

I have worked with every-

thing I have to achieve this position, after a chain of many years hard work. They’re not going to tear it from me eas-ily. When the announcers call the top four places, I want to hear it like this: Manchester, Manchester, Manchester, and Manchester.

After this, there are no more second chances. This is senior year. I’m at the top of my game

and the end of my rope. From August through October, I live and breathe this team, up until the last second.

A bit too competitive? Maybe. But regrets can come later.

My horse has been at this too long but I’ve been at it just long enough. He’s a legend, the lovable old fossil. He won’t run at gaming, that’s for sure, but something we can do is to be precise.

It’s an honor just to be a part of this team, to have a chance to take part in the afternoon speed events that I watched with awe (and sometimes with agony) for three years. I don’t want to screw up. This is important to me.

I am a Dutchman. Let the games begin.

Megan Linski is a senior at Manchester High School and a member of the Manchester equestrian team. She can be reached through copy editor Jana Miller at (734) 429-7380 or jmiller@heritage.com.

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People must step up as world leaders for change

I hate complaining. I really do. I believe in being proac-tive and being the change you wish to see in the world.

In my AP English class, we are once again studying the Holocaust and an interesting question came up, “If you lived in the time period after WWII, what would you do to help vic-tims of genocide?”

My answer is that people would do nothing if they are still doing nothing now. There is still genocide and persecu-tion going on in many parts of the world. Thousands of people die every day for who they are or what they believe. Yet does anyone help them? If people

aren’t doing anything about these problem now, what makes

anyone think that we would do something back then?

I’m not blaming anyone, of course. Times are hard, and I know it’s easy to get caught up in everything else. I know what it is to sink inside my own little world. But I also know what it is to have too much time on your hands, time to sit around and think…and think…and think about the horrors in our world. God knows that the holdup on M-52 all this summer (and now fall) has given me plenty of time to ponder. That’s when the doubt creeps in. What can one little person do to change the world we live in?

What did Ghandi do, then? What did Mother Teresa,

Martin Luther King, Jr., Ray Bradbury, Ben Franklin, and countless others before and after them do? Were all their efforts useless? Or perhaps they were superhuman—a class above my own. Maybe

they had something that all of us don’t.

Have I saved a life, just by being friendly to the kid that nobody talks to, or holding the door open for the harassed looking mother at the mall? Did

I do anything to help by listen-ing to countless weary friends sob into the phone at 1 a.m.? Did they change the world at all when they did the same for me? Am I writing this column in vain, because nobody will hear my words? After all, what can one person do? Skeptics say nothing, but I believe different, even though I know that I can-not carry the whole world on my shoulders. Instead, I have to inspire others to help me lift the weight.

Megan Linski is a senior at Manchester High School.

Copy editor Jana Miller can be reached at (734) 429-7380 or jmiller@heritage.com.

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“God knows that the holdup on M-52 all this summer (and now fall) has given me plenty of time to ponder.

That’s when the doubt creeps in. What can one little person do to change the

world we live in?”

Charitable giving is a win-win activity for fi nances

Thanksgiving is a good time to be thankful for those charitable, educa-tional and religious groups that provide

your community with valuable services. And now may be a good time to consider support-ing these groups because, if you contribute before the year is over, you may “do well by doing good” through valuable tax deductions.

To illustrate the benefit of these deductions, let’s assume you’re in the 25 percent tax bracket. If you give $100 to a qualified charity, you can deduct $100 (with a tax ben-efit of $25) when you file your taxes. Consequently, the real cost of your donation is just $75 ($100 minus the $25 tax sav-

ings).As you consider your chari-table gifts, keep several points in mind.

You must donate—not just pledge. You can make a pledge to donate, but the amount is not deductible until you actually pay it.

You must also be sure to contribute to a qualified chari-table group. For your gift to be deductible, it must go to a qualified tax-exempt organiza-tion—either a religious group or a group that has received 501(c)(3) status from the IRS. If you’re unsure if the group you want to support is tax-exempt, just ask.

You must itemize. To claim a charitable deduction, you must itemize deductions on your

taxes.Thus far, we’ve talked only

about cash gifts, but you may have other financial assets, such as stocks, that you can give to charitable groups. These gifts also can earn you tax benefits. For example, sup-pose you give $500 worth of stock in a company to a chari-table group. If you’re in the 25 percent tax bracket, you can deduct $125 when you file your taxes for 2010. But by donating the company stock, you avoid paying any capital gains taxes you might have incurred if you had sold the stock yourself.

Making charitable gifts now may help you reduce the size of your estate and potentially lower any future estate tax burden on your heirs. Right

now, federal estate tax laws are in flux, but it’s possible that, one day, your estate might be large enough to generate estate taxes.

If you wanted to formal-ize your charitable gifts and help your estate planning, you might consider establishing a charitable remainder trust. Under such an arrangement, you’d place some assets, such as stocks or real estate, in a trust, which could then use these assets to pay you a life-time income stream.

When you establish the trust,

you may be able to receive a tax deduction based on the chari-table group’s “remainder inter-est”—the amount the charity is likely to ultimately receive. (This figure is determined by an IRS formula.) Upon your death, the trust would relin-quish the remaining assets to the charitable organization you’ve named. Keep in mind, however, that this type of trust can be complex. To establish one, you’ll need to work with your tax and legal advisors.

In any case, be generous during this season of giving.

You’ll be helping a charitable group accomplish its worthy goals—and you may be helping yourself when tax time arrives.

Edward Jones, its employees and fi nancial advisors are not estate planners and cannot pro-vide tax or legal advice. Please consult your attorney or quali-fi ed tax advisor regarding your situation.This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones fi nancial advisor.

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Support needed for troubled teensStudents text in

class. The rules technically say that you’re not supposed to have your phone on you. It’s sup-posed to be in the locker, turned off, but nobody listens.

It was in fifth hour a few weeks ago when we found out about it. My friend and I always push our desks together during this class, because we’re best friends and it’s what we do.

“Oh my…” my friend said, looking in shock at her phone before gazing up at me with stunned eyes and a blank face.

My stomach instantly sank. More bad news. “What is it?” I whispered.

“It’s my mom. A kid in her class just killed himself,” my friend said.

“How old are the kids your

mom teaches?” I asked with fear, my heart clenching.

“Twelve… thirteen,” she answered.

I swallowed, shaking my head and looking down. Thirteen years old. That was the same age as my sister. This student hadn’t even lived.

“Do you know why he did it?” I asked as the teacher began her discus-sion.

“No. I’ll try to find out more about it tonight,” she said.

“Do you have any idea?”“All I know is that the kids

who come from this area have nothing. Like, literally, they have nothing. A guy got mur-dered outside the school one time. It’s a really bad place to grow up. Death is everywhere.”

I looked at my friend, confu-

sion in my eyes. “How can this happen?” I asked. “How can we live here in a safe little town called Manchester and still get upset over small things when there are kids out there who live a horrible life like this?”

Her eyes are just as blank as mine must look. “I don’t know,” she finally said.

I thank God that my phone has been on me almost always in school, on vibrate, safely waiting if anybody ever needs to call me. It has proven useful on such occasions, like when the breaks on my friend’s car go out on the highway or some-body is about to do something to hurt themselves.

“What do you need,” I had texted one morning in first hour, one day sooner than an incident, keeping them talk-ing, not knowing how close the situation was to getting out of hand. It was only later on, when we were actually speaking face to face, that I discovered how desperate the situation actually

had been and still was. “Why’d you text me so

early?” I had asked later on, curious to why my phone had gone off so early in the morn-ing.

At least there was honesty. He never kept things from me. “I was holding a knife to my throat. I was going to do it before I thought that there must be somebody out there that still cared about what hap-pened to me.”

I haven’t forgotten it since. This statement shook me, but not as much as it should have. This wasn’t the first time this had nearly happened. Not even close. Suicide threats, even attempts, were something kids I knew dealt with every day. It was so common that it didn’t even shock me anymore.

As sickening as it is, so many of us have become numb to teen suicide—so much so that it has pretty much become everyday life. Even worse, since there’s so much of it going

around it is harder to separate the people who are just doing it to get someone to listen to them from the people who really need help.

Teen suicide is the number one cause of death among adolescents, higher even than car accidents. Why do people my age think that taking their life is the only option to ending their pain? It can result from painful home circumstances, or perhaps cases of bad bullying which have dominated the mass media lately.

The transition from child to adult isn’t an easy one, and when you’re scared and don’t know what’s going to happen to you, or you always have to wonder if you’re going to be okay, death can seem like the only way out. It can be intimi-dating and embarrassing to ask for help, to reach out and try to save your own life. Teenagers don’t want people to think they’re crazy.

But on the other hand, many

teens also see suicide as a way to get attention and to make others see them. It’s a desire to show that you were here and you were hurting. It’s selfish, but when one’s world is falling apart, sometimes that is the only action that appears sane.

I plead to my generation to not see it that way. Many nights I have lain awake, wondering if things were really that bad or if we were all exaggerating. Take that poor boy who took his life. Did he see life as a prison, and the end as a way to be free? Was he tired of living in poverty, in misery and in pain?

Suicide is the loss of all hope. To my fellow peers, I beg them to see reason. No matter what may be going on in your life, there is always hope.

No, nobody ever turns their phones off during school hours. And for very good reason.

Megan Linski is a senior at Manchester High School. She can be reached at (734) 429-7380 or jmiller@heritage.com.

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Manchester singer and songwriter Doug Howell has released albums before, but this one is something

different. His previous work contains primarily original compositions. This time around, his album features songs from the masterful pen of Jimmy Webb, Howell’s favorite songwriter.

Webb is best known for creating hits such as “Up, Up and Away,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Wichita Lineman,” but many of his compositions remain relatively unknown.

Howell will debut his new album at the Ark in Ann Arbor on Feb. 3 during an evening concert shared with close friend and collaborator Ann Doyle. Howell, Doyle and Danny Cox, a well-known Detroit-area drum-mer, will join forces to perform Doyle’s original songs, as well as debut several songs from

Howell’s new album.“I still remember hearing

some of Jimmy’s songs for the first time,” Howell says. “His songs turn the heart as well as the head. The lyrics take away the breath. And the music—I can’t even get close to describing that. I was on the lawnmower when I first heard ‘Macarthur Park.’ What a revelation it was. It was like a door was opening in the sky.”

Howell chose 11 favorite Webb ballads, plus one classic inspired by a Webb recording, “Love Hurts.” But don’t expect to hear anything like the 70s band, Nazareth, who took their rendition of that song to No. 8 in the U.S. In Howell’s version, love still hurts, but piano and string orchestra is substituted for guitars.

Howell explains how the movie “Finding Forrester” con-vinced him it was time to do the project. The movie stars Sean Connery as a Pulitzer prize-

winning, recluse writer who becomes friend and mentor to a brilliant 16-year-old neighbor-hood boy from a poor family. In one scene, Connery plops a typewriter down in front of the boy and tells him to write. The boy is so intimidated he can only stare at it.

Eventually the writer digs out an old manuscript of his own and hands it to the boy. “Start typing that,” Connery says. “Sometimes the simple rhythm of typing gets us from page one

to page two. And when you begin to feel your own words, start typ-ing them.”

“That sums up the project for me,” says Howell. “It’s been a long time since I’ve recorded an album, and I was a little para-lyzed by the thought of starting a new solo project. I guess I’m hoping that by starting with some of Jimmy’s masterful words and music, I’ll start feel-ing my own again.”

The album, titled “Jimmy & Me,” combines Howell at his

crooning best and Webb at his poetic peak. Although some of the selections are not known to most audiences, Howell consid-ers these songs some of the most beautiful songs ever written, and hopes to help some new listeners discover that for themselves.

“Jimmy & Me” is available for purchase or download at www.CDBaby.com, on iTunes, and through other online retailers. Besides recording several solo

albums, Howell has done much studio and multimedia work, has written and performed soundtracks to over a dozen ani-mated storybook titles, and has a long history of collaborations with local musicians, including David Barrett, Ann Doyle, the SongSisters, the Chenille Sisters, Gemini and others.

Copy editor Jana Miller can be reached at (734) 429-7380 or jmiller@heritage.com.

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