If you have an item and you would like to know what it is worth, send digital pictures with a brief description to paulhconnor@gmail.com,
make an appointment to visit
201 North Commerce Street,
Galena, IL 61036, or call 563-543-5201.

Big Value, Little Package!

When selling on eBay, size does matter, and bigger is not always better. This Simon & Halbig antique bisque doll measures just 4.5 inches tall. With hand painted glass eyes that close when laid down she has her original hair and is ready for her new party dress. Selling on eBay with 8 active bidders over 7 days for $476.00.

Working While Disabled – 
​Social Security Can Help

While it may be best known for retirement, Social Security is also here to help you get back to work if you are disabled. For millions of people, work isn’t just a source of income, it’s a vital part of who they are — it gives them purpose and pride — it’s a connection to community. If you’re getting Social Security disability benefits, we have good news for you. Social Security’s work incentives and Ticket to Work programs can help you if you’re interested in working. Special rules make it possible for people receiving Social Security disability benefits or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to work and still receive monthly payments.

The Ticket to Work program may help you if you’d like to work. You can receive: 

• Free vocational rehabilitation; 
• Training; 
• Job referrals; and 
• Other employment support. 

You can read more about working while collecting disability benefits at www.socialsecurity.gov/work.

Work incentives include: 

• Continued cash benefits for a time while you work; 
• Continued Medicare or Medicaid while you work; and 
• Help with education, training, and rehabilitation to start a new line of work. 

If you’re receiving Social Security disability benefits or SSI, let us know right away when you start or stop working, or if any other change occurs that could affect your benefits. 

If you returned to work, but you can’t continue working because of your medical condition, your benefits can start again — you may not have to file a new application. 

You can read more about the Ticket to Work program in the publication titled “Working While Disabled: How We Can Help” at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/EN-05-10095.pdf.

​Part of securing today and tomorrow is giving you the tools to create a fulfilling life. Getting back to work might be part of that. We’re here with a ticket to a secure tomorrow.

Forbes Ranks Dupaco as the
​#1 Credit Union in Iowa

Forbes, in its first-ever ranking of in-state financial institutions released June 28, named Dupaco Community Credit Union the top-rated credit union
​in Iowa.

Dupaco’s score also outpaced the top-rated bank in the state, according to the report.

Forbes partnered with Statista, a market research firm, to survey more than 25,000 U.S. consumers for their opinions on current and former financial relationships. According to Forbes, the banks and credit unions were rated on overall recommendations and satisfaction, as well as five sub-dimensions: 1) Trust; 2) Terms and conditions; 3) Branch services; 4) Digital services; and 5) Financial advice.

“This recognition simply reaffirms our staff consistently delivers on the Dupaco brand promise to improve each member’s financial position and uplift the communities we serve,” said Dupaco President/CEO Joe Hearn. 

Forbes recognized merely 269 banks and credit unions from across the United States, including six in Iowa. Nationwide financial institutions—which have branches in at least 15 U.S. states—were excluded from the final rankings, said Forbes.

Go here for the Forbes rankings and scores, published June 28, 2018:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2018/06/28/the-best-banks-and-credit-unions-in-every-state

About Dupaco Community Credit Union:

​Dupaco Community Credit Union is a not-for-profit, member-owned financial cooperative. It is dedicated to the financial sustainability of its members, and specializes in customized financial counseling, money advice and education.  It offers savings, loans, investments, insurance and wealth management products for individuals and businesses.  Dupaco serves residents in 108 counties throughout Iowa, northwest Illinois and southwest Wisconsin. Chartered in 1948, membership totals more than 106,000 with assets exceeding $1.6 billion. Visit Dupaco at www.dupaco.com.

• On Aug. 1, 1498, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets foot on the South American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela. Thinking it an island, he christened it Isla Santa and claimed it for Spain. Columbus, a deeply religious man, believed that Venezuela was the edge of the Garden of Eden.

• On Aug. 10, 1793, after more than two centuries as a royal palace, the Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris by the French revolutionary government. Today the Louvre’s collection is one of the richest in the world, with artwork and artifacts representative of 11,000 years of human civilization and culture.

• On Aug. 6, 1862, the C.S.S. Arkansas, the most feared Confederate ironclad on the Mississippi River, is blown up by her crew after suffering mechanical problems during a battle with the U.S.S. Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The ship was 165 feet long and 35 feet wide.

• On Aug. 9, 1936, at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, black American track star Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the Games in the 4x100-meter relay. His team’s world record of 39.8 seconds stood for 20 years.

• On Aug. 2, 1943, future President John F. Kennedy is serving as commander of a torpedo boat in the Solomon Islands when his ship is rammed at night by a Japanese destroyer, cutting it in two. Kennedy’s heroics led to the rescue of the survivors from an island six days later.

• On Aug. 12, 1953, less than one year after the United States tested its first hydrogen bomb, the Soviet Union detonates a 400-kiloton device in Kazakhstan. The explosive power was 30 times that of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

• On Aug. 5, 1957, “American Bandstand” goes national on television, hosted by 26-year-old Dick Clark. He pushed hard for a 3:30 p.m. time slot, when teenagers were out of school and most likely to watch.

• On Aug. 8, 1968, at the Republican National Convention in Miami, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew are chosen as the presidential and vice-presidential nominees for the upcoming election. In 1974 on this day, Nixon would announce his resignation as president.

• On Aug. 3, 1988, Soviet authorities free Mathias Rust, the daring young West German pilot who landed a rented Cessna on Moscow’s Red Square in 1987, from a labor camp as a goodwill gesture to the West.

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