Part 1 Michel Afflitto-Director of Planned Giving Southern new England Division of the Salvation Army. Planned or Structured Gifts. Michael was a guest two weeks in a row to give him time to outline the many options people have for making a gift to The Salvation Army. Michael says many people think of the Army around the holidays with the bell ringers and kettles and with the WTIC Holiday Store for the Salvation Army, But he says there are ways to make even more substantial gifts to the Salvation Army

Pamela Atwood-gerontologist and Executive Director of Colebrook Village at Hebron and Robert Elmer-author and President of Care for Caregivers, a  consulting and  education company serving people in Connecticut  and Rhode Island.

Review of the year in politics with CTNewsJunkie.com Editor-in-Chief Christine Stuart and Hearst Connecticut Media Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Dixon

Lisa G. Cretella, -Member of the Board of the Epilepsy Foundation. Lisa says in 2016 the foundation responded to 524 client requests for referrals, conducted 74 educational programs that served more than 17 hundred participants including school nurses allied healthcare professionals, teachers, camp counselors, early childhood education and others.

The history of Christmas with Richard Freund, director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and Greenberg Professor of Jewish History at the University of Hartford