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Free Retirement Readiness Webinar in June
[May 30, 2025] All of us dream about retiring with no financial worries. This month’s free financial Empower webinar is designed to help you do just that.
The webinar will walk you through the essentials of retirement readiness, including how much you need to save and how to factor social security into your plan.
You have the option of either 1) attending a live webinar on a set date and time or 2) watching a prerecorded session the following month at your convenience. You can do both at learningfromempower.com.
If you want to participate in one of the following live sessions, register in advance to hold your spot:
English:
Spanish:
Watch recordings of all Empower’s 2025 education series so far at learningfromempower.com
Next month’s topic: Estate planning
New: Three Free Health Care Visits Per Calendar Year
[April 24, 2024] Starting May 1, participants in Bright Wood’s Health and Wellness Plan (BWHWP) are entitled to three free in-office visits per calendar year with preferred providers for:
The three visits can be with different preferred providers and a combination of physical and mental health care.
On their fourth and subsequent visits, BWHWP participants who’ve met their deductible and are seeing a preferred provider will owe the following coinsurance payment per visit:
60-Year-Old Tuition-Assistance Program Still Helping Bright Wood Families Today
[May 19, 2023] Bright Wood’s Children’s Educational Tuition Assistance Program (CETAP) provides financial assistance for post-high school education ranging from college to trade school for employees’ dependent children.
The company has distributed over $1 million in CETAP funds since the early 1960s when founder Carl Peterson established the program.
Contact Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to learn more and apply.
Eye Safety Starts Before You Get Out of Your Car
By Jim Sanders, Safety Manager
[March 9, 2023] Bright Wood has suffered 17 recordable incidents in the last three years involving an object in someone’s eye. In other words, five to six people suffer eye injuries annually.
History shows the majority of our eye injuries occur outside. If everyone wore their eye protection as soon as they arrived at work (before leaving their vehicles) and continued wearing it until they returned to their cars after work, we’d all be a lot safer. This is in fact, Bright Wood policy.
