Some Homewood students participating in a training program that combines arts and entrepreneurship will present their work in an exhibit this evening at the Homewood Carnegie Library.

"Postcards From Homewood" is a project conducted by The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and The Manchester Craftsmen's Guild. The artwork on these postcards includes design and photography by students from Homewood. Packages of 10 cards will be sold, with proceeds benefitting the students and the library.

The program is teaching the students, from Faison Middle School, digital photography alongside such topics as business plan and marketing. I had the pleasure of hosting the students for a tour of the PG last week, and found them delightful. If you can make it to the Library this evening, between 5 and 7 p.m., please do.

While you're there, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., you'll be able to enjoy this month's free "Jazz on the Steps" concert sponsored by the Jazz Workshop Inc. Tonight's guest artists are the Dwayne Dolphin Quartet.

Go, enjoy some jazz, buy some postcards, encourage some kids to make money with art.

From the inbox:

Once again, I think you have hit on such an important topic for everyone - Wills & Estates!

While I do live in the city, my work has me involved with rural folks (who are often low-income, like many city-dwellers). One of the biggest issues my department faces is what happens when a death occurs.

So very often, we run into folks that either don't have a will or whose family didn't have the will probated. It can be a complicated process to have a will probated, but it is far less complicated that what a family has to do to pass property on through the states' intestancy laws.

Everybody should have a will! Everybody should tell someone in their family they have one. And everyone should look into having their deceased loved one's estates probated!

All too often I have to inform folks that the one item of value (and it might not have had value way back when, but it does today) their loved one owned has been lost to a tax sale. Because if no one is paying the taxes, it will go up for sale (some counties are quicker than others, but eventually, they all do it.) This goes for the type of property I work with and it goes for homes here in the city.

This is a message I can't stress enough.

Thanks for getting the word out. -- Kelli J., Lawrenceville