Fulton County is hosting another information session to help seniors to avoid scams.  The session will be held on Wednesday, May 29, 2013, from 10:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at the Auburn Senior Center located at 300 Edgewood Avenue in Atlanta.  The Fulton County Housing and Human Services Department, Office of Housing and Community Development sponsors the program.

Scams that often target seniors include but are not limited to telemarketing, reverse mortgages, healthcare/health insurance, home and auto repair.  This session will provide information to help seniors to identify, prevent and report fraudulent and deceptive schemes.

Citizens in need of reasonable accommodations due to a disability including communications in an alternative format, please contact Deborah Porcher in the Department of Housing and Human Services at (404) 613-7944.  for Georgia Relay Access:  Dial 711.

For more information, call 404-613-7944.

ATLANTA -- The Fulton County Board of Commissioners named Richard Barron as the new Director of Registration & Elections at their meeting on Wednesday. 

Barron, an official for Fulton County reported, comes from Williamson County, Texas, where is served as Elections Administrator. There, he supervised 30 election cycles. Since 1999, Barron has put in work in several areas of the public and private sector with services related to elections. 

Barron attended the University of Oregon, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree, followed by a Master of Arts degree at Antioch University. 

"I am confident that Mr. Barron will serve the citizens of Fulton County with integrity and professionalism," Mary Carole Cooney, Chair of the Fulton County Board of Registration & Elections said. 

No one should allow their future to happen by accident. That was the message Wendy Boglioli, a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist for swimming, presented during a “Financially Sound, Physically Strong” event hosted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM), Atlanta, on May13 at the Georgian Club. Financial Advisor Kristen Fricks-Roman, a senior vice president at MSWM helped develop the private women’s event sponsored by the firm’s Office of Diversity and Genworth Financial.

More than 70 local women attended the event to listen to Boglioli share her personal experience caring for her father the same year she was going for Gold, as get educated on the value of preparation.

“Planning and preparation is key,” stated Fricks-Roman who invited, along with other financial advisors at MSWM, clients to the educational event. “Wendy’s presentation was impactful and brought attention to the affects long-term care planning can have on one’s family and business.”