Archive for January, 2008

Parenting class: Love and Logic

Becoming a Love and Logic Parent

A seven week  parent training program designed by the Nationally recognized Love & Logic Institute, and taught by Autumn Piontek-Walsh. The course is designed to give practical skills that can be used immediately.

Mondays, February 4- March 17, 2008
6:00 7:30 P.M.
First Step Family Support Center
335 East 5th Street, Port Angeles
$80 per person, includes workbook

Call Autumn Piontek-Walsh to register at 360-775-1071

Gerald Grimes

Qwest Dex Yellow Pages incorrectly alphabatized Gerald Grimes. He is actively practicing in Sequim and can be reached at:

360-683-0629
360-683-3700 (alternate number)
360-683-7542 fax

206  W. Cedar Street
PO Box 2066
Sequim WA 98382

Bar lunch: 2/1/08 CLE: Disability discrimination in employment

The first Friday of the month is here again!
Please join us:
Place: Salad Station
Date: February 1, 2008
Time: 12:00 p.m.
For those looking for CLE credit, I (Patrick Irwin) will be presenting on:
“An Update on Disability Discrimination in Employment:
You Can’t Fire Anybody Anymore”
There is a modest fee of $20.00 payable to Pro Bono of Clallam and Jefferson Counties.
CLE credit approval is pending.
Also, please note that Robert Vienneau, a volunteer attorney with Pro Bono, will be having a piano recital with a portion of the proceeds to benefit Clallam County Pro Bono. His flyer is attached.

Celebration of life for Robin Porter

Robin Porter, past Clallam County employee, passed away on January 16, 2008, from a very sudden illness. On January 5, 2008 and was diagnosed with a very rare, very aggressive brain tumor.

For those of you who knew Robin and wish to attend, a Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, January 26, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. at the Eagles, 110 South Penn Street. This is an open invitation and will be a pot luck event.

Robin worked for Clallam County for over 20 years in the Prosecutors’ Office until early 2007. She was working for Thurston County at the time of her death and was residing in Olympia near her daughter and grandchild. Robin Porter will be missed by all.

Bar Lunch: 1/18/09 Scholarship notebook

Clallam County Bar Meeting
January 18, 2008 , noon, at the Salad Station
Carol Mortensen to preside in Patrick Irwin’s absence. There is no program scheduled for the meeting. However, scholarship notebook time is upon us. Volunteers for the Scholarship Committee should give their names to either Carol Mortensen or Patrick Irwin. If there are any children graduating who are related to you or the staff in your respective firms, and they have a scholarship notebook, please pass this information on.

Patrick M. Irwin
2008 Clallam County Bar President

Brooke Taylor sworn as Judge

judges-003a.jpg(Click to enlarge photo) To an overflowing crowd in Clallam County’s Courtroom 1, Brooke Taylor was sworn in by Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander, as Clallam County’s new, and third, Superior Court judge on Wednesday, January 2, 2008. Present at the ceremony were numerous dignitaries including Continue reading ‘Brooke Taylor sworn as Judge’

Bar Lunch: 1/4/08

The first bar lunch of the year is Friday, January 4, 2008, at the Salad Station. Please bring topics for CLE’s you would like to hear this year. Patrick Irwin is the bar president for 2008.