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We are looking to finalize our Vendors for this year's Seminar. If you would like to exhibit at this highly visible event to be held on Friday, September 18, 2009, at the Sheraton in downtown Tampa. If you are a vendor and would like to secure an exhibitor's table at this highly visible event, click here for the Vendor Prospectus. Check back soon and keep an eye on your mailbox for seminar registration forms!!
Stay tuned for more information on TBPA's PACE Professional Scholarship.
Plan now to join us* for our Monthly Luncheon meeting on the third Wednesday of the month, July 15th, where our guest speaker will be Elliott Stern, PhD with Florida Forensic Engineering. Be sure to RSVP your attendance to Barbara O'Shaughnessy, FRP, on or before July 8th. If your check and reservation form will not reach Barbara by the 8th, please send her an email confirming your attendance. Under no circumstances can reservations be accepted after the 8th. TBPA shall not be responsible for any postal or email delays. Check back soon for the luncheon reservation form. *Guests are limited to two attendances per year. Click here to learn how to become a member.
TBPA has been assigned a new "legalman" to support. Her name is MSG Roslyn Mason. She is a member of the U.S. Army's legal office in Kandahar, Afghanistan. She will probably be stationed in Afghanistan through the end of this year so we have several months to send her care packages to let her know that we are thinking of her and appreciate her service. Roslyn is from Florida, so that makes our care packages even more special! She has specifically asked for things that will "make her life easier." Included on her "wish" list: hot chocolate, magazines, microwave popcorn, Cheeze-It snack crackers, feminine products, and St. Ives (oatmeal & shea butter) bath wash. Other suggested items for inclusion in our care packages: dry drink "mixes" that you can add to bottled water; non-chocolate snacks (things that will not melt); anti-bacterial wipes; post cards (with postage already affixed) for writing home; sunscreen; paper-back books; breakfast bars. During the months of May, June, and July, TBPA will be collecting items from our members to put in care packages to be sent to Roslyn through the end of this year. Please bring your donations to the luncheons during those months and put them in the special collection box located on the back table in the dining room. We'll portion them out through the year and make sure they are sent to Roslyn regularly. If you have the time to write Roslyn a note to include in the packages and thank her for her service, I'm sure that would be much appreciated as well! TBPA members are always very generous when it comes to remembering our military. Let's continue in that great tradition and let Roslyn know we're thinking of her. Paint Your Heart Out Tampa a GREAT Success!!
Our homeowners (we'll call them Mr. and Mrs "C"), are a wonderful, elderly couple whose names had been submitted to Paint Your Heart Out for past three years. The first two years their house was not selected, and they were very disappointed. They were thrilled to find out that this year we had been assigned their house as our painting project for the day. Mrs. C was actually born in this house which was built in 1926. Mr. C has been quite ill and just got home from the hospital the Monday before paint day. Mrs. C is fighting her second bout of cancer in the past 15 years, and is in the middle of her chemotherapy treatments now. In addition to all of this, Mrs. C takes care of her 6 great-grandchildren during the day, four of whom live in her house full time. She is a wonderful, strong woman who loves her family and has simply been unable, financially or physically, to take care of her physical property. It truly was a pleasure and an honor to do this work for her and her husband, and we all left tired but happy, and so very thankful for all we are blessed with in our own lives. A couple of members of our group have a business installing windows and are going back in the next few days to help Mr. and Mrs. C by replacing several of the broken windows in the house. Truly above and beyond the call. Some members of our team were "veterans" of this event, but for many of us, this was our first experience with Paint Your Heart Out Tampa. I would whole-heartedly encourage anyone who has not given it a try to do so next year. Even if you are not a part of a "team," there are places for individual volunteers and the project is happy to assign you to a group. A special thanks goes out to Leslie Matthews and Jay Quigley for all of their support and hard work to help make this event a success. Thanks also to those members of TBPA who volunteered their time away from their families and other commitments to help someone in need. It was a job well done and much, much appreciated by the homeowners.
TBPA Looking for Paralegal Mentors TBPA has launched it's Paralegal Mentoring Program. If you want to participate as a Mentor or if you'd like to be assigned a Mentor, you can download the application or drop us a line at mentor@tbpa.org. Mission Statement Tampa Bay Paralegal Association, Inc. is a local Florida voice and the standard for excellence for the paralegal profession through its work on the issues of regulation, ethics, and education. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, TBPA is a non-profit professional organization representing paralegals in the Tampa Bay area.
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On Saturday, April 25th, a
team led by Nancy Daniel, CP, FRP and comprised of members of the Tampa Bay Paralegal Association and other
community volunteers, got together and had a great day of hard, but very
rewarding work, and a little fun as well! Beginning at 8:00 a.m., we put
together our "plan of attack" for our painting project and got started. We
broke down into smaller groups which were assigned to each side of the house and
began the prep work (scraping, brushing) and the painting followed right
behind. Because of the hard work and dedication of this team, we were able to
complete the painting of the siding, all the trim work and the porch, and our
final clean-up, finishing the entire project by 1:45 that day! During some of
the "drying time," team members worked to clean up the homeowner's yard and get
the trash up to the street for collection.
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