	January 2008

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Picture This: DBA Happenings

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The Denver Bar Association participated in the annual Veterans Stand-Down, an event that offers many services for homeless veterans, including benefits, medical, grooming, clothing, food and shelter services. DBA attorney and paralegal volunteers staffed a booth to answer homeless veterans’ legal questions and hand out legal resources. More than 200 volunteers worked to serve 400 homeless veterans. Thanks to those volunteers who staffed the Nov. 8 event.

Volunteer Brad Hill helps veterans during the event.

From left: Bill Burns, Kelly R. Lusk, Carolyn Gravit, Lyle Boll, Rachelle L. Calahan, Andrea Blanscet staff a resource table during the Veterans Stand-Down event.

And Then She Got Pinned!

The annual gathering of CBA Past-Presidents took place at the Broadmoor Hotel on Nov. 10. Immediate Past-President Liz Starrs was presented her Past-Presidents’ Pin by Dale Harris, the 2000–01 CBA president.

BOG & ABA Battle It Out

The CBA Board of Governors meeting was held Nov. 10 in Colorado Springs. The agenda action item that generated the most discussion was a visit from American Bar Association representatives Bill Robinson, treasurer, and Hank White, executive director. They were on hand to discuss what role the ABA should have in defending local attacks on the judicial system. The CBA request for financial help from the ABA was declined.

CBA President David Lytle is pictured with DBA President Elsa Martinez Tenreiro at the Board of Governors meeting.

Lytle presents CBA Past-President Liz Starrs with a scrapbook made by CBA staffers.

Nice Work Judges! (clap, clap, clap) The Fifth Annual Judicial Excellence for Colorado Dinner was held Nov. 15 at Marriott City Center in Denver with 600 in attendance. The dinner honored outstanding judges. Those honorees were: Denver County Court Judge James B. Breese, 19th Judicial District and District Court Judge Magistrate Dinsmore Tuttle, 20th Judicial District Judge Roxanne Bailin. Photos: Top – Dinner guests Rico Munn, director of the Department of Regulatory Agencies, attorney Nicki Wenz and attorney Ricky Benjamin. Middle – CJI Board Chair Gale Miller, CJI Judicial Excellence Award Winner Judge James (Jay) Breese and CJI Board Member and Event Chairperson Constance Talmage. Bottom – CJI Judicial Excellence Award Winners Magistrate Dinsmore Tuttle and Judge Roxanne Bailin.

Big Bucks for Legal Aid

The Colorado Bar Association gave its annual contribution from royalty revenues of the Affinity Master Card Program to the Legal Aid Foundation and COLTAF to help benefit legal services in Colorado. Bill Walters, CBA president-elect, presented the $30,000 check to the Legal Aid Foundation Chair Sabrina Stavish on Nov. 14.

Photo: Bill Walters (right) presents $30,000 check to Sabrina Stavish.

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