From Shellas@yahoogroups.com Sat Jul 10 16:05:32 2010 Received: from cflmr01.us.cray.com (172.30.74.53) by mail.us.cray.com (172.30.74.226) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.436.0; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:05:32 -0500 Received: from mail1.cray.com (mail1.us.cray.com [136.162.62.100]) by cflmr01.us.cray.com (8.14.3/8.13.8/hubv2-LastChangedRevision: 12029) with ESMTP id o6AL5VPW030204 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:05:32 -0500 Received: from psmtp.com (exprod6mx239.postini.com [64.18.1.139]) by mail1.cray.com (8.13.6/8.13.3/gw-5323) with SMTP id o6AL5UHk023511 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:05:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from source ([98.136.45.70]) by exprod6mx239.postini.com ([64.18.5.10]) with SMTP; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:05:30 CDT Received: from [69.147.65.151] by n71.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Jul 2010 21:05:29 -0000 Received: from [98.137.34.39] by t5.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Jul 2010 21:05:29 -0000 From: joann arneberg To: "Shellas@yahoogroups.com" , "Shella-Stevens, Scott D" Sender: "Shellas@yahoogroups.com" Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:05:21 -0500 Subject: [Shellas] Sarah's impact on legal services Thread-Topic: [Shellas] Sarah's impact on legal services Thread-Index: Acsgc6Jv2Qyu81zEQfa5St3omPigqg== Message-ID: List-Unsubscribe: Reply-To: "Shellas@yahoogroups.com" Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: cfexcas01.americas.cray.com X-MS-Has-Attach: X-Auto-Response-Suppress: All X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-pstn-addresses: from [3984/164] x-pstn-settings: 3 (1.0000:0.5000) s cv fc LC gt3 gt2 gt1 ft lt r p m c x-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9000 FC:95.5390 LC: 0.0000 R:95.9108 P:95.5390 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) x-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 x-originating-ip: 209.85.161.171 dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoogroups.com; s=lima; t=1278795929; bh=9/vQmF3Ds5rYORmL0F/sqK8MZqx0KUVWW8oRS7LHzhY=; h=Received:Received:X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Sender:X-Apparently-To:X-Received:X-Received:X-Received:X-Received:X-Received:X-Received:Message-ID:To:X-Originating-IP:From:Sender:MIME-Version:Mailing-List:Delivered-To:List-Id:Precedence:List-Unsubscribe:Date:Subject:Reply-To:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=O5lTMahZMsQUkbI1apIN0NCb64LEdz76tyUGJp20Da74rl1Rqv+QS6k2hP5QPyHFqq9CSG6EfogRSwqwwm24OB3vdbEtSBF9CNrRYIUIelyxfvgGisdLAaCx+pURPWBe domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lima; d=yahoogroups.com; b=U1mHGbkhbqaXvfabqIRutaOecVnCPZFNKkEvKHRxkX+SZ+voY8ehqq7o6AacTbhd6/qoksaxSS3J3EtrhQ6QsZU1wdQ1ZL4F6/9h/6A57BvyhB1LQgSPyibW5tZIemO/; x-sender: joann.arneberg@gmail.com x-yahoo-newman-property: groups-email-tradt-m x-yahoo-newman-id: 2958400-m17628 list-id: delivered-to: mailing list Shellas@yahoogroups.com x-apparently-to: Shellas@yahoogroups.com mailing-list: list Shellas@yahoogroups.com; contact Shellas-owner@yahoogroups.com x-received: by 10.220.42.206 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Status: RO Content-Length: 5706 Lines: 139 Hi family, This is the email I received from Doreen, Sarah's friend. It looks like some of the info from it was used in the obit. on the back of the church bulletin, but not all. Quite amazing... -Jo ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:11 PM Subject: Fw: Information To: joann.arneberg@gmail.com Joann, Hi! =A0Attached is the information that I promised to send you. Your family will continue to be in our thoughts and prayers. Doreen Meier >>> "Corson, Barbara" 7/7/2010 12:44 PM >>> This came out from Central MN Legal Services, thought you may be interested. Sarah died peacefully around 8:30 a.m. yesterday morning with family members present. =A0Over the week-end she was surrounded by family and friends. =A0Her husband said that although it was a hard time, he knows Sar= ah felt all the love and support around her and died peacefully. =A0The arrangements aren't quite finalized but there will probably be a visitation Thursday evening from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and a service Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in St. Cloud. =A0Please keep Sarah'= s husband Scott and their boys, Isaac, age 16, and Matt, age 13 in your thoughts and prayers. We can be grateful for Sarah's life and her impact on legal =A0services, he= r clients and =A0her =A0community. =A0Sarah had a 20 year career as a legal a= id lawyer in the St. Cloud area. From 1990 to 1999 she was a staff attorney with St. Cloud area Legal Services where she specialized in family law and social security law. =A0In 1999 she became the managing attorney for the St= . Cloud office of Central Minnesota Legal Services where she managed the staff program and the Volunteer Attorney Program which serves =A019 of the = 21 counties served by CMLS. =A0CMLS has a strong Volunteer Attorney Program since it started in 1982. =A0But In the last five years or so, =A0under Sar= ah's leadership the VAP =A0team expanded our program =A0to offer mediation -- an= d it's the major mediation program for low income clients in the area, a debt clinic, legal advice clinics in Wright and Sherburne County and the involvement of more pro bono attorneys in community legal education seminars. =A0Sarah also led the development of a partnership with the Minnesota Justice Foundation to offer divorce clinics to pro se litigants so clients don't sit so long on office waiting lists. =A0This partnership utilizes students to help clients complete divorce forms with =A0volunteer lawyers hosting the clinics and providing answers to questions of clients. With all of these new offerings under Sarah's leadership, our program has maintained a high percentage of =A0volunteer attorneys providing full representation for clients' =A0In the last few years, =A0 43 to 50 percent = of our volunteer cases =A0have been extended service cases, even with all of t= he new opportunities for volunteer attorneys. =A0Sarah was =A0an active member= of the Minnesota State Bar Association=92s Legal Assistance to the Disadvantag= ed Committee and participated in =A0the development of several initiatives to encourage pro bono. =A0Sarah was also an active member of the Stearns/Bento= n Bar Association and its Family Law Section. Sarah was passionate about advocating for people with disabilities and survivors of domestic violence and their children. =A0She chaired the on th= e Stearns County Family Violence and Sexual Assault Council and was a member of the Stearns County Crime Victims Assistance Program=92s Advisory Council= . She participated in the Children=92s Justice Initiatives for Stearns County= . She was a presenter for numerous trainings on domestic violence and represented many clients through Anna Marie=92s =A0Alliance in St. Cloud, P= earl in Milaca and Hands of Hope in Todd/Morrison Counties. Sarah was active in other community organizations. =A0Sarah participated in the St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce through Central Minnesota Legal Services. =A0She was chair of the ReachUp Headstart Program, Chair of the Tri-Cap Board of directors (a three county community action program), a member of the School District 742 Community Education and Adult Basic Education Advisory Council. =A0Through Sarah's involvement with the local Stearns/Benton Bar Association and the Volunteer Attorney Program, =A0Sarah was approached by the Stearns =A0County Law Library Board about establishin= g a program to provide assistance to pro se litigants. =A0CMLS has had a contract for four years to provide these services through a staff attorney and =A0part-time paralegal. =A0The numbers served are amazing and the proje= ct has expanded access to the courts for many people in the St. Cloud area. Sarah exemplified the St. Cloud legal aid standard of being involved in the local community as an integral part of your work as a legal aid lawyer. She will be missed. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned by IBM/MessageLabs and contains no viruses. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shellas/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shellas/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: Shellas-digest@yahoogroups.com=20 Shellas-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Shellas-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/