Friday, April 20, 2007
Family Planning Center Wants You for Look Who’s Cooking
Are you an amateur chef hoping to show off your culinary skills? Family Planning Center of Ocean County, Lakewood, N.J., will give you that chance. Men who would like an opportunity to prepare and serve their favorite recipe can now register for the 15th Annual Look Who’s Cooking fundraiser, which will take place on Friday evening, June 8, 2007, at the Christ Episcopal Church, Washington Street, Toms River, N.J. Call Barbara York at 732-341-5523 to register.
Tickets for Look Who’s Cooking cost $50.00 per person, and include complimentary wine and beer. The proceeds from this event will benefit uninsured and underinsured women. Last year, more than 50 distinguished men, all amateur chefs---doctors, lawyers, accountants, business owners, and government officials---offered a sample of their favorite recipe to more than 250 hungry guests and raised more than $17,000.00 for women’s health issues, including cancer screenings and educational counseling.
The Family Planning Center of Ocean County is a nonprofit organization that has provided education and medical services to women since 1971.
Submitted by Fran Kirschner, Frantasy Enterprises
Tickets for Look Who’s Cooking cost $50.00 per person, and include complimentary wine and beer. The proceeds from this event will benefit uninsured and underinsured women. Last year, more than 50 distinguished men, all amateur chefs---doctors, lawyers, accountants, business owners, and government officials---offered a sample of their favorite recipe to more than 250 hungry guests and raised more than $17,000.00 for women’s health issues, including cancer screenings and educational counseling.
The Family Planning Center of Ocean County is a nonprofit organization that has provided education and medical services to women since 1971.
Submitted by Fran Kirschner, Frantasy Enterprises
Public Invited to Attend Law Day 2007 Ceremony
The Ocean County Bar Association is inviting the public to celebrate Law Day 2007 with them on May 1, 2007, at Court House, Court Room One, 100 Hooper Avenue, Toms River, N.J., from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. The theme of Law Day 2007 is “Liberty Under Law: Empowering Youth, Assuring Democracy.” Refreshments will be served.
Jonathan Z. Petro, Toms River, a lawyer at the Toms River law offices of Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, the chairman of the Ocean County Bar Association Law Day Committee, and emcee of the program, announced that Eli Eytan, president-elect of the Ocean County Bar Association, will be speaking. Judge Barbara A. Villano, presiding judge, criminal court, Ocean County, is the keynote speaker. She will talk about two aspects of children in the juvenile justice system: how to keep children out of the court system as well as how the system helps children, such as adoptions, foster care, and education, among others.
Ocean County Bar Association will also announce the winner of the high school Moot Trial Competition and present awards to participants.
In 1957, the American Bar Association created the concept of Law Day, a day to celebrate the rule of law in the United States, its legal system, and how they have contributed to the freedom Americans have. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made it official, designating May 1 as Law Day, a day of national recognition, followed by a joint resolution of Congress in 1961.
For further information about the Law Day 2007, call the Ocean County Bar Association at 732-240-3666.
Petro, whose legal practice focuses on family law, wills and estates, mediation, and municipal court, is a 1997 Toms River East High School graduate and alumnus of Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, 2004. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in June 2005. At Rutgers Law School, he was awarded both the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the Meyerson Scholarship. Petro was senior editor for the Rutgers Law Record and served as chair of its fund raising committee. Petro completed his clerkship with Judge Ronald Hoffman, J.S.C., Ocean County Superior Court, Family Division, Toms River, and worked as an intern with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
Jonathan Z. Petro, Toms River, a lawyer at the Toms River law offices of Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, the chairman of the Ocean County Bar Association Law Day Committee, and emcee of the program, announced that Eli Eytan, president-elect of the Ocean County Bar Association, will be speaking. Judge Barbara A. Villano, presiding judge, criminal court, Ocean County, is the keynote speaker. She will talk about two aspects of children in the juvenile justice system: how to keep children out of the court system as well as how the system helps children, such as adoptions, foster care, and education, among others.
Ocean County Bar Association will also announce the winner of the high school Moot Trial Competition and present awards to participants.
In 1957, the American Bar Association created the concept of Law Day, a day to celebrate the rule of law in the United States, its legal system, and how they have contributed to the freedom Americans have. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made it official, designating May 1 as Law Day, a day of national recognition, followed by a joint resolution of Congress in 1961.
For further information about the Law Day 2007, call the Ocean County Bar Association at 732-240-3666.
Petro, whose legal practice focuses on family law, wills and estates, mediation, and municipal court, is a 1997 Toms River East High School graduate and alumnus of Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, 2004. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in June 2005. At Rutgers Law School, he was awarded both the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the Meyerson Scholarship. Petro was senior editor for the Rutgers Law Record and served as chair of its fund raising committee. Petro completed his clerkship with Judge Ronald Hoffman, J.S.C., Ocean County Superior Court, Family Division, Toms River, and worked as an intern with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
Ron Prusek Joins Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks
Ronald E. Prusek, Toms River, has joined the law firm of Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks (CLDDS), Toms River, as counsel. Prusek will concentrate his practice on the areas of civil ligation.
Before joining CLDDS, Prusek was a sole practitioner in Toms River. Prior to that, he was president of the Lomell Law Firm, Toms River, specializing in civil litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants for 21 years; and trying cases throughout New Jersey for corporate and individual clients on legal issues involving person injuries, contracts, and commercial matters. He also served as a deputy attorney general in the Division of Criminal Justice of the State of New Jersey.
Prusek, who is a competitive sailor and member of the U.S. Sailing Association, is legal counsel and past fleet captain of the Shrewsbury River Yacht Club. He received an A.B. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Indiana University School of Law. Prusek was admitted to the Bars of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987; and the New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey in 1974. He is a member of the N.J. State Civil Trial Bar Executive Committee; a member of N.J. District IIIA Ethics Committee; and a trustee of the Ocean County Bar Association.
Submitted by Fran Kirschner, Frantasy Enterprises
Before joining CLDDS, Prusek was a sole practitioner in Toms River. Prior to that, he was president of the Lomell Law Firm, Toms River, specializing in civil litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants for 21 years; and trying cases throughout New Jersey for corporate and individual clients on legal issues involving person injuries, contracts, and commercial matters. He also served as a deputy attorney general in the Division of Criminal Justice of the State of New Jersey.
Prusek, who is a competitive sailor and member of the U.S. Sailing Association, is legal counsel and past fleet captain of the Shrewsbury River Yacht Club. He received an A.B. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Indiana University School of Law. Prusek was admitted to the Bars of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987; and the New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey in 1974. He is a member of the N.J. State Civil Trial Bar Executive Committee; a member of N.J. District IIIA Ethics Committee; and a trustee of the Ocean County Bar Association.
Submitted by Fran Kirschner, Frantasy Enterprises
