President – Belinda Penn, PLS
Vice Pres – Mimi Mangrum
Secretary – Sharon Davis, PLS
Treasurer – Lisa Rookey
State Director – Michelle Grilletta, PLS

Also, NEALSP announced the following winners at its annual Bosses Night: Boss of the Year – Jim Burton; Award of Excellence – Michelle Grilletta, PLS. Congratulations to all of our award winners!!

Shari Straub – President
Kim Cooksey, PLS – Vice-President
Michelle Grilletta, PLA – Secretary
Christy Wilson – Treasurer
Belinda Penn, PLS – State Director

A date for Bosses Night is TBA and details will be posted soon! Don’t forget that awards for Boss of the Year and the Award of Excellence are given on this night.

Denise Wolfe, a psychology/criminology major at ASU, is the winner of the 2008-2009 $600.00 Educational Scholarship awarded annually by the Northeast Arkansas Legal Support Professionals. Presenting the check to Denise (right) in the attached photos is Joyce Morgan, NEALSP Treasurer (left).

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The Roast & Toast for retiring Circuit Court Judge Rice VanAusdall and Circuit Court Judge David Burnett sponsored by NEALSP was a huge success. Many thanks to those who attended, and those who roasted, including Chuck Banks, Bobby Coleman, Clint Saxton, Pal Rainey, Donis Hamilton and Mike Walden. Thanks to Bobby McDaniel for serving as our emcee.

Further thanks go to The Production Warehouse for recording the event, Straub Law Firm for hosting the social, Michelle Grilletta, PLS (Event Chairperson) and EVERY member of NEALSP…no matter how big or small the contribution, YOU did play a part as hostess!

All photos called be viewed by clicking HERE.

Andrea Hicks and I went to Kevin Orr’s Office (Treasurer of Craighead County Bar Assoc.) and picked up their check in the amount of $500, then deposited into our NEALSP account, and took a trip to Target to do some major shopping for the Women’s Crisis Center! We picked up a large very nice microwave, food processor, large toaster, hand mixer, nice set of pots and pans, and ten child dinnerware sets for a total amount of $502.03. The microwave we had picked out was more medium sized and we thought was $100, but it rang up as $140. A very nice man, William Holmes, helped us and when he found out what we were there for, he told us about microwaves on clearance, went back there himself and brought us a large really nice microwave on sale for $104, which us left us with $20 more to spend, so he helped us do more shopping and carried all of the merchandise out for us and loaded it into the car! Andrea and I knew right away, William was definitely a “God-thing!”

Right as we pulled away, torrential rains poured! Andrea said a quick prayer asking God to stop the rains for us so we would be able to unload and carry everything in. By the time we arrived, yep, the rains had stopped! GOD IS SO GOOD!

We also delivered the spiral honey smoked Holiday Ham purchased by NEALSP to them as well!

Leslie with the Women’s Crisis Center was very appreciative of the donations!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Joyce & Andrea

The AALS Winter Business Meeting will be held January 9-10, 2009 in Hot Springs at the Velda Rose Hotel.

Legal Ed Lunch will be held on January 29, 2009. Our speaker for January will be Detective Earnest Ward of the Jonesboro Police Department, who will be doing a presentation on “Internet Investigations of Sexual Pedophiles” during the lunch hour on THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009.