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Pro bono week events planned

National “Celebrate Pro Bono Week” is planned Oct. 23-29. The Pro Bono Committee of The Jacksonville Bar Association will serve as the coordinating group for local efforts.

Agencies and organizations that serve low-income clients with legal services are invited to help plan and to participate.

These include:

• The Fourth Circuit Pro Bono Committee

• Florida Coastal School of Law

• Jacksonville Area Legal Aid

• The Jacksonville Bar Association Pro Bono Committee

• Guardian ad Litem

• The Law Offices of the Public Defender Matt Shirk

• Three Rivers Legal Services

• Area law firms

Among the local events planned:

• Sept. 30, noon: The Jacksonville Bar Association luncheon, Hyatt Downtown. It will include a mayoral proclamation presentation and the Pro Bono Opportunities Fair. Agencies providing legal services to low-income clients will have information tables and displays. Attorneys will have the opportunity to review case summaries, accept pro bono cases and learn about the pro bono opportunities to serve low-income and underserved people in the Fourth Judicial Circuit.

• After Sept. 30: Litigating Garnishment Exemption webinar recorded and available for support of pro bono attorneys. CLE training taught by Laura Boeckman. Webinar is free and participants are asked to accept at

least one pro bono case within a year of viewing the webinar. To request materials, email Kathy Para, 356-8371, ext. 363, or kathy.para@jaxlegalaid.org

• Oct. 1, 9 a.m.-noon: Military Reservists Wills and Advance Directives Pro Bono Project. Pro bono attorneys, paralegals and Florida Coastal School of Law students team up to create advance directives and simple wills for military reservists. Attorneys interested in participating should contact Para.

"DOLL RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW"

Lots of these tips are squarely in the restoration and NOT conservation camp. However, most Barbies are not as rare or historically important as, say, antique dolls from the 1800s. That said, please note that you can ruin the value of a doll with a bad restoration, and also that many collectors do not want to purchase restored dolls (hair restyled, lips repainted, etc.). However, if you have some basket-case Barbies you want to fix up for your own collection, or even for sale IF you make full disclosures , then the following tips are invaluable to help you fix up your dolls! . Many different formulas for plastics are used, just like composition dolls, so disintegration is happening at different rates for different dolls. Plastic dolls can smell bad when they are degrading, or they can get sticky. They can also show a white powder caused by leeching plasticizer that many people mistake for molds. Or, they can get sticky faces (see below). There are no known ways to stop the plastics from degrading once they start, only ways to cosmetically treat the problems. : Certain vinyls, including the vinyl used for certain #4/5 Barbies, is susceptible to stickiness from migrating plasticizers. Also, dolls made of hard and soft plastics often cause disintegration in one another--where the materials meet becomes sticky. You can make a barrier between these pieces--use kid glove or pellon. It will work for awhile to not cause further stickiness. To treat the stickiness, many people will clean a doll with alcohol (highly abrasive; actually takes MORE plasticizer out of the doll!) then use talcum powder to wick up stickiness. I would personally wash the face with mild soap and then use the talcum powder. Another possible remedy for sticky faces is Twin Pines Formula 911.

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