Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17, 2008
Red Lion Templin’s Resort in Post Falls, Idaho
Day 1–Tentative Seminar AgendaFriday, May 16, 2008
Registration/Check in 3:30 -4:00
Welcome 4:00 – 4:15
Honorable Judge Wilper and Dianne Cromwell
Dinner on own 5:15 – 6:30
Clarity Legal Software 6:30 – 8:00
Software for court reporters and attorneys
Deputy Dan Jordan 8:00 – 9:30
The A.I.R. of Personal Safety and Preventing victimization
VendorsStenograph, Clarity Legal Software, Deputy Dan Jordan
*************Speakers subject to change *********************
Day 2 – Tentative Seminar AgendaSaturday, May 17, 2008
Continental Breakfast 8:30 – 9:00
Kootenai Medical Center 9:00 -10:30
Susan Hillenbrand Herbst, Oncology Clinical Nurse
Break 10:30 – 10:45
Special Agent Michael Sotka 10:45 – 12:00
Catered Lunch 12:00 – 1:00
Case Catalyst Indexing, Dianne Cromwell 1:00 – 2:30
Business Meeting 2:30– 3:30
Break 3:30-3:45
Deputy Dan Jordan 3:45 – 5:15
Magic to Balancing Stress
**** *****Anticipated CEUs for both days = 1.05***********
March 7, 2008
Dear Court Reporters,
It is that time of year again, time for the Idaho Court Reporters Annual Seminar. We are very excited about this year’s seminar, especially since it will be held in beautiful
ICRA has reserved a limited number of rooms at Templin’s government rates. When making your hotel reservations, please specify that you are with ICRA to get the special rate. Deluxe room, single occupancy is $71.00/night. Deluxe room, double occupancy is $81.00/night. Additional adult guest per room/night is $10.00. Important!! Hotel reservations need to be made by April 3rd. That is when the room block expires. Call 1-800-283-6754 to make your reservations. We have also been informed there is a softball tournament in the area the same weekend, so hotel rooms are expected to be scarce.
The approach to seminar planning this year was unique in the sense that we looked at it from the perspective of “What am I interested in?” realizing that we are more than court reporters. We have strived to include some software training and stress management techniques along with some serious topics that affect most women, breast cancer. And, yes, men can be affected as well, as can the women in their lives. We hope you feel the same way we do, learning comes in many forums.
Our hope is that we will have a great turn out and that everyone who attends can walk away having learned something useful and, in the process, invigorate themselves with a sense of community by coming together with other reporters.
Nicole Omsberg, President; List Yant, Vice President; Kim Saunders, Secretary-Treasurer
ICRA May 16 & 17, 2008, Seminar Registration Form
Registration includes all seminar sessions/NCRA continuing education fees and specified meals Before May 10, 2008 ____ ICRA Member Registration $ 125 ____ ICRA Student Registration $ 75____ Non-member Registration $ 140
After May 10, 2007 ____ Late Registration $ 140 ____ Late Student Registration $ 90
Donations: ____ Recommended donation to ICRA $ 50 $_____ Total included Name: __________________________________________________ CSR No.: __________
Designations: CSR ___ RPR ___ RMR ___ RDR ___ CRR ____ STUDENT ______ OTHER ____
Mailing Address: ____________________________________________________________________________
Telephone Number(s): Office ________________ Home: ___________Cell: ______________
E-mail Address: _____________________________________________
Reporter Type: Freelance ____ Official ____ Captioner ____ Other ____
SIGNATURE: _____________________________________ DATE: Make check or money order payable to ICRA and mail with this form to:
Post Office Box 6038
To Idaho Court Reporters:
The Oral History Project of the Idaho Legal History Society is committed to interviewing, transcribing, and filing 30 interviews of prominent lawyers and judges in Idaho in the calendar year 2008. More than a dozen interviewers are poised to contact one or two lawyers over the next few weeks to schedule one to two hour interviews. A major concern is having advanced volunteer help to transcribe the interviews and prepare them for filing in the Idaho Legal History Society archives and at the Idaho State Historical Society.
The incredibly valuable help from the Idaho Court Reporters in this important project is greatly appreciated. Those court reporters who volunteer contribute immeasurably to the project by recording and transcribing attorneys’ and judges’ personal stories about their careers and lives. They also have the enjoyment of hearing and reading many of the colorful stories that will illustrate the significant lives of the storytellers.We are proceeding with some dispatch on the interviews statewide so that more of Idaho’s rich legal history is not lost as lawyers age, forget some details in their personal histories, or worse.If you are willing to participate, please notify oral history committee member Dianne Cromwell:
dcromwell@cableone.net , or one of the regional court reporter-coordinators (Sandy Beebe in judicial districts 6 and 7–sbeebe@cableone.net) . Dianne has participated in several oral history interviews and completed the written transcriptions. Court reporters Lisa Yant and Sue Wolf have also contributed to this project. They can tell you what is involved, and the enjoyable experience they had.Your professional help with the legal history society’s oral history project will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support.
Rita Ryan, chair
Oral History Project,
Idaho Legal History Society
February 14, 2008
Please contact Dianne Cromwell at (208)345-3704 or dcromwell@cableone.net to participate.
ICRA SEMINAR
May 16 and 17, 2008
Friday and Saturday
POST FALLS, IDAHO
Hope to see all of our members at the seminar.
Hotel information and seminar speakers forthcoming.
Nicole, Lisa, and Kim
ICRA Leaders
Hello,
I have decided to quit court reporting for at least the time being. I am interested in selling my Stentura 8000LX (including original case, paper tray, tripod, charger, cleaning supplies, realtime cable, manual, extra battery, and adjustment tool) and three-quarters of a case of paper. I also have several speed tapes and various student theory books (Phoenix Theory I, Phoenix Theory II, first ten lesson tapes) and the student version of Case CATalyst 8.0(disks and key), and one of the ancient ‘toilet bowl’ machines (with tripod).
If you come across anyone who would be interested in buying any of these, please relay my email address and phone number to them.
Thank you all for your support over the years.
Heidi Blodgett
isheidihome@hotmail.com
(208)590-2886
View and print the Seminar Agenda and Registration Form.
The Seminar will be held on Saturday, June 23rd, 2007, at Tucker & Associates on Fort Street in Boise, Idaho. You may earn up to .6 CEs for attending this seminar. We look forward to seeing you there!
If you are not able to attend the seminar, please print out the Membership Application and mail it to ICRA with payment.
ICRA’s Membership is from June 1, 2007, through May 31st, 2008.
Membership in your State Association affords you and other Idaho court reporters with:
ICRA works with the CSR Board, NCRA, the Idaho Supreme Court and other legal and professional entities to:
ICRA welcomes every court reporter’s input and participation!
Elections were held at ICRA’s Business Meeting at the seminar in January of this year.
Welcome to ICRA’s new officers commencing their postions June 1, 2007.
More information about your officers and group photos coming in June!
President: Nicole Omsberg, CSR, RPR
(208) 287-7585
Vice President: Lisa Yant, CSR, RPR, FCRR
(208) 334-9721
Secretary/Treasurer: Kimberly Saunders, CSR, RPR
(208) 884-5640
Kasey Redlich, CSR, RPR, Star, Idaho, and myself took off for Las Vegas to see if we could learn some new and useful StenoCAT 32 (Gigatron) software tricks at the StenoCAT Users Network (SUN) seminar April 26-28, 2007.
I can now (finally!) global an untranslate and/or fingerspell from my steno machine in realtime. I was excited about finally understanding and being able to apply the automatic indexing feature to my transcripts.
It’s been said we only use 10 percent of our brains. I think it might also be said that we only use 10 percent of our software features!
It was such a wonderful and positive opportunity to make friends and network with many reporters from around the country. We had lunch as we attended the SUN Business Meeting. G. Allen Sonntagg shared with us his TV appearance as a court reporter on “Candid Camera” a few years back. Hilarious! I’m going to try and get my hands on a copy of that to share with you!
Vegas was a new experience for me. What a crazy place! The highlight of the trip was the M&M World store. Four stories of M&M stuff! We had a blast shopping there and left with lots of goodies! Kasey and I had a great time and laughed a ton!
What’s great about court reporting is there are always new and exciting things to learn and techonology to apply. There are many wonderful people in our profession. Every time I attend a conference or seminar, I am re-inspired and excited about striving to be the best court reporter I can be!
– Tammy Hohenleitner, CSR, RPR
To my fellow reporters of Idaho:
What a blast Tammy and I had in Vegas last month. Not only did I learn some new moves on my trusty StenoCat software, but I learned what a wonderful reporter Tammy Hohenleitner is! What passion she possesses for our profession and for us as individuals.
The seminar was very educational and informative with many new things to learn on the new update. I appreciate and thank all who were involved in making the weekend a success!
It is always exciting to meet new reporters all around the country to share our stories and experiences with. It’s always good to learn that I’m not the only one who has undergone the unexpected when it comes to our profession. But knowing that we all stress over our jobs at times, when we come together as a group of reporters and uplift one another, it creates a more positive and energetic light in us all.
By Kasey Redlich, CSR, RPR
Lynda’s obituary appeared in The Statesman shortly after she passed away. She will truly be missed.
Lynda Charlene Habel
A page in our book of memories was gently turned today. Lynda Charlene Habel, our beloved wife, mom, grandmother, daughter, and sister passed into the arms of our Lord on Saturday, April 28, 2007. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, May 3, at the Cloverdale Chapel in Boise. A reception will follow. Lynda was born on March 31, 1948 in Fort Benton, Mont. to Charles and Mary Ann Conn. The youngest of three daughters, she thrived living on a farm, riding their Shetland pony for hours with all three girls on board! She was an active little girl, 4H Club, Girl Scouts, Theta Rho and Youth Group, who was always gracious, kind, thoughtful, and smiling, always smiling. She graduated from Fort Benton High School, and attended Montana State University. She worked for Boeing in Seattle for several years. Later she became the first female apprentice in the history of the Seattle Post Intelligence. During this time she met the love of her life, Jack Habel. They were married on July 20, 1976. She found her passion in court reporting and attended school to become a certified court reporter. They lived in San Bernardino, Calif., moving to Eagle, Idaho in July of 1978. Lynda began her work as a court reporter for Tucker & Associates, Burnham & Associates and subsequently fulfilled her dream of owning her own court reporting business, Burnham Habel & Associates Inc. How she loved her work and the wonderful people she met and worked with. Lynda loved to play too! She could ride a snowmobile with the best of them, always with that beautiful smile on her face, always with Jack by her side. That smile turned to laughter as she spent precious time with her grandchildren and another joy in her life, her beloved dog, Mauli. A friend once said “if we lived as Lynda lived, the world would be a better place.” Survivors include, her husband, Jack; her stepson Kirk (Jennifer) Habel; grandchildren, Riley and Casey; her parents, Charles and Mary Ann Conn; her sisters, BJ McIntosh of Portland, Ore., Billie (Peter) Burke of Blair, Nebraska; extended family; and many friends. The family would like to give their heartfelt thanks to the wonderful staff at MSTI, Dr. Kreisle, his nurse Jill, and the hospice nurse, Deanna for the special love and care they gave to Lynda. Special thanks to DeEtta, the receptionist at MTSI, for her friendship and kindness during Lynda’s illness. A memorial will be established at a later date. “Lynda, we love and miss you. Go with the angels!” Love, your family
Published in the Idaho Statesman on 5/2/2007
Lynda was a wonderful woman. Always so nice and sweet to everyone. She will be missed very much. We miss and love you!
Cassandra Allison (Fortbenton, MT)
May 3, 2007
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Lynda was truly a classy lady. She always went out of her way to make people feel special and touch them with her warm smile and kind words. I will miss you Lynda.
Laurie Scott
May 2, 2007
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Lynda was one of the finest women I have ever met. She always had a friendly word and bright smile for everyone she met. I only knew her through my work, but she impressed me enormously. I will never forget the great times we had every year at the Burnham Habel Staff Appreciation parties. We always wondered, what kind of pet would we be vying for…I remember the hedgehog with particular amusement. Lynda, you will be remembered with smiles for years and years! To her family, I wish you God’s peace and love.
Dee Pastorino (Boise, ID)
May 2, 2007
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17 years at Hall, Farley Oberrecht and Blanton, I loved when she came to the office, and she always threw a great party for secretary’s day, she will be missed….
Susan Corr (Boise, ID)
One of the topics of discussion listed on the Agenda is requiring continuing education as part of Idaho CSR licensing.
BOARD MEETING NOTICE
April 28, 2007
3350 Americana Terrace, Suite 243
3rd Floor Conference Room
Boise, Idaho 83706
9:00 A.M.
Please contact below for further information:
Certified Shorthand Reporters Board
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0017
Ph. (208) 334-2517
E-Mail: csr.office@csr.idaho.gov
By: Keith M. Evans, RPR, CSR
Recently Kristi Evans, RPR, CSR, and I traveled to the NCRA Midyear Seminar in Vancouver, British Columbia. What a wonderful experience it was to be in the close proximity of around 2,000 court reporters all at the same time. You can imagine how the seminar rooms were buzzing with conversation, since none of us get to really “talk” on the job. I’m sure I was especially gabby considering the rural part of Idaho in which I work. For those of you that don’t know me I have been an official reporter in Idaho, Clearwater and Lewis Counties for 15 years. I have been reporting for a total of 20 years. I also own K & K Court Reporting with my wife Kristi. Well, enough about us, back to the seminars.
The seminars started on Thursday with a bus tour of Vancouver, BC. It is great to get continuing education points while sitting on a luxurious bus touring the city. Vancouver is a very beautiful city. The population of Vancouver is around 2 million. If you include the outlying areas the population grows to around 4 million. The tour took us through the downtown area, Chinatown, Stanley Park and Granville Island. Granville Island is a must see when in Vancouver. There is a large market next to the water that has fresh fish, vegetables, fruits, breads, candies, flowers and many vendors. Vancouver is a very culturally diverse city, which makes the city even more fun! You can buy just about any kind of food at any hour of the day or night in Vancouver. There is even a Tiffany’s where you can buy a diamond necklace for $119,500.00. No, you won’t see Kristi wearing that necklace anytime soon.
Friday was filled with seminars all day and was capped off with a trip to the Vancouver Giants hockey game with an old friend who works for a television station in Vancouver.
Saturday we were off to more seminars on various different topics. I feel the two most interesting seminars were held on this day. The first was the three reporters that reported the Zacarias Moussaoui trial. Moussaoui is the only person to have been tried for the September 11 attacks in a civilian court. The reporters for this trial talked about dealing with the many facets of such a high profile case. The biggest challenge for these reporters was understanding what Moussaoui was saying once he decided to proceed pro se. He spoke with a very strong accent. He would start out speaking in broken English and then switch to Arabic quoting from the Koran and then switch back to broken English. The reporters played several of the 911 calls from people on the floors above where the planes flew into the World Trade Center Buildings. The reporters spoke about how hard it was to remain unemotional and professional during such emotional testimony from family members during the sentencing phase of the trial. Karen Brynteson, FAPR, RMR, CRR; Norman Linnell, RPR, RMR; and Anneliese Thomson, RDR, CRR were the reporters for the Moussaoui trial. They should be very proud of themselves for the wonderful job that they did on this trial. We, as reporters, should also be proud of them for them helping to promote the reporting profession and shining bright in the national and international spotlight.
During the lunch on Saturday Linda Edgecombe used humor and life experiences to get people motivated and to not take themselves or life so seriously.
Sunday was the last day of the seminars. I would love to tell you that the seminars on Sunday were the most fun, informative and best of the entire seminar, but I have a confession. I PLAYED HOOKY! Kristi and I were drawn back to Granville Island for more shopping and fun before we had to leave town.
Overall Vancouver is a wonderfully beautiful and clean city. I would recommend Vancouver as a vacation spot for anyone. Vancouver is hosting the 2010 winter Olympics so get your tickets soon. I do have one suggestion if you do drive to Vancouver, however. The automakers in Canada must make their cars with no blinkers and only a horn. The way you change lanes in Vancouver is start honking and squeeze your way into the merging lane. Don’t worry about not using a blinker because the Canucks won’t use a blinker either. The Canadians will just think you are one of the locals until they see those Idaho license plates.
The main concept that you learn when being around this many reporters all at once is that as reporters we all make mistakes, and that, yes, we ALL d-d-d-drop every now and then. Oh, no, I said the “D” word. No matter how perfect we would like the lawyers, judges and other reporters to believe we are, we are not, so get over it and relax. We should all enjoy this profession we call court reporting.
Here are a few questions that were asked at one of the seminars regarding Canadian terms and to also test your knowledge of our friends to the north.
Q. What is a toque?
A. A hat worn on your head in the wintertime.
Q. What is a loony?
A. A $1 coin.
Q. What is a toony?
A. A $2 coin.
Q. How many provinces does Canada have?
A. 10.
Q. What does the word “Canada” mean?
A. Village.
Q. What’s the name of the best Irish Pub in Vancouver?
A. (My personal opinion) Smiley O’Neal’s. Ask for Deirdre, and tell her we said, hi.
Q. And for all the shoppers in the crowd, what is Canada’s largest shopping complex?
A. The Edmonton Mall.
See you all in June, eh!
Keith M. Evans, RPR, CSR
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