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CVLS benefit Race Judicata slated Aug. 14The annual Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation benefit Race Judicata Sprint for Justice will take place Thursday, Aug. 14, on Lower Hutchinson Field at Columbus Drive and Balbo Drive. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., the 5K run and walk includes competition for teams, and men and women in several age categories. A reception, entertainment and award presentations will follow. For details, call Matthew Pollock at (312) 332-3319 or access www.cvls.org. To volunteer to help during the event, call Veronica Rodriguez at (312) 332-1649. More benefits listedThe annual Chicago Bar Association Lend-a-Hand My Hero Awards luncheon will take place Wednesday, July 30. Contact Karina Ayala-Bermejo at (312) 554-2042 or kayala@chicagobar.org for details. • • • For the ninth straight year, Northbrook attorney Barry S. Silver will participate in a triathlon to raise funds for an “orphan charity” that receives little government research support. Silver will enter the Pleasant Prairie Olympic Distance Triathlon on Sunday, Aug. 17, on behalf of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Send contributions to the CFF, c/o Barry Silver, Suite 400, 150 N. Michigan, Chicago 60601. • • • “The Art of Peace,” the sixth annual Charity Gala of the Illinois Center for Violence Prevention, will take place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, in The Ivy Room at Tree Studios, 12 E. Ohio, Chicago. LeeAnn Trotter of NBC News will be the program emcee, and entertainment will be provided by the Lucy Smith Quartet. For details, call (312) 986-9200 or access http://www.preventingviolence.org. • • • The Mitchell A. Mars Foundation, established by colleagues of an assistant U.S. attorney who died of cancer, will hold a benefit golf outing to provide Chick Evans Scholarships. It will take place Monday, Sept. 22, at Cog Hill in Lemont. • • • The annual benefit dinner of Cabrini Green Legal Aid, an Illinois Bar Foundation grantee, will be held Wednesday, Sept. 24, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago. Call (312) 266-1345 for details.
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