{"id":2352,"date":"2011-03-21T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlawblog.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-03-21T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:36:00","slug":"please-join-us-in-supporting-lauras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2011\/03\/21\/please-join-us-in-supporting-lauras\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Join Us In Supporting Laura&#8217;s House At Their Salon at &#8216;The Islands&#8217;, March 31, 2011, at 5:30 P.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-YWuxZ9R6WuU\/TYjXAvwKYAI\/AAAAAAAAAGk\/ILQ82DYSmTg\/s200\/laura%2527s+house.bmp\" alt=\"lauras house\" width=\"200\" height=\"61\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>I have had the privilege of being personally associated with Laura&#8217;s House, which provides shelter and services for the women and children fleeing from domestic violence, since 1997. I have served as a board member since 2000 taking over for my wife Maureen, who has been assisting Laura&#8217;s House since its inception. We continue to be amazed at the tremendous work this organization does for our community.<\/p>\n<p>We are in a very exciting time for Laura&#8217;s House, and we ask for your support. Laura&#8217;s House is in the middle of a successful campaign to Build a new Laura&#8217;s House Emergency Shelter. The Honorary Chair&#8217;s for this organization has been designated as our firm principle, Wylie Aitken, and his wife, Bette. We all would like to invite you to find more information about Laura&#8217;s House at Our Next Two Events: A Salon At &#8220;The Islands&#8221; Hotel on March 31, 2011, which starts at 5:30 P.M. and a terrific wine event held on May 7, 2011, at Silverado Canyon. To join us at the Islands event, please reply by March 24, 2011 to Gael Clark, (949)361-3775 ext. 305 or <a href=\"mailto:gclark@laurashouse.org.\">gclark@laurashouse.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inception of Laura&#8217;s House was inspired by a true story about a woman called Laura from Orange County who was a victim of domestic violence. Unfortunately the end of her particular story is a very tragic one\u2026.her life was cut short with her untimely death at age 38. The Mission of Laura&#8217;s House is to change social beliefs, attitudes and the behaviors that perpetuate domestic violence while creating a safe space in which to empower individuals and families affected by abuse. Laura&#8217;s House does this through its tremendous services including shelter, a step ahead living program, outreach, legal services, counseling and its children&#8217;s programs. We welcome you to find out more about this amazing organization at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurashouse.org\/\">www.laurashouse.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-FQ26IVJxlFo\/TYfQ6M6JXcI\/AAAAAAAAAGc\/TXlX1dEPskA\/s200\/ChrisAitken_1.jpg\" alt=\"chris aitken\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/staff\/chris-aitken\/\">Christopher R. Aitken, Esq.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had the privilege of being personally associated with Laura&#8217;s House, which provides shelter and services for the women and children fleeing from domestic violence, since 1997. I have served as a board member since 2000 taking over for my wife Maureen, who has been assisting Laura&#8217;s House since its inception. We continue to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2011\/03\/21\/please-join-us-in-supporting-lauras\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}