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Orono Weekly TimesWednesday.Jdanuary, 19991 Fabulous feast read "I was flot raped. 1 did it under my own free will." Open-and shutt case, righit? Welil, it mighit have been if, under cross-examinlation, Freels had flot confessed to thie court that hie "alw,ýays" hias his sexmai partners wvrite and slin suIch nlotes. And if you needed one lasi reason to stay as far fromn the legal Profession as youl can get, think for a moment of the gIreat love and respect the average citizen feels towards lawyers. It wvas neyer better dislayedc than lin a lawsuit in Houston, whiere relatiives of a man who ha-d died during a construtio accident, unan11isly agreed to forego thleir dlaimi for a $75,000 seulement front the defendant, D-erri Construction ComIpalNy, on onle condition. They would give uip the money if Derr's lawyer (a par- ticularly aggressive and nasty courtroom battier) wvould agree Io allow eachi of them to punch him in the face. T o paraphrase Willy Nelson "Ladies, don't let your kids grFow uip to be lawyecrs". Alligator wrestling . ..hang gliding over active volca- noes. .... becoingrï the first mie-1 ber of the Reform Pairty Gjay/Lesianii Coalition... .there are lots of easier wýays to miakec a b uc k. Subscrjbe to the Orono Weekly Times A steady stream of volunteers showed up at the Newcastle- Town Hall on Christmas Eve to prepare the dinner. Front row - Natalie Metcalf/Tennant, Doreen McNevin, Pat Lycett. Back row - Amos Langley, Terry Graham and Peter DeJong were part of the kitchen crew. Any way you look at it, the Community Christmas Feast was a huge success. Approximately 200 people turned up on Cbristmas day and joined together in fellow- ship whether as volunteers in the kitchen, serving food, set- ting and cleaning tables and entertaining. Though anxious flot to get involved in a num- bers game, Willy Woo, orga- Arthur Black DISORDER IN THE COURT' 1 spotted a sad story in the newspaper tbis week. It con- cerns a court case in Stockbolm, Sweden, where Iawyer Mats Borgen bas been tossed in the slamimer by an irate judge. "I warned bim tbat that sort of bebaviour would not be tolerated in my court- room" fuîminated the Judge, Sven Jaryd. 1Bjorgen's crime? It wasn't bis courtromr behaviour -- it was bis courtroomn appearance. Tbe judge took exception to the fact tbat lawyer Borgen sbowed up to try a case. ..dressed as a large, biorned owl. Borgen neyer did explain tbe rationale bebind bis sartori- al choice of pinfeathers over pinstripes, but frankly, I'm nao surprised. What surprises me is that more lawyers don 't go off the deep end more often. 1 know tbat sympathy for lawyers doesn 't comne natural ly to the average citizeni, but tbink for a moment of wbat these nizing comnmittee memiber stressed that it was the way the community got together to do somnething positive that made this feast such a success. Besides serving ahl those who camne to the dinner at the Newcastle Commnunity Centre, organizers brought dinners to the Parkview Lodge Seniors Residence ini Newcastle, and also provided over 100 m-eals, people face every day of their working ives. They've got it tough. It's not alI tumblers of single malt scotch and limo rides to the c-ourtroom, you know. How, for instance, would you like to be in the position of the defence attorney for Doug Brightmoser? Mister Brightmoser' was re cently arrested by the Nashville police, who charged him with causing a disturbance by 'wil- fully discharging bis tweîve- gauge shotgun into-the air. Against his lawyer's advice, Brightmoser took the stand and eagerly toîd the courtroom that he was not blasting away to disturb bis neiglibours, but that lie was "shooting at a snake that was trying to suck tbe nip- pIes" of a goat in is yard. 1Brightmoser did not signifi- to Community Care who in turn distributed them througb- out the community. Organizers were able to send many who came to the feast home with an extra meal or two. Non-perishable food items and the balance of money not spent on, the feast will be donated to the Clarington East Food Bank. cantly impress the judgeduring his trial either. Perhaps it was bis habit of answering "Yeah, Bubba" instead of "Yes, your, Honour" each time the judge addressed him. Or how would you like to be stand ing in the Gucci's of the lawyer representing accused murderer Thomas Marston in Mendocino,' California back in 1985? Marston lost his case, and was convicted, but he appealed on the grouinds that as he put it, his attorney's' mind was not on his job because said attorney had fatbered the child of the then- district attorney, who was chas- ing Marston's attorney for child support during the trial. When that line of pursuit crashed and burned, Marston w.ent on to announce that he'd just dîscovered the real errant father was flot his lawyer after aIl -- it was the judge wbo was trying the case. Marston.lost that one, too - but not before his 'attorney chewed up an awful lot of Tylenols. Then there's the.poor sap who got lumbered with the case of Herbert Freels of Georgia. Freels was accused of rape. His lawyer thougit lie had the case wrapped up when his client produced a signed note from the alleged victim that Notice to residents regarding a Waste Management Advisory Committee - Meeting The next meeting of the Region of Durham's "Waste Management Advisory Committee" wiII be held on Tuesday, January 12, 1999 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Boardroom of the, Region's Works Department Building, 105 Consumers Drive, Whitby. The public is welcome to attend. V. A. SILGAILIS, P. ENG. Commissioner of Works PUBLIC NOTICAE The Council of the Municipality of 'Clarington has recently passed a resolution directing staff to establish a contract for the hiring of a contractor Ito address the issue of the Port Granby Iow-level radioactive waste storage. The contractor would carry out a study examining -options, at a conceptual level, for the development of a long-term low-level radioac- tive waste management facility within the municipality. The study would address such issues as facility siting and design, waste volumes and types, and potential land uses. Council has also decided that a local advisory committee is to be established to provide direction to the contractor and assist the contractor in theperformance of the task by pro- viding public input on the options under review. The results of the study would be submitted by the advisory committee, to Council for review and decisions on the next steps. The duration of the project is estimated to be three to fou r months, beginrning in February 1999. During this period, the committee wilI meet on a regular basis. If you are interested in serving on this committee, please forward an application to the Municipal Clerk at the address below by Januar y13, 1 999. Patti L. Barrie, A.M.C.T. Municipal Clerk Municipality of Clarîngton 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, Ontario LIC 3A6 / =Lui ýLiÏ 0 ONTARIO Dates of Publication: Dec. 30, 1998 & Jan. 6, 1999 P.O. 5155 - A M : A