Lakeshore Advance, 2013-01-02, Page 1010 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Male facing flight from Telfer Wegg featured artist
police & drug charges
OPP
On December 14 at approximately
11:10 p.m. Huron County OPP officers
stopped a southbound grey 'Toyota
Camry that entered a R.1.D.E checkpoint
in Exeter on Main Street South near
Waterloo Street. Upon speaking with the
driver officers noted an odour of an ille-
gal drug coming from inside the vehi-
cle. Officers directed the driver to the
side of the road for further questioning.
The driver immediately took off from
the R.1.D.E checkpoint. Officers quickly
followed after the Camry; the driver
then pulled over a short distance from
the checkpoint. The male driver was
immediately arrested for Flight from
Police. Upon searching the driver offic-
ers discovered a quantity of an illegal
drug.
As a result, a 30 year old nnan from
Goderich has been charged with Flight
from Police and Possession of a Con-
trolled Substance. 1 -le has a court date
scheduled for the Ontario Court of Jus-
tice - Exeter on January 24, 2013.
Driver Facing
Drug Charge
On December 18, at 8:48 p.m. a
Huron County OPP officer on patrol
observed a grey Toyota Echo leaving the
parking lot of the former LJsborne Cen-
tral Public School located on Huron
Street East. The officer stopped the
driver and immediately detected an
odour of an illegal drug. In plain view of
the officer was a small quantity of drugs.
The male driver was placed under
arrest, a search was completed and an
additional quantity of illegal drug was
found in the vehicle.
As a result, a 20 year old man from
South Huron has been charged with
Possession of a Controlled Substance.
Ile has a court date scheduled for the
Ontario Court of Justice - Exeter on Feb-
ruary 28, 2013.
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Art aRound 'Town is pleased to announce that
Telfer Wegg of Neustadt Ontario will be the fea-
tured Photographer at the Gallery in the Welcome
Centre located at 483 Main Street South in Exeter
for the month of January. The gallery will be open
Wednesdays l lam-4pm acid other times by
appointment or chance.
Please call 519 235 1909 for an appointment.
Telfer Wegg has been a resident of Neustadt, in
Grey County since 1969 and operates a stock pho-
tography business, specializing in outdoor, agricul-
tural and travel photography. His photography has
been used in tourism publications throughout
Western Ontario for many years. I lis work has also
appeared in calendars and in magazines such as
Canadian Living, 1iarrowsnnith and Farm and
Ranch Living. in recent years he has successfully
branched out into self publishing with the comple-
tion of two hard cover photo books: "Neustadt, the
story of an Ontario village" and "Searching for
Art aRound Town
Huron County
Grey -Bruce': Future plans include a similar photo
book featuring Huron County subjects.
In addition, he markets postcards, photo cards
and framed photos through selected Ontario gal-
leries. More of Telfer's photographs can be viewed
on his website, www.weggphotos.com.
In the course of his career, Telfer has visited 54
countries, 47 U.S. States and all 10 Canadian Prov-
inces.11is display will feature works from a variety
of these destinations as well as a sample of photos
from Grey, Bruce and Huron Counties.
New rules allow live tweets in court
QMI Agency
Play-by-play of trials on i\vitter and
live blogs by journalists now have the
blessing of the Ontario courts starting in
Febniary.
It's all part of a new policy set out by the
Ontario Superior Court that will allow
lawyers and journalists to use their com-
puters, personal electronic and digital
devices, and nnobile, cellular and smart
phones in court.
But the strict rules for the public still
apply - they'll have to keep their devices
turned off in court.
In the new world of digital communi-
cations, it's not unusual to hear a cell
phone ring in a quiet court, followed by a
judge's stem warning to turn it off.
Under the changes, such devices will
be permitted as long as they're kept on
silent mode and used "in a discreet and
unobtrusive manner and their signals
don't interfere with a courtmoni s record-
ing equipment or cause a disnnption"
One media observer says it's a case of
the Ontario courts catching up.
"'Phis snakes sense, and it does follow
more along the lines of what courts
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everywhere who are paying attention and developing policies
are doing;" said Mary McGuire, a journalism professor at Carle-
ton University who co-authored a chapter on social media in the
courtroom in a forthcoming book on crime reporting.
But there still remains an out for judges — they have the final
say, in any case — who object to live reporting, if they decide
such communications "interfere with the proper administration
of justice."
Until now, the policy on electronic devices has been as varied
as the court cases covered by reporters.
But as online communications have evolved, media outlets
have found ways to report online, in real time, what's happening
in trials.
A year ago, Justice Beverley McLachlin, the chief justice of the
Supreme Court of Canada, said the courts, to maintain a sense
of transparency and justice, had to learn how to adapt to the use
of social media because it's fast becoming the public's main
source of information.
She concluded the interests of the media and the courts were
"inextricably intertwined."
'ihe London Free Press broke Canadian ground in this area by
live tweeting coverage of both the Bandidos massacre trial in
2(09 and, earlier this year, Michael Rafferty's murder trial in the
slaying of Woodstock school girl Ton Stafford.
'I\veets from those trials were sent from a secondary overflow
courtroom, to which the trials were broadcast by closed circuit
There have been judges in other areas of Ontario who've
allowed live tweeting from court.
But others have forbade it. At the Shafia "honour killing" trial
in Kingston, for example, where a mother, father and brother
were convicted of killing four women, a judge banned tweeting
inside the courtroom and the doors were locked on verdict day
to stop journalists from leaving during the case.
The new rules say publication bans must be respected and no
photos or video can be recorded.
lithe rules are broken, judges can apply a range of sanctions
— from ordering a journalist to turn off their device, to having
them charged under the Courts of Justice Act.
r 1 .;tire said the new move is progress in an evolving area of
the justice system. Judges and lawyers have rules set out for
them and media groups will no longer have to hire lawyers and
apply every time they want to use Twitter.
"It's a new area and conventions haven't been developed on
either side, and all of this is steps forward to doing that," she
said.
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