Lawyers Perform Community Service Throughout Area

Attorneys in Cambria County were hard at work not in court, but by performing community service.

Dozens of lawyers with the Cambria County Bar Association traded in their ties for hairnets and their pens for paintbrushes. The attorneys worked in a soup kitchen, Mom's House and the Salvation Army.

Ralph Trofino, vice president of the Cambria County Bar Association, said, "There are a lot of attorneys in our bar association that give a lot of their time in a lot of pro bono activities and a lot of service organizations that aren't known. This is just a microcosm of what a lot of us do during our daily lives."

Trofino said the bar association's president met with the president judge and organized it so there would be no court hearings on Friday except for some emergency items.

"The court has been very, very cooperative," he said.

The attorneys were lending a hand in Johnstown, Loretto and Northern Cambria.

"It's really important to give back to the community to show them that lawyers really do have a heart," said Sheryl Safina-Pfarr, of the bar association.