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Following a request from Richmond Hill Meals On Wheels Committee it was ag- reed at the April 10 meeting of the York County Board of Ed- ucation that students in the Food School at Don Head Sec- ondary School should partici- pate in the program on a short term \basis during May and June. Meals On Wheels plans to bring a hot meal to about 30 shutln senior citizens for three days a week and had asked to have meals prepared at Don Head. Trustees hesitated to grant the request on the grounds -â€" that it could mean unfair comp- ‘perience for students but only‘ students. ‘ Staff advised that the princi-J pal of the school and the head; of the food school felt the pro-} ject could be a learning ex-] on .a short term basis. “This could become an exâ€" ploitation of students and we! don’t want this for any student‘ for any purpose, including char-l ‘ity,” stated Director of Educa-‘ tion Sam Chapman, “but it could be regarded as a work ex- perience program. It could be ‘useful over a limited period of Itime but we don’t want to get 1into the business of supplying cut-rate meals for senior citi- zens. Provincial Judge Maurice Charles acquitted Giles, saying, “This case may be fraught with suspicion, but it‘s not for me to record a conviction on the basis of suspicion”. The judge said the charge wasn‘t proven beyond I reasonable doubt. Heather Giles, 17, of 11 George Street, Oak Ridges was acquitted on an arson charge but now faces trial June 5 for conspiracy to commit arson. Judge Charles added that he rejected the evidence of a prosecution witness impeached by Crown Attorney William Rankin. Witness Barbara Lusk. 16, of South Road. Lake Wil- cox, a former runaway from home denied on the stand a statement she signed in a policeman’s notebook saying the accused Giles told her she (Giles) paid $10 to an accom- plice to burn down a sauna bath belonging to the family of a youth who sold the accused girl drugs and then exposed her to police. Giles was convicted about a year ago on a drug possession charge. REJECTS EVIDENCE The judge said he rejected the evidence of Lusk about police saying to her the accused was an ugly girl while she fLusk) was good looking and wasting her life leaving her parents. Lusk denied Giles told her the story about paying for the arson. Lusk said what she told police was a rumor she heard in the district. She was backed up on the stand by her mother who was present when the statement was made to police, and also signed it. Larry Johnson. 19. of 22 Lake Wilcox Road. Oak Ridges accus- ed Giles of hiring him to burn the sauna for $50. He admitted his crime in court earlier this year and was convicted of wil- ful damage and placed on sus- pended sentence. the court was Don Head Students To Prepare Meals On Wheels, May, June Drugs, alcohol, Oak Ridges teenagers, retribution, running away" from home, confession and conflicting testimony were all involved in a sauna bath arson trial completed Tuesday of last week in Richmond Hill Court. Meals On Wheels plans to‘ bring a hot meal to about 30 shutln senior citizens for three days a week and had asked to have meals prepared at Don Head. Trustees hesitated to grant? the request on the grounds -â€" that it could mean unfair comp- etition to local businessmen and that it could develop into an exploitation of students. Richmond Hill Trustee War- ren Ballie assured board mem- bers that those receiving the meals would be shutins who Would not be going out to rest- aurants in any event and that local businesses would there- fore not suffer. Mr. Bailie felt the project would help to dev- elop social conscience in the into the business of supplying» cut-rate meals for senior citi- zens. 1 It had been suggested by the} ‘school staff that the meals could‘ be prepared, packaged and} frozen during May for distribut-l ion by Meals On Wheels com-‘ mittee in June. The committee‘ would pay the 90c'cost of each meal. On motion of Trustee' Bailie the board agreed that thej program be initiated for this[‘ trial period and that it then bel evaluated and a report brought back to the board. Drugs, Alcohol, Oak Ridges Teens Figure In Sauna Bath Arson Trial Richmond Hlll Trustee War- ren Ballie assured board mem- bers that those receiving the meals would be shutins who Would not be going out to rest- aurants in any event and that local businesses would there- May 8th, 1972 at 7:30 pm. in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Offices, 56 YONGE STREET NORTH, to discuss proposed Amendment No. 5 to the Official Plan of the Richmond Hill Planning Area A map indicating the areas affected by the amendment is shown below and a brief description of the amendment follows: The areas involved are all lands designated “Highway Frontage Uses” on the map below. The purpose of the amendment is to update the land- use policies of Highway Frontage as outlined in the Official Plan with particular reference to the types of development which are usually assoc- iated with Highway frontage. A copy of the proposed amendment can be viewed in the planning office at the Municipal building between the hours of 9:00 AM. to 5:00 PM. Monday to Friday. NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill A public meeting will be held on Johnson made two statements to police. one admitting the arson and the other admitting the arson and implicating the girl Giles. Johnson said he knew Giles for five years in school before he left school three years ago, having reached grade 8. t COULDN'T REMEMBER ‘ On the witness stand John- ;son at first said he was drunk when he left a Richmond Hill hotel on thenight of the arson and couldn’t remember. Con- fronted with his second state- ment to police implicating Giles, he remembered and told the court what he told police. told. Involved is the destruc- tion by gasoline fire of a $2,200 sauna bath September 24 on the p r o p e r t y of manufacturers agent Paul Farndon of Yonge Street in the Bond Lake area of Richmond Hill. Johnson said Giles teleâ€" phoned him at home after mid- night wanting him to burn Farndon’s shack for $50. He knew where the shack was be- cause he’d been at the Famdon house, although he hadn’t been in the sauna. He agreed. He knew she didn’t like David Famdon because he sold her drugs and telephoned police on her. Prosecution Witness Johnson said he walked to Yonge Street, met Giles, walked back home to get a can, walked back to the gas station beside the Harris Drug store and bought 50 cents worth of gas. At the Farndon place he Lpoured gasoline all over the outside of the shack and tried to light it with matches. -It wouldn’t burn so he decided he didn’t have enough gas and went back to the serv- ice station for more. Back at Famdon’s he poured the gaso- line around on the inside this time. He tried to light it by throwing in matches but five of them went out. SAUNA EXPLODED Johnson testified he then went inside the sauna and lit a match. The shack exploded and his pants caught on fire. He put the flames out on his clothes with his hands. Seeing a car coming in the Farndon driveway he went home, chang- H. Rimon PLANNING DIRECTOR Giles Defense Attorney agru- ed before the court it would be very dangerousto find his client guilty because there was no wit- ness to corroborate the testi- mony of the convicted man Johnson. Giles' attorney want- ed the second charge of arson conspiracy withdrawn or dis- missed, but Crown Attorney William Rankin said he was determined to proceed to trial [before another judge on the conspiracy charge. J u d g e Charles said he couldn‘t dismiss the second charge because the |defense hadn’t agreed to have the two charges tried together. ed his clothes and went to bed. Although his hands and face were burned he didn’t see a doctor and they healed in two week. His parents noticed the bums but he told them he was working on a car and it blew Then Johnson said he saw Giles the day after the fire at her place and got the $50 in small bills. It was at 7 pm and nobody else was home. Arrested a week after the fire he first gave York Region Police :1 statement only on him- self. He was picked up at a friend's house at 4 pm and taken to the Richmond Hill Police Station in a paddy wagon. ‘There were four or five police- ;men at this station. Later he \was taken to King City Police Station and held for three ‘hours, then was in custody for IICHMOND HILL PLANNING AREA, AHENDIENT NO. 5 SCHEDULE A LAND USE N. AN uns- a week before giving the state- ment implicating Giles. He said he knew from rumors in the area Heather Giles had bought drugs and that her brother had problems with Farndon 16 months ago. FRIEND 0F ACCUSED On the stand Barbara Lusk said she was a KCSS student and had nine brothers and sisters. She knew the accused Heather Giles for quite a few years and lives about 1xé-mile away. She told of hitch-hiking to the Richmond Heights Cen- tre about a week before the fire and talking with Giles. Lusk said she and Dave Famdon had a friendship, but she’d had a spat with him and she didn’t think she should “hang around” with him anymore. Lusk said Giles indicated she didn't like Farndon and that he “set her up to get busted”. Lusk said she saw Giles quite a while after Johnson was arrest- ed in connection with the fire. It was here she told of talking with Giles about rumors of a 'payment for setting the fire. testimony which varied from her signed statement in the policeman’s n o t e b o o k. The statement was also signed by her mother. PHOTOG! 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