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However. according to the farm manager unless there is rain in the next week or so, the crop yield will be cut in half. He says. however. that farmers expect the second cutting will be scarce, because it‘s just not growing. The forecast through to this weekend calls for sunny weather with cloudy periods â€" with only a slight chance of thunderstorms tonight. Oak Ridges Farms on Yonge Street grows corn mainly for silage. and under normal weather conditions will get a yield of 15 to 20 tons per acre. Bill Powell, of Francis Powell and Company. specialists in commercial hay sales, says it has been exceptionally good weather for getting hay crops off and “there is lots of good hay around". Turf farms and sod companies are feeling the pinch and some are out of irrigated sod. Without rain. new grass won't grow back. In June, one inch fell, but normally we would get three. Temperatures for the month of July are running one degree below normal. Don‘t you feel better already? But, they say, it is dry. It began May 21, and statistics available at Toronto Inter- national Airport show that so far. only oneâ€"quarter of an inch of rain has fallen this month. compared with the normal inch and a half. Bill Mitchell at his farm says his sweet corn is about a month behind and pasture grain is suffering as well. “If we don’t have rain soon, the late corn crop will suffer, as will the late grain crops.“ By SHAARON HAY and MILLIE STEWART Your favorite “in and out" store may soon need a revolving door. They're tough places to get into these days, thanks to a near- drought, coupled with hot. sticky weather‘ which residents of the area have been enduring for weeks. Officials aren't really sur- prised by the increase in sales. They expected it and, naturally. hope the hot, dry weather hangs around a little while longer‘ Liquor stores, meanwhile, report sales are steady, with only the summer drinks â€" lemon gin. etc., â€" showing any marked increase in sales. While we run around tugging at shirt collars and mopping sweaty brows. here'a cool thought from the Ontario Weather Centre. Town maintenance manager Merv Perkins says Richmond Hill is holding off planting any new sod. but he is not concerned Brewers‘ Retail spokesmen say their sales have skyrocketed as people stock up with the suds to beat the heat. He saves water in case of fire The town draws its supply from three main wells. one on Ken-kirk. one on Major Mackenzie, approximately one mile west of Bathurst Street. and the other on Sussex Avenue. That way he will hold about 150.000 gallons in reserve in the event of fire. Richmond Hill Main- tenance Manager. Merv Perkins. says he shuts off the waler at the main tower on Newkirk Road when about one-third of the water is used. Lawn watering restrictions began being enforced in the town early in July. Mr. Perkins set up a schedule for lawn watering at that time. requesting even numbers in street addresses water lawns Tuesday. Thursda)~ and Saturday evenings while odd numbers. Monday. Wednesday and Friday. “The bylaw is only to request people to act in a reasonable manner." said Mr. Perkins. Last weekend. on one day alone. Mr. Perkins said residents used four million gallons of water. double the average consumption. Residents will be reassured to know that the town maintenance manager is working hand in hand with the fire department. The works department has two employees who travel through the town to check on whether people are adhering to the restrictions. W, all rig The town's solicitor. 'I‘om Fraser. was asked to seek their resignations and according to Councillor Ab Hollingshead. everything that has happened since has been the working out of the resignation process. Council decided last month to ask for the resignations of both Ms. Staples and John Dewar. the planning director for the last 11 years because of a personality conflict between them. “It got to the point where they could not be in the same room together.” said Councillor David Fraser. and the business of the town was affected because of the conflict. The town had also fired management consultants who She had planned to fight for her job but with the advice of her solicitor. decided Monday In resign without the benefit of the public hearing allowed to her under the municipal act. The rooms in this building are immense with high ceilings Each having a panoramic view of Thornhill or Richmond Hill. The administrator. Lori Staples, will receive nine months‘ severance pay. $27326. The basement of this old building would be a natural for Vaughan council accepted the resignation of its chief ad- ministrative officer Tuesday amid charges from Mayor Garnet Williams that she was “driven from office.“ Mr. Tzembelikos sees the former administration building‘ the one closest to Yonge Streel. as housing a variety of restaurants, each serving an assortment of different foods as well as special banquet rooms for private parties. Nikitas Tzembelikos is a man with a dream â€"- the dream of a place where residents and tourists alike could go and relax and enjoy the countryside in whatever fashion they choose. Mr. Tzembelikos, a Richmond Hill business man, will make a presentation to the town‘s planning committee August 1 outlining his proposal for a giant recreation complex at the former Langstaff Jail Farm, Highway 7 between Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue, now owned by the City of Toronto. I And where are you going in all this heat? Boyd Conservation Area in the Woodbridge district and Bruce‘s Mill on the Gormley Sideroad. Ontario Hydro's proposed transmission line towers will necessitate the removal of the historic buildings and Mr. Tzembelikos would like the town to look at his proposal as an alternative. Dream for jail farm about sod laid earlier. “It does create some problems,“ he said, “but it will pop back." Lori Staples quits Established 1878 Richmond Hill Edition a To anyone else it may look like an old \ barn, but to Nikitas Tzembelikos it could - be the home of a summer theatre and ‘ part of a giant recreation complex he has planned for the former Langstaff Jail Farm. Mr. Tzembelikos will make a presentation to Richmond Hill planning committee August 1,outlining his plans for the area. (Liberal photo by Bruce Hogg) \' VAUGHAN ADMINISTRATOR both re tendance Boys played host to 81223 people, an increase of 3,665 over last year; while Bruce's Mills is up 4,022 to 64,778. You're not using the town pools, however. Officials say attendance is down at both the some sort of flea market or farmers‘ market, open all year round. said Mr. Tzembelikos. Highway access, GO bus transit on Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue. as well as the G0 rail station right on the property. will save a lot of traffic congestion for the complex. he explained. He stated this 600 acres is the largest tract of land belonging to the taxpayers around the city and should be maintained as a place for people to go and relax, Standing at the window looking northward, Mr. Tzembelikos pointed out where he visualized picnic areas. tennis courts, three olympic size pools, Central parking and a trailer park to handle the thousands of tourists he sees using the area. A recreational area ( magnitude. said Mr. belikos. would attract t from all over the country had recommended that some kind of reconciliation be tried. Mr. Dewar resigned last Thur- sday in return for 15 months‘ severance pay. He would like to sandblast and repair the buildings, but retain as much of the historic uniqueness of the jail farm as possible. “I don’t want i0 lose the character of the buildings," he said. report increased at LORI STAPLES SANDBLAST qht...buz‘riz"s not real/v hot of this Tzem- tourists reason myself." The reputation of the Town Vaughan has deteriorated to I point in its treatment of e ployees. it will not recover “ He had asked Ms Staples if any reason had been given for her being asked to resign and it had not. "I had [0 tell her I knew of I‘m reason myself." ln council Tuesday. Mayor Williams said he favored ter- minating the planning director but not Ms. Staples who had never had a fair opportunity to show what she could do “becausv of the harrassment of another employee." They say the decrease is caused by so many vacationing families at this time of year. Gwen Halliday. p'rogram director at the Y. says .the weather is great. Centennial Pool and the Richvale Pool. The largest building is the cell block building which Mr. Tzembelikos and his planners propose to restore. keeping each tiny cell with sink and steel door for the public's interest. The top floor of this building appears to have been used as a recreation area and here again, because of the view. Mr. Tzembelikos proposes more restaurant space. FACILITIES THERE North of the cell block building is a smaller brick structure that was originally used as a kitchen for the inmates. His proposal for the celled area is to set up graduates of local community colleges in small boutiques making and selling their crafts and arts. The Little Don River passes through this north part of the farm and plans show the widening of the river to make a small man made lake. The proposed complex could also become the new home of Caravan. Toronto‘s annual ethnic festival. NEEDS WORK At this time there are dead mice and birds, feathers, pigeon droppings, years of dust, peeled paint and heaved floors throughout the buildings, but this does not dampen Mr. Tzem- belikos enthusiasm. There is a tree lined gravel road leading to the original farmhouse. there before the city acquired the property. The old house could easily be made into a realistic western type saloon. said Mr. ’I‘zem- belikos. where trail riders could hitch their horses and stop for a cool drink. The north~east corner of the property has a heavily forested area that Mr. Tzembelikos would like to designate as a camping area for boy scouts. If the buildings are taken down for the hydro towers he will not go ahead with this plan. He said it would cost “millions" to rebuild. But, if the buildings remain. “cost is no object". Mr. Tzem- belikos is part owner of eight Mill restaurants in the Toronto area including the one at Hillcrest Mall. The old cooking facilities. still very much intact. will be set throughout restaurant areas. along with other artifacts to be viewed by customers. Nearby are two big old barns. which are remarkably well preserved. Plans for the barns include live summer theatre in the old cow barn. but the barn used originally for horses. with extra large box stalls, would be used to stable horses for trail riding‘ rentals and big horse shows. The old kitchen itself would become a small tea room. We like it because it makes See also page A2, editorial page A4 Lhrml "In Essentials Unity, in Non-Essentials Liberty, in all things Charity ” Wednesday, July 19, 1978 l 01 the for delightful for programming," she said. referring to day camps now in operation. “Heat doesn‘t seem to affect kids.“ she said. The weather has yet to help the ice cream business to any degree. “We need hot, humid' weéther for our business.“ says Frank generations,“ He felt it would be difficult to hire another highly qualified administrator. He said that the previous town administrator. (Jim McDonald of Thornhill who was with the town 38 years). also had problems with Mr Dewar and that “the province recommended firinu Mr. Dewar before Ms Staples was even around.“ But Councillor David Fraser, also the regional planning chairman this year. said 'hat John Dewar “was a good planner and is a good planner." He said that planning matters had been delayed “simply because of the staff conflict." He was satisfied from his own inquiries that Ms. Staples. who had been absent for two months had been absent for two months due to illness. could not have regained the confidence of other employees. He also felt that the amount of the settlements in each case was less than the high figure that each employee could have obtained through litigation, but it was higher than the low figure Council had not sought just cause for firing the employees which would have meant no severance pay, if successful. A press release read in council said that while there had been allegations. the council knew of no evidence of any wrongdoing by either employee. Some of the 30 residents asked questions. mostly supportive of Ms. Staples. But one man congratulated the council for “finally taking the bull by the horns". AUGUST 76 ’ Richmond Hill, Vaughan and other Markham councillors will be invited also. said the interim president, but only as part of the audience. The purpose of this meeting, said Mr. Meles, is to see that the people of Thornhill can get answers to their questions and make a decision of what can and should be done. “No question should remain unanswered," said Mr. Meles. Although York Centre MLA Alf Stong was present at one meeting, Mr. Meles said he felt Mr. Stong had come as a member of the audience and was not prepared to answer questions on a government decision. The meeting will be held at Thornlea Secondary School. August 16 at 8 pm with a panel made up of Alf Stong. Markham councillor Stan Daurio and a representative from Canadian Environmental Law. Andrew Meles, interim president for the newly formed Romfield Circuit Area Community Association, said he noticed at both a council meeting and the Citizens' Advisory Group in- formation meeting in the Blue Flame Room, hydro representatives and council members could not answer all questions. Finally a meeting has been arranged to get some answers about the proposed hydro towers between Thornhill and Richmond Hill. “A number of questions needed a political reply,“ said Mr. Meles. And for you pool owners â€" your co§ts are going up. Residents with outdoor swimming pools are likely using more chemicals because of the long hours of sunshine. Gallant. owner of the Richmond Hill Dairy Queen store on Yonge Street. Easy now . Chief‘s pa] Vic Ryman of papers They were ln you go truck. Richmond Hill firefighters Dave Sefton, left and Paul Shuster hitch a ride on the side of Pumper 4 as Vic Ryman drives it into Big move now underway, town's fire department ready for new hall The platform truck, housed until Monday at the Spruce Street hall. is now occupying the place of honor in its new bay at the new hall. Richmond Hill Fire Depart~ ment has started to move into its new headquarters on Major Mackenzie Drive. Monday morning. firefighters loaded a' truck with boxes and hoses and headed to the new hall. A tanker truck from the Spruce Street hall was moved into the new hall as well. The hall on Spruce Street is no longer being used. and plans are to leave the building vacant for the time being. Fire Chief. Bob Kennedy says papers . left hands a box to Paul Shuster. starting to move those e are the irefighter The sun almost drinks chlorine. Craig Watling, owner of Pool Craft on Yonge Street, says sales of chemicals has increased. and says if people don‘t take precautions for severe tem- peratures. they will end up with algae problems in their pools. Have a happy summer. some files and other equip- ment into the new Fire Department headquarters, Monday morning. (Liberai photos by Millie Stewart) “We hope to move equipment and files to the new hall for the rest of this week. and if all goes well, we will be running out of the new hall starting next Monday. 7 The Vnew hall has better facilities for training the full time men and the volunteers. its new bay at the Fire Department's new headquarters on Major Mackenzie Drive. There is an exercise and meeting room for mutual aid meetings that is large enough to accommodate all the men in one area. Moving all vehicles from the Wright Street hall and the Spruce Street hall to the one location will mean that the hall in Oak Ridges will be more needed than ever because it will cover the entire north end of the community. Price 20 cents