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st tribune january 22 1997 p 3 teachers take oite step closer to full scale strike bymikeadler staff reporter elementary teachers threatened this week to hold a strike vote within one month unless contract nego tiations with the public school board revive and the leader of york region high school teachers who have already voted to strike said a confrontation which sets one off could be triggered easily negotiators are sitting on the edge of an open pit warned lynn johnston president of ontario sec ondary school teachers federation district 11 on monday harsh words from the three teachers unions seeking contracts with the board followed the release of their reports sug gesting how a provincial wage freeze affected board finances accountant gary porter said the board saved 165 million in secondary and 362 million in elementary teachers wages during the social contract the boards accounting firm deloitte and touche concluded last month the board had actual ly lost 48 million when the threeyear freeze ended last year porter of toronto firm porter hetu said he was working with actual sav ings for the board while the board used the government formula in use under the social contract i dont think the two reports are necessarily incompatible he added at an aurora press conference they start from different assumptions and come to different conclusions board representatives havent met secondary union negotiators since dec 12 or elementary negotia tors since nov 21 chief board negotiator karen barker called the social contract a moot point for negotiations but suggested the boards position on it is irrefutable my hope is that at the table we can sit down and resolve this issue johnston said if that doesnt hap pen it may put us in a posi tion where we have to exer cise our strike mandate last thursday 1700 ele mentary teachers met in markhams centennial arena and discussed the possibility of a strike said ice box gets council green light for 97 the ice box a stouffville youth drop in centre came but the big winner at local council meeting tuesday not only will the friday night youth centre remain open it will be rubber stamped at budget time meanwhile mayor wayne emmerson has pledged to help with its 3792 annual funding needs the ice box located at the stouffville recre ation complex was an election platform of ward 5 councillor judy scala while the youth centre got off to a bumpy start and was facing clo sure scala man aged to convince council not to pull the plug its now working well said scala its providing a place for many to attend we have to continue to invest in our youth dances held recently have attracted between 40 and 70 teens meanwhile close to 100 turned out for a youth jam session the ice box also offers board games videos and basket ball the name of the centre has posed some problems scala emphasized that the ice box has nothing to do with hockey it is not a hock ey program she said the ice box opened from 6 to 10 pm on friday is super vised ward 1 councillor ivanka bradley suggested the teens in whitchurchstouffvilles hamlets including vandorf should continue to be encour aged to take advantage of the offerings at the ice box scala said parents in these areas have organize car pools to bring the teens to town joan ransberry january clearance sale free lessons with every sewing machine or serger purchase come in and sew up a deal we are offering for sale a large selection of husqvarna and white sewing machines and sergers all machines are floor models demonstrators open stock models heres a few examples sewing machines list price with this ad white model 1977 30 days young 1 only 599 349 husqvarna model 210 1 only demonstrator for sale 498 husqvarna model 400 computerized 1 only 1499 899 with any trade in husqvarna model 1 plus with 4459 3459 complete sewing embroidery system 1 only with any trade in sergers white model 2000ats 979 superlock with automatic tension system 234 thread with differential feed white model 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