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saturday march 1 2 2005 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 44 pages1 including gst hooray for escapes from hollywood police 3 opinion 6 sports 14 classified 18 earn of vets veteran of holland liberation visits markham high by joan ransberry staff writer you could have heard a pin drop in the auditorium at markham district high school thursday when a second world war veteran gave an account of his war years including the liber ation of holland its been 60 years since the canadian armed forces liberat ed holland veteran murray jacobs 83 has not forgotten holland was overrun by ger mans in may 1940 mr jacobs said when the canadians final ly arrived in 1945 there were major battles we fought bridge by bridge house by house people were starving germans had cut off food coal and electricity furni ture was burned for heat it was called the hungry winter many perished mr jacobs told 100 students including 27 exchange students from amersfoort holland about canadians sharing food with people of holland canadians were first in and we fed people whatever rations we had he said joining the war effort when he was 20 mr jacobs was with the fourth armoured troop work shoproyal canadian electrical see dutch page 1 1 staff photomike barrett katherine wheatley performs an original song for senior classes at stouffville district secondary school the school kicked off its new songwriters club by hosting performances by several of the mentors who will help students find their musical voices public board union still hopeful deal can be reached by chris traber staff writer york regions high school teachers voted 901 per cent in favour of strike action wednes day the vast majority of osstfs 2600 york region members voted district presi dent terry price said our members have been without a collective agreement since september and i am pleased to see that they have supported their negotiating team with such a strong strike vote he said he said he hopes the vote would convince the govern ment to provide the resources needed to reach a fair contract every one of osstfs bar gaining units representing 50000 provincial members has to be in a position to take sanctions as of april 4 mr price said adding there are sev eral options besides a full blown walkout a strike for us means any thing from work to rule to hit- gerry harrison bargaining chairperson says salaries and work load are key issues ting the bricks he said the key issues are salaries and workloads said gerry har rison osstf provincial execu tive officer and district 16 bar gaining team chairperson one of the aspects is the funding based on provincial government guidelines which suggest salary increases of 2 2 25 and 35 per cent over the next four years mr harrison said thats difficult in light of the economic forecasts weve seen what doctors and nurses see funding page 11 tvmiiaiid ouiitiy itailtylcd 6400888