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education vmt- ssjfflauaaaa aaqaasaaig ptfrzc teachers vote for full strike over prep time by mike adler staff reporter public school elementary teachers have decided they are willing to strike to get back their preparation time says a teachers union president joan heeler of york regions women teachers association said after teachers voted 87 per cent for a strike that a work- torule is not being considered it will be a full strike said heeler weve got to get all the prep time back added to the december vote of their high school colleagues yesterdays vote places all public board teachers in york region on a strike footing heeler said 2848 members of the two elementary federa tions cast votes in favor of a strike yesterday and only 488 were against no dates have been set for further contract negotiations i am asking that the york region board of education return to the table immediately with a renewed mandate before we are forced to leave the classroom fred mayor president of the local ontario public school teachers federation said in a release teachers charge a scheduling change imposed by the board last fall which shifts half their 200 weekly minutes of prepa ration time to after classes is illegal a provincial hearing to decide the issue continues monday provincial law says teachers unions must give five days notice to the board before starting a strike crime watch high school evacuated after vandals start fire by joan ransberry staff reporter a fire set by vandals forced the evacuation of a stouffville school on thursday stouffville district secondary school sdss principal rod leonard reported that the stouffville fire department was called when a fire was discovered in the boys washroom at the downtown school the washroom floor and a stall were ablaze causing smoke damage and raising a concern for the safety of the students murray emmerson spokesperson for the local fire department said the incident posed a threat to the safety of the students and staff i dont under understand why in his day and age wed have such an act of vandalism its expensive and its dangerous said emmerson such acts of vandalism are rare at sdss said leonard school fire and police department officials are carrying out an investi gation we hope to find out who did this said leonard port perry woman dies in twocar crash a 41yearold portperry woman was killed instantly in a twovehicle accident at the intersection of bethesda road and kennedy road thursday morning jane reader of island road rr 3 port perry died at the scene york regional police reported charges against the driver of the second vehicle could be laid pending the results of an investigation police said at the time of the accident reader was travelling south bound on kennedyentered the intersection and was stuck by a cube van driven by gary mcdonald 41 of keswick the stouffville fire department used the jaws of life to help remove readers trapped body from the wreck womens institute celebrates 100 years several women dressed up in period costumes for a meeting of the womens institute at parkview wednesday to celebrate their 100th anniversary marjorie fretz far right wears an outfit which came over on the mayflower that belonged to her greatgreatgreatgrandmother the women rep resent altona goodwood and claremont chapters photosteve somerville stouffville teen charged with breakins three teenagers arrested minutes after a hol land landing home was burglarized tuesday have been charged with 24 daylight breakins the arrests followed a short car chase in which an unmarked york regional police cruis er was damaged and a getaway vehicle crashed into a tree detsgt doug hall said two of the suspects were captured immediately after they attempt ed to escape on foot the third suspect was found hiding behind a garage after he ran through a house police tracked him down by following his footprints in the snow hall said the arrests were made by old clothes detectives who happened to be staking out the oriole drive neighborhood searching for burglars responsible for a rash of breakins in newmarket aurora and east gwillimbury over the past two months we had just been getting hammered with please see page 21 no urgency to move club owner from page 1 said adding whatever happens he will con tinue to hold on to the team i have no intention of giving up the team i really enjoy the hockey i knew it would take time to build it up meanwhile emmerson was hoping hakon son would cool down and consider the plan he is putting together to guarantee the club a prominent place in the local recreation scene he said the spirit have been guaranteed practice time two nights a week with the coming of the second ice pad if hes willing to forget the past and look ahead as of april 1 and give us a three to five year commitment then we can go forward emmerson said while emmerson wouldnt divulge details of his proposal he said it involved a total restructuring of the way the club operates including the appointment of a board of directors i just want to meet with mr hakonson to give him the towns proposal said the mayor the door is open if he wants to pur sue it i want the team to stay in whitchurchstouffville emmerson said he was confident the new approach would also result in putting more fans in the rec centre for spirit games only 50 fans attended the teams second last home game feb 13 with crowds dimin ishing as the season wore on emmersons plan to save the team may find a receptive ear hakonson said that if he could get the proper guarantees of support that he might reconsider his plan to relocate the club if i see that the will is here to make the club stay then maybe we could make it work he suggested a solution might lie in selling the club to 40 shareholders at a 1000 a share so that any negotiations between the spirit and town officials would involve a del egation of interested people rather than just himself im not asking for a handout im not looking for anyone to bail me out hakonson admitted there are positives to keeping the spirit in stouffville he pointed to the teams upbeat head coach dan larmer who is an area resident he said hes been talking to an experienced provincial league general manager from the greater toronto area about taking over from wally crowder who is to step down as team gm the bottom line he said is that hed love to see the club become entrenched in the community i love it when you see 50 kids outside the teams dressing room door looking for auto graphs watch for these flyers on saturday february 22nd 1997 giant carpet the kitchen counter loblawssupercentre westons biway iga- stouffville sears dominion a p loblaws zellers canadian tire richmond hill selected areas only were first in distribution weve delivered 6127742 flyers doortodoor so far this year if you vvould like your flyers delivered by the best please call arlene maddock at 6402100 the tribune attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your livers for as little as 35 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