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j- i i educatioii trustees reject teachers final offer by mike adler staff reporter as scores of teachers watched local public school trustees spoke up one at a time thursday to formally reject their twin elementary unions final offer the unanimous recorded vote came after the first of four lastditch days of negotiations to prevent a strike on monday this offer does not begin to address our need for savings saidyork region board of edu cation vicechair and chief negotiator karen barker we ask every employee in this organization to make sac rifices she added before urg ing other trustees to vote against the deal one local union president in the room loudly responded he was not surprised the parents out there should know that the teachers are interested in the quality of education and the trustees arent fred mayor of the ontario public school teach- federation announced ers glaring at trustees waiting to meet again in private the twoyear offer from 3300 teachers includes no pay increase but asks for the 200 minutes of weekly preparation time teachers had until last year within a defined five- hour day union leaders said they are asking for a few minor changes such as two more paid religious holidays a year the board however said the please see page 3 r stouffville will survive any amalgamation king by joan ransberry staff reporter spring has sprurigi i sure sign of spring unionvilles mary mclntyre limbers up as rob spittle clears a spot at the first tee for her unfortunately for paul carson placing the ball on a tee for mary the snow divot from the shovel landed on his head all this took place at the four seasons golf cub in claremont thursday photosteve somerville future growth target of new group a flyer being circulated across town targets future growth and how its being handled in whitchurchstouffville this week a newly formed group the whitchurchstouffville residents association distributed hundreds of flyers outlining con cerns about the towns future which has official ly been under review since october while local council expects to have a new sec ondary plan in place this spring members of the new association are worried the process has not allowed residents to express their real concerns said jeanne major association spokesman the plan has been the subject of a number of public meetings local please see page 3 if yorks nine municipalities amalgamated to form a city one thing is certain there will always be a stouffville york chair man eldred king told a business audience thursday the birth of the city of york would not mean the death of stouffville vandorf ballantrae or cedar valley theyd remain what they are now some of the most charming rural commu nities in ontario said king speaking at a whitchurchstouffville chamber of commerce luncheon meeting the regional chairman said the current taxa tion game pits municipalities against each other to combat this and to avoid having whitchurchstouffville end up under the umbrella of the greater toronto area service board king strongly advocates york region becoming a city by erasing lines on a map we could consolidate services that now overlap or that mirror services already provided by the region said king king told the audience hed like to see a simplified responsi bility for all aspects of sewers water road waste management planning ambulance services and fire protection as very posi tive benefits the audience meanwhile was polite but silent only two questions were asked and one had nothing to do with whitchurchstouffville becoming a part of a city the whole issue of amalgamation is reaching a fever pitch yesterday ontario premier mike harris held a special meeting to deal with the subject meanwhile late next week the provin cial government is expected to pass a bill which will amalga- please see page 3 mcarthur fords final 1996 clearance sale our prices have been reduced to rock bottom for this event only 5 new 1996s still available save thousands on these 1996 demos 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