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mike adler staff reporter grand opening the official opening of the edward jones investment firm was marked with a mayoral ribbon cutting last friday from left annette snoddon edward jones investment repre sentative steve snoddon mayor gerri lynn oconnor david burvvell of edward jones in toronto and branch office administrator kathy olidis photo by mike ruta childrens aid staff accept new contract deal passed by 52 per cent vote social workers arid office staff for the york region childrens aid society have a twoyear contract this week after taking a day off the job a provincial conciliator helped get a tentative deal with 58 members of ontario public service employees union local 304 just hours before a strike began they had planned to begin a strike as of sunday midnight but they met sunday and reached an agreement said myra hurst the societys manager of communications and planning the staff technically on strike mon day stayed away from work to vote on the deal which 52 per cent approved the workers had agreed not to picket on that day although we accepted the agree ment i dont know theres a feeling of overall happiness local opseu pres ident sandra garibotti said yesterday the deal includes two raises of one per cent the first effective april 1997 salaries now range from 22735 to 45976 with clerical staff tending to be at the lower end many members feel they are accept ing a loss because they will be work ing longer office hours said garibotti our increase does not fully compen sate us for the added time the societys hours which were 9 am to 430 pm are shifting to 915 am to 515 pm a change manage ment says meets a demand for service later in the day staff will only work an extra 15 min utes a day hurst said we believe that the new contract makes changes that will help the soci ety to be more accessible to the com munity- and we thank the union mem bers for their positive response peter weston vicepresident of the society board of directors added monday in a 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before the councils volunteer board of provincial appointees met tuesday the chair of the board said the new councils effectiveness as a link between the ministry health care providers and the public will depend on just how well we do our job but john wilson also president of the unionville home society in markham thinks the two bodies should meet soon to start planning the merger i dont think their approach will be very different than ours he said of the simcoe group membership in the new councils will likely be done on the same formula wilson said as things are 40 per cent of the york board appointees come from local care providers 40 per cent are ordinary health consumers and the rest are municipal representatives wilson said the changes mean the five staffers at the councils newmar ket office will lose their jobs but its possible they could be rehired after the new council is appointed and starts looking for staff he said mikeadler i