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the tribune thursday october 16 1997 p 3 glad park public school parking lot was the site of this friendly for mation john rileyohandley left and ryan gill right give a help ing arm to skateboard novice justin vanditzhuyzen pluto by steve somerville reject boards offer catholic teachers told mikeadler staff reporter catholic teachers in york region will be told to vote for a strike next friday union president i hor baczynsky says members of the york catholic teachers will also be urged to reject a final offer from the local separate board which baczynsky called disappointing and fright ening yesterday because it does not offer to restore lost salary increments to teachers the board says the twoyear deal retroactive to last septem ber which it gave the union fri day contains no salary or benefit cuts and no staffing cuts this offer recognizes the cur rent competitiveness of our teach ers salaries as well as the reality of the boards outstanding deficit chair tina molinari said in the statement but a way to resolve the issue of three increments frozen during the social contract years is not included meanwhile all other school boards in the greater toronto area have started restor ing them to their teachers baczynsky saidl i think thats just going to drive teachers to the brink of the precipice he warned in a report released last week provincial factfinder eugene swimmer suggested the board cant afford the restoration saying teachers must accept it can only be done through other conces sions like an increased workload he did suggest however that teachers drop their grievance over a staff cut of 120 in return for one increment baczynsky who maintains the board can afford all three levels noted the board didnt use this recommendation in its offer were prepared to negotiate for the other two salary levels but the board isnt even at the one he said although swimmer argued the teachers know their current salary grid is among the best in the province baczynsky said 60 per cent earn less than their maxi mum salary of 66673 failing to restore the lost levels means many catholic teachers are getting 3000 less than the salary they deserve every year he said our membership will not agree to come back for less than what the surrounding boards have said baczynsky morale is terrible now morale will be unbearable by next year no further negotiating sessions with the board are planned before teachers vote in schools next fri day gst auction tomorrow night stouffville unites church is holding a goods services and talents auction tomorrow evening the church is located on church st and the auction begins at 730 pm smoking ban turned down from page 1 does not have the staff to enforce the proposed bylaw when mayor wayne emmerson speaks to his colleagues at york council next week he said hell point out that 70 per cent of space in bars and restaurants in whitchurchstouffville is smoke free now the other municipalities in york are carrying out similar public meetings kathy unsworth of the regional health depart ment told council that a recent survey shows council that 87 per cent of the public supports a move to realize a smokefree region as well unsworth said only two per cent of 1500 restaurant and bar owners replied to a sur vey about smoking york council needs the support of a majority of its nine municipalities in order to bring in the new smoking law pool finances on staff deck joan ransberry staff reporter an indoor swimming pool is one pen stroke closer to reali ty on tuesday whitchurch- stouffville council agreed to direct staff to look into the financial aspects of a pool a report will be delivered at the next council meeting slat ed for oct 28 its possible that the project will make it on the 1998 capi tal budget said mayor wayne emmerson a committee has estimated that a pool complete with squash courts will cost between 3 million and 4 million also committee members have recommended that the pool be located at the stouf fville recreation complex not everyone on council supports the project town ward 3 councillor margot marshall cautioned council about the operating costs of such a facility also opposing it is ward 1 councillor ivanka bradley she told council that shed like the pool to be built in the rural area of town instead of down town gift of life jackie burkart gives her quart of blood at the red cross blood donor clinic held at the stouffville legion last friday while danielle 10 teresa 8 and josh 4 give their nioral support photo by sjoerd w1tteveen blood shortage sparks urgent plea for donors blood donors are still desperately needed in york region this week in response to an urgent public plea for more blood donations 675 people gave blood in the greater toronto area monday and tuesday at emergency clinics but the need at the toronto blood centre which serves 61 hospitals in the gta and beyond is still critical espe cially for group o blood the blood centre cannot send required amounts of blood to 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