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j 1 hfhesmrbmsm sipis of war the squieeze on vice mp x l festival authentic pioneer maple syrup derhqnstrations and modern sugarshacks- i v free samples of maple sap and syrup allday pancake breakfast wagon rides weekends march 3 to april 8 2001 call to inquire about our evening program maple syrup by lantern march 242001 j centre for conservation 7 lrokmovorkaok rassfflvmlonmea west east kortright centre bruces mill conservation area pine valley drive south of stouffville rd just east of major mackenzie drive hwy 404 for information call 41 6 6676299 httpwwwtrcaonca is 01 war tne squeeze onvice principals extracurricular activities iwwf3w9l at the automotive store of course 1 1 going going gone should be die new motto for todays schools k apparently school viceprin cipals are on the endangered species list in some york region schools while students at stouffville district secondary school are still making a fuss because extracurricular activi ties were axed school without sports isnt school the kids claim this weeksdss students deliveredtheir we arent going to take it any more chant at an assembly all this is due to the never- ending war between the teach ers and the province many sdss teachers opted to play hardball by withdrawing involvement in afterschool activities claiming theyre doing this for the good of the students with one hitch teachers are acting like normal people theyre looking out for them selves if i were in a labour dispute with my employer id adopt a mefirst approach too- however and this is the hitch i would not suggest my actions were for the good of the readers teachers would get more respect if theyd tell it like it is maybe its time to launch a take a teacher to work day and give the educators a peek at how pri vate enterprise runs joah ransberry about a decade ago the worldwide recession touched ontario often resulting in one employee doing the job of two management is not immune to new business methods in fact managers are more slavelike than the drones while the situation is neither right nor healthy thats the way it is its called reality sorry but the private sector cant whip up much sympathy for the teach ers we can however say wel- come to the club students and taxpayers are the casualties of this stupid war between naive educators and a narrowminded premier after examining the teachers demands and premier mike harriss style of governing i can only conclude that teachers and harris deserve each other if teachers want to run the schools their way why dont they fire their boss mike harris wont change his spots instead of investing time and energy into trying to alter the boss take a crash course in electioneering rally the troops and vote the leader and his toryalliance machine out of office in the next election there is however one edu cation issue that deserves pub lic support summitview public school in stouffville is running the risk of losing its viceprinci pal by provincial standards summitview with fewer than 500 students isnt large enough to have a full time vp the posi tion will either be eliminated or the stouffville school will share a vp with a markham school this is a real issue a good viceprincipal is crucial to a school parents at summitview have approached local trustee bob burrows to help keep the vp in place lets hope burrows can back- burner his squabble with the york region district board of education long enough to do his job its been suggested that the squabble over his residency cost about 100000 this suggests that money grows on trees in the education field and people wonder why i remain in the mark twain camp twain quit school because it was interfering with his educa tion research advances continue to grow dont rate restaurants eatery owner pleads by lisa queen staff writer a nobletpn restaurant owner is pleadingtbday with yorks health com mittee to abandon plans for acolour- coded rating system for the regions eateries v i think its wrong said daniel gilbert owner of daniels of nobleton york is considering following in the based on health inspections restaurants must post colourcoded stickers letting patrons know whether they have passedfailed or passed con ditionally while gilbert disagrees with the rat ing system overall his main beef is with the yellow conditional pass he believes most customers will avoid restaurants with yellow stickers footsteps of toronto which has intro- even tf eaterys infractions are rela tively minor dont condemn a restaurant for a minor infraction which could happen to anyone oh any day said gilbert who has operated his restaurant for 20 years jk yellow sticker says youre a bad place but yotfrenot a bad place and you havent done anything wrong hesaidifsunfairtoimposetorontos system in york becausethecity has too i few inspectors checking too many unsanitary restaurants svl urge yorkregion and all its munic ipalities not to followtorontos kneejerk reaction meratingsystemgilbert wrote in a letter to officials x it will cause morev animosity between owners t inspectors and create more bureaucracylnstudies of wckavea gbodsystem invyork region jumping on toronto band- wagon will onlymakeit look likeour system ii as brokenas th jgilbert purging thecpmmittee to r establishabettefeducatioif system for jj j i v i wivv iw rrr ttriie