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economist sunsuntribune education saturday march 12 2005 11 dutch treated vets as cherished friends from page 1 and mechanical engineers in addition to being a unit soldier he repaired clocks watches gun sights binoculars and other instruments we were also used as an active fighting troop he said mr jacobs war experience took him to england france bel gium holland and germany air raids in england were especially frightening he told students families had to sleep in bomb shelters as most raids were at night he said his unit landed at juno beach on dday june 6 1944 as an active duty unit we were always close to action mr jacobs said our workshop was open 24 hours a day and we picked up our rifles for battle when called in one area where we set up our workshop there were many dead we had to work around bodies we had to dig foxholes the dutch people were very lucky to have canadians liberate his homeland exchange student rogier borghans 15 said fellow dutch student leroy toonen 16 said he appreciates everything the canadians did in holland i hope ifhelp is needed again we can count on the canadians funding must change union from page 1 phototom barnett second world war veteran murray jacobs is joined by markham district high school students leroy toonen rogier borghans josh brooks and tatjana gnozdanovski leroy said markham district high school grade 1 1 student josh brooks was touched by mr jacobs account of the war especially the liberation of holland my grandparents are from holland he said they were there during the war hearing from war veterans is important grade 10 student tat jana grozdanovski 15 said its good to know about our past especially the history of canada she said its good to educate stu dents about the war thousands of canadians including mr jacobs went to hol land in 1995 for the 50th anniver sary of the liberation wherever we went we were treated as cherished friends mr jacobs said the people stood with their hands extended to touch the vet erans 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being offered the workload issues are likely to be solved at the local level he said the york teachers have now joined with a growing list of osstf bargaining units across ontario central to this is the fact that the new liberal govern ment which promised peace and stabil ity must come to realize that they can not achieve this with existing funding or through a tory funding formula con structed by the previous government mr harrison said while not guaranteeing there will be no strikes or slowdowns by local educa tors mr harrison is optimistic level heads will prevail the york region district school board has been very cooperative in dealing with us he said if talks contin ue to progress in a positive nature there will not be the need for job sanctions york region district school board spokesperson ross virgo is also hopeful we continue to have positive dia logue with osstf district 16 and look forward to a resolution to all issues he said markhahstouffville evergreen hospice would like 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