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stouffville suntnbune saturday may 31 2003 h serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 44 pages1 including gst caffeine an equalopportunity i jp health hazard in many foods letters 6 festival 13 sports 25 classified 26 insulting offer may lead to nurses strike we re getting our battle gear on by lisa queen staffwriter york region may soon be cop ing with a rekindled sars out break and bracing for west nile virus without its public health nurses ive got my strike commit tees going said laren burneman president of local 16 of the ontario nurses association were getting our battle gear on if we have to walk the line well walk the line but we really dont want to withdraw services from the resi dents of this region nurses voted 82 per cent monday in favour of going on strike if necessary the 184 nurses are in a legal strike position june 21 with talks between the union the region and a provincial mediator sched uled for june 18 jim davidson the regions commissioner of corporate serv ices said he was disappointed about the strike vote but remained hopeful a settlement will be reached without job action v he would not discuss details of the negotiations regional chairperson bill fisch said monday the region has appreciated the efforts of its see wage page 12 an artful design for whitchurchstouffville library staff photosjoerd witteveefj stoufrville district secondary school art students from left dawn mossop amy pfaffand alex zalewski earned 50 each from the gta saving 8c credit unionand a place in the stouffville library for designing the banners in the librarys youth section they were presented with the awards in a ceremony tuesday and posed with some of the banners sars spreads to liquor store infected employee went to markham stouffville hospital by lisa queen staffwriter as many as 9000 customers who stocked up at a york region liquor store from the may long weekend until last wednesday should watch for sars symptoms but dont need to be quarantined according to york region public health authorities the liquor store in aurora was expected to reopen after its 15 employees were direct ed to quarantine themselves at home for 10 days beginning wednesday after a male employee was diagnosed with sars public health physician consultant dr murray mcquigge insisted customers con tact with the infected employee would have been too fleeting to put them at any measur able risk of contracting the potentially dead ly respiratory illness instead customers are being asked to monitor their health they should seek medical assistance if they have any signs of sars such as a fever of more than 38c or 1004f muscle aches severe fatigue severe headache dry cough and shortness of breath call ahead before seeing a doctor or going to a clinic or hospital we wouldnt be asking people to self- monitor if we thought the risk was zero but it is minimal dr mcquigge said the male employee who contracted sars see york page 9 w- hot tubs 27 heritage rd markham w o north maifcham honda 461 1 hwy 7 wosokonnodbd uflionville 9054 7 7 24 51 honda quality dealer north markham honda has been presented with the prestigious total quality dealer award from honda canada inc for 2002 town and country realty ltdi 6400888 wwwwmmjxwwjx v t i i i 4