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Stephen Schmucker, with wife Sherry, will never forget the Christmas of 1969 when his Unionville neighbors bought him a piano so he could continue his(...)
Stephen Schmucker, with wife Sherry, will never forget the Christmas of 1969 when his Unionville neighbors bought him a piano so he could continue his(...)

Stephen Schmucker, with wife Sherry, will never forget the Christmas of 1969 when his Unionville neighbors bought him a piano so he could continue his(...)

Date12/19/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: Stephen Schmucker; with wife Sherry; will never forget the Christmas of 1969 when his Unionville neighbors bought him a piano so he could continue his music students at the Ontario School for the Blind.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0020893F
Ardent student: Jack Elmes' neighbors often bring him birds they find dead and he keeps them in the freezer so he can study their plumage for his paintings
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Blind since birth, 56-year-old piano tuner Frank Leftley can now see his wife, Betty, and 1--months-old daughter, Kimberly, for the first time because(...)
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2/1/1971
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2/1/1971
Billy Bayles, whose 87-acre farm lies just south of Brougham, decided there was no use trying to fight Queen's Park and sold the farm to the government. Now many of his neighbors won't speak to him
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5/8/1973
Parting gift: Retiring postman Bob Cooper holds a miniature mailbox filled with money given to him by residents on his route in the Keele St. Eglinton Ave. area on the weekend. About 75 neighbors turned out for the retirement party for Cooper, who has a delivered their mail for 32 years.
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4/11/1987
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2/8/1977
Blind sailor Stan King and his wife, Shirley also sightless, enjoy a day's sailing with sons Stephen, 12, and Michael, 9. King handles the sails himse(...)
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5/22/1977
The search for 8-year-old Lisa Kowalski is being scaled down, but friends and neighbors of her family continue the hunt and Constable James Miller han(...)
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Charles Boyd: He had tried to commit suicide earlier, neighbors say, after the slaying of his fiancee
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Gloria Kaye Pop singer. A farmer takes his sow to a neighbor's to be bred. He gets a guarantee by being told that if the sow, the next morning, is sitting in the [Incomplete]
Gloria Kaye Pop singer. A farmer takes his sow to a neighbor's to be bred. He gets a guarantee by being told that if the sow, the next morning, is sitting in the [Incomplete]
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Blind carpenter Alfred Tout, sanding down a bar he built for his daughter, doesn't let his handicap bother him
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Diagnosis: Depart. Dr. Robert Cooper of O'Connor Dr. was contravening zoning regulations by having his offie in his home. The neighbors objected and the doctor now is on the move
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