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Don Karwaski: The audio-visual technician, who lost part of a leg to diabetes, now helps those facing amputation to deal with the situation.
Don Karwaski: The audio-visual technician, who lost part of a leg to diabetes, now helps those facing amputation to deal with the situation.

Don Karwaski: The audio-visual technician, who lost part of a leg to diabetes, now helps those facing amputation to deal with the situation.

Date5/8/1991
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0128856F
Well-earned medal: Bill Pashler, 61, recently won a medal from Joslin Diabetes Centre in Boston for living courageously with diabetes for more than half a century
Well-earned medal: Bill Pashler, 61, recently won a medal from Joslin Diabetes Centre in Boston for living courageously with diabetes for more than half a century
5/24/1984
Trauma team: OPP Corporal Don Thom, left, helps counsel other officers who have faced life-and-death situations
Trauma team: OPP Corporal Don Thom, left, helps counsel other officers who have faced life-and-death situations
1/14/1985
Cultural crusader: Marcello Pacini, president of the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, has brought an exhibition to the Royal Ontario Museum that uses photographs, art works, artifacts and audio-visual aids to show the cultural and technological evolution of modern Italy
Cultural crusader: Marcello Pacini, president of the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, has brought an exhibition to the Royal Ontario Museum that uses photographs, art works, artifacts and audio-visual aids to show the cultural and technological evolution of modern Italy
9/20/1984
Research team: From left, doctors Bernard Leibel, Walter Zingg and Julio Martin are experimenting at Hospital for Sick Children with transplant technique that has cured diabetes in rats
Research team: From left, doctors Bernard Leibel, Walter Zingg and Julio Martin are experimenting at Hospital for Sick Children with transplant technique that has cured diabetes in rats
1/5/1987
Turning on that famous smile, Mary Tyler Moore gives Shoppers Drug Mart president Herb Binder, left, and chairman and CEO David Bloom a sculpture for helping to raise $1.4 million for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
Turning on that famous smile, Mary Tyler Moore gives Shoppers Drug Mart president Herb Binder, left, and chairman and CEO David Bloom a sculpture for helping to raise $1.4 million for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
6/2/1997
Win a Rolls, Barry Brown, president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, polishes the hood ornament of a Rolls-Royce to be raffled Nov.
Win a Rolls, Barry Brown, president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, polishes the hood ornament of a Rolls-Royce to be raffled Nov.
9/25/1979
Simply incredible: Ken McColm flashes a beaming smile at Nathan Phillips Square yesterday, after the blind walker arrived in Toronto on his coast-to-coast trek to raise money for diabetes research
Simply incredible: Ken McColm flashes a beaming smile at Nathan Phillips Square yesterday, after the blind walker arrived in Toronto on his coast-to-coast trek to raise money for diabetes research
7/29/1991
Victims of violence: Don Sullivan and Shirley Harrison, founders of a self-help group for those who have lost loved ones to murder, discuss their plans before the group's first meeting last night
Victims of violence: Don Sullivan and Shirley Harrison, founders of a self-help group for those who have lost loved ones to murder, discuss their plans before the group's first meeting last night
2/2/1982
Stacked: A.V. Force, a Toronto audio-visual production compnay, will install a video wall 26-inch television screns, like those shown, at Vancouver's Expo '86
Stacked: A.V. Force, a Toronto audio-visual production compnay, will install a video wall 26-inch television screns, like those shown, at Vancouver's Expo '86
9/27/1985
A question of balance. Technician Mary Yap takes to the tilting chair of balance expert Dr. Walter Johnson yesterday at St. Michael's Hospital. The otolith chair helps Johnson detect inner ear and balance problems. it was paid for by the Atkinson Foundation, which gave a $30,000 grant to St. Mikes to fund such research.
A question of balance. Technician Mary Yap takes to the tilting chair of balance expert Dr. Walter Johnson yesterday at St. Michael's Hospital. The otolith chair helps Johnson detect inner ear and balance problems. it was paid for by the Atkinson Foundation, which gave a $30,000 grant to St. Mikes to fund such research.
2/24/1988
Terry Fox: Prospect of chemotherapy more upsetting than facing amputation of his leg
Terry Fox: Prospect of chemotherapy more upsetting than facing amputation of his leg
9/2/1980
A miracle worker to parents of children with emotional problems, Karl Burden, 40, is one of 250 North York teachers facing layoffs. An ordained minister, he left the church to aid young people with problems and helps them at Glen Rush Public School. Parents say his dismissal is a threat to their children.
A miracle worker to parents of children with emotional problems, Karl Burden, 40, is one of 250 North York teachers facing layoffs. An ordained minister, he left the church to aid young people with problems and helps them at Glen Rush Public School. Parents say his dismissal is a threat to their children.
5/20/1977