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Harrowing Trek in Algonquin Park wilderness is recaled by 49-year-old Wolfgang Palleske and his 9-year-old son, Antony, as they recuperate from frostbite in Ajax-Pickering Hospital today
Harrowing Trek in Algonquin Park wilderness is recaled by 49-year-old Wolfgang Palleske and his 9-year-old son, Antony, as they recuperate from frostbite in Ajax-Pickering Hospital today

Harrowing Trek in Algonquin Park wilderness is recaled by 49-year-old Wolfgang Palleske and his 9-year-old son, Antony, as they recuperate from frostbite in Ajax-Pickering Hospital today

Date3/2/1977
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Burned while pulling a 9-year-old girl to safety from a burning car and trying to rescue another child, Gordon Gillespie of North York sits up in Scarborough General Hospital. He and his son, Terry, 21, saved Fiorella D'Alfonso but her sister Maria, 11, b
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Wolfgang pasternack is now a 36-year-old refrigerator engineer living in Scarboro
Wolfgang pasternack is now a 36-year-old refrigerator engineer living in Scarboro
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Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
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The Schmidt family, from Calgary, say their goodbys to staff members of York-Finch General Hospital as they are ready to return home. In the photo, Dr. N. H. Lithwick autographs the cast on 9-year-old Dorianne's leg. Also in the picture are (from left) Miss Lucy Carere, Mickey Schmidt, Mrs. Beryl Kofman, Mysron Schmidt, Philip Greco, Mrs. Betty Allan and Miss Mary Murphy. The Schmidts presented than-you plaque to hospital.
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He'll be home for Christmas, After open heart surgery at Toronto General Hospital, 49-year-old Ernest Murray, a Don Mills security guard, is feeling great today and he's going home
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Together again: After a separation of nearly two years, Jerzy and Maria Holbuj-Marcon, embrace their 14-year-old son Wojtek at Pearson international Airport last night after the child and his brother Marek, 12, arrived in Canada from Poland
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