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Starting Small: Vanessa Tyson, 6, gets a hand as she and 800 other school children mark Tree Day yesterday by planting 1,200 trees in Riverdale Park
Starting Small: Vanessa Tyson, 6, gets a hand as she and 800 other school children mark Tree Day yesterday by planting 1,200 trees in Riverdale Park

Starting Small: Vanessa Tyson, 6, gets a hand as she and 800 other school children mark Tree Day yesterday by planting 1,200 trees in Riverdale Park

Date4/21/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Starting Small: Vanessa Tyson; 6; gets a hand as she and 800 other school children mark Tree Day yesterday by planting 1;200 trees in Riverdale Park.
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Vanessa Tyson, 6, of Beaches Alternative School and 800 other children celebrate Tree Day
Vanessa Tyson, 6, of Beaches Alternative School and 800 other children celebrate Tree Day
4/21/1992
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Trees - Christmas Trees
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Look way up: Judy Schwartz's North York property boasts this 117-foot (about 36-metre) tall basswood, the tallest of the tall in the tallest tree caterogy of the great North York Tree Hunt
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