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One of about 100 volunteers working for the Radio Reading Service-about 75 of them on-air readers-john Tickell reads news item from The Star along wit(...)
One of about 100 volunteers working for the Radio Reading Service-about 75 of them on-air readers-john Tickell reads news item from The Star along wit(...)

One of about 100 volunteers working for the Radio Reading Service-about 75 of them on-air readers-john Tickell reads news item from The Star along wit(...)

Date7/5/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: One of about 100 volunteers working for the Radio Reading Service-about 75 of them on-air readers-john Tickell reads news item from The Star along with staff member Jacqueline Donaldson from a basement studio in Oakville's Woodside Public Library. About 200 blind and physically disabled people who have special receivers to pick up signal from a Burlington radio station. Volunteer Blair Harley (left; front) mans the controls.
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Blind poet Mary Frances Haws (left) reads one of the poems from her latest book to the Maud Hawkins unit of the United Church Women at Glebe United Ch(...)
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Image shows the blind skaters program run by North York's parks and recreation department. Here ...
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