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Pedalling to work at the Distress Centre, an agency supported by United Appeal that counsels the suicidal, despairing and lonely, United Church minist(...)
Pedalling to work at the Distress Centre, an agency supported by United Appeal that counsels the suicidal, despairing and lonely, United Church minist(...)

Pedalling to work at the Distress Centre, an agency supported by United Appeal that counsels the suicidal, despairing and lonely, United Church minist(...)

Date9/22/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Pedalling to work at the Distress Centre; an agency supported by United Appeal that counsels the suicidal; despairing and lonely; United Church minister Rev. Gordon Winch turns out of traffic into Trinity Square to park his bicycle.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0022572F
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Dorothy Woo counsels an immigrant at the Metro Chinese Centre
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5/18/1993
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Lonely protest: Herb Field, an organizer of National Distress Day and president of the Canadian Association for Sensible interest Rates holds a lonely protest outside his Danforth Ave. offices. The response to his group's call for a national day of protes
Lonely protest: Herb Field, an organizer of National Distress Day and president of the Canadian Association for Sensible interest Rates holds a lonely protest outside his Danforth Ave. offices. The response to his group's call for a national day of protes
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Gordon Winch: Distress Centre executive director doesn't want volunteers to be simple do-gooders
Gordon Winch: Distress Centre executive director doesn't want volunteers to be simple do-gooders
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When Dr. Robert McClure, moderator of the United Church (right), recently said teenagers who marry while still at school should be supported by parent(...)
When Dr. Robert McClure, moderator of the United Church (right), recently said teenagers who marry while still at school should be supported by parent(...)
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