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A boy's dream comes true, Born with a defective heart, Santiago Cervantes, 13, of British Honduras, tests soccer equipment he always dreamed of owning(...)
A boy's dream comes true, Born with a defective heart, Santiago Cervantes, 13, of British Honduras, tests soccer equipment he always dreamed of owning(...)

A boy's dream comes true, Born with a defective heart, Santiago Cervantes, 13, of British Honduras, tests soccer equipment he always dreamed of owning(...)

Date5/20/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: A boy's dream comes true, Born with a defective heart, Santiago Cervantes, 13, of British Honduras, tests soccer equipment he always dreamed of owning. His heart was surgically repaired in Toronto. Watching are some men who helped finance and arrange the operation. From left: Terry Ashford of Lions Club, constables Fred Smith and Barry Andrews, Howard Lowe of Lions Club, and surgeon Dr. Peter Forbath.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026388F
Central figures in a drama that began in British Honduras and is ending happily with heart repair surgery in Toronto, these are the people who teamed (...)
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Using wire and paper, Miguel Cervantes shows servants at Park Public School how to make reproductions of prehistoric dinosaurs. The 31-year-old artist(...)
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2/9/1979
Helping hand for blind visitor, Lucio Rosales, left, and Mario Tulio Lopez, members of a choir of blind students from Honduras visiting Metro, try on sunglasses at Imperial Optical Canada
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The Angel of Honduras, Sister Maria Rosa is surrounded by pupils at St
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Honduras
Honduras
n.d.
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Crombie takes a breather. Heart attack victim and MP, former Toronto mayor David Crombie tests some of the monitoring equipment yesterday at the new C(...)
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2/11/1975
After second operation to complete correction of the heart defect with which she was born, 10-year-old Mary Cowling sits with her mother, Mrs. Pamela (...)
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2/5/1971
A blue baby, born with a hold in her heart, Heather Gratton was told not to have children
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