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Debt repaid: AGO vice-president Georgia Prassas hands over a cheque yesterday to Metro Chairman Alan Tonks, repaying a $1 million loan from Metro Council to help bring the Barnes Exhibit to town
Debt repaid: AGO vice-president Georgia Prassas hands over a cheque yesterday to Metro Chairman Alan Tonks, repaying a $1 million loan from Metro Council to help bring the Barnes Exhibit to town

Debt repaid: AGO vice-president Georgia Prassas hands over a cheque yesterday to Metro Chairman Alan Tonks, repaying a $1 million loan from Metro Council to help bring the Barnes Exhibit to town

Date2/13/1995
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Original Toronto Star caption: Debt repaid: AGO vice-president Georgia Prassas hands over a cheque yesterday to Metro Chairman Alan Tonks; repaying a $1 million loan from Metro Council to help bring the Barnes Exhibit to town.
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Top-Level talk: Toronto Mayor June Rowlands and Metro Chairman Alan Tonks confer during Metro Council's debate yesterday on the rioting this week in downtown Toronto
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