Variety Club weekend telethon something to sing about

Original Toronto Star caption: Variety Club weekend telethon something to sing about. With the record total of $3,531,430 flashing lights at the Royal York Hotel yesterday Burton Cummings, centre, leads participants in a rousing musical number during eighth annual Variety Club telethon. Organizers said the final total raised to help the province's needy and disabled children is $3.8 million. The club has built the Variety Village Sport Training and Fitness Centre in Scarborough and the current project is construction of a $5.3 million swimming pool.