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What'm I bid? The auctioneer last night was Metropolitan Toronto School Board chairman and Scarborough Ward 11 Trustee Gerry Phillips. For the sixth y(...)
What'm I bid? The auctioneer last night was Metropolitan Toronto School Board chairman and Scarborough Ward 11 Trustee Gerry Phillips. For the sixth y(...)

What'm I bid? The auctioneer last night was Metropolitan Toronto School Board chairman and Scarborough Ward 11 Trustee Gerry Phillips. For the sixth y(...)

Date9/27/1979
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Original Toronto Star caption: What'm I bid? The auctioneer last night was Metropolitan Toronto School Board chairman and Scarborough Ward 11 Trustee Gerry Phillips. For the sixth year he fielded bids at Scarborough Historical Society's annual auction.
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Something to crow about. Gerry Phillips, Scarborough school trustee and chairman of the Metro School Board, took a different chair last night. He was (...)
Something to crow about. Gerry Phillips, Scarborough school trustee and chairman of the Metro School Board, took a different chair last night. He was (...)
9/27/1977
Last hectic week fo the provincial election campaign leaves Gerry Phillips, Liberal candidate in Scarborough North, little time for his young family. (...)
Last hectic week fo the provincial election campaign leaves Gerry Phillips, Liberal candidate in Scarborough North, little time for his young family. (...)
9/10/1975
Tasting defeat, A dejected Alderman Joe Piccininni contemplates his defeat last night by school trustee Betty Disero - after 25 years on council. The people of the ward have spoken, he said
Tasting defeat, A dejected Alderman Joe Piccininni contemplates his defeat last night by school trustee Betty Disero - after 25 years on council. The people of the ward have spoken, he said
11/12/1985
What am I bid? Newmarket auctioneer Terry Fitzpatrick, 34, demonstrates his selling style
What am I bid? Newmarket auctioneer Terry Fitzpatrick, 34, demonstrates his selling style
11/20/1981
Good neighbor: School board chairman Bill Phillips helped found area's first church.
Good neighbor: School board chairman Bill Phillips helped found area's first church.
11/28/1984
Mike Cote: 22, 2663 Lakeshore Blvd. W. Single. He is an assistant greens keeper at a golf course and ran unsuccessfully for trustee in Ward 1 in 1978 and 1980. He believes the school board should view declining enrolment as a chance to increase the teacher/student ratio. He is opposed to the section of Bill 127 that would reduce the decision-making power of local trustees.
Mike Cote: 22, 2663 Lakeshore Blvd. W. Single. He is an assistant greens keeper at a golf course and ran unsuccessfully for trustee in Ward 1 in 1978 and 1980. He believes the school board should view declining enrolment as a chance to increase the teacher/student ratio. He is opposed to the section of Bill 127 that would reduce the decision-making power of local trustees.
10/20/1982
Watch watchers: While assistant at right holds up a pocket watch and customers eyeball it, auctioneer John Phillips starts the bidding at Sotheby Parke Bernet's auction this week
Watch watchers: While assistant at right holds up a pocket watch and customers eyeball it, auctioneer John Phillips starts the bidding at Sotheby Parke Bernet's auction this week
10/20/1980
R. Val Scott, a trustee who is vice-chairman of the North York Board of Education, says our school system is harmful and should be changed
R. Val Scott, a trustee who is vice-chairman of the North York Board of Education, says our school system is harmful and should be changed
9/30/1971
Cool cash representing the United Way's $16.2 million goal surrounds campaign chairman William Christener deep in vaults of a Metro Bank. There is is folks . . . that's exactly what we need. Let's go out and get it, Christener said as he kicked off campaign early yesterday for the media. Official appeal kick-off starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Nathan Phillips Square and you're invited.
Cool cash representing the United Way's $16.2 million goal surrounds campaign chairman William Christener deep in vaults of a Metro Bank. There is is folks . . . that's exactly what we need. Let's go out and get it, Christener said as he kicked off campaign early yesterday for the media. Official appeal kick-off starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Nathan Phillips Square and you're invited.
9/22/1977
Back Again, Veteran trustee Fiona Nelson narrowly led the vote in Wards 13 and 14 for the Toronto board
Back Again, Veteran trustee Fiona Nelson narrowly led the vote in Wards 13 and 14 for the Toronto board
11/12/1991
Protest fizzles: What was expected to be an explosive meeting of the Toronto Board of Education last night fizzled after Trustee George Martell, standing at the mike, told parent and teacher that his proposals for special education are intended to place slow learners - usually from poor or ethnic background - into regular, but smaller classes
Protest fizzles: What was expected to be an explosive meeting of the Toronto Board of Education last night fizzled after Trustee George Martell, standing at the mike, told parent and teacher that his proposals for special education are intended to place slow learners - usually from poor or ethnic background - into regular, but smaller classes
11/15/1979
10-foot dummies representing Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Anti-Inflation Board chairman Jean-Luc Pepin were set up at Nathan Phillips Square toda(...)
10-foot dummies representing Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Anti-Inflation Board chairman Jean-Luc Pepin were set up at Nathan Phillips Square toda(...)
10/7/1976