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Harrowing Trek in Algonquin Park wilderness is recaled by 49-year-old Wolfgang Palleske and his 9-year-old son, Antony, as they recuperate from frostbite in Ajax-Pickering Hospital today
Harrowing Trek in Algonquin Park wilderness is recaled by 49-year-old Wolfgang Palleske and his 9-year-old son, Antony, as they recuperate from frostbite in Ajax-Pickering Hospital today

Harrowing Trek in Algonquin Park wilderness is recaled by 49-year-old Wolfgang Palleske and his 9-year-old son, Antony, as they recuperate from frostbite in Ajax-Pickering Hospital today

Date3/2/1977
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Burned while pulling a 9-year-old girl to safety from a burning car and trying to rescue another child, Gordon Gillespie of North York sits up in Scarborough General Hospital. He and his son, Terry, 21, saved Fiorella D'Alfonso but her sister Maria, 11, b
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Wolfgang pasternack is now a 36-year-old refrigerator engineer living in Scarboro
Wolfgang pasternack is now a 36-year-old refrigerator engineer living in Scarboro
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The Schmidt family, from Calgary, say their goodbys to staff members of York-Finch General Hospital as they are ready to return home. In the photo, Dr. N. H. Lithwick autographs the cast on 9-year-old Dorianne's leg. Also in the picture are (from left) Miss Lucy Carere, Mickey Schmidt, Mrs. Beryl Kofman, Mysron Schmidt, Philip Greco, Mrs. Betty Allan and Miss Mary Murphy. The Schmidts presented than-you plaque to hospital.
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He'll be home for Christmas, After open heart surgery at Toronto General Hospital, 49-year-old Ernest Murray, a Don Mills security guard, is feeling great today and he's going home
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