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Staying in touch: Pollick likes to take regular strolls around Electro-home's plants
Staying in touch: Pollick likes to take regular strolls around Electro-home's plants

Staying in touch: Pollick likes to take regular strolls around Electro-home's plants

Date6/21/1981
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0132230F
Hear ye, hear ye: Town crier Frank Knight wears an authentic 1790s costume as he strolls around the Scarborugh Civic Centre spreading the latest news
Hear ye, hear ye: Town crier Frank Knight wears an authentic 1790s costume as he strolls around the Scarborugh Civic Centre spreading the latest news
8/5/1987
G. Ross Lord strolls through one of the conservation area parks near his home
G. Ross Lord strolls through one of the conservation area parks near his home
2/13/1979
High-flying salesman Mike Kilburn, who helped beat a sales deadline for the Dash 7 Short-takeoff-and-landing airplane by selling five of tghe craft to Ethopian Airlines, strolls back home in North York with wife Pat and daughter Erika
High-flying salesman Mike Kilburn, who helped beat a sales deadline for the Dash 7 Short-takeoff-and-landing airplane by selling five of tghe craft to Ethopian Airlines, strolls back home in North York with wife Pat and daughter Erika
6/27/1975
Llen prunes a plant in the nursery of and Cullen Pool and Garden Centres. He his customers a bonus in the forum of a newsletter he mails out to 24,000 homes nine times, a year. The newsletter is so well read that Cullen gets fan letters, thank-you notes and greeting cards. Ministers ask permissin to quote from the publication to illustrate a talk or sermon. Cullen's letters are chatty and keep him in touch with his clientele. [Incomplete]
Llen prunes a plant in the nursery of and Cullen Pool and Garden Centres. He his customers a bonus in the forum of a newsletter he mails out to 24,000 homes nine times, a year. The newsletter is so well read that Cullen gets fan letters, thank-you notes and greeting cards. Ministers ask permissin to quote from the publication to illustrate a talk or sermon. Cullen's letters are chatty and keep him in touch with his clientele. [Incomplete]
8/27/1978
Horticulturist Andrew Benn of Scarborough waters plants in his exotic tropical greenhouse where he grows sugar cane, orchids, pineapples and bananas along with regular vegetables. The native of Guyana is teaching courses on indoor and outdoor gardening for beginners and advanced gardeners. His classroom is his greenhouse in his backyard on Vauxhall Dr. Classes started today and will run for 8 weeks.
Horticulturist Andrew Benn of Scarborough waters plants in his exotic tropical greenhouse where he grows sugar cane, orchids, pineapples and bananas along with regular vegetables. The native of Guyana is teaching courses on indoor and outdoor gardening for beginners and advanced gardeners. His classroom is his greenhouse in his backyard on Vauxhall Dr. Classes started today and will run for 8 weeks.
9/15/1976
Keeps him busy: Jack Pollick takes pride in his pill-bottle model of a community he dubbed Geriatria
Keeps him busy: Jack Pollick takes pride in his pill-bottle model of a community he dubbed Geriatria
1/15/1992
A plant doctor who makes house calls is 25-year-old Brian Murphy, who sometimes takes a terminally wilting patient back to his apartment for round-the-clock care among the 60 plants already in residence
A plant doctor who makes house calls is 25-year-old Brian Murphy, who sometimes takes a terminally wilting patient back to his apartment for round-the-clock care among the 60 plants already in residence
5/29/1974
Plunging into work: John Simis likes to look in on the parachute making the Erika Nepp (left) and Diane Schmidt have in hand at Irvin industries Fort Erie plant
Plunging into work: John Simis likes to look in on the parachute making the Erika Nepp (left) and Diane Schmidt have in hand at Irvin industries Fort Erie plant
12/12/1985
Mr. and Mrs. Percy H. Tacon tend shrubs in the courtyard of their Valleyanna Dr. home which is also on tour. The Tacons moved many of their plants into city from their farm home two years ago. Cost of touring the Bayview area gardens is $1. Tickets can be bought at the Garden Centre or at any of the gardens on days of the tour.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy H. Tacon tend shrubs in the courtyard of their Valleyanna Dr. home which is also on tour. The Tacons moved many of their plants into city from their farm home two years ago. Cost of touring the Bayview area gardens is $1. Tickets can be bought at the Garden Centre or at any of the gardens on days of the tour.
5/7/1967
Modest Hero: Ron Clements is one reason Jennie Evans (right) and her daughter Theresa have been able to keep their home. Here, he fixes kitchen plumbing. He's also built gates, hung plants, repaired the furnace and once retrieved the Evans' dog from Lake Ontario.
Modest Hero: Ron Clements is one reason Jennie Evans (right) and her daughter Theresa have been able to keep their home. Here, he fixes kitchen plumbing. He's also built gates, hung plants, repaired the furnace and once retrieved the Evans' dog from Lake Ontario.
2/23/1980
Wheely good: Customer Min Beardmore strolls around the Dominion store in Leaside with one of the half-size shopping carts, perfect for singles and seniors
Wheely good: Customer Min Beardmore strolls around the Dominion store in Leaside with one of the half-size shopping carts, perfect for singles and seniors
9/4/1998
Peter Procunier shops for soup Bones for his consomme, He likes to take standard recipes and upgrade them to gourmet fare.
Peter Procunier shops for soup Bones for his consomme, He likes to take standard recipes and upgrade them to gourmet fare.
3/15/1971