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Don Soutar can often be heard demonstrating his $10,000 hovercraft.
Don Soutar can often be heard demonstrating his $10,000 hovercraft.

Don Soutar can often be heard demonstrating his $10,000 hovercraft.

Date6/7/1990
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134198F
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Rick soutar: Local resident keeps a baseball bat beside his bed.
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Ready for takeoff: Brett Russell displays a Wind Rider hovercraft made in Bowmanville that the hopes will catch on with cottagers and rescuers.
Ready for takeoff: Brett Russell displays a Wind Rider hovercraft made in Bowmanville that the hopes will catch on with cottagers and rescuers.
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It cost him $900 to put together his 400-pound musical toy from brass plumbing pipe and other bits and pieces, says jeweller Stan Griffith of North York but a Louisiana circus has offered him $10,000 for his homemade calliope
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Out of custody and back with the family of John Graham, the unemployed window-washer who helped him gain his freedom after he was committed to the Ontario Hospital, Harry Heard, 72, tells about his experiences as a ward of the government
Out of custody and back with the family of John Graham, the unemployed window-washer who helped him gain his freedom after he was committed to the Ontario Hospital, Harry Heard, 72, tells about his experiences as a ward of the government
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All for naught: Owner Louis Mitoulas sits among the more than $10,000 in renovations to his Kingsway Family Restaurant on Southport St
All for naught: Owner Louis Mitoulas sits among the more than $10,000 in renovations to his Kingsway Family Restaurant on Southport St
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Teaching history and bookkeeping grosses Michael Crawford $10,000 a year - far less than industry pays men with his training and experience.
Teaching history and bookkeeping grosses Michael Crawford $10,000 a year - far less than industry pays men with his training and experience.
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2/20/1987
Hollcopter flight instructor Peter Crry pilots a Robinson R22 overr the Toronto waterfront. Curry, who has logged a lengthey 10,000 flying homourse in his career, has been beachig at toronto Island Airport of about years. Total cost to earna private helicopter licence is about $15,000 triple the cost in other aircraft.
Hollcopter flight instructor Peter Crry pilots a Robinson R22 overr the Toronto waterfront. Curry, who has logged a lengthey 10,000 flying homourse in his career, has been beachig at toronto Island Airport of about years. Total cost to earna private helicopter licence is about $15,000 triple the cost in other aircraft.
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Devlin, new executive director of Canadian Life Insurance Association, says varying policy costs for identical insurance, revealed in a recent consumer study, can often result from the differing views on risks held by the actuaries of the various insuranc
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Just ducky: Woodcaver Glenn McMurdo is one of many artisans who'll be demonstrating and selling their work at a craft show at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa's Civic Centre starting tomorrow from noon to 6 p
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Arthur Keay, a retired veteran of the Toronto police force, suggests a policeman should use his boots and his club more often than he does.
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George Bell admits: I'm not the hitter I used to be, George Bell, who doesn't often talk to the press, reflected on his baseball career recently with a Star reporter and confessed that his big hitting days are probably over.
George Bell admits: I'm not the hitter I used to be, George Bell, who doesn't often talk to the press, reflected on his baseball career recently with a Star reporter and confessed that his big hitting days are probably over.
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