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Fearsome threesome: Willy Featherstone, left, overcame serious injury to win national title
Fearsome threesome: Willy Featherstone, left, overcame serious injury to win national title

Fearsome threesome: Willy Featherstone, left, overcame serious injury to win national title

Date12/12/1991
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Lalonde next? Toronto's Willy Featherstone (left) trades punches with Danny Lindstrom duringtheir 12-round light heavyweight match at the CNE Coliseum(...)
Lalonde next? Toronto's Willy Featherstone (left) trades punches with Danny Lindstrom duringtheir 12-round light heavyweight match at the CNE Coliseum(...)
12/8/1987
The eyes have it: Former world-ranked welter weight Sammy Luft sping, whose career ended in 1940 because of an injury in the ring, is examined by Toronto ophthalmologist Albert Cheskes. Following a study, Dr. Cheskes is concerned that a number of boxers may have suffered eye injuries but a re unaware of serious problems which could endanger their vision unless they seek help.
The eyes have it: Former world-ranked welter weight Sammy Luft sping, whose career ended in 1940 because of an injury in the ring, is examined by Toronto ophthalmologist Albert Cheskes. Following a study, Dr. Cheskes is concerned that a number of boxers may have suffered eye injuries but a re unaware of serious problems which could endanger their vision unless they seek help.
10/12/1987
Willy Featherstone
Willy Featherstone
11/16/1987
There's no way you can call this threesome ordinary couch potatoes
There's no way you can call this threesome ordinary couch potatoes
6/27/1988
Alex Baumann, 18, of Sudbury, overcame a shoulder injury to break his own world record while winning a gold medal in the 200-metre individual medley a(...)
Alex Baumann, 18, of Sudbury, overcame a shoulder injury to break his own world record while winning a gold medal in the 200-metre individual medley a(...)
12/2/1979
The wax man: Willy Nelson shows how his hot wax application for picking up spilled oil can sop up oil sludge, held in his right hand, and turn it into a waxy misture, in his left hand, solving an environmental crisis
The wax man: Willy Nelson shows how his hot wax application for picking up spilled oil can sop up oil sludge, held in his right hand, and turn it into a waxy misture, in his left hand, solving an environmental crisis
5/11/1989
Flying high: Bill Henderson and his son lan, 17, winners of the junior and senior titles at the national rocketry championships, take a look at one of their model rockets
Flying high: Bill Henderson and his son lan, 17, winners of the junior and senior titles at the national rocketry championships, take a look at one of their model rockets
9/9/1982
They all screamed, says William Dalziel recalling the moment when the kitchen of his Niagara Falls home suddenly exploded into flame. He's holding pictures of his burned wife, and four of six children. In photo, from left: Linda, 3, David, 6, Carmen, 5, and William, 8. Other two children escaped injury.
They all screamed, says William Dalziel recalling the moment when the kitchen of his Niagara Falls home suddenly exploded into flame. He's holding pictures of his burned wife, and four of six children. In photo, from left: Linda, 3, David, 6, Carmen, 5, and William, 8. Other two children escaped injury.
12/20/1968
Alzheimer's researchers: Dr. Donald stuss, left, and Dr. Guy Prouix are co-chairmen of symposium on head injuries and aging to be held April 26-27.
Alzheimer's researchers: Dr. Donald stuss, left, and Dr. Guy Prouix are co-chairmen of symposium on head injuries and aging to be held April 26-27.
4/15/1990
No fault foe: Jeremy Rempel, left, who suffered a head injury when hit by a car, leaves Queen's Park with father Ray yesterday, after urging MPPs to scrap no-fault plan
No fault foe: Jeremy Rempel, left, who suffered a head injury when hit by a car, leaves Queen's Park with father Ray yesterday, after urging MPPs to scrap no-fault plan
1/17/1990
Serious readers: The McNamaras, from left, mother Irene, Andy, 11, Adam, 9, and father John, are Pickering Library's Family of the year.
Serious readers: The McNamaras, from left, mother Irene, Andy, 11, Adam, 9, and father John, are Pickering Library's Family of the year.
11/14/1992
Youth workers such as Toronto's Fred Mathews, left and Grant Lowery decry the serious lack of research on adolescent sex offenders
Youth workers such as Toronto's Fred Mathews, left and Grant Lowery decry the serious lack of research on adolescent sex offenders
1/12/1987