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Where's the hare?, Just because Metro Zoo held a tortoise race for charity yesterday didn't mean their United Way campaign kick off got off to a slow start
Where's the hare?, Just because Metro Zoo held a tortoise race for charity yesterday didn't mean their United Way campaign kick off got off to a slow start

Where's the hare?, Just because Metro Zoo held a tortoise race for charity yesterday didn't mean their United Way campaign kick off got off to a slow start

Date9/2/1982
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  • Where's the hare?, Just because Metro Zoo held a tortoise race for charity yesterday didn't mean their United Way campaign kick off got off to a slow start
  • Where's the hare?; Just because Metro Zoo held a tortoise race for charity yesterday didn't mean their United Way campaign kick off got off to a slow start.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Where's the hare?; Just because Metro Zoo held a tortoise race for charity yesterday didn't mean their United Way campaign kick off got off to a slow start.
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      Where's the hare?, Just because Metro Zoo held a tortoise race for charity yesterday didn't mean their United Way campaign kickoff got off to a slow start
      Where's the hare?, Just because Metro Zoo held a tortoise race for charity yesterday didn't mean their United Way campaign kickoff got off to a slow start
      Spremo, Boris
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      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.
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