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Something to crow about. Gerry Phillips, Scarborough school trustee and chairman of the Metro School Board, took a different chair last night. He was (...)
Something to crow about. Gerry Phillips, Scarborough school trustee and chairman of the Metro School Board, took a different chair last night. He was (...)

Something to crow about. Gerry Phillips, Scarborough school trustee and chairman of the Metro School Board, took a different chair last night. He was (...)

Date9/27/1977
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  • Something to crow about. Gerry Phillips, Scarborough school trustee and chairman of the Metro School Board, took a different chair last night. He was (...)
  • Something to crow about. Gerry Phillips, Scarborough school trustee and chairman of the Metro School Board, took a different chair last night. He was the everything must go auctioneer at the annual sale of the Scarborough Historical Society in Bendale Library. One of the more unusual items up for bids was the straw rooster. Do I hear one dollar . . . ?
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Original Toronto Star caption: Something to crow about. Gerry Phillips, Scarborough school trustee and chairman of the Metro School Board, took a different chair last night. He was the everything must go auctioneer at the annual sale of the Scarborough Historical Society in Bendale Library. One of the more unusual items up for bids was the straw rooster. Do I hear one dollar . . . ?
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    What'm I bid? The auctioneer last night was Metropolitan Toronto School Board chairman and Scarborough Ward 11 Trustee Gerry Phillips. For the sixth y(...)
    What'm I bid? The auctioneer last night was Metropolitan Toronto School Board chairman and Scarborough Ward 11 Trustee Gerry Phillips. For the sixth y(...)
    Darrell, Dick
    9/27/1979
    Last hectic week fo the provincial election campaign leaves Gerry Phillips, Liberal candidate in Scarborough North, little time for his young family. (...)
    Last hectic week fo the provincial election campaign leaves Gerry Phillips, Liberal candidate in Scarborough North, little time for his young family. (...)
    Combs, Erin
    9/10/1975
    Good neighbor: School board chairman Bill Phillips helped found area's first church.
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    Combs, Erin
    11/28/1984
    Toronto school trustee Herbert Barnes says that Queen's Park must act to curtail the power of the Metro school board over locally-elected boards
    Toronto school trustee Herbert Barnes says that Queen's Park must act to curtail the power of the Metro school board over locally-elected boards
    Barnes, Herbert
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    R. Val Scott, a trustee who is vice-chairman of the North York Board of Education, says our school system is harmful and should be changed
    Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
    9/30/1971
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    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    5/13/1982
    Olivia Chow has fought for social issues as a Toronto School Board trustee and now as a Metro councillor for the Downtown Toronto riding. The Ontario (...)
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    Chow, Olivia, 1957-
    2/26/1992
    Uncanny balance was demonstrated again by Neil Young last night when he took an audience at the CNE Grandstand that ranged from hippies to yuppies and gave them all something to cheer about,
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    Cooper, David
    9/1/1984
    Tasting defeat, A dejected Alderman Joe Piccininni contemplates his defeat last night by school trustee Betty Disero - after 25 years on council. The people of the ward have spoken, he said
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    Bull, Ron
    11/12/1985
    Mike Cote: 22, 2663 Lakeshore Blvd. W. Single. He is an assistant greens keeper at a golf course and ran unsuccessfully for trustee in Ward 1 in 1978 and 1980. He believes the school board should view declining enrolment as a chance to increase the teacher/student ratio. He is opposed to the section of Bill 127 that would reduce the decision-making power of local trustees.
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    Dexter, Brian
    10/20/1982
    Symphony on the Square. Toronto Symphony conductor Victor Feldbrill yesterday took the orchestra to Nathan Phillips Square for the last of four outdoor performances in Metro this week
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    Feldbrill, Victor, 1924-
    9/2/1976
    Two views, Nola Crewe (left), who chairs board, represents a backlash against NDP-dominated politics but Trustee Fiona Nelson says nothing is more political than education
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    Darrell, Dick
    12/4/1979