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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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  • Staying in touch: Pollick likes to take regular strolls around Electro-home's plants
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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_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
Faught, Ken
8/5/1987
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.
Mahler, John
9/15/1976
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
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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
Beaty, Keith
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]
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
8/27/1978
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
Bock, Tony
1/15/1992
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
Brennan, Pat
12/12/1985
Love's labors lost: Tsong-Hue and Hsu Lin look at the few Bonsai plants they have left after thieves stole 30 plants in two raids
Love's labors lost: Tsong-Hue and Hsu Lin look at the few Bonsai plants they have left after thieves stole 30 plants in two raids
Brazao, Dale
11/5/1987
Safety measure: Hospital identification band could include an invisible electro sensitive tape to keep track of those patients whose movement must be controlled, suggests reader J
Safety measure: Hospital identification band could include an invisible electro sensitive tape to keep track of those patients whose movement must be controlled, suggests reader J
Beaty, Keith
7/20/1981
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
Loek, Dick
5/29/1974
Moment of high drama in the world of plants comes whenplant doctor Brian Murphy, right, diagnoses the ills of the ficus Benjamina, the pride of Don Lerner, left, Murphy is checking the light readin inthe area in which the plant is kept
Moment of high drama in the world of plants comes whenplant doctor Brian Murphy, right, diagnoses the ills of the ficus Benjamina, the pride of Don Lerner, left, Murphy is checking the light readin inthe area in which the plant is kept
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
10/24/1975
Gary Perpich, is a plant shop owner-cum-doctor to the plants he has sold
Gary Perpich, is a plant shop owner-cum-doctor to the plants he has sold
Beaty, Keith
n.d.