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Whitby Free Press, 10 Feb 1993, p. 7

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Whitby Free Press, Wedfnesday. February 10, 1993, Page 7 PAGE SEVEN Once around the room PREMIER BOB: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Enough adulation, whatever that means. Thank you for coming to this first meeting of- the new, revised, lean, mean, keen, certifled Bob Rae Ontario Super- Cabinet. FIRST VOICE: Premier Bob, Premier Bob, Premier Bob.. . PREMIER: Thanks, Floyd. Now, f»irst I had better introduce everybody. First, I'm Bob, buty ou knew that. I hope. Then on my right theýre's Floyd head bean counter ... or is that 'been' counter .. . ha, ha, ha. Floyd is in charge of money FLOYD: We want more! WZ want more! We want more! BOB RAE: What a card eh, folks? Always a hoot, that Floyd. Now on my lefA I wvould like to introduce Frances Lankin, superminister of Economic Develop- ment. LANKIN: Sure beats patrolling the drunk tank. RAE: And also on my left -- everybody in the party's on my left except Floyd -- here's David Cooke, superminister of Education and Training. FIRST VOICE: Premier Bob, Premier Bob, Premier Bob ... RAE: It's aggravating, but I do enjoy that adulation. Thank you. 0Nw. Superministers.Sp ecially for the photo-op, you may now climb into t e three phone booths on stage here in the conference room. Yessiree! Right before everyone, these three will climb into their tights and capes and fly Peter Pan-style once around the room. Ready? (Some confusion stage right. Huddled mandarins, shivering like oranges, whisper.)T RAE: (aso whispers) Sur ou can, Floyd. Think Iovely thoughts. Think love thoughts! FLOYD: That was Peter an. And it's hard to, thinkE lovely thoughts when the deficit is above $1-billion and growing. Even after I cooked the books about that SkyDome deal. RAE: Just do it, Floyd. Watch those other two. Just look at Lankin go! And Cooke is just soaring. Just a happy wish, a pinch of pixie dust from the land of make-believe, and we're in Never-Neyer Land.ONAILDES LEGADTLSC EHUE,19 miOistrI.Thaut's whyI otthsupred S'on m e supr A frame telescoipe house was built for astronomy classes at the Ontario Ladies' College (now ainisred ae n vyhighat's hIgo this P o cet Trafagar Castle Schoel) in 1878. It stood south of the school, and had a roof that could be anmtife aeadeeyhig htst ee opened at night for classes conducted by the principal, Rev. Dr. John Jamnes Hare. RAE: Corne on, you're sounding like Captain Hook. Mike barris would be more fun than you. The Press is waiting. They find out you can't fly, spiat, youtre finished. NEW VOICE: Mel Swart for Premier!. Mel Swart for 10 YEARS AGO Premier! Mel Swart . -.. fr the Wednesday, February 9, 1983 edition of the IIAE: Who left Peter Kormos in here? Get hirn out, WITBY FREE PRESS will you? Tell him to get a life. Preferably in another Florence. M. Heard, a teacher for 40 years, for whom a sehool was narned in 1974, died on FLÃ"YD: -Gamvbling, you twit! Garnbling! Garnbling! Betting, poker, craps. 80 YEARS AGO PILKEY: Craps te you, too. f fromn the Thursday, February 6, 1913 edition of the RAE: Sometimes I wonder why I bother. Pi]key, go flWIIIY GAZETTE AND GIIRONICLE see that Kormos gets a, parking ticket. Okay, you " ere Kerr, caretalcer of the Court House, was stricken by paralysis yesterday. three, once more around the room. Tat's g ood, Floyd. *ht will get a $22,000 federal grant for harbour improvements. Alittie higher. Oops! Well, what'e litt e knock on * t costs $1.25 for a round trip between VWhy and Lindsay by rail. the nogn? Il's ail in good fun.* Somne county councillors don't want the amount of their salaries published in the Gazette

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