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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Choking back tears in his Ruthven Place backyard, an emotional Douglas Brunner thanked those who helped upgrade his home to make it more cost effective and energy efficient. “I didn’t think it was possible and that there were that many good people left in this world,” said Brunner. “Thank you very much.” Brunner was presented with a symbolic key to his newly upgraded home >>>energy, page 2
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arm, affectionate and sweet are the words Philip White’s wife, Trudy Appleby, uses to describe her late husband, a former mayor of the city of York. “He was the sweetest person I ever met,” said Appleby. White died Saturday from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 90. A funeral service was held Monday at Beth Tzedec Synagogue. He lived in the former borough of York and attended Harbord Collegiate, according to Appleby. White served as York’s mayor from 1970 until 1978; he became the longest-serving mayor for the borough of York and helped citizens become more involved in the political process by encouraging “participatory democracy.” Appleby and White met when she was 18 years old and he was 24. They went out on only one date, Appleby recalled, because she didn’t like the place he took her to. Both married different people, but 29 years later White had divorced and Appleby’s husband had died. At the time, she wasn’t sure she was ready to date – her father had died a year earlier, her husband just nine months prior and her mother was in the hospital suffering from brittle bones disease. But her reverend coaxed her into considering a date and she’s grateful he did. “He said, ‘I got the gentleman, his name is Philip White.’ And I said, isn’t >>>ARENA, page 9