Weekend Rewind 1.20.12
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of the week that was.
Sometimes life is just too hectic to take it all in, we understand and have compiled the events of the last week for your leisurely weekend viewing pleasure.
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Most viewed news story this week.
Most shared on Facebook this week.
We watched this video and realized people can do really amazing things.
Also this week:
Our favourite astronaut is coming to town because 'dreams do come true'
The 3.3 million YMCA facility improvements are done!
A film partially shot here, is up for a Genie award.
Big Wish Lottery tix are now on sale, 70 thousand cash can be yours
$43.4 million allocated for yet-to-be-named secondary school.
Below is a photo of the original east end McDonalds..
Going, going..
Gone.
Also this week:
Deborah Pine was awarded the Bud and Anne Wildman Scholarship at Algoma U, 267 more honours were bestowed.
$541,600 in FedNor funding for the Soo.
We suggested you try and imagine a world without free knowledge
An impressive new centre should be ready by March.
We applauded the news of a five-day retreat for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered kids!
SAH is expecting to rack up a surplus next year.
Guess how many citizens attended last Monday's public budget input session?
Johnson Township gears up for it's Winter Festival
From Billy Bishop to Timmins, yep!
Dan and Mitchell Lemieux sure can throw them rocks.
The Marconi Society turns 100!
Have you heard about George Leach's Centre Gold Club?
We wondered where this huge TV is at?
An unusually high number of highway deaths puts drivers on the OPP radar
A bridge is renamed in honour of the first in Sault Police history to fall in the line of duty.
Also this week:
Teeny tiny Colton was born at only 3 pounds 3 ounces, find out how he is doing now
The very first Bridge Bi-National Scholarship will be awarded this year
Updates on our two new schools were released
The West Neebish Channel is closing up shop.
Fedeli calls for a fishing and hunting licence fiasco intervention.
NDP asking for our help to record poorly maintained roads this winter.
What is the number one preventable disability in Canada?
The OPP showed us what 30 pounds of pot looks like
Robber wannabe with his fake gun is now in even more trouble.
We found out the fire at the court house last August is still a mystery.
Colleagues, friends and family said farewll to Stormin' Norman Pitt.
Judge Holder passed away at 91
The Root River Golf Club wouldn’t be what it is today without Jane Barsanti.
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We lit a candle by our computer in honour of all those we lost from our community...
Patricia Allan, John Morrison, Carmine Ficociello, Orlando DeMarco, Linda Campbell, Clive Calce, Fred Beck, Rose Huard, Wayne Seabrook, Norm Pitt, Lucy Lay, Maria Silvano, Leonilda Caputo, Candy Glaves-Boissoneau, Derek Holder Q.C., Sam Romano, Dorothy Baraluk, Helen Cail, Seija McKennitt, Manuel Marques, Jane Barsanti, Glenn Lewis, Ron LaPlante, Cal Gardiner, Sonny Doran, Gord Pickard, Jamie Burns and Truman Burch.
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