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Weekend rewind (blasting back 10 years edition)

Weekend Rewind 2.10.12 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 past week for your leisurely weekend viewing pleasure.

Weekend Rewind 2.10.12

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 past week for your leisurely weekend viewing pleasure.

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SooToday.com turned 10 this month!

Let's take a blast back to SooToday.com news from the very early days in February 2002

Potential buyers looking at Searchmont.

Bickell employs share in 6-49 win.

Purvis barge goes under.

West End rec centre proposed.

SooToday editorialist makes bid for TV station

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Most viewed news story of the week was this one.

National news stories of the week:

History of Canada's worst crashes

Canada is throwing the Queen a party, Austrailia isn;t,

House of sober second thought, or first-grade birthday party?

Feature Stories This Week:

Dorothy Brooks-Mackay

Dorothy Brooks-McKay is a modern day Robin Hood as she literally “takes from the rich to give back to the poor.”

“I was raised to help people," she said. "That’s just what we did.

Read the rest here.

Elizabeth McKenna

Saultite Elizabeth McKenna was visiting with another survivor,...and the subject of her abuser, Reverend Francis Reed, came up..

..After a grueling 20-day cross-examination ...it was clear that McKenna wasn't going to relent ...

Read the rest here

Also this week:

Bon Soo 2012 kicked off.

We got a taste of unity.

Bunke’s took his third 1-500.

Wacky Wings invites you to print this coupon and get free food.

Census numbers are in, the Soo has this many people.

Toyota hosted a Bon Soo event in their huge new parking lot.

Ecstasy sold out the Grand Theatre.

A rezoning battle was settled Monday night.

We gave away free ski passes, and we'll do it again next week!

Donna Hopper looked into the bum slide bummer.

Viewers sent us photos of the critters spotted around town this week...

Also this week:

We watched this YouTube video of just another day wakeboarding at the beach in Alaska.

Wait. what?!

Also this week:

A harbour and a grotto came up again.

Express your opinion on the Grotto, council wants to hear it.

$464,850 approved towards physician recruitment

Workers began returning to Sudbury mine.

We were reminded talking about this might help others seek help

Regular SooToday columnist David Root did want to talk about it...

Interestingly, people will discuss their health problems – blood pressure, heart conditions, diabetes, arthritis, even cancer – and their sex lives and related difficulties, but they are embarrassed to talk about depression.

I speak from experience when I say that depression is not simply a choice, nor that one could “get over it” if they wanted to.

Read the rest here.

Also this week:

Young people interviewed seniors to record their histories for a book!

A Job and Career Fair announced for next week
 
New jobs were posted the SooToday Careers page
 
Coch has been adding video highlights of the Greyhounds to the sports section.
 
Vaudry gets approval from council for this

Ministry of Labour inspected our schools, did we pass?

Porter Airlines introduces ‘one price’ advertising
 
Serpent River First Nation council met and we have the notes.
 
Some green backs for green energy
 
We were introduced to downtown Tasha Varpio.

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We lit a candle by our computer in honour of all those we lost from our community...

Vilma Alopaeus, Constantino Pucci, Karen Mousseau, Marilyn Blais, Aida Catania, Charlie Shand, Donna Johnston, Andrew Stevenson, Alex Lapensee, Ed Dezelak, Jeanne Jones, Edwenna Little, Alain Paradis, Pearl Trudell, Joe Power and Jean Joki.

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