Ms. Bondar snows the competition

Dr. Roberta Bondar, SooToday.com's Very Favourite Person Immortalized in a Brass Bust on Bay Street, has passed the first cut in the Hamilton Spectator's search for the Greatest Hamiltonian of All Time.

After winning a similar honour last year from SooToday.com readers, Bondar (shown hanging around the waterfront in a SooToday.com file photo) today entered Round Two of the Spectator's search, after such great Canadians as Russ Jackson, Karen Kain, Eugene Levy, John Munro, William Osler, Martin Short and John Sopinka were cut from the initial list of 50 names.

The Spectator is accepting e-mail, Internet and paper ballots.

And after SooToday.com enccouraged our readers (quite impartially) to vote for the Lady-Doctor-Astro-Saultbie-Photographer-Postergirl of their choice, so many of you stumped for Roberta that the Sault interest in the competition was specifically mentioned in today's Spectator coverage.

Now, the newspaper is preparing to whittle down its short-list to just ten names.

There's an entirely new round of voting.

And you know what you have to do, SooToday.com readers!

Click here to vote for the Greatest Hamiltonian of All Time, Round 2