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SooToday.com has recived the following e-mail and accompaying photos from a loyal reader and Saultbie serving with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan.

When Jordan Romero was nine, he saw a school mural of the highest summits on seven continents. He decided then and there to go for it. The California boy is now 13 and he's climbed four of those mountains, including Alaska's Mount McKinley.

The wheels on a school bus went round and round today. All the way from the Soup Kitchen Community Centre to Sault College.

Actor Meinhardt Raabe, best known as the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard of Oz , is dead. Media reports this afternoon indicate that Raabe died in a hospital in Orange Park, Florida. He was 94.

NEWS RELEASE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA ************************* Prime minister offers his condolences on the tragic death of Lech Kaczzynski, president of Poland “It is with shock and profound sadness that I learned this morning of the

Curtis Collins is pretty gosh-darn excited about the Art Gallery of Algoma's latest acquisitions. The gallery director is shown holding a photograph of boxer Donovan "Razor" Ruddock, taken by world-renowned photographer Larry Fink.

"I'll take credit in sucking their treasury dry." - Retiring Upper Pensinsula Congressman Bart Stupak on Tea Party campaign against him (video).

Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and many top-ranking government officials are among scores of people dead following a plane crash early this morning in western Russia. There are conflicting reports on the number of lives lost.

NEWS RELEASES DAVID ORAZIETTI, MPP **************************** Orazietti announces $597,107 in additional transfer funding for the City of Sault Ste. Marie McGuinty government investments support Ontario municipalities SAULT STE.

NEWS RELEASE CONGRESSMAN BART STUPAK 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN ************************* National and Michigan leaders's statements on Congressman Stupak's decision to retire WASHINGTON, DC – Following U.S.