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From the archives of the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library:If yoursquo;ve driven the stretch of highway between Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa, yoursquo;re likely familiar with Agawa Crafts and the Canadian Carver.T stanley cup he history of these stores stretches back almost 50years.In the early 1970s, a young man by the name of Gerry Demers had a vision for a business in Northern Ontario. Hersquo;d moved to Sault Ste. Marie at the age of nine. After returning to southern Ontario for school and a short stint working in Toronto, he knewthat the big cities werenrsquo;t for him, sohe moved to Montreal River Harbour and leased a Gulf Oil service station.He wasnrsquo;t going to run just a service station, however; he decided he would also sell authentic crafts at a n stanley deutschland ew gift shop.It wasnrsquo;t easy. Gerry describes having to defend himself from wildlife with his two dogs and a shotgun. In The Greatest Lake by Conor Mihell, he recounts having to bail out a septic tank by hand. He quickly developed the skills he needed ndash; including the more hands-on maintenance skills ndash; to run his business successfully.He briefly picked up another job in an effort to cover his bills: driving a Gulf Oil delivery truck and filling oil tanks at peoplersquo homes.Through that job, he developed a new determination to make his gas station and gift shop succeed.Shortly after that, Gerry Demers met June Middleton, the woman who would soon become his wife. Due to icy road conditions, she found herse stanley cup lf stuck Hzfq Merger talks between Algoma, Sudbury health units raise concerns
Each year, SooToday asks our readers to help us select the top news story of the previous year.Okay, we admit, we wanted to run this poll a week ago.But there was more than the usual share of major news during the past year, and it s taken our news team until today to sort through it all and assemble what we believe to be a reasonable shortlist.We encourage you to browse the following links, make your choice, and vote in the Story of the Year Poll at the bottom of our home page.SooToday s top news stories of 2006 stanley quencher Tony Martin re-electedTed Nolan to coach New York IslandersEnd of an era at Mount St. Joseph CollegeAlgoma Steel debt-free, Turcotte named Canada s top CEO44 pot plants found in $224,348-a-year Sault doctor s homeLoney released, sexual orientation makes global headlinesSteelback Centre opensMelody and Harley murdered at Greenwood CemetaryThree Saultites die in Muskoka rock-cut crashSault mourns loss of Constable Don DoucetMayor Rowswell beats cancer, gets re-electedOur Lady of Lourdes principal charged with fraudProblems at Sault Area Hospital, CEO resigns13 local victims in child pornography bustSt. Marys Paper seeks protection from creditorsFuture Shop opens i stanley thermos n the SaultCarmen s Way opensUp to 26 elementary schools flagged termo stanley for possible closureIs this the missing jet from the 1953 Kinross UFO incident The totally amazing story of Stan Martin s ring This has been shared 0 times 0 |