Dick Peplow Dick Peplow was on the airwaves in the early to mid 1970's at CKSO AM.  During part of his time here, Dick was also Program Director for the AM side. Dick's on air radio days were right in the main stream of adult contemporary, Top 40, Drake format days of AM radio. He, like so many of today's veterans, started early in his teens spinning records part-time for CJIC AM while he attended Grade 12 at Sault Collegiate Institute.  He was full-time at CKCY in 1963.  He also made stops along the way in at CKPR, Thunder Bay, Dawson Creek, St. Thomas, Kirkland Lake, Sudbury, Yellowknife and Winnipeg. Most recently Dick Peplow was President and General Manager and founder of a successful online news and information web site, SooToday.com.  It is independently and locally owned competing with local printed newspaper in presenting Sault Ste. Marie news.  The site includes sports, classifieds, police reports, editorials, columns, business directories and more.  The web site started up on September 25, 2000 under a different domain name primarily to distribute discount coupons.  Eventually Peplow re-invented the on line business turning it into an on line newspaper.  He retired from SooToday.com  at the end of October, 2004. His retirement from SooToday.com ended a 41-year career in broadcast, print and online media.  It's a career that began and ended in the Sault. Sadly, on July 13th, 2007, Dick Peplow passed away.  He was 63. He is survived by his wife Joanne Peplow and his children Candice (Jake), Jason (Pam), Christine and Lindsay, and many relatives.