Eleven-year-old Carter Sandstrom is not a letter-writer. And he doesn’t usually watch the news. But early this winter, the Shakopee Middle School student caught President Barack Obama on TV and decided to send him a letter. He and his mother Karen Sandstrom never expected to hear back.
“I’m really excited, and I think it’s newspaper worthy,” Carter gushed to a reporter, whom he called minutes after opening the White House envelope...