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Pearl LorentzenLakeside Leader On November 1, 1966, Don and Ruth Whillier decided to check out Slave Lake. Ruth had been through the town when she was a child during World War II, but Don had never been. Don had applied…

Joe McWilliamsLakeside Leader Duane Kerik was like a lot of his friends and neighbours; there were things about local government he didn’t like and he wasn’t shy about saying so. Unlike most of them, however, he stepped up and did…

Pearl Lorentzen Lakeside Leader Northern Lakes College started out as a Community Vocational Centre, which provided adult education in various communities. In Kinuso, Lorentz Lorentzen was the teacher for 13 years. In a cutline in a 1974 Northland Free Press…

When you’re born in 1914, one sees a lot of changes in a lifetime.Even when he came out west, Gerard Mercier’s original plan was to settle his roots down in the Vancouver area, where he could live by the ocean.…

Pearl Lorentzen Lakeside Leader From 1931 to 2021, a lot has changed, but where there’s snow there is sledding.  “We used to go sliding down the hill in the winter,” says Stevy Johnson (90). “And I loved high heeled shoes,…