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Everybody has a story, everybody has things they ve done, Harvey Fraser insisted as he sat down to talk to a reporter about why he was one of four people to receive this year s City of Kamloops Distinguished Service Award. I was surprised they chose me, he said during an interview inside the Heffley Creek house he built in 1972, with its wooden beams and fir floor inlaid with mahogany and walnut.
Yeah, but no one has told Fraser s story, and although he s shy about it, it s a story worth telling.
Fraser was born in 1930 in Gravenhurst, Ont., in the District of Muskoka, which is the area s cottage country. The town of 1,200 would swell up with a few thousand tourists in the summer, tripling or even quadrupling in population.