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New mayor of Candle Lake an old hand at municipal issues
Candle Lake’s new mayor Colleen Lavoie might be sitting in the mayor’s chair for the first time but she is not new to how a municipality works.
Lavoie spent time in the past as a municipal administrator and has been coming to Candle Lake in the summers for her whole life.
“I don’t think we ever missed coming to Candle Lake for a holiday every year. That was kind of like our happy place. So, it seemed like as our children got older and we had time and money, we finally bought a cabin here and made it our weekend place to be,” she said.
Her parents used to own the only store on the road to Candle Lake, called the Pine Valley Store. When a new highway was built to the resort village, she said her parents closed the store but before that, her mother would send her children to visit aunts, uncles, grandparents and other family who were at the resort.