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That's the hope of Ottawa resident Corinne Friesen, who recently discovered an case of old Kodachrome photographic transparencies (or slides) from White Rock among her possessions.
The former CBC radio host and yoga blogger (also known as the singer Lovarra) moved out of her home at 15180 Beachview Ave., near Five Corners in White Rock in December of 2021, returning to Ottawa to live with family.
Her son helped her pack her belongings for shipping across the country, and finding the case of slides tucked away at the back of a built-in book cabinet, assumed they were among Friesen's possessions.
They sat on a shelf in Friesen's new home for some three years until she was finally going through everything that had come with her in the move.
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Friesen, who has retained close ties with White Rock, made a post in the White Rock/South Surrey Community Group on Facebook asking whether anyone could identify the owner of the slides and offering to arrange to return them to the rightful owner.
"(The case is) full of family photos, looks like from the 1980s or so," she said in the post. "Lots of travel pictures in among them. I lived there for 11 years so it's some family that lived there before 2010."
Friesen said she received a lot of responses and they're still coming in.
"All these people have got involved," she said. "So many people provided pieces of the puzzle."
And it appears that the mystery is only one positive identification away from being resolved, Friesen said, thanks to memories of neighbours, and a post from a local real estate agent who checked into the past sales history of the house.
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"I just really want to get her slides back to her, and maybe somebody who reads the paper will be able to contact her."
Also a songwriter and recording artist, Friesen said she has become increasingly active in the busy Ottawa music scene. While still a resident of White Rock, she released more than two dozen songs and five EPs and was named jazz artist of the year in the 2022 Fraser Valley Music Awards.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Friesen/Lovarra became well known in the Five Corners neighbourhood for her impromptu balcony concerts following the customary pot-banging to salute first responders, hospital emergency staff, other health-care workers.
Friesen said she feels concern about the discovered pictures has rekindled some of that community feeling,
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