My name is Melinda Dorchak our family’s go way back from going down to the stampede grounds and betting on the horse races to having family dinners at the farm. Paul then became our lawyer. Paul was a man of his word and he got the job done. I’m sorry I can’t be there today I am in Las Vegas but today I beat one last race in honour of Paul it’s racing through GULFSTREAM RACE 9 name of the horse is called HEAVENS EXPRESS $10.00 to WIN. I no Paul your with your friends and horse buddies my dad Johnny Doyal Dorchak, Doyal Andrew Dorchak and Darrell Wayne Hartley so as the saying goes. MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU. Let’s WIN this one. Thinking of all your family in this hard time god bless.

My name is Joe Schnitzer. I have a long, long association with my friend Paul. We go back to 1950 when our families emigrated from refugee camps in post war occupied Germany. We sailed on the same ship and travelled on the same train to Lethbridge, Alberta in 1950 where both families served completed their contracts with the federal government to work as farm laborers to pay for our passage to Canada. Hoeing sugar beets in the late fall of 1950 was tough. It still is the coldest winter on record. Coincidentally we ended up living on the same street on the northside of Lethbridge. Paul and I played Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin and Cowboy and Indians in the coulees and the Oldman River valley. Our adventures would horrify any mother today. Broken arms and stiches were part of those days. We did have great times. Paul moved and went to public school I went to separate school. We reunited at the U of C in 1965 boarding in student quarters on campus. Naturally much carousing followed. Paul passed that year, I did not returning later to get my engineering degree. Then some 15 years passed before we ran into each other on a golf course in Calgary. That led to many golf games and sporting events over25 years. Paul was an avid boxing fan, a good pool player and not too bad at imbibing. We had good times until I moved away in 2006. It saddens me that time and distance diluted our connections. I will regret not knowing of Paul's illness. I wish I could have sat with him to recall our adventures. I am honored to having known him. I regret I cannot attend the celebration of a fruitful life. Rest in peace old friend.

Paul holds space in my memory as an integral part of my family history. He started as a friend/confidant to my father and they quickly became good friends - a friendship that spanned over 40 years. In fact, they were so close that when Paul's son Mark was born, my father was asked to be his Godfather. It was an honour for my father to be entrusted with such an important role.

My father brought Paul into the Greek Community where he was welcomed and admired. He attended many functions at the Greek church including weddings, baptisms, parties and funerals. He was a trusted friend to the community. In fact, he was so admired that all the Greek ladies (including my mother) were always trying to marry him off to one of the single Greek girls! How he managed to escape those matches I am not sure.

I don't recall a major event in my family that Paul was not a part of. He was always there for us as a family in good times and bad. He was with us at holiday dinners and big life events both as a friend and, sometimes, our legal advisor. When we had a problem we always knew we could rely on Paul for help and guidance.

For those that knew Paul, he can be described as a BIG personality. Paul never waffled with his opinions or decisions. You always knew where you stood with him. He was not a man who blended in or hung back. My father loved that about him.

To Mark - his beloved son- he was so very proud of you. You forever changed his life and, even softened him. I will never forget the look on his face when he announced your birth. It was pure joy.

To Nancy, his partner. With you Paul found his match, his equal. He spoke of you and your accomplishments with pride. You were the strong, independent woman he was always searching for.

I picture Paul now sitting with my father, listening to some Greek music and enjoying an ouzo together. May his memory be eternal.

With our sympathies,

The Georgeadis Family

Lula, Christina (Roy, Anna and Adam), Chris, Demetrios (Jennifer)

To Paul's family, especially his loving 'Fancy Nancy'. His passing has left a great impact. Though we've never met Paul in person, but I and my daughter Zoe always held a special place in our hearts for him. A truly wonderful person who was not just my client, but more like family. His last wish to publish another novel with me is a memory I shall hold on to. I hope and pray you and family find God's peace in this tough time.

To Paul's family. My sister-in-law in Calgary just made me aware of Paul's passing. I'm truly impacted by his passing even though Paul and I haven't conversed for some 30 years. In spite of our lack of contact, we were very good friends when we were in University. First at the Lethbridge Junior College and then a year at the University of Calgary, we were both enrolled in the faculty of Education at the time and both planning to be Social Studies teachers. We first met at the LJC in 1965 and had a wonderful friendship in Lethbridge playing shuffle board as partners in various bars in this small city at the time. The following year we, along with a group of about a dozen young university students moved on to the U of C as that was the only avenue to continue the 3rd. and 4th. year of a B. of Ed. and a student teaching practicum was available to us in that year. Paul and I were practicum partners that year, first at Harrold Panabaker Junior High in the very south end of Calgary and then lmost downtown at Viscount Bennett High School. We travelled home to Lethbridge for many weekends during that year of school and sometimes my sister-in-law traveled with us as she was attending the U of C and she also got to know Paul. Some 30 years ago my son was involved in a traffic accident in Calgary and I contacted Paul for advice which he gave me to take care of the situation. We had some common situations that were very similar, we were both born in Germany, my parents were Polish and likely in a very similar situation to Paul's and we were 12 days apart in birthdays. In spite of the fact that we were only friends for essentially 2 years we might as well have been friends for life. I am so sad to learn of Paul's passing, I am so pleased at his accomplishments in life and wish I had been able to express that to him, he was an impressionable person in my life and a very important part of my memory of my life. I hope that your family is able to deal with Paul's passing in a comfortable way and I wish you the very best in life as you move on. Hans Lisowicz, Lethbridge, Alberta.