By Michael Oleksyn Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre is hosting an event towards reconciliation this week at the Ches Leach Lounge in the Art Hauser Centre. Legacy and Reconciliation: The Next Step to Healing began Monday and runs until Nov. 9. Marcel Lerat of the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre said the event is about Residential Schools and the stories told by students who attended them. “So many of the people nowadays are residential school survivors, are products of the environment,” Lerat said. “I myself, I went to the day school and my whole family are products (of it). My mother, my grandmother, all my aunts all attended Bret Boarding School in southern Saskatchewan, so a lot of it
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