Paka first brought his family to the park, located north of Alexandria on Lake Carlos, in the 1960s. Since then he has returned almost every year the first week in August for a week of camping. Over the years, the trees at the campgrounds have grown from seedlings to towering hardwoods. And his family has also grown with four generations joining him the first week of August. This is all a great story all by itself. But there is more… Paka recently celebrated his 100th birthda