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What brings 2 successful business women to Prince Edward County – and finds them producing the very finest, all-natural ice cream ? Well, it’s a story of luck, love and a double helping of hard work. Pat Hacker was born in Florida, schooled in
Georgia and attended Columbia University in New York before moving
to Toronto; further studies at Carlton University and the University
of Ottawa followed. Much as they both loved living in Toronto, it was the “mysterious call” of Prince Edward County (a “call” that many more city folk are hearing) that brought them to Bloomfield. After four years of weekending in The County they finally made the commitment to become full time residents in 1993, when they opened the Bloomfield Circle Bed & Breakfast. After a few years the delights of worrying about the comfort of guests was wearing thin, so with the desire to create a product that could generate smiles and happy memories, in 1997 they launched a small speciality ice cream business in the corner of a pizza parlour, making bi-weekly trips into Toronto to pick up product.
Their goal: to produce the finest ice cream in Ontario, using all natural ingredients – most from local suppliers. And it is Pat’s childhood memories of growing up in the Southern States, when making ice cream was a long and exciting experience, full of anticipation, that became the gem of the idea of what Slickers should be – and is today. So, with the help of a number of local shareholders, the first Slickers store opened in Bloomfield in the Spring of 1999. And the rest is history. With Retail distribution around the Prince Edward-Quinte-Northumberland region, supplying some of the best restaurants in the area, and shipping anywhere in Ontario, Slickers enters a new stage of development. Where will they go from here ??
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Marie
Frye was born in Germany to a RCAF pilot, grew up in Muskoka
and Toronto, attended Trent University and spent a summer as Artist-in-Residence
there. Marie joined the Toronto Humane Society, then moved on to
the City of Toronto Department of Public Health. To express her
creative bent, she started renovating houses and found that she
had a serious talent in hand-cut ceramic tiling. This talent is
put to good use in the Slickers stores – but also in
a number of houses throughout Prince Edward County. 
Her
professional life has taken her from women’s career counselling
to teaching at Seneca and George Brown College, and finally working
in marketing for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1982 Pat
was presented with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Communications.
This skill is clearly expressed in the warm welcome that awaits
all visitors to Slickers. 
After
2 years and a car that finally broke down on the 401, they figured
that if they made their own ice cream they could not only control
what went into it but also become far more creative with flavours.
Marie attended an intensive course in ice cream technology at the
University of Guelph - and they were on their way. 
