Humboldt Journal & East Central Recorder

A wealth of Humboldt athletes were recognized at the City of Humboldt's Awards Recognition ceremony for 2011 on January 20.

It was a busy week for basketball. The Three Lakes School Avengers senior boys' basketball team first played a game against Lake Lenore Lancers on January 18. The Lancers won the game 86-82.

The official opening ceremonies and the first draw of the SaskPower Scotties Tournament of Hearts Women's Provincial Curling Championships were held the evening of January 25.

Gilbert John RoettgerOctober 12, 1937 - January, 18, 2012 The death of Mr. Gilbert John Roettger of Pilger, SK, occurred at Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. He was 74 years of age.

Over the weekend, the Melfort Mustangs managed to do what no other team in the SJHL has been able to do since the end of November - beat the Humboldt Broncos.

He's part of the Bronze Medal winning team. Reid Gardiner of Humboldt played with the Team Canada hockey team in the 2012 Youth Olympics from January 13-22 in Innsbruck, Austria, the team that won a bronze medal.

On Sunday night, a group of arts-minded Humboldtonians gathered at the old Humboldt Collegiate Institute to say goodbye to Sutherland Theatre by performing on its stage, or watching the performance from its seats, one last time.

On an ordinary Thursday afternoon in January when most students at Humboldt Collegiate Institute (HCI) were in class, 80 teenage girls took possession of the school's gymnasium for a "gym-blast.

In the first draw of the SaskPower Scotties Tournament of Hearts Women's Provincial Curling Championships, the Sivernagle rink (in purple) of Meadow Lake took on the Gillies rink (in white) out of Kerrobert.

The event the Humboldt Curling Club has been anticipating is now literally just around the corner.