Humboldt Journal

An Alberta-based hotel chain with a location in Humboldt is up for multiple Saskatchewan Achievement in Business Excellence (ABEX) awards.

BRONS:It is with great sadness that the family announce that Mr. August Brons 90 years of Humboldt passed away peacefully at St. Mary's Villa surrounded by his family on Saturday, October 15, 2011.

JURGENS:Irene was born in Mancota, SK on July 20, 1925. She was raised in Windthorst, SK. Irene met Herman Jurgens in Regina and the two were married in 1949. They had three children Hilda, Yvonne, and Iran Jurgens.

BRIGGS:The death of Mr. Stewart Clayton Briggs of Spalding, SK, occurred at Humboldt District Hospital, Humboldt, SK, on Sunday, October 16, 2011. He was 92 years of age.

The list of candidates running in local constituencies in the provincial election grew last week.

Ah, provincial election time. It's a magical time, for everyone in this province.

It was a smackdown at the Elgar Petersen Arena last week when the Humboldt Broncos took on the LaRonge Ice Wolves. Though it didn't start out that way. The Broncos got off to a very slow start in the game, played October 11.

Nearly 600 runners hit the trails at Lucien Lake Regional Park on October 15, competing in the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletics Association (SHSAA) Provincial Cross Country Championships, hosted by Three Lakes School in Middle Lake.

On Friday, October 14, the Humboldt Collegiate Institute (HCI) Mohawks felt something they had not felt in 16 games: the sting of defeat. The Melfort Comets came into Glen Hall Park not having beaten HCI since 2008, and not in Humboldt since 2000.

It takes a special kind of humility for a medical professional to admit that something he or she was taught in medical school, and has long since clung to as fact, is actually false.