Humboldt Journal

EAST CENTRAL — Walk-in counselling is now open for anyone that needs it who lives in the northern part of the east central region.

HUMBOLDT — Paving crews will be coming to Humboldt within “about a week or two,” said director of public works and utilities Peter Bergquist.

COLONSAY — Mosaic has announced that it will temporarily close its Colonsay potash mine.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders win last Thursday over the Hamilton Tiger Cats began with a flourish and had a dramatic ending. In between there was a lot of grinding football.

EAST CENTRAL — The annual meeting of the Hudson Bay Route Association (HBRA) is coming up in Flin Flon and a federal cabinet minister will make his way north.

MELFORT — A lawyer who served as the crown prosecutor in the trial against the man responsible for the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, has been appointed as a provincial judge.

UPDATE: Marcus Lafond has been found safe and sound HERITAGE LAKE — Smeaton RCMP are asking for the public's help to locate 13-year-old Marcus Lafond. On Aug. 4, Lafond was at Heritage Lake with a group of other youths.

UPDATE: Clarice Reynolds has been found safe and sound. CANDLE LAKE — Smeaton RCMP are asking for the public's help to locate a 13-year old girl that went missing from the Sandy Bay Campground at Candle Lake.

Northern Saskatchewan have just finished first in the type of competition no region wants to win.

From the Humboldt Journal files, Aug. 2, 1989