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On Thursday, July 4 at approximately 11:50 p.m., Humboldt RCMP received a report of a two-vehicle collision on 1st Avenue in Watrous. 

Officers responded immediately along with local fire and EMS. Investigation determined a truck collided with a parked semi. The driver and sole occupant of the truck was declared deceased by EMS at the scene. She has been identified as a 32-year-old female from Watrous. Her family has been notified. 

There's plenty of local baseball to catch this weekend. It gets going on Saturday when the East Central AAA 15U Dodgers take on 
the Yorkton Cardinals in a double header at Centennial Park starting at noon. 

We've also got the 18U AAA Red Sox at James Korte Field in a double header with the Parkland Expos. That's noon at James 
Korte Field.

If you're in Watrous this weekend the 18UAA team will take to the field on Saturday at 1:00 against the PA Royals and again on Sunday at noon for a double header with the Weyburn Angels.

Doug Armbruster has been a strong supporter of school and education activities in Subdivision 9 of the Horizon School Division. The Division has announced that Armbruster has resigned from the Board of Education due to an upcoming move.  

Humboldt/Lanigan RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in locating individual(s) responsible for theft that occurred from a vehicle at a business located in Humboldt on 8 avenue on the 10000 block between the hours of Friday, June 14, 2024 at 5:00 pm and Monday June 17, 2024 at 5:00 pm. 

The suspect(s) stole a toolbox containing tools with the estimated cost of over $5000.00.

Greg Fertuck who was found guilty last month of the first-degree murder of his estranged wife, Sheree, received a life sentence and four years for indignity to human remains on Thursday afternoon. 

Sheree Fertuck was last seen on December 7, 2015, leaving her mother's farm near Kenaston, Sask., en route to the gravel pit. Her body has never been found.  

Raymore’s Travis Flahr was recently awarded the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association’s Service Award at the SHSAA Annual General Meeting. This award is given annually by the SHSAA to honor those who have provided outstanding leadership and service and the promotion of high school athletics within their school athletic district, Travis’s district being the Horizon Central Athletic Association. 

In an incredible act of heroism and sacrifice, Joe and Chris Novecosky rushed to the aid of family members who had fallen through the ice on Humboldt Lake last November.  

Joe and Chris perished in their efforts to rescue seven-year-old Ava Novecosky and six-year-old Evelyn Novecosky who had been playing on the frail ice. For their heroism, the pair has posthumously been awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism. 

The Horizon Central Athletic Association proudly announced the recipient of the 2024 Kent Lessmeister Memorial Scholarship.  

This year’s deserving recipient is graduate Marie Millette from Humboldt Collegiate Institute. Marie will be attending St. Peter’s College in Muenster in the fall of 2024 to attain her first year in Kinesiology and will then be heading to the University of Saskatchewan to complete her degree.  

Wynyard’s Trevor Otsig was recently awarded the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association’s highest honor, the Merit Award, at the SHSAA Annual General Meeting. This award is given by the SHSAA to honor those who have provided outstanding leadership and service and the promotion of high school athletics within their school athletic district and province as a whole.

To help celebrate the end of another school year, Humboldt Collegiate Institute (HCI) recently recognized the achievements of its students, in academics, sports and other award winners. 

Click on the links below to view the winners of the HCI Awards for 2023-24. 

Congratulations to all of the winners along with all the students that will be graduating.

HCI Sports