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Sacred Heart holds vigil for Bali By Cory Carlick Staff Writer The tone was sombre on Friday night as Sacred Heart held a vigil for Mekayla Bali, who remains missing. The vigil aims to keep Bali in people’s thoughts in the hopes she will have a safe return. The Heistads took the stage and performed a song they had written for Mekayla, and are recording for the benefit of her family. Missing since April of 2016, RCMP continue to search for her. The investigation is still ongoing. The Tosguna Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service stated on its Facebook page on February 24th, 2017 that it is believed she may have been seen at Grey Eagle Entertainment Centre. Little information has been forthcoming since. Anyone with any information about the whereabouts of Mekayla are asked to contact police.
More charges laid in Focht murder By Devin Wilger Staff Writer Three more people have been charged in the death of Colin Focht. Jordan Ironstand, 23, and a young offender who cannot be named, have both been charged with second degree murder. A third man, who is 18 but cannot be named due to being a young offender at the time, was charged with accessory after the fact of murder. All three were in court on April 15 on unrelated charges. Taiya Hudy, the first person charged in the case, will next appear in court on April 17. The recovered remains were also confirmed to be those of Focht, said the RCMP in a release, with a preliminary forensic autopsy conducted by Dr. Ernie Walker on April 5. A complete forensic autopsy will be conducted this week.
Intersection leaves Council divided By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer The completion of work on Mayhew Avenue and its intersection with Darlington Street is on hold pending further engineering and a new tender request which came out of discussion at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday. The work, which was approved in the 2019 and 2020 budget process already undertaken by Council bogged down as Council faced a decision over the eventual make-up of the intersection. “In preparation for upcoming road reconstruction, traffic counts at the intersection of Mayhew Avenue and Darlington
Street East were conducted in 2016,” explained Rene Richard, Director of Engineering and Asset Management with the City. “This intersection currently is a four-way stop. As part of preliminary design and budget preparation, a Traffic Signal Warrant analysis of this intersection was completed in November 2018. The warrant analysis is a standardized process recommended by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) and involves a lengthy formula and a warrant matrix. It is recommended that signalization of an intersection be considered if the warrant score reaches 100. In this case, the evening peak score was 103 thus warranting signalization.”
“Signal warrants are used as a benchmark to determine the need for the installation or removal of traffic control signals based on volumes and delay for traffic (including pedestrians) as well as the conflict points from a safety standpoint. The warrant thresholds used in warrant methodologies ensure justifications remain consistent and reliable,” detailed a report presented to Council. When complete reconstruction is planned, Richard said there needs to be a more long term vision in terms of what to install. “If the current traffic counts already warrant traffic signals, we know that there are already times of the day when the four-way stop
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Yung picked by fans for SCMA award By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Samara Yung has walked away from the recent Saskatchewan Country Music Association with another major award. Yung would bring home the Fans Choice Entertainer of the Year. She said the awards are always a humbling thing as an artist. “It’s always such an hon-
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our to be nominated for any award,” she said. “It’s kind of the cherry on top after working so hard to get your name out there and your music heard. When you receive that nomination it just solidifies that all that work was noticed and it gives you the fire to just keep going.” So when Yung was among the nominees again this year she was proud of the accomplishment.
“Like I said before, nominations will never lose their importance or feeling,” she said. “The industry just keeps getting better and better with such talented younger and younger people getting involved every day. It’s my job to try to keep up with it all. “Nominations to me mean that I am doing just that, because it means someone is noticing my hard work. My goal
is to continue to grow and adapt to all of the changes the music industry is throwing at us and to keep striving to get better and have my music heard and my name recognized.” But, wins are still nice, even if unexpected. Yung, who won the local GX94 Star Search in 2005, said the win came as “a total surprise!” “Honestly I never expect to win anything because like
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I said before everyone in Saskatchewan just keeps on getting better and better and Saskatchewan is a very talented province -- there must be something in the water.” Yung said the competition was certainly notable this year. “I’m in categories up against artists and groups that are signed to labels and I’m a completely independent artist so
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