Northerners Given Awards For Bravery

Northerners Given Awards For Bravery

Monday, June 07, 2010 at 15:15

Residents of the province’s north were among Friday’s recipients at the Royal Canadian Humane Association Investiture at Government House in Regina.

Lieutenant-Governor Gordon Barnhart presented bravery awards to to 17 people, including six people from Pinehouse and a man from La Ronge.

Kelly Natomagan, Logan Natomagan, Ted Glass, Gordon Smith, Henry Smith and Lionel Smith were recognized for a rescue on Pinehouse Lake this past November.

Kelly Natomagan’s father was saved after his snowmobile went through the ice on the lake.

Natomagan says it was teamwork that helped rescue his father.

La Ronge’s Henry McKenzie was acknowledged for his role in trying to save a woman and her children in a house fire in Nipawin in December, 2008.

McKenzie says the awards demonstrate that people have compassion for others.