The search for the body of four-year-old Sweetgrass Kennedy continues.
Prince Albert police believe Sweetgrass drowned in the North Saskatchewan River on May 10.
A team of rescue workers were out once again last week scouring the river in the hopes of finding the boy’s body but to no avail.
Prince Albert Police Service Inspector Jason Stonechild says unfortunately next to no progress has been made in the search in the last six weeks.
“We’ve had no success,” he says. “We’re still hopeful – at twice a week as a department we do searches of the river from the shorelines, visual searches, and since the initial search, at least once a week we’ve gone out on the river with a boat and had more in depth searches.”
Nevertheless, in spite of the disappointing results, Stonechild says there are no plans to stop the ongoing search for the time being.
“Currently, today’s time, right now, there is still hope to conduct random searches and we will continue to conduct random searches until it’s not realistic anymore.”
Those providing assistance to police in last week’s search effort included volunteers from Grandmother’s Bay and Stanley Mission, First Nations Emergency Management Division, the Prince Albert Fire Department and RCMP.
Stonechild says searchers have continued to focus their efforts within a 160 kilometer radius north of Prince Albert as far as Trapper’s Lake.
(PHOTO: Prince Albert police and RCMP search the North Saskatchewan River for the body of Sweetgrass Kennedy, courtesy Prince Albert Police Service Facebook page)