By Kellah Lavoie

Walking to remember the missing and murdered

Jun 9, 2011 | 4:57 PM

This morning, people gathered at city hall to remember.

It was the Seventh Annual Honouring our Brothers and Sisters Memorial Walk put on by the Prince Albert Grand Council’s Women’s Commission.

The walk meant a lot of the family of Krista Kenny. The woman, 16 at the time, was murdered in 2009. Her murderer, Cody Halkett, was sentenced to life in prison in October.

Loretta Henderson spoke through tears — she said she was there to honour her daughter.

“She was a wonderful daughter, a great mommy, she left me her beautiful gift from God,” she said referring to Kenny’s daughter, who was six months old at the time of the death.

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The walk started at City Hall at about 9 a.m. when people began gathering. The location held significance since it is across the street from Crown prosecutor, John Morall’s, office, said Lorraine Henderson, Kenny’s aunt.

The group proceeded to the provincial court house where the pre-trial was, up the Central Avenue viaduct – the last known walk to Kenny – to the Court of Queen’s Bench courthouse, where the trial was heard and Halkett was sentenced, to Kinsmen Park, a place Lorraine called “the last place she was seen alive and happy,” and they ended at the PAGC student resident where they held Kenny’s wake.

“There will never be closure, but it’s remembering Krista in a good way, it’s like we’re walking with her again on her last walk and to me that is just really significant, because … we miss her a lot,” Lorriane said.

“This walk really signifies that ‘yes we will never forget her and she’ll always be in our hearts and our family is strong,’ it’s like we’re so much closer.”

Kenny was Lorraine’s godchild, and she said she loved her like a daughter. She said if they have learnt one thing from losing her, it is to tell her family how much she loves them all the time.

“(We’ve learnt) not to say anything bad at the end of the day, because we don’t know when our end of the day is or when our loved one’s end of the day is,” she said.

There were other family and friends of Kenny at the walk.

Tyler Bear was friends with Kenny in mid-2000. He said the event helps people get by, adding “sometimes it’s hard to let go of the past.”

More than one hundred people took part in the walk.

klavoie@panow.com