March 26, 2022, Murray Chev, 1500 Richmond Avenue, Brandon, MB Super Run is excited to have their 2019 People's Choice winner on display at Murray Chev, on March 26th from 9:00 A.M to 5:00 P.M. Eric and Tracy Drinnan from Airdrie, Alberta will have their award winning 1971 Pontiac Grand Ville convertible on display for all to see. Five other classic vehicles will also be on display in addition to a special vehicle from Winnipeg that will be one of our Feature Vehicles at this summer’s Western Nationals car show at Grand Valley Campground. This vehicle has an interesting story, the car will be unveiled at 10:00 A.M. with the story being told at that time. Super Run is Manitoba’s largest multi Province car show that only comes to Brandon once every three years. This year’s show will kick off with tours and cruises on July 25th and continue on to the actual show that is open to spectators on July 30th and 31st. Many exciting things are planned for the two days, in addition to seeing many different vehicles from all over Canada and the USA you will enjoy special displays, like vintage campers, vintage snowmobiles and vintage motorcycles. (submitted)

On behalf of the Administration at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School, we are ecstatic to announce the fourth annual STEM for Girls Event (Science Technology Engineering & Math), organized by a team of STEM empowered teachers and students from CPRSS. This coincides with International Woman’s Day to celebrate the contributions of women in STEM. Mr. Christopher Sarkonak and their team, led by CPRSS Grade 12 student organizer Faith Kasprick, are very thrilled to be leading the charge of a week-long event featuring five presentations by various teachers at Crocus in their respective STEM areas. “It's an incredibly exciting opportunity for our students and school, and for women in Science/STEM.” - Mr. Christopher Sarkonak. The one-week schedule consists of: Monday, March 7th at 11:06 am • Mr. Christopher Sarkonak is a Physics teacher at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School. This will be his fourth time presenting during STEM for Girls. He will be presenting on his favourite parts of the science stream focusing mainly on physics and its applications in the real world. Using things like electric and magnetic fields, sound waves, and speakers to make things both fly and levitate. Tuesday, March 8th at 9:58 am • Mrs. Cheryl Sklaruk-Delorme is a Chemistry teacher at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School. This will be her second time presenting during STEM for Girls. She will be doing a hands-on activity where students will get to learn about chemistry while doing different experiments in a Clue-style activity. Wednesday, March 9th at 9:58 am • Mrs. Shelby Henderson is a Design Drafting teacher at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School. This will be her fourth time presenting during STEM for Girls. She will be presenting on problem-solving using geometry. Also, she will be introducing the students to Inventor, a computer program commonly used in engineering fields. Thursday March 10th at 2:30 pm • Miss Andrea Bucklaschuck is a Science/Math teacher at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School. This will be her first time presenting during STEM for Girls. She is going to be presenting on Pi and how we came up with this number. Students will engage in fun activities to explore and learn more about math and the numbers that make up the questions we commonly see. Friday, March 11th at 1:21 pm • Mrs. Cheryl Klimack is a Computer Science teacher at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School. This will be her first time presenting at STEM for Girls. She will be giving a beginner tutorial using Blender, a computer program used to do modelling, animation, and even video game creation to give students a taste of what computer science really is.

In April of 2021, Brandon Police Service was contacted by the FBI in Los Angeles about a pair of co-conspirators conducting cyber-attacks.  One of the suspects had been identified as residing in Brandon while the second was residing in the U.S., and the FBI wished to undertake a joint investigation.  This has been going on for the last 11 months and we believe that these two individuals are conducting DDos attacks on different systems and networks within Canada and the U.S.  Essentially an attack of this nature sends an abundance of web traffic to a targeted system causing it to become unreachable, effectively shutting it down for legitimate purposes.  These attacks were being conducted for a fee with an online service with a variety of payment plans available.   Yesterday we planned for simultaneous search warrants to be executed, one at a location in Brandon, and the second at a location in San Antonio Texas. The Brandon target of this investigation, 18-year-old Dayne PARROTT-JONES was arrested without incident when the warrant was executed by members of the Brandon Police Service Crime Suppression Unit who were assisting our Forensic Computer Technician.  Members of the RCMP Digital Forensic Services have been providing assistance with this investigation from the outset and were present in Brandon during the execution of the search warrant. Once PARROTT-JONES was in custody, members at the scene observed, what they believed to be a 3-D printer, actively printing what appeared to be the lower receiver of a handgun and a large quantity of marihuana.  The Brandon Police Service currently has a member attached to the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team, who attended the scene to provide his expert opinion and advice.  As a result, a second search warrant was drafted and authorized to search for both weapons and drugs. The subsequent search of the residence at 2200 Pacific Avenue resulting in the seizure of the following items: A small quantity of cocaine (approximately 4 grams) Approximately four pounds of illicit cannabis A complete firearm, loaded with a high capacity magazine that has had most of the parts printed on a 3-D printer A loaded 9mm high capacity magazine A loaded 10 round Glock magazine 3 completed lower receivers of Glock pistols – 3-D printed A large quantity of 9mm casings Gun powder 9mm primers 9mm bullets Numerous metal parts used to complete the manufacturing of a Glock pistol including complete trigger assemblies and springs Several parts to complete the construction of high capacity glock magazines A Glock sear kit for conversion to full automatic It would appear from the items located that PARROTT-JONES is manufacturing Glock firearms with no serial number using a 3-D printer.  It appears that he is also manufacturing high capacity magazines and ammunition. PARROTT-JONES is charged with the following offences: Mischief to Data 430(1.1) CC Unauthorized Use of a Computer 1(1)(c) CC Manufacturing a Restricted Firearm X 3 99 CC Manufacturing a Prohibited Device (sear) 99 CC Manufacturing a Prohibited Device (h/c magazine) 99 CC Possess a Loaded Restricted Handgun 95 CC Possess a Restricted Handgun 91(1) CC Possess a Restricted Device (sear) 91(2) CC Possess a Restricted Device (h/c magazine) 91(2) CC Possess Illicit Cannabis 8(1)(b) Can Act Possess Cocaine 4(2) CDSA Possess Proceeds of Crime 354(1) CC PARROTT-JONES has appeared in court and has been remanded into custody. A co-accused, residing with PARROTT-JONES, believed to be the accused’s girlfriend, Rolanda CHASKE age 24, is not believed to be involved with the computer crimes but was arrested and charged with: Possess a Loaded Restricted Handgun 95 CC Possess a Restricted Handgun 91(1) CC Possess a Restricted Device (h/c magazine) 91(2) CC Possess Illicit Cannabis 8(1)(b) Can Act Possess Cocaine 4(2) CDSA (BPS News Release)

On Monday, March 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees met to review and finalize the 2022-2023 School Year Budget as follows: The 2022-2023 Budget results in a 2.00% increase in the Special Requirement, no change (0.00%) in the Special Levy, and a (1.10%) decrease in the mill rate for 2022 or a $(19.49) annual decrease on a typical home valued at $270,000. The 2022-2023 Budget includes the following: • Expected enrollment growth. The Brandon School Division is a growing division, and we are expecting 9,076 students in September 2022, an increase of 38 (0.4%) students. • A decrease of (10.69) FTE teaching positions, which includes the following: No reductions to classroom teaching positions o a decrease of (3.94) FTE non-ratio positions due to changes in grants and other funding o a decrease of (1.00) FTE for reconfiguration of high school lunch supervision o a decrease of (1.00) FTE for the shift of the Welcome Centre registration process to the catchment area schools a net reduction of (1.0) FTE by eliminating (2.0) FTE Specialist positions and creating 1.0 Continuous Improvement Administrator position o a reduction of (1.0) FTE Speech Language Pathologist position and (1.0) FTE Psychologist position o a reduction of (0.75) FTE Reading Recovery position o elimination of the Brandon Community Drug and Alcohol Education Coalition and Youth Revolution Program Coordinator position (1.0) FTE • A net increase of 9.36 FTE support staff, which includes the following: o an increase 9.73 FTE Educational Assistants (EAs) due to changes in grants and other funding o an increase of 3.27 FTE EA positions for reconfiguration of high school lunch supervision o elimination of Attendance Officer position – (1.00) FTE o elimination of MIST Administrative Assistant position – (1.00) FTE o elimination of Augmentative Communication Educational Assistant position – (1.00) FTE o a reduction of (1.00) FTE Human Resources Assistant position o elimination of the Director of Human Resources position and the creation of a Supervisor of Human Resources position The addition of $70,000 for Truth and Reconciliation Teaching Tools • The funding of additional costs for modulars through the new school capital reserve and accumulated surplus ($56,000) • The use of accumulated surplus to cover the cost of a vehicle replacement ($50,000) and Trustee election costs ($47,900) • A 5% reduction to school learning resources ($12,100) and professional development ($57,000) budgets • The elimination of the Health Care Aide Program ($45,500) • No inflationary increases are provided to the school instructional supply budgets, capital & maintenance budget, and other controllable supplies and services • No increase to the special levy (the amount that the local Municipalities are asked to raise by property taxes during the calendar year for education) • A deficit budget for 2022-2023 of $171,700 to be funded through the accumulated surplus (BSD Release)

Source: BPS News Release On March 6, 2022, at 10:00 pm, police located the stolen red Chevrolet Cobalt parked in the 300 block of 18th street N.  Suspects had removed the licence plate, and replaced it with a different stolen licence plate, but police were able to verify it was the stolen vehicle from the VIN number. Further investigation led police to locate and arrest two suspects nearby.  One of the suspects, a 42-year-old male, was found with the keys from the stolen vehicle in his possession.  He was later released and will appear in court on May 2, 2022 on charges of Possession of Property Obtained by Crime, and Fail to Comply with Release Order.  The second suspect, a 43-year-old female was also released to appear in court on May 2, 2022 on a charge of Possess Property Obtained by Crime Original release from March 2, 2022 – On March 1, 2022, police received a report of a stolen vehicle from the 700 block of 10th street.  The suspect stole the vehicle, which was left running and unattended shortly after 9:00 pm.  The vehicle is described as a red Chevrolet Cobalt with Manitoba licence KTW633.