Daniel Brown will run against incumbent Charlene Miller in Prince Albert's Ward 1. (Submitted photo/Daniel Brown)

By Glenn Hicks

Civic Election

Corrections officer runs for P.A. city council

Oct 3, 2020 | 8:00 AM

A Saskatchewan Penitentiary dog handler and corrections officer is having another run at the Ward 1 seat in next month’s Prince Albert city council elections. He lost to incumbent Charlene Miller last time.

Daniel Brown, who has spent most of his life living on the west side, and has been at the Pen for twenty years, is promising regular meetings with all stakeholders and says he’ll work on ways to keep kids off the street.

While he’s happy with what the Prince Albert Grand Council has done with the former Parkland Hall site, he’s not happy about the deal that saw it exchanged for the land on which the abandoned Angus Merasty school stood. The city will use that land for future development.

“We don’t have a community club anymore, or a seniors centre,” he said. “Part of that was there were no longer members to run it, so I could see why, but the whole swop thing didn’t sit good with me because we traded for a school that was full of asbestos.” Brown thinks taxpayers didn’t get a good deal because of the high demolition costs for the school. The terms of the swop were that PAGC was responsible for costs associated with asbestos removal.

However, Brown was keen to express his support for the PAGC’s efforts at their new site.

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“They are doing phenomenal work …with the skatepark and continued use of the rink …but I’d just like to pair up more with them on more projects and get the kids busy,” he explained.

Brown said he would have quarterly meetings with residents of Ward 1 “to hear the concerns and ideas of everyone.”

His ideas include a scheme where youth could help seniors shovel snow or mow lawns for an affordable fee and get some work experience to put on a resume.

“We could get kids to clean up all those empty properties down there,” he explained. “An active kid is a kid that ain’t in trouble.”

In 2016, Brown, a former head of the Corrections Officers union, lost by 596 to 251 votes to Charlene Miller, who is seeking re-election.

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glenn.hicks@jpbg.ca

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