On April 2, at approximately 3:05 p.m., Russell RCMP responded after a van collided with three parked cars in Rossburn.
The collision occurred on Victoria Avenue, in the vicinity of a local daycare at a time of day when young children and their parents are entering and exiting the building.
Investigators have determined the van was travelling at a high rate of speed, causing severe damage to all four vehicles.
Shortly after the collision, RCMP learned a male suspect matching the description of the driver had just assaulted a male at a nearby hotel. The victim of the assault went to hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
At approximately 3:30 p.m., multiple bystanders waved officers down and pointed out the suspect, who was walking in the community. He was arrested without incident.
Lawrence Jade Shingoose, 31, of Keeseekowenin, has been charged with:
• Assault causing bodily harm;
• Uttering threats;
• Failing to stop after an accident;
• Impaired driving; and
• Operating a vehicle while over .08.
Shingoose was remanded into custody.

The municipalities of Riding Mountain West and Russell/Binscarth are again working together to tackle long-held issues in health care for our area communities, hoping to expand to include the communities further afield, many of whom are dealing with the same issues of health care coverage.
“We’ve established a new initiative between the Municipality of Russell Binscarth and the RM of Riding Mountain West called the Assiniboine Valley Health Board,” Adrienne Falloon, CAO of the Municipality of Russell Binscarth explained at a joint meeting with members of the two municipalities with the Russell Banner.
“It’s like a reincarnation of what used to exist, which was called the Banner County Health Foundation,” she explained, adding that for now, recruitment and retention of health care professionals is one of their main priorities. “We’re going to start with doctors and move onto the rest of the health professionals like nurses, radiologists, lab techs etc.”
Together, councillors and CAO’s of both municipalities will continue to lobby for infrastructure and capital projects like improvements to the hospital - especially the ER, diagnostics and counselling area, and improvements to the hospital as well.
That’s part of the message they took to the Minister of Health on the first Wednesday of the month.
“We had been sending letters to the Minister of Health about the state of rural health care and their staff had reached out and said that they will be in Brandon for MLA Day at the Brandon Winter Fair and asked if we could meet with them there,” Falloon said
“We reiterated our concerns about the lack of health care professionals, the availability of ambulances in rural Manitoba as a whole as well as the need for support in infrastructure and capital projects,” Adrienne added.
“And they seemed to be really receptive.”
“Initiatives to support EMS training and recruitment were discussed,” said councillor Wes Anderson
“We did offer Russell/Binscarth to become a training hub and a host community for the new EMR program that they had successfully launched in Arborg,” Anderson added.
“And they did ask how many students we might be able to accommodate here, so that seemed to be very positive.”
“Overall, they seemed very receptive and willing to work together at the provincial level for both recruitment and retention of health care professionals,” Falloon said, explaining that the province now has their new recruitment office which is a step above Prairie Mountain Health.
“It's like a provincial agency where the Minister, and their Chief of Staff, is putting us in contact with them to work together on attracting doctors and keeping them here through their provincial recruitment agency.”
With that cooperative effort between the province and the two municipalities established, the conversation here turned back to the idea behind the Assiniboine Valley Health Board as a very necessary cooperative effort not only between our two municipalities but others in the surrounding area who have availed themselves of medical services in place here.

Be informed! Get the whole story in this weeks Russell Banner on page 2.

By Terrie Welwood
Russell Banner

Even if I don’t finish, we need to continue. It’s got to keep going without me,” Terry Fox.
Fred Fox is one of Terry Fox’s four siblings. As the oldest, he’s 18 months older than the man whose heroic efforts to run across Canada in aid of cancer research after having his leg amputated after a cancer diagnosis.
Now, Fred and his siblings Darryl and Judy are keeping their late brothers vision alive by spreading his story around 34 countries.
Fox has been touring across Manitoba and Saskatchewan visiting schools and community gatherings along the way.
He met with community members at the Park Manor last Monday, just six days before the 46th anniversary of the date that Terry Fox dipped his prosthetic leg in the Atlantic ocean in St. John’s Nfld before taking off on his cross country journey.
He was forced to end his run just outside of Thunder Bay on September 1, 1980, when cancer returned in his lungs. He was treated in Port Arthur Hospital before returning to British Columbia.
Fred Fox was with his younger brother on his run.
“We knew that Terry must have been in constant pain,” Fred told the room.
“Over the 143 days and 5,373 kms of his journey he was running on a prosthetic leg meant for walking and certainly not for running at all, let alone that distance.”
While Fred said it was impossible to know what his younger brother was thinking, he’d made one wish abundantly clear.
“We were all so thrilled to see Canadians lining the streets, cheering and making donations along the way and the one thing we did know was that this run would not end.”
While the majority of the events take place in Canada, over 60 countries worldwide have hosted a Terry Fox Run. In places like the United Kingdom, Cuba, India, and Australia. In February the Terry Fox Foundation announced that it had surpassed $1 billion raised for cancer research since the inception of the Marathon of Hope, funding over 1,300 innovative cancer research projects, medical breakthroughs and significantly improving treatments and survival rates worldwide.