Sel Burrows

Biography:

SEL BURROWS, O.M., has devoted a lifetime to social justice and to helping people and communities in need. He chaired the North Point Douglas Residents Committee from 2007 to 2018 and has been a co-founder and coordinator of Point Powerline, the community crime-prevention network, since 2007. He was invested in the Order of Manitoba in July 2017; the citation credited his leadership with a significant reduction in crime in North Point Douglas.

Burrows worked for years for the Manitoba government, including as Executive Assistant to the Premier, and has been a front-line social worker, an inner-city economic development and recreation coordinator, and director of program development at what is now New Directions. He started the St. Luke's Co-op Child Care Centre.

In North Point Douglas he was founding chair of the North Point Douglas Seniors Association and chair of Point Community News, and he has been International Treasurer of Peace Brigades International. Through Point Powerline he has worked with residents, landlords, police and the City to drive gangs and drug houses from the neighbourhood, and he has been a frequent public voice on community safety, including on methamphetamine and on the City's crime-prevention plans.

Sources: Manitoba Lieutenant Governor (https://manitobalg.ca/twelve-manitobans-receive-order-manitoba-july-13/); his LinkedIn profile; CBC News, 23 August 2017, 15 January 2018 and 20 October 2021; Global News, 24 June 2019.

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