Portage

Fresh off his CCMA Award win, Jade Eagleson joins us this weekend as our guest of honour! We'll discuss touring with Cody Johnson, the CCMA Awards, his upcoming Grand Ole Opry debut, and his latest single with Jake Worthington. And we'll look back on this week in 2018 with a #1 from Gord Bamford. 

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Habitat for Humanity is currently planning its next build for a family to own their own home in Portage la Prairie. This will be their 14th project to date.

Habitat for Humanity Family Selection Committee co-coordinator Heather Schmidt says construction won’t begin until 2025, as they need time to search for a family first—their top priority.

Long-time member and Steering Committee secretary Betty-Jean Checkley outlines the location.

The Rotary Club of Portage la Prairie has welcomed a new member ahead of their annual veggie sale.

Kale Sissons works for Stride Credit Union and joined the club in recent weeks after hearing how active the club is in the community, referencing the duck pond project and their other various projects.

"It's a great group of people," explains Sissons. "Everyone's really welcoming and eager to help out in the community, so I'm excited to get involved as well."

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says close to 45,000 Canadians are in Lebanon, months after warning there is no guarantee Ottawa can evacuate them if the situation deteriorates further.

She is also expressing concern that attacks like exploding pagers are only making the situation worse.

"My message to Canadians who even think of going to Lebanon is don't go, and I've been saying that for months," she told reporters Friday in Toronto.

Portage la Prairie's Community Safety Officer (CSO) program is entering a period of transition, but City Councillor Colin Doyle remains both proud and optimistic. 

Doyle, who also serves as the Chair of Public Safety, shared some developments with the program that launched earlier this year, as well as the challenges that come with growth. 

The city's three current CSOs, who have been key figures in the program's early success, are moving on to new opportunities. All three officers have accepted positions as police officers with regional forces. 

The Portage Terriers are preparing to kick off their season with a home-and-home series against the Neepawa Titans.

click here to listen - Hi-Tec Industries pregame show starts at 7:20 p.m.

For the first time years, the Dogs lost more games to the Titans than they won, getting swept in the season series, with four losses.

However, if the preseason was any indication, this Portage team will be prepared for them this year, as they won both games against Neepawa.

The Central Plains RCMP weekly report for the period between September 9 and September 15, covering Portage la Prairie, Treherne, Amaranth, and the surrounding Rural Municipalities, has been released.

The detachment reported 286 calls for service over the 7-day period, a decrease from the previous week, which had 337 calls. Traffic violations remained notable, with 86 Highway Traffic Act offences reported, alongside 2 vehicle collisions, but no impaired drivers.

Family members of patients allegedly brainwashed decades ago at a Montreal psychiatric hospital are afraid they're running out of time to get compensation because the federal government and the McGill University Health Centre have filed motions to dismiss their lawsuit.

Glenn Landry's mother, Catherine Elizabeth Harter, was among the hundreds of people to receive experimental treatments under the MK-ULTRA program, funded by the Canadian government and the CIA between the 1940s and 1960s at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute, which was affiliated with McGill University.

In a haunting message from beyond the grave, Métis Elder Sonny James MacDonald recounted being incarcerated for more than two years at an Indian Hospital in Edmonton in the 1940s for tuberculosis treatment, suffering abuse and isolation as a child.

"After the surgery … they took it upon themselves … that they should take my pajama bottoms off to prevent me from walking around," MacDonald, a renowned carver who died in 2021, said in a video clip taken from a documentary released that same year. 

Deputy Fire Chief Norm Vuignier attended the annual general meeting of the local Legion this past Tuesday night, where he accepted a donation of equipment for the Portage fire department: an automated external defibrillator (AED), funded by the Legion.

"It's a very important tool for us to have that extra piece of equipment. We only had one prior to this, and with our hall getting busier, it's great to have a second AED. It will help our firefighters or anyone we serve," Vuignier said.

He explained that such a device costs about $2,500.