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Salvation Army kicks off Adopt a Family campaign

01.01.70

The Salvation Army in Portage la Prairie is in the centre of it's adopt a family campaign, where Portagers can give a little Christmas consolation to needy families.

The adopt a family campaign is an annual at the time that the Salvation Army facilitates along with their Christmas hampers.

"So far I make up we've had 32 families that will be adopted, that's out of about 350 hampers that we do," said Lieut. Jeff Arkell of the Salvation Army in Portage.

Arkell said anyone interested in adopting a kinsmen can contact the Salvation Army and they will try their best to match your requisition.

"Now that all of our registrations have taken place we contact them with the information on the families; say a application comes in 'I want to adopt a family with two young children and a solitary select mom' we try our best to match up the families that way," said Arkell.

The adopters are settled a list of the basic goods Salvation Army adds to their hampers and asks that they put those same things in. Once the adopters get the ages and sex of the children in the adopted kinfolk they can go ahead and purchase toys to put in the hamper.

Source: Portage Daily Graphic

Cougars get it done

01.01.70

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Source: The Herald Argus

Inspiration and exasperation at the old marsh

01.01.70

DELTA Slough -- Most days, artist Peter Ward, who will other be 92, drives his red pickup truck to his Delta Swamp home, leans over his easel, and paints his marsh landscapes for two to three hours.

He tried painting from his transitory rental home near Portage la Prairie but it didn't trade. The marsh gives him inspiration. But it also gives him exasperation now. Quarter, like many people along Lake Manitoba, has been flooded out of his shelter since early July.

"It's the destruction of a way of life," he said, of last summer's over flooding of Lake Manitoba. Up to two-thirds of the flow of the Assiniboine River was diverted into the lake, raising saturate levels by at least a metre, to prevent Winnipeg from flooding.

Sump pumps are still turning on every 15 minutes in people's creep spaces here, even though the fields are now black ice instead of water. Most of the violently 200 residences in the area had their septic tanks pop out of the argument due to an elevated water table. Trees fell down everywhere. Configure inside residences is another big concern.

Source: Winnipeg Free Press