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City’s 2010 budget calls for 7.5 per cent increase to property tax  Share Comments  
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Property taxes are set to go up in Portage la Prairie by 7.5 per cent. City of Portage la Prairie council introduced the increase along with its Discretionary, Capital and New/Additional Services 2010 Budget at its regular meeting Monday. [more]
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Family oriented residential care facility faces opposition  Share Comments  
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A group home that will only be used for a single family faced opposition at a public hearing Monday. [more]
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RCMP seize contraband tobacco  Share Comments 
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Portage la Prairie RCMP are reporting a seizure of contraband cigarettes from a Quebec vehicle, traveling in the Portage area. On Feb. 5 at about 1 p.m. [more]
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Woman robbed while her vehicle was stuck in snow   Share Comments 
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Portage la Prairie are reporting a case of robbery on Sunday night. At about 11 p.m., Portage RCMP received a complaint from a woman that she had just been robbed on Royal Road and Lorne Avenue in Portage. [more]
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Saints game postponed  Share 
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The Portage Collegiate Institute Saints girls' hockey team won't be hitting the road to face the Kelvin Clippers in Winnipeg today. [more]
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Police warn of thin ice on Crescent Lake  Share Comments 
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Portage la Prairie RCMP have issued a warning about the condition of the ice on Crescent Lake. On Saturday, Mounties received information that a man walking his dog fell through the ice on Crescent Lake. [more]
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Austin loses two businesses to fire  Share  
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Two Austin businesses were destroyed in a fire on Sunday. At about 11 a.m., Portage la Prairie RCMP and several area fire departments responded to a business fire in Austin. The fire completely destroyed Kathie's Beauty Salon and an attached suite. [more]
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Teachers say show me the money  Share Comments  
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Portage School Division teachers, who worked without a collective agreement for 3 1/2 years before signing a new one in December, are still waiting for their back pay to arrive. [more]
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Portagers show respect for life  Share Comments  
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Respect Life Week, from Feb. 7-14, was honoured with a brunch at Centennial Hall in Portage la Prairie on Sunday as a way to increase discussion and promote values that encourage people to cherish all life, from the beginning to the end. [more]
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Get fit thanks to the Friendship Centre  Share Comments  
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Portage la Prairie's Friendship Centre is helping Portage-area residents get a kick start to the year by offering free fitness classes. [more]
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March to remember missing women  Share Comments 
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A march is planned for Feb. 14 to bring awareness to the plight of missing and murdered women in Manitoba. The march will take place at the University of Winnipeg's Bulman Centre, at 515 Portage Ave. (accessed from Spence Street). [more]
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Task force hints at progress  Share Comments 
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WINNIPEG—Several unsolved Manitoba cases of missing or murdered women going back possibly decades will be put under closer scrutiny by a police task force. [more]
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Spoiler role for Caps sees team beat Brandon  Share Comments 
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The Central Plains Capitals can't move up in their division, but they can still play the spoiler. [more]
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Stewart takes home A-title from Portage bonspiel  Share Comments 
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Laurie Stewart's Portage la Prairie rink was perfect over the weekend en route to an A-event win in the Sportsman's Bonspiel at the Portage Curling Club. [more]
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Trojans lacked intensity: coach  Share Comments 
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A loss to the Carman Cougars on the road Friday means the Portage Collegiate Institute Trojans boys' hockey team will get their postseason underway with a survivor game on Feb. 14. [more]
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  • Quilt workshop held
    Jan. 30 found two of the Quilting Queens from the Portage la Prairie Friendship Centre on our way to Plumas to participate in a Quilt workshop called “Whack ’n’ Stack.” It sounded like fun, and we did not know what we were going to be doing until we got there. We spent the first hour at the Kickass
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  • Glesby Centre now has Facebook page
    I think the scales have tipped. I’m neither a philosopher, nor a sage, but I enjoy history and I’m even more intrigued about the future. I read Popular Science magazine, even though I barely passed my science courses through high school. I enjoy getting to know new people, but take comfort in a few
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  • Skaiti for Haiti
    By Evelyn Alderson, MacGregor Correspondent..​.Here we are into February, and hope the ground hog does the right thing and the weather warms up for an early spring. Best wishes go out to George Lloyd who celebrated, his 90th birthday recently at the Lions Prairie Manor in Portage la
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  • Snowed-in thanks to blizzard in Saskatchewan
    By Bernice Evenson, Plumas Correspondent..​.If you missed the Plumas news last week, that’s because there wasn’t any. I was storm stayed in Saskatchewan. On Jan. 22, Mr. and Mrs. Jim McGregor, Mr. and Mrs. Wally Walker, Iris Fischer, Margaret Buschau and myself were picked up by bus
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  • Oakville Poker Derby coming
    Submitted Article. Don Wilkinson, president of Oakville and Area Lions Club reports that plans are well underway to run its Third Annual Snowmobile Poker Derby on Feb. 14 starting at the Oakville Community Hall on Highway 331. “We hope to have the first contestants on the trail by 10 a.m.
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