Portage RCMP have a great time with newcomer youth – PortageOnline.com
Youth who’ve recently moved to Portage la Prairie as newcomers from nations where the police just aren’t quite the same as they are here. They enjoyed a time of playing sports with the RCMP on Sunday.
Miriam Ghitale is Settlement Coordinator at the Portage Learning and Literacy Center (PLLC) and helps organize an effort to see newcomer youth and local RCMP officers come together and just have some plain fun.
“We were contacted through e-mail by the RCMP in Winnipeg, and they wanted to do something with youth,” said Ghitale. “However, when we talked to our youth in town about…