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In early 2020, Honour 150, presented by Canada Life, invited Manitobans to recognize 150 people from across the province who give back to the community and enrich the places in which we live, work, play, and come together in unity and four outstanding citizens from Portage la Prairie made the cut as Charlie Clifford, Ferne Green, Yvette Cuthbert and Auna Marie Brown.
Charlie Clifford
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Charlie Clifford’s relatives, teachers, and councillors in his youth inspired him to give back to Portage La Prairie, despite experiencing many hardships.
Clifford is a retired teacher and principal who has devoted himself tirelessly to advocating for and improving the health, safety, and well-being of his community through the Canadian Mental Health Association, the First Presbyterian Church, Habitat for Humanity, Sunset Palliative Care, and many other organizations.
In July of 1993, Nelson Mandela visited Chicago three years after he was released from prison and one year before he was elected as South Africa’s first Black president.
“Mandela in Chicago,” the new documentary by Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell (Medill B.S. ’84, M.S. ’85, Weinberg Ph.D.’14), explores the monumental role Chicago activists played in the movement by putting pressure on the governments of South Africa, Illinois and Chicago to halt their support of South Africa’s oppressive systems. The film was broadcast on Feb. 18 and Feb. 21 on Chicago’s WTTW Channel 11.
“(Mandela) came to thank the people for all the work they had been doing, and I wanted Chicago to get some credit for that,” Greenwell said. “So much of history would have been lost had it not been for the film, so I’m hoping that the film itself will be a catalyst to really reignite interest in what happened in South Africa, but also what is still happening in South Africa.”