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Last week, I introduced you to Portage boy Colin Doyle. Here is the rest of his amazing story, most of it in his own words.

Article content Making Portage Home Again, Part 3 of 4 Mitch Moar grew up in Portage la Prairie, attending North Memorial, LaVerendre, Westpark, and PCI schools. He says he enjoyed his childhood. “My main memories are of skateboarding at The Platform and playing baseball every summer. Tobogganing at the dump hill was always fun in the winter.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Making Portage Home Again, Part 3 of 4 Back to video In 2004, at 22, Mitch moved to Calgary. “I was making poor life choices as a young adult and thought a change of s...

Article content Have you heard it? “I can’t wait to get out of this town and never come back.” Most often, the sentiment is voiced by teenagers and most often, they are referring to the only town they’ve ever lived in. Still, they somehow know that anywhere would be better than where they are. They almost always manage to leave. I don’t know what the stats reveal for those who truly never return, but occasionally, adults who left their hometown in their late teens or early twenties drift back. On purpose. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

In my online query about mealtime prayers, my friend Amanda told me of a time she served her kids a quinoa-based meal which was met with gross faces and…

Article content Did you grow up in a home where a prayer was said before meals? In many homes, gathering around a table for a meal has become reserved for special occasions. The rest of the time, each member of the household operates on their own schedule, “grabbing food on the run.” The pandemic has increased the chances of families eating together and, hopefully, praying together as well. In the home where I was raised, we took turns reciting from memory the same rhyming prayer at every meal: “Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest. Let this food to us be blessed. Amen.” The prayer became s...