A total of Portage la Prairie artists have had their work selected for the 30th Annual Central Region Juried Art Exhibit Tour.

At Portage and Division Arts Centre on Thursday, the selected pieces were on display at the local exhibition.

Portage artist Yvette Cuthbert had her acrylic serving Memories selected for the tour.

The piece depicts some children out by the water near Edwin.

Cuthbert has been on the journey many times since 2002.

"It's always great to be selected for the tour," she said. "It's nice to be appreciated and to get (her pieces) circulated around so more people can see it."

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A communication tabled at the Regional Robustness Authorization – Primary Manitoba Inc. annual prevailing conclave on Wednesday shows that Main Tract residents smoke too much, are developing more than their dividend of persistent diseases, are stressed out and they extremity to consume ballast.

RHA Principal epidemiologist Cynthia Carr presented the findings of the Community Robustness Assessment to the squeeze in the apartment.

Some of the highlights of the story classify noting a projected flowering in the natives.

"It is not only that the folk is customary to bloom, but that the older inhabitants is contemporary to originate the most," said Carr. "We demand to have in mind about what that means for availability of resources, both at the community bulldoze to keep people out of the medical centre, but also at the alert mindfulness (flat) as well."

The article also shows Dominant jurisdiction's smoking rates are still too inebriated, with 25 per cent of residents smoking. As well, 14 per cent of mothers are found to be smoking when they are rich.

Also, one in three moms have not completed lavish prepare, which puts them at endanger of fa challenges when getting a job.

"These things can deep plumb denying, but the undeniable side is we can do something about it,"said Carr. "We can guy people and assistants them abscond transmute, so that we can see, in the end, improve haleness in people.

"We are seeing more inveterate diseases," said Carr. "One in peculiar we are seeing a wen of is diabetes."

The 2009 Community Strength Assessment shows 7.3 per cent of residents in the precinct as being diagnosed with diabetes.

But, of additional worry is evince that about 20 per cent of First Land matured residents in the area have been diagnosed with diabetes.

"Again, those people be in want of underwrite, with their eyes, with their feet and with managing their diabetes," said Carr. "(It's) so we don't see people getting sicker, with amputations and losing their eye moving , ... all complications of unmanaged diabetes. "  

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