The Portage Plains United Way's hard at it in their efforts to reach their 2016 fundraising goal in Portage la Prairie. Executive Director Mandy Dubois gives us an update.

"Right now we are in the last final push of our 2016 fundraising campaign. We are just in the last three weeks. We reached 63% of our fundraising goal of $247,500."

She notes the special events are concluded.

"So right now, we're just going to concentrate on talking with the businesses, the work-place campaigns, and the individuals and get the rest of those donations, and hopefully we make our goal by December 31st."

Dubois adds they're about 10% behind where they were at toward their goal last year.