Portage Plains United Way Campaign Kick-Off. Guest speaker. Ron Dewar of Winnipeg, left, district administrator of the province for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and totally blind himself, was guest speaker at a Portage Plains United Way Inc. dinner held Saturday evening in the Portage hotel to officially launch the 1974 United Way campaign in Portage La Prairie. He is seen here with William Balley, chairman of the local CNIB board.