Renowned writer Barbara Huck's in Portage la Prairie tonight at the Portage Regional Library doing a book reading. Program coordinator Lori Mackedenski says Huck hails from Winnipeg.

"Barbara Huck is a writer and publisher out of Winnipeg. She writes In Search of Canada's Ancient Past series with Doug Whiteway. Doug Whiteway writes fiction under the name of C.C. Benison. If anyone's a fan of murder mysteries they'll know who C.C. Benison is."

Huck will be signing and selling copies of her new book In Search of Canada's Ancient Heartland and presenting a discourse entitled The Indecisive Assiniboine. Mackedenski notes the story's directly related to the Portage la Prairie area and the flood-prone Assiniboine River. She adds the book normally sells for $29.95 but will be available tonight for $25.00.