Time is running out for you to help secure funding to build an accessible park in Portage la Prairie's north end.

Parks Committee board member Victoria Olson says more than 16,500 votes have already come in for the project in the Aviva Community Contest that could bring up to $100,000, but more are needed. She says the proposed park needs to finish in the top-10 in its voting category to keep the chance of funding alive, as only those projects will go to Aviva review.

"We're in ok shape right now, but we just really need more people to vote," Olson says, noting when she last checked the local playground initiative had fallen out of the top-10. "It's very important if we want to see this project get off the ground sooner, rather than later."

Olson adds this type of structure is important for the community, as the city doesn't currently have a park that caters to people with mobility issues.

"Not only is it for children who may have mobility issues, but parents, or grandparents," Olson says. "It's really a place everybody, and we don't have that currently."

Olson adds you can help by voting every day this week, from all of your email addresses, ahead of Friday's deadline. You can vote by clicking here.