High School Film Competition Call for Entries

Indianapolis-  Heartland Truly Moving Pictures is now accepting high school film entries for the upcoming 2011 film festival. The competition is open to all high school students nationally. Film submissions will have similar judging criteria as those submitting to the Heartland Film Festival based on technical merit, artistic excellance and representing the positive values of life. The theme for this years student film competion is “courage.” For further […]

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St. Anthony Medical offers daVinci system

            CROWN POINT – St. Anthony Medical Center is now offering patients the da Vinci Surgical System.             DaVinci consists of a robotic platform designed to enable complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. Sister hospitals St. Anthony Memorial in Michigan City and St. Margaret Mercy in Hammond and Dyer already offer da Vinci.            

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Innovation Park lab helps start-ups

            SOUTH BEND – Its small size belies its importance to economic development in South Bend. An analytical laboratory only 847 square feet in size is now open in Notre Dame’s Innovation Park.             The lab can be leased by the hour or by the day by businesses. And along with the lab, tenants have

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Lakeshore attracts 2.1 million visitors

             PORTER – The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore had a record 2,165,605 visitors in 2010, according to statistics released by the National Park Service. That was an 11.8 percent increase in visitors from 2009.             “Surveys show that about 80 percent of the park’s visitors are not from the local area. That means some 1.6 million

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Indiana DOC has new commissioner

            INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mitch Daniels has named Bruce Lemmon as Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Correction. He replaces Ed Buss, who left the post to take over as head of the Florida Department of Corrections.             Lemmon has been with the DOC since 1976. He was most recently superintendent of the Putnamville Correctional

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Northcoast Distributing eyes larger site

            VALPARAISO – Northcoast Distributing has announced it plans to move to a new and larger location on the south side of Valparaiso.             The new location is on 35 acres on Indiana 49, south of U.S. 30 across from the Porter County Jail and the Porter County Fairgrounds.             Once the move is complete,

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Innovators Cafe features WorkingWell

            CROWN POINT – The first Innovators Café of 2011 will feature WorkingWell Occupational Healthcare, the world’s first freestanding occupational health provider to receive International Organization of Standardization certification.             It will be held starting at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, at Franciscan Point, the new outpatient health care complex operated by St. Anthony Medical

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Ugly lamp winners are announced

            HAMMOND – The South Shore Convention and Visitors Association has announced the winners in its annual Ugly Lamp and Tree contest conducted as a part of its annual “A Christmas Story Comes Home” event.             Ugly Lamp winners were Michelle Johnston and Katie Noojin of Griffith for their foot lamp.             The tree contest

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ThermoSafe to close Michigan City plant

            MICHIGAN CITY – ThermoSafe Brands has announced it will close its manufacturing plant in the Michigan City Enterprise Center by the end of 2011, putting 100 people out of work.             Tegrant Inc. of DeKalb, Ill., which owns ThermoSafe, recently completed an evaluation of the “company’s footprint” with a view to making its production

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Porter Health focuses on stroke prevention

            VALPARAISO – Porter Health systems is participating in the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines Stroke Program. It has a goal of improving the quality of care for stroke patients by improving acute stroke treatment and preventing future strokes and cardiovascular illness.             The guidelines of the program address acute stroke

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