MERRILLVILLE – Legacy Foundation of Lake County has elected five community leaders to its board of directors. The new members, all serving three-year terms, are David Austgen, a Cedar Lake attorney; Robert Johnson III, president and CEO of Cimcor Inc. of Merrillville; Tom Keilman, director of government affairs at BP in Whiting; Martha Rivas-Ramos, vice […]
SOUTH BEND – The Michiana Health Information Network has received full accreditation with the Health Information Exchange Accreditation Program. During the review process, MHIN’s privacy and security procedures were examined along with its technical performance, business practices and organizational resources. In addition, its process of managing and transferring protected health information was reviewed. “As the
LAPORTE – LaPorte Hospital Foundation will hold its 10th annual Tour de LaPorte Bike, Run and Walk on Aug. 27-28. A 10K run, half marathon and mini Tour de LaPorte will be at Soldier’s Memorial Park in LaPorte on Saturday, Aug. 27. That same day, the bike time trial will be held at Rolling Prairie
GARY – To mark the 40th anniversary of the Crisis Center held a wine tasting event to supports its programs. The Crisis Center, based in Miller Beach in Gary, was founded in 1971 and serves clients in Lake and Porter counties. Executive director and CEO Shirley Caylor said the agency has 50 employees and an
SOUTH BEND – Paul Marsh has been named president and CEO of Teachers Credit Union in South Bend. Marsh has been with TCU for 22 years, joining the institution right after he graduate from Indiana University. He is only the fifth president of the institution in its 80-year history. Marsh started as an intern for
HAMMOND – The Hammond Academy of Science and Technology will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, at 33 Muenich Court in downtown. Mayor Thomas M. McDermott Jr., the Hammond Urban Academy Board of Director and officials from HAST will take part in the ceremony, which includes placement of two
EAST CHICAGO – St. Catherine Hospital, a part of the Community Healthcare System, has announced it will open an outpatient clinic in November in the Hessville neighborhood. The Hessville Family Care Center will be at 3432 169th St. in the Briar East Shopping Center in Hammond. The 6,600 square-foot clinic will include family practitioners, obstetrics,
MERRILLVILLE – John Gregg, former speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and a 2012 Democratic candidate for governor, has received the endorsement of the 1st Congressional Caucus of the Democratic State Central Committee. The endorsement came during a speaking engagement at the Radisson Star Plaza in Merrillville, hosted by the Lake County Democratic Central
SOUTH BEND – Doug Fozo has been named operations manager for South Bend Gear, a new joint venture of Schafer Gear Works Inc. in South Bend and Somaschini S.p.A of Italy. South Bend Gear will produce gears for engines for the heavy-duty truck market in North America at a 50,000-square-foot plan being built in South
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University is developing a program in energy storage technology in cooperation with the Naval Surface Warfare Center based in Crane, Ind. The effort could eventually lead to a master’s degree in chemical engineering and help in the development of electrical vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, solar cells, wind turbines and diesel
