VALPARAISO – The Mental Health Alliance of Porter County has announced awards for several outstanding individuals. The alliance includes Porter-Starke Services, Inc., The Porter-Starke Services Foundation, and Mental Health America of Porter County. Aileen Wehren of Porter-Starke Service received the Aled P. Davies award for Public Policy on Health; Amanda Gano and Cindy […]
VALPARAISO – Valparaiso University will hold seminars on Global Strategies and will bring leaders in global affairs to the campus to speak to students and the public. Among the visitors will be: Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States. He will speak at 3 p.m. on Oct. 19. David Sheer,
MERRILLVILLE – Twelve R.O.S.E. Award winners were announced Wednesday afternoon by the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority at a ceremony at Avalon Manor. R.O.S.E. Awards honor front-line employees who go above and beyond the call of duty on a regular basis. Mark Maassel, president of the Northwest Indiana Forum, and Speros Batistatos,
INDIANAPOLIS – The Heartland Film Festival will be Oct. 14 to 23 at various locations in Indianapolis. Tickets for the annual event are now on sale. A record 102 American and international films will be screened, said Jeffrey L. Sparks, CEO of Heartland Truly Moving Pictures. “This year’s number of films surpasses the
MUNSTER – Community Healthcare System has been honored for efforts to raise awareness on organ, eye and tissue donation. Donate Life America has presented Community Hospital in Munster, St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago and St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart with its 2010 Award of Merit for events relating to the Flags Across
MICHIGAN CITY – LaPorte Regional Health System will hold its ninth annual Women’s Fair from 2 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, in the Stardust Event Center at Blue Chip Casino. More than 50 exhibits will be set up to provide information on health and wellness. The exhibits include a model of the
MUNSTER – Briar Ridge Country Club held its second annual Golf for a Cure recently, and raised $2,068 for the Community Cancer Research Foundation. “Before we reorganized our golf outing, we participated in Rally for the Cure, a national grassroots program that works to spread awareness about breast health and breast cancer,” said
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Cary Supalo, a Purdue University alumnus and founder and president of Independence Sciences LLC (located in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette) was at the White House Monday demonstrating his products to help students affected by blindness and low vision. Supalo, a blind chemist who recently earned a doctorate
INDIANAPOLIS – Megan Bradshaw and Dawn Devine, nurses with St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers in Indianapolis, have been named the first recipients of the hospital’s DAISY Awards. They are part of The DAISY Foundation, a nationwide program that recognizes extraordinary nurses. Bradshaw works in the critical care unit at St. Francis
MERRILLVILLE – The campaign chairs for the United Way serving Lake and Porter counties will be on Lakeshore Public Television’s “Lakeshore Focus” with Dan Lowery at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24. Ray Kasmark, business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 697, the chairman of the Lake Area United Way campaign,
