MUNSTER — The ballroom of The Center for Visual and Preforming Arts was filled on Wednesday night as more than 200 hospitality industry professionals came together to celebrate exemplary customer service at the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority’s annual ROSE (Recognition of Service Excellence) Awards Dinner. Close to 100 nominations for the annual ROSE […]
GARY — The City of Gary and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) teamed up today to commemorate the city’s historic streetcar rail line with the unveiling of a historic marker at the corner of 5th Avenue and Broadway, on the very thoroughfare where streetcars used to travel during the first half of the 20th
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Porter Emergency Medical Services will offer an Emergency Medical Technician – Basic Course (EMT-B) beginning Nov. 4, 2013 through May 28, 2014. The class will be presented on Mondays, Wednesdays and an occasional Saturday, from 5 to 9 p.m. at EMS Station 2, 2206 LaPorte Ave. in Valparaiso. The cost of the course is $900,
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CROWN POINT — Cynthia Fodness, an instructor at the University of Saint Francis Crown Point, has been named Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly’s outstanding volunteer. A clinical nurse specialist in adult psychiatry and mental health, she has volunteered hours to help patients at St. Clare Health Clinic in Crown Point. Dedicating Thursday afternoons to counseling, she
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The twenty-first annual Elvis FANtasy Fest will take place the weekend of October 11-13 at the Woodland Park Community Building, 2100 Willowcreek Road in Portage, Indiana. This year’s Elvis Fantasy Fest is themed “My Happiness” in honor of the record Elvis paid to cut at the famed SUN Studio in 1953. EFF celebrates the happiness Elvis brought
HAMMOND — The South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority recently received two awards recognizing their updated website and a promotional video for their redesigned mobile site. Through the APEX Awards, the South Shore CVA received an Award of Excellence for their redesigned website. The annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence is an international competition that
MERRILLVILLE — The American Police Canine Association (APCA) will be hosting their yearly conference at Radisson Hotel in Merrillville Monday, Sept. 23 through Friday, Sept. 27. On Wednesday, Sept. 25, canines are scheduled to participate in a scenario based training session at the Port of Indiana. The session will include vehicle extractions, narcotics, S.W.A.T., mass
Ball State University economist Michael Hicks says Indiana’s unemployment rate is falling because the state economy is creating jobs,unlike the national rate, which is falling because discouraged job seekers are leaving the workforce. The Indiana Department of Workforce Development reported this morning that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped by 0.3 percent in August
