Lubeznik Center for the Arts presents speaker Patric McCoy, president of Diasporal Rhythms, a non-profit organization of passionate collectors of contemporary art from Chicago’s African American community on February 19, 6-7:30 PM (CST). McCoy will discuss the influence collecting has in determining which artworks and artists come to be considered significant in art history. In […]
Some 187 participants from the four Franciscan Alliance Northern Indiana Region hospitals raised $10,739 for the American Cancer Society’s 21st annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk Oct. 12 at Hidden Lake Park in Merrillville. Society officials expressed their appreciation with plaques presented to hospital representatives during a program at the Breast Care Center of
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The SLYCE03 Class of 2015 inaugural session was held at Avalon Manor was a huge success!! We currently have 57 new students representing 28 different high schools throughout four of the seven counties in Northwest Indiana. We couldn’t be more pleased to have such a wide cross representation of outstanding youth leaders! This recruitment year
WEST LAFAYETTE — With an especially harsh flu season underway, Purdue University Professor Ellen Kossek says employers need to be proactive in dealing with ill workers. Kossek says that in addition to providing sick time, employers also can help avoid having sick workers on the job and spreading illness by developing some useful policies. Among
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GARY – The 4th Annual Film Festival in Gary, presented by Gary native and Hollywood actor William L. Johnson, will be hosted at The Glen Theatre on Friday, Feb. 20 and Saturday, Feb. 21. Advance tickets cost $30 for both Friday and Saturday, $20 for Friday only, and $15 for Saturday only. Tickets purchased at
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MUNSTER – Women without adequate insurance, but in need of diagnostic imaging will get the care they need at the Women’s Diagnostic Center, thanks to the generosity of a local business and physician. Checks in the amount of $4,295 and $1,000 have been presented to Mary Nicholson, MD, medical director of the women’s center in
INDIANAPOLIS — A play of thrilling suspense, morbid mayhem and potential murder comes to the Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT) in the form of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright and directed by Peter Amster. Join Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they undertake family secrets,
WEST LAFAYETTE — A team of Purdue University faculty, staff and Extension educators will lead a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort in Indiana aimed at supporting new and beginning farmers and ranchers. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture initiative – called Infrastructure, Access, Community: A Plan to Support Beginning Farmers in Indiana – is
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SOUTH BEND — Healy Group will begin moving to the financial services company’s new headquarters at 17535 Generations Drive in South Bend today. Rich Preuss, Healy Group co-owner and head of the construction committee announced today that the 12,300-square-foot office building is on schedule for the planned move. The new facility is on a 5-1/2-acre
Methodist Hospitals was presented with the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award by the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) Commission on Cancer (CoC) in 2014. Methodist Hospitals is one of a select group of only 74 U.S. health care facilities with accredited cancer programs to receive this national honor and the only hospital in Northwest Indiana for
