SOUTH LAKE COUNTY – Are you looking to volunteer? The 9th annual Volunteer Fair is the perfect place to start! Sponsored by the Crown Point Community Foundation, the Volunteer Fair will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 at Crown Point High School. The Volunteer Fair gathers nonprofits throughout the […]
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GARY – Indiana University Northwest will celebrate Women’s History Month with an inspirational talk from Violet Sistovaris, a successful female executive and Indiana University Northwest alumna, who will share her personal and professional reflections of climbing the corporate ladder over her 30-year career. Sistovaris, who serves as executive vice president and president of the Northern
PORTER — Indiana Dunes Tourism chose recipients for its annual grant program last night during its monthly board meeting. Over $34,000 in grants were awarded to groups planning to bring visitors into Indiana Dunes Country (Porter County) by building new attractions or by organizing festivals, events, meetings, conventions or sports tournaments during 2018. Recipients include
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HAMMOND – What is America’s largest export, most prodigious product and greatest legacy – the biggest thing we make? Our trash. Edward Humes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and non-fiction writer, will discuss “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash – and the Way Back,” on Thurs., March 1, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at
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HOBART – St. Mary Medical Center Cancer Care Center is offering a free, six-week Cancer Transitions class for survivors who are moving from treatment to the post-treatment phase. The classes run from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. beginning Thursday, March 8, and continue each Thursday through April 12. Cancer Transitions is a program of the Cancer Support
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MICHIGAN CITY – Lubeznik Center for the Arts invites artists to apply for its annual art festival featuring fine art and fine craft exhibitors, plus contemporary art galleries, interactive family art activities and food. A non-refundable application fee of $35 is required. Application deadline is March 15, 2018. In 2018 Lubeznik Center for the Arts (LCA)
VALPARAISO – Purdue University Northwest, through a generous gift from the Taltree Arboretum & Gardens Foundation’s Board of Directors and Damien and Rita Gabis, is now operating the 300-plus-acre arboretum near Valparaiso long known as Taltree Arboretum & Gardens. The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Feb. 9 approved the renaming of the property to
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SOUTH BEND — The 2018 South Bend Mishawaka Tourism Marketing / Hosting Grant program has selected 27 applicants to receive grant funding. Grant funds are used to assist qualified organizations with the promotion of tourism activities striving to directly increase hotel/motel occupancy and create visibility for St. Joseph County. The 2018 recipients are Fischoff National
