CHOLESTEROL SCREENING Community Hospital offers a Coronary Health Appraisal on Dec. 6 from 8:00-11:30 a.m., at Community Hospital located at 901 MacArthur Blvd, Munster, Ind. The screening includes cholesterol (Total, LDL, HDL, triglycerides) and blood sugar testing, blood pressure & more. The fee is $30 and registration is required by calling (219) 836-3477 or toll […]
LA PORTE — IU Health La Porte Hospital has launched a website about the hospital’s ongoing search for an additional partner, officials announced. The site is designed to provide information about the hospital’s ongoing search, as well as solicit input from community members on the future of healthcare in LaPorte and Starke counties. The Board
VALPARAISO — The Regional Development Company (RDC), headquartered in Valparaiso, Ind., announced their 2014 year-end accomplishments and elections at their Annual Membership Meeting held at Gamba Restaurant. The Board of Directors elected the 2014-15 slate of officers, which included Tom Wilk, Centier Bank, as Chair, Hubert Cook, Greater LaPorte Economic Development Corporation, as Vice Chair,
INDIANAPOLIS — Jill Ritchie was honored as Volunteer of the Year at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce‘s annual luncheon in Indianapolis. Jill Ritchie has called Northwest Indiana home for more than 8 years. Through her work on the Indiana Chamber board and several policy committees, as well as being an Indiana Vision 2025 regional partner, she strives
CHESTERTON — Concert Golf Partners has acquired Sand Creek Country Club, the premier private country club in Northwest Indiana within 40 minutes of Chicago in the affluent, growing suburb of Chesterton, Indiana on the shores of Lake Michigan. Concert Golf bought the club from the Lake Erie Land division of NiSource, a regional utility, in
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Porter Health Care System will offer the following monthly support groups in December: Breast Cancer Support Group – Hope & Healing Porter Regional Hospital offers Hope & Healing, a support group for people coping with breast cancer, whether newly diagnosed or a long-term survivor. The group offers emotional support, information, education, and guest speakers. It
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STARKE COUNTY — Carla Musial and Kathy Norem, members of the Starke County Economic Development Foundation Board of Directors, were named finalists for the 2014 Influential Women of Northwest Indiana recognition awards. Both were nominated by the Foundation for their work in Starke County. Musial was one of five finalists for Influential Woman in the
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Nick Popovich quietly spreads donations across the region. by Jerry Davich Nick Popovich and his staff of aircraft specialists have repossessed hundreds of luxury jets and high-priced airplanes the past three decades. But the high-flying philanthropy behind his Valparaiso-based firm, Sage-Popovich Inc., often takes place away from the public’s radar. The exhaustive list of groups,
VALPARAISO — The Regional Development Company (RDC), headquartered in Valparaiso, Ind., announced their 2014 year-end accomplishments and lender awards at their Annual Membership Meeting held at Gamba Restaurant. The Regional Development had twenty-three loans approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration, which brought a total of $13,670,000 in U.S. Small Business Administration funding to local
INDIANAPOLIS – The major motion picture release “Interstellar” from Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Christopher Nolan (“Inception”, “Dark Knight Trilogy”), has been recognized with the Truly Moving Picture Award by nonprofit arts organization Heartland Film. Select theatrically-released titles—entertaining films that do much more than just entertain—are honored with the designation throughout the
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