MUNSTER – Shelly Recktenwall is a caregiver. A special education teacher from Crown Point, she raised five of her own children before serving as a constant companion to a senior citizen in Munster. When she was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer in January of 2014, she was more determined than ever to continue to […]
LA PORTE – Balcony tickets are still available for the 22nd Annual Holiday at the Pops Concert. The concert will take place on December 10, 2016 at the La Porte Civic Auditorium. This year’s concert will feature the La Porte County Symphony Orchestra directed by Philip Bauman and special guest artists Charles Steck and the North
LA PORTE – Winter WellnessLand returns to The Crossing at La Porte Hospital this year, offering photos with Santa in exchange for non-perishable food items, plus other holiday activities and treats. The event takes place from 4-6 p.m., Dec. 6 at The Crossing, 1203 Washington St., La Porte. “We started this last year because our
Join Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson for an evening of “An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies” at the Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. From “Star Wars” to “Frozen” to “The Martian”, an entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined
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GRIFFITH – Republic Services, Cambridge Companies (waste facility design-build experts based in Griffith, IN) and Larson Design Group (civil, structural and MEP engineering company based in Apalachin, NY), were awarded ENR Southwest’s Energy/Industrial Best Project for Republic’s Southern Nevada Recycling Center. The project is being honored at the ENR Best Project Event in Phoenix, AZ
Sharon Jones, a member of the Environmental Services (EVS) team at Northwest Indiana’s Methodist Hospitals, Gary Campus, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Hygiene Specialist Excellence award sponsored by UMF Corporation, a developer of high-performance infection-prevention products. Jones, a resident of Gary, IN, was nominated for the award by her supervisor, Poet Billups, Manager
WESTVILLE – Purdue University Northwest has been named to the 2017 Military Friendly Schools list as compiled by Victory Media Inc. The list honors the nation’s top schools that welcome America’s military service members, veterans and spouses as students and help to ensure their success on campus. PNW is one of more than 1,200 institutions
WESTVILLE – James B. Dworkin, chancellor emeritus of Purdue University North Central, will host a signing of his recently published children’s book, “The Dog and the Jet Ski” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30 in the campus bookstore located on the lower level of the Library-Student-Faculty Building at Purdue Northwest’s Westville Campus.
