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.
CROWN POINT — Two local organizations have come together in support of a community based literacy project. The Crown Point Rotary Club and the Crown Point Community Foundation contributed $2,500 each allowing 200 children to participate in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library project. With additional support from Crown Point Rotary, 300 children are now enrolled!
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MERRILLVILLE — Electric and natural gas providers across the United States and Canada are joining forces to protect customers from long-running scams targeting their customers. The Utilities United Against Scams collaboration has designated November 16 as Utilities United Against Scams Day. This day will be supported by a weeklong campaign with content focused on exposing
