Purchase Junior Achievement Pie Certificates for $10 and a portion of every pie certificate sold will go toward Junior Achievement serving La Porte County.  Pie sales start in October and end December 31, 2013.  Pie Certificates are good at any Al’s or Barney’s Supermarket. To purchase your pie certificate or for more information contact Lisa

Prospective MBA students can learn about study abroad experience through a documentary chronicling recent trip to Bangkok.  This past spring, Indiana University Northwest Weekend MBA students traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, to learn about international business practices, culture and history firsthand. The students’ 10-day global journey will debut in a one-hour documentary, “Culture, Business & Higher

VALPARAISO —  A grant for $5,600 from Porter County Community Foundation to The Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso makes possible the “Theatre for a New Audience” project conceived by the historic venue’s Artistic Director, Scot MacDonald.  The Memorial Opera House, built in 1893 as a memorial to Civil War veterans, is located at 104 Indiana

CLEARWATER  — Murphy Business & Financial Corporation, North America’s leading full-service business brokerage firm with more than 150 offices in the United States and Canada, announced that an Indiana brokerage firm, Company Connections, is converting to Murphy Business & Financial Corporation. As a franchisee and regional developer, the new Murphy Business & Financial Corporation Great

U.S. Oil has partnered with Roehl Transport and H.M.D. Trucking on a GAIN Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Fueling Station located along Interstate 80/90 in Gary, Indiana, an important east-west freight carrier route in the Midwest. GAIN is the compressed natural gas division of U.S. Oil. “This partnership continues our build-out of a nation-wide network of

HAMMOND — A musical, holiday romp through the winter wonderland of northwest Indiana will be celebrated Saturday, Nov. 16 as Purdue University Calumet and Hammond’s Towle Theater partner in presenting the university’s next Building Community through the Arts program. Titled “Celebrating Winter in Northwest Indiana”, the free, diverse offering begins at 2 p.m. at the

WEST LAFAYETTE — The annual Interdisciplinary Engineering Colloquium at Purdue University on Nov. 14 will focus on the teachers and researchers who were trailblazers in engineering education. The School of Engineering Education, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, will present “Indomitable Innovators: Pioneers in Engineering Education Research at Purdue” at 3:30 p.m. in Armstrong Hall’s

ENO, the chic wine lounge located at Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, 200 N. Columbus Drive, will feature a winter “Silk Road” series of spiced fondues made in-house daily with a different infused spice each month. Inspired by one of the world’s oldest and most historically important trade routes, the “Silk Road” series takes guests on

Mike Schrage, Centier Bank president and chief executive officer, and Carol Highsmith (to his left), bank senior partner, recently donated on the bank’s behalf a weight scale for wheelchair-bound patients, to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago unit at Franciscan Omni Health & Fitness-Schererville. The gift was made in the names of patients Justin and Alexander