SOUTH BEND – Diane Merrill has been promoted to account manager in Gibson’s property and casualty practice. She will be responsible for the day-to-day service needs of clients. Merrill joined Gibson in 2004 and previously was an office manager with Waste Management.
SOUTH BEND – Jill Olson has been promoted to client manager in Gibson’s business and private client group. She will specialize in designing risk management and insurance programs for small business owners. Olson joined Gibson in 2002 and previously was a commercial property underwriter for a large property and casualty insurance company in Kansas City,
MUNSTER – A partnership between The Dorothy Abel Purcell Pro-Life Foundation of Munster, and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Gary, has opened the Women’s Care Center in Hammond. The center is at 7127 S. Indianapolis Blvd. and is one of 19 such facilities in Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. The foundation provided $120,000 for its
LAPORTE – Camp Summit Boot Camp has promoted William Watts to Youth Services Supervisor. Superintendent Cecil Davis said Watts was previously Youth Services Instructor. Watts was been at Camp Summit since 2008. He also has been a correctional officer at Westville Correctional Facility. “With Mr. Watts’ experience and contributions to the mission of Camp Summit
ROLLING PRAIRIE – The LaPorte County Cooperative Extension Service annual meeting will be at 7 p.m. (EST) Wednesday, March 28, at the United Methodist Church of Rolling Prairie. Donya Lester, executive secretary of the Purdue Agricultural Alumni Association and director of the Public Engagement for the Purdue College of Agriculture, will be the speaker. Tickets
SOUTH BEND – Dr. Suhayl Nasr, the medical director of the Epworth Center at Memorial Hospital, has been named a distinguished fellow by the American Psychiatric Association. Distinguished fellow is awarded to outstanding psychiatrists who have made significant contributions to the psychiatric profession at least five area – administration, teaching, scientific and scholarly publications, volunteering
GARY – Methodist Hospitals has opened an inpatient Geriatric Behavioral Health Services program at its Northwest campus. “We believe it is important for Methodist Hospitals to demonstrate its commitment to the mental and emotional health of the communities we serve by providing top quality behavioral health care to patients of all ages,” said Dr. Marcus
PORTAGE – The Ross Group has been named one of the top 10 builders in the country by Ceco Building Systems. The Ross Group is owned by Ross Pangere and has been involved with several projects in the region including the Monosol building in LaPorte, I/N TEK in New Carlisle, Round the Clock Restaurant in
CHICAGO – Steve Patterson of Schererville, a former Northwest Indiana reporter and writer, has joined Res Publica Group, a strategic communications firm in Chicago. Patterson, 38, was named vice president. Most recently, he was communications director for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, where he worked on high profile issues including foreclosure evictions, shutting down human
GARY – Superior Construction Co. Inc. is marking its 13th year of safe operations at the BP Whiting Refinery. Employees of the Gary-based construction company have put in more than 15 million work hours at the refinery without a single lost-time accident. “We have built an excellent safety culture there over the years by getting
