LAPORTE – As a service to enterprise zone businesses, the LaPorte Urban Enterprise Association is sponsoring a workshop on Tuesday, March 5, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. to review tax saving incentives available to businesses that are located within the Enterprise Zone, completion of required forms, and changes in filing dates. The location of the […]
WEST LAFAYETTE – The football head injury experts featured in recent Sports Illustrated coverage of Junior Seau’s brain injuries say new brain-saving helmet technology is available that would massively decrease energy delivered to the brain during impacts. Eric Nauman, Purdue University Neurotrauma Group biomechanical engineering professor, has patented a new helmet liner that reduces G-force
SOUTH BEND – 1st Source Bank has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Banks in its annual review of the nation’s 100 largest publicly held financial institutions. 1st Source ranked 25th on the list based on an analysis of asset quality, capital adequacy and profitability. 1st Source ranked higher than any other
PORTAGE – The unemployment rate for Gulf War-era II veterans (those who have served since 2001) is considerably higher than non-veterans, 11.9 percent compared to 8.7 percent. Programs like the Helmets to Hardhats organization and the Iron Workers Local 395 Apprenticeship Program are working to combat this problem and bring quality careers to America’s troops
VALPARAISO – Mack Elliott of Prudential Executive Group has been named to Prudential Real Estate President’s Circle for 2012. The award recognizes the Network’s top three percent of residential sales professionals who exemplified great sales measures in closed residential GCI, commercial GCI or closed 50 residential units for the year. “Mack is a dedicated professional,
HAMMOND – Explore the life and times of John Dillinger and his gang at the Indiana Welcome Center from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday, March 2. Throughout the day, visitors may enter the John Dillinger Museum for free and watch the “wooden gun” clip from Mysteries at the Museum. The clip from Mysteries at
SOUTH BEND – The physicians and staff of Memorial Regional Cancer Center welcome Thomas J. Reid III as the new Medical Director. Reid specializes in Hematology-Medical Oncology. He earned his bachelor of science in microbiology at The Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Purdue University. Reid earned his medical degree at the
WESTVILLE – Purdue University North Central Chancellor Dr. James B. Dworkin has been presented with the Rotary Club Foundation of Michigan City Paul J. Alinsky Excellence Award. The award is presented in honor of the late Paul Alinsky, a past Rotary Club president, former Michigan City Chamber of Commerce chairman and founder of Sentinel Alarm
