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Winning Helps Boost Support for Football

August 2, 2018 by Larry Avila

High school teams find victories lead to more fans, funds for programs In his first two years as athletic director for Michigan City High School, Craig Shaman remembers when Friday night varsity football games drew about 1,000 people. That meant at least 3,000 seats were empty at the 4,000-person capacity Ames Field, which didn’t help […]

Filed Under: 2018-Aug-Sep, Sports Tagged With: business sponsorship, High school football, high school sports, Horizon Bank, LaPorte High School, Michigan City High School

Whiting WhoaZone Stays Afloat

June 1, 2018 by Lourdes Castellanos

WhoaZone floating sports park, on Lake Michigan

Water park proves profitable despite doubts Widely known for its out-of-the-box approaches to events and attractions, the city of Whiting has become the small city with big ideas. Its annual Pierogi Fest, Wickedly Whiting, and the WhoaZone at Whihala Beach sports park have put the city on the attraction map. Last summer, WhoaZone’s floating sports […]

Filed Under: 2018-Jun-Jul, Sports Tagged With: Joe Stahura, Whiting, WhoaZone

Ball Game Struggle

April 9, 2018 by Ben Smith

Gary Metro Little League

Interest fades in America’s former favorite pastime Springtime again, and there’s no doubting what Kevin Bradley’s fancy turns to. Baseball is his thing and has been for four decades. The president of the Gary Metro Little League first put a bat to a ball when he was just four years old, and the ball sat […]

Filed Under: 2018-Apr-May, Sports Tagged With: Clark Troupe, Gary Metro Little League, Kevin Bradley

Lessons in the Game of Life

February 9, 2018 by Ben Smith

Ron and Reesha Howard’s Game Day Sports Camp

Ron Howard leads the way for children’s camps Seven years in, they pull up to the door now and out spill the children. Out spill all the things in his life that make Ron Howard smile.  Yet it’s not just the children who are his blessing, it’s who’s behind the wheel of the vehicles that […]

Filed Under: 2018-Feb-Mar, Sports Tagged With: Game Day Sports Camp, Homer Drew, Ron Howard, Valparaiso University

Youth Football

October 26, 2017 by Ben Smith

Northwest Indiana Youth Football and Cheer has 75-80 kids involved this year in four age groups, ranging in age from 7 up to 14.

The game has changed but it’s still coaching kids and it’s still football The game is not going to lose him. David Bush is pretty clear about that. “I love the game of football,” he says. And so, autumn is a busy time for him, and has been for more than a quarter century. He […]

Filed Under: Fall 2017, Sports Tagged With: Crown Point, David Bush

Collegiate Sports

August 18, 2017 by Ben Smith

The James B. Dworkin Student Services and Athletic Center, completed in Spring 2016 and located on the North Central campus, seats over 1,500 fans of the Pride men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball teams.

New conferences for Purdue NW and Valparaiso University Thirty-four miles of toll road still separate the two, multiple lanes of pavement that run east and west and, these days, represent far more than just a thread of red on some service plaza map of Indiana. Those 34 miles are only geographic now, because Purdue Calumet […]

Filed Under: Sports, Summer 2017

Navigating the Waterways

May 3, 2017 by Ben Smith

NWIPA members paddling canoes and kayaks along the waterways of Northwest Indiana.

NWI Paddling Association combines community and conservation She’s the first to admit that the ancestral spirit of the French voyageur likely doesn’t breathe within her. Nor does that of the Olympic kayaker. Instead, Debby Stoit says she’s still a novice at this business of paddling canoes and kayaks along the waterways of Northwest Indiana, and […]

Filed Under: Sports, Spring 2017

A Gleam on the Ice

February 20, 2017 by Ben Smith

Notre Dame’s ice arena aims to inspire young athletes The eye of the beholder begins to gleam, as the beholder steps into this clean, well-lit place. Jeff Jackson has seen it. Mike McNeill, too. “I don’t ask them directly what their thoughts are about the facility, but when they walk through there, their eyes are […]

Filed Under: Sports, Winter 2017

Slam Dunk Turnaround

November 1, 2016 by Janice Dixon-Fitzwater

A fast rebuild for the IU Northwest women’s basketball program. By Ben Smith History and home. That’s what Nicki Monahan saw when Ryan Shelton came calling. She was a basketball star at Portage High School who was a self-professed “family kind of gal” and so, when she was recruited by Shelton, the women’s basketball coach […]

Filed Under: Business, Fall 2016, Sports

Dust Furniture

November 1, 2016 by Janice Dixon-Fitzwater

Furniture is ‘functional art on a human scale.’ by Barbara Eastman Dust & Ashes Productions Inc. is a Valparaiso-based custom furniture and home accessories company owned by Vincent and Jessie Leman. They founded the company in 2005, before they were married, and have spent the last 11 years growing the business. Growing up on a […]

Filed Under: Business, Fall 2016

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