HAMMOND – As part of the “A Christmas Story Comes Home” event at the Indiana Welcome Center, visitors can have their photo taken with Santa on top of Santa’s Mountain, a replica of the one featured in the movie. In the scene, Ralphie Parker asks Santa for an Official Red Rider BB Gun, and Santa […]
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GARY – Methodist Hospitals’ management team recently contributed non-perishable food times to the Northwest Indiana Food Bank. Members of the management team made the donations during a team building workshop in which by dressed like Pilgrims and Indians during the days leading up to Thanksgiving. Among those participating in the event was Jackie Hoekema, Cath
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HAMMOND – Two Purdue University Calumet faculty members have helped write a Purdue University equine business study that indicates Indiana’s horse-related industry has a $2 billion impact on the state’s economy. “This is the first time entrepreneurship has been surveyed,” said Susan Conners, an associate professor and director of the university’s Equine Business Management program.
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WESTVILLE – Carin Chuang, an assistant professor of computer and information technology at Purdue University North Central, has earned an Indiana Campus Compact Scholarship of Engagement Grant. It will allow Chuang and students in her systems analysis and design methods class to partner with the Westville Area Chamber of Commerce to develop a new information
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SOUTH BEND – Clint Bolser has been named CEO for the Logan Center. He will replace Dan Harsham, who is retiring at the end of the year. Bolser was most recently CEO of Noble of Indiana in Indianapolis and previously was with Green Acres in Richmond and CEO of Hillcroft Services in Muncie. He is
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NEW BUFFALO, Mich. – Four Winds Casino has announced will add a Hard Rock Café to its restaurant lineup in the summer of 2012. The restaurant will cover 12,000 square feet and will be located next to the gaming floor. The two-level restaurant will have a seating capacity of 275. In addition, Four Winds said
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MICHIGAN CITY – The Michigan City Paper Box Co. has asked the city for tax abatement so it can upgrade its equipment. The company wants to spend $725,000 for two automated lines to make rigid boxes for commercial and retail customers. Michigan City Paper Box officials the upgrade will help it retain 54 jobs and
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WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University and Indiana University are ranked among the top universities in the nation for international student enrollment. The Institute of International Education said Purdue had the fourth-highest international enrollment with 7,500 students on its West Lafayette campus, while Indiana was ranked 11th with 5,400 students. Nationally, 22 percent of international students
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CROWN POINT – Bill Gregory has been named interim director of the Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center. He takes over for LeAnn McCrum who left to pursue another employment opportunity. “I hope to continue to infuse the SBDC with the same level of energy that LeAnn gave it,” said Gregory. “Our biggest goal is
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. has announced that its U.S. ports posted an increase in tonnage handled during October. The ports handled 29 million tons of cargo, up 2 percent from last year. Early in October, 18,000 metric tons of rot-rolled steel coils were shipped from ArcelorMittal in Burns Harbor to
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