INDIANAPOLIS – The Heartland Film Festival will be Oct. 14 to 23 at various locations in Indianapolis. Tickets for the annual event are now on sale. A record 102 American and international films will be screened, said Jeffrey L. Sparks, CEO of Heartland Truly Moving Pictures. “This year’s number of films surpasses the […]
MUNSTER – Community Healthcare System has been honored for efforts to raise awareness on organ, eye and tissue donation. Donate Life America has presented Community Hospital in Munster, St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago and St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart with its 2010 Award of Merit for events relating to the Flags Across
MICHIGAN CITY – LaPorte Regional Health System will hold its ninth annual Women’s Fair from 2 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, in the Stardust Event Center at Blue Chip Casino. More than 50 exhibits will be set up to provide information on health and wellness. The exhibits include a model of the
MUNSTER – Briar Ridge Country Club held its second annual Golf for a Cure recently, and raised $2,068 for the Community Cancer Research Foundation. “Before we reorganized our golf outing, we participated in Rally for the Cure, a national grassroots program that works to spread awareness about breast health and breast cancer,” said
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Cary Supalo, a Purdue University alumnus and founder and president of Independence Sciences LLC (located in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette) was at the White House Monday demonstrating his products to help students affected by blindness and low vision. Supalo, a blind chemist who recently earned a doctorate
INDIANAPOLIS – Megan Bradshaw and Dawn Devine, nurses with St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers in Indianapolis, have been named the first recipients of the hospital’s DAISY Awards. They are part of The DAISY Foundation, a nationwide program that recognizes extraordinary nurses. Bradshaw works in the critical care unit at St. Francis
MERRILLVILLE – The campaign chairs for the United Way serving Lake and Porter counties will be on Lakeshore Public Television’s “Lakeshore Focus” with Dan Lowery at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24. Ray Kasmark, business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 697, the chairman of the Lake Area United Way campaign,
INDIANAPOLIS – Patrick Raftery of Indianapolis has joined Centier Bank as vice president of business banking. He will be responsible for businesses in Indianapolis and central Indiana. Raftery has 28 years of banking experience. He is a graduate of Indiana University and received his MBA from Butler University. He spent 11 years in
SOUTH BEND – The South Bend Symphony Orchestra will present Masterworks I: With One Voice at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, in the Morris Performing Arts Center. Maestro Tsung Yeh and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra open the 78th season with the “Firebird Suite” by Stravinsky and the World Premiere of “Requiem for the
CHESTERTON – The Duneland Business Initiative Group, the Wizard of Oz Festival Committee and the South Shore Poster Art Management unveiled a new South Shore Poster Thursday at the Flower Cart, 145 S. Calumet. Artist Mitch Markovitz was at the event to sign the commemorative poster. The Wizard of Oz Festival continues through Sunday, Sept. 19 in downtown
