Alexis Stanley is a nurse at the Methodist Hospital in Gary. Working odd, random 12-hour shifts throughout the week, as her husband works his own full-time job, while trying to find childcare was becoming more difficult than treating the high-trauma patients …
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This July of 2017, Frontline Foundations will be celebrating its 10th year anniversary. The organization is a certified substance and drug abuse outpatient treatment center with unique recovery program techniques. They are a small organization, but one that …
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Once again, the women of Flanagin’s Bulk Mail Service have come up with a number. The number, $868,056.56 is the grand total amount of money saved for their Valparaiso and surrounding area customers on postage during the 2016 year. Are they happy with this …
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Year 2017 will mark the 20th anniversary since moving into the building located at 154 W. Chicago Street in Valparaiso. This building is the second home, the escape, the place of entertainment for the many community members who appear at its doors destined …
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Brittany Fozkos knows what it is like to be athletic. As a former college swimmer and now triathlete, she is at top of the pack of the growing number of people turning to sports and exercise. Fozkos, 26, grew up in a very athletic family. She started swimming …
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Kristi Chadderdon is the spreader of library love. I am serious, she spreads library love throughout La Porte County, making sure everyone, young and old, student and non-reader, is aware of what the library has to offer. Chadderdon started working at the …
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Al Sabedra was in his mid-twenties, working for Ford Motor Company, raising one son with his wife when he realized what his true calling was supposed to be. It happened one day walking into a new gym on his way to sign up for a membership. “I honestly …
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Sometimes having too many options is a good thing, especially when it comes to the many, many frozen custard flavors offered at Culver’s Restaurant. You’re on your way to the La Porte Avenue, Valparaiso Culver’s, looking forward to your favorite custard …
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Like mother, like daughter. Crystal Olympidis instills in her children the importance of giving back to the community. She leads by example, taking her children to various volunteer events she helps organize through the Valparaiso YMCA. Her daughter, Maria …
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She helped save a school, and in the process created an entirely new style of education for northwest Indiana children. Laurie Metz is the director of the Chesterton based Field Station Cooperative and the Board President for the Discovery Charter School, two …
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