VALPARAISO â Carrie Gschwind typically serves as a food service inspector for the Porter County Health Department.
But these are not typical times, and the Valparaiso resident was pulled in recently to take over as pod manager at the health department s COVID-19 vaccine site on the grounds of the Porter County Expo Center. I love it, she said of her service on the front lines of the battle against the deadly pandemic. I like to be able to talk to people. I love to learn new things, too.
John Pontrelli, of Valparaiso, gets his first vaccination for COVID-19 from registered nurse Emily Gillian at the Porter County Expo Center, Porter County s COVID vaccine site.
Northwest Health Porter Hospital nurses are among many of the Region s health care providers, who have spent much of the past year on the front lines working tirelessly and selflessly in the ever-growing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Bob Kasarda
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP â A late January ice and snow storm was not enough to keep nurse Marianne Ashby from showing up at 5 a.m. to kick off another day of COVID-19 testing from a camper set up outside the emergency department at Northwest Health Porter Hospital. It s gratifying, you get to help the community, the Ogden Dunes resident said.
Ashby is among many of the Region s health care providers, who have spent much of the past year on the front lines working tirelessly and selflessly in the ever-growing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual Maple Sugar Festival at the Chellberg Farm went virtual this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See the process of how the syrup is made.
A year after the COVID-19 pandemic derailed most of the annual events and festivals along the Lake Michigan shoreline, a cautious reopening is taking place here in Northwest Indiana and in neighboring Chicago.
The Indiana Dunes National Park, which encompasses 15 miles of the local shoreline, is cautiously moving toward reintroducing its popular annual festivals, said Bruce Rowe, supervisory park ranger/public information officer.
The Maple Sugar Time festival, which has attracted crowds of up to 4,000 people over its two weekends, is being held primarily online this year due to continued concerns about the highly contagious and potentially deadly coronavirus, he said.
Organizers gathered outside along Michigan Boulevard in Michigan City calling for Mayor Duane Parry s resignation following a racially charged comment left on a voicemail. John Luke, The Times
MICHIGAN CITY â A racially charged comment, apparently inadvertently recorded at the end of a phone message left by Mayor Duane Parry for a black local pastor, was blasted over a loudspeaker Tuesday outside City Hall amid calls for the mayor to resign.
âOn the recording, the mayor thinks he has hung up the phone and falls into his comfort zone,â said Pastor James Lane of Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church.
On the voicemail recording, Parry says, âThey want a (expletive) audience, ya know. These black guys, they all want a (expletive) audience all the time.â
Organizers gathered outside along Michigan Boulevard in Michigan City calling for Mayor Duane Parry s resignation following a racially charged comment left on a voicemail. John Luke, The Times
MICHIGAN CITY â A racially charged comment, apparently inadvertently recorded at the end of a phone message left by Mayor Duane Parry for a black local pastor, was blasted over a loudspeaker Tuesday outside City Hall amid calls for the mayor to resign.
âOn the recording, the mayor thinks he has hung up the phone and falls into his comfort zone,â said Pastor James Lane of Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church.
On the voicemail recording, Parry says, âThey want a (expletive) audience, ya know. These black guys, they all want a (expletive) audience all the time.â