ANGOLA â Sheâs a survivor, and sheâs here to tell her story.
Friday, at a luncheon for women put on as part of Womenâs Week by the Downtown Angola Coalition, Michelle Corrao shared her life story about being violently assaulted, shoved in the trunk of her car and her heroic rescue by a Fort Wayne Police Department detective.
She prefaced the talk by warning the crowd that yes, her story is awful and it could be triggering to some and that she would not be offended if anyone had to get up and leave because of it.
The assault
ANGOLA â The Steuben County Community Foundation has received two, $100,000 grants through the Lilly Endowment through the same initiative, the Foundation announced Thursday.
Steuben County Community Foundation has received a Community Leadership Grant of $100,000 as part of the seventh phase of Lilly Endowment Inc.âs Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow initiative. With the grant, the community foundation will establish a strategy of building a collaborative network of people and organizations who are equipped to solve community issues through collective action.
âSCCF is grateful for the opportunity this grant has given our board to evaluate our role in supporting the people and organizations who make things happen in Steuben County,â said Jennifer Danic, president and CEO of Steuben County Community Foundation.
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ANGOLA — The Steuben County Disaster Response Fund, a collaboration between Steuben County Community Foundation and Steuben County United Way, has awarded a $30,000 grant to support countywide vaccination efforts.
ANGOLA â Mark Leu no longer thinks of LaGrange County REMC as just an electric membership cooperative that serves a rural community.
âWe no longer consider ourselves an electric cooperative. We are now an electric and communications cooperative,â said Leu, CEO of LaGrange County REMC.
Thatâs the new reality of two electric cooperatives that had humble beginnings of simply working to string wire to rural LaGrange and Steuben counties so those who lived in the country â mainly farmers â had electricity.
Both REMCs are starting to work on providing fiber optics to their members so broadband connectivity becomes a reality out in areas that, much like electricity during the Great Depression, was dark.