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Franciscan Health Foundation committee members raised much than $19,400 for the Prenatal Assistance Program successful Michigan City astatine a caller reception aimed astatine matching an anonymous $15,000 contribution.

Franciscan Health Foundation Board members Kelly Shikany and Jennifer Hogberg hosted the fundraising reception Oct. 13 astatine the Franciscan Health Michigan City bequest field astatine 301 W. Homer Street, which houses the Prenatal Assistance Program.

Hogberg became a subordinate of the Franciscan Health Foundation Board of Directors successful outpouring 2022 and soon thereafter toured the Michigan City Prenatal Assistance Program facility.

Franciscan Health Community Health Improvement Director Danielle Crowder said successful 2020, the babe mortality complaint successful LaPorte County was 11.7%, higher than some the authorities and nationalist averages. Indiana besides ranks eighth successful the federation for babe mortality.

Leeps Supply Co. and Midwest Insurance Center, Inc. awarded Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana a $10,000 cheque to physique the walls for a spouse household location successful Lake Station. In summation to their fiscal support, Leep’s Supply Co. and Midwest Insurance Center, Inc. volunteered their clip to physique each 33 walls of the house.

“We’re beyond grateful for this concern with Leeps Supply Co. and Midwest Insurance Center. To straight witnesser their interaction connected the household done the generous enactment to physique the spouse family walls,” Dawn Michaels, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana. “Owning a location is becoming much and much costly successful Lake County, Indiana. Our community partners are a immense crushed we’re capable to proceed gathering safe, prime and affordable homes.”

Lakeshore Public Media, successful collaboration with For Goodness Sake Productions and Valparaiso University, is hosting a nationalist screening of “From Sundown to Sunrise” astatine 5 p.m. connected November 9 astatine Valparaiso University’s Christopher Center Library, country 205.

Directed by Region natives, Tom Desch and Pat Wisniewski of For Goodness Sake Productions, “From Sundown to Sunrise” is centered successful Valparaiso successful 1968 and shares the travel of existent metropolis councilman Robert Cotton arsenic helium and his household integrate to an all-white, Indiana town. The term sundown, presented successful this film, refers to radical segregation implemented by all-white municipalities, that excluded non-whites — astir often African Americans — from remaining in municipality aft sunset.