Mark your calendar for the 3rd annual United Way Regional Day of Caring to be held in Lake and Porter County on August 27 and 28. The event is billed by organizers as the largest gathering of volunteers in Northwest Indiana. The United Way Regional Volunteer Center is searching is for small or large companies,...
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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP | A luxury custom semitrailer followed by another long truck pulled onto the road behind the Porter County Fair grandstand Friday afternoon as a crowd of adults and children waited patiently for the door to open. It wasn’t the latest country music star or teen idol; it was nine Clydesdale horses who...
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VALPARAISO | The “11 best days of summer” are officially over. The 160th Porter County Fair closed with a literal bang – a grandstand fireworks show Sunday evening. Fair organizers and participants reflected on their mostly positive memories of the 2010 fair. “This is one of the best fairs around,” said Julie Jones, who...
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VALPARAISO | Valparaiso Parks and Recreation, the Visiting Nurse Association, the Portage YMCA, and Discoveries Unlimited will be receiving grants from the United Way of Porter County’s Power of Youth on July 28 at the 2010 Porter County Fair. The allocation ceremony, The Power of Giving, will be held in the Grand Stand from...
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