Amanda Bookholt grew up all over the United States. Her dad was an army officer, so she and her family moved around often. Her high-school years were spent in Grayslake, Illinois, a village not too distant from the Region. She’s been living and...
Larry Evans is a partner at Hoeppner Wagner & Evans, a law firm in the Region. The firm’s primary headquarters is located in Valparaiso, but it also has an office in Merrillville. While he works in Valpo now, Evans was born and raised in Gary,...
Julie Kissinger grew up in Valpo and graduated from high school in her hometown. She then went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in business from Purdue University. She currently works as the director of life services at VNA Hospice NWI, at the head...
Not all folks doing tremendous work in the Valparaiso community today were born and raised locally. That includes Jessica Luth, who comes from Kansas City, Missouri. She’s lived in various places, having spent a fair amount of years right outside...
Liz Bradley is familiar with the Region, especially the Portage, Valpo, and Westville areas. She graduated from Valparaiso High School. After that, she moved on to studying marketing, then was later hired in that field. She worked at a real-estate...
Rosanna Cavanaugh has always been around the Region. She was born in Hobart. When she was in eighth grade, she moved to Valparaiso. She hasn’t stayed only in Indiana, however, having once moved to California for a short period. Nevertheless,...
Terri Evans was born and raised in a little town in northeast Oklahoma called Picher. It’s no longer there today and is now considered a ghost town. Evans still remained in the state, however, until around the time she met her husband. Evans then...
Dave Brown is president of Burke’s Outdoor Equipment, a place where Valparaiso residents can come to find and purchase the most state-of-the-art, up-to-date technology needed for the maintenance of their yards. Besides his preoccupation with that...
Stephanie Swearington is the project director for Insight, a program through Porter-Starke Services designed to identify and treat individuals who have experienced a first episode of psychosis. She was born and raised here in the Region and went...
It’s not everyday that you get to sit down with a cancer survivor, a military veteran, a change-maker in the community, or a thriving high school student and get a look into what it’s like to live in their shoes. By sitting down with the members...