Gwen Mathis

High school wasn’t easy for some kids, and for Hailey Holder, it will be a time she would never forget. In December of 2017, Holder was diagnosed with leukemia during her junior year of high school. When Holder was diagnosed, she did not fully...

On January 26, 2016, Bill Nelson was hit with the most life changing news. Nelson was diagnosed with Medullary Thyroid Cancer (MTC). MTC is a very rare and incurable thyroid cancer. “I assumed I wouldn’t be alive by the end of the year. The word...

In August of 2021, Justin Budde was welding in the back of a trailer when he suddenly slipped and landed on his feet. After he fell out of the trailer he started to feel pain in his right testicle. Little did Budde know that...

William "Will" McCorkle is the Metro Aquatics Director who oversees both the pools and aquatic programming at the Michigan City and La Porte YMCA. McCorkle has been working at the YMCA in La Porte and Michigan City since 2020. “I've been in the...

In August 2021, Trisha Fraker received news that would change her life. After feeling a lump in her breast, Fraker immediately went to the doctor. “I was laying down and my son was laying on my chest area, watching a movie with me and I felt a lump...

For over 110 years, Larson-Danielson Construction Company has been a part of the La Porte community as both a business and other involvement with various organizations.  “We're a family-owned business, but the people are treated like family....

Richard (Rick) Eilts is a sales consultant at Currie Motors Ford of Valpo and has been for the past three decades. Eilts found his love for sales through a friend who was a salesman, and the rest is history. “At the time, I was not sure I...