Ashleigh Jett was born and raised in the small community of Lothian in Maryland. She came to Indiana after moving to Hammond around the time of her early teenage years. She graduated from Carmel High School near Indianapolis. She’s been a homemaker...
Undergoing radiation treatments for many is a difficult test of courage. For one woman in the Region, however, her treatments brought her closer to a stranger in an unexpected manner. Shelly Sunderland was sitting next to a patient prior to their...
Juanita Segura was born and raised right here in the Region, and she still resides in her hometown of East Chicago, Indiana. She’ll observe her cancerversary this November, as it’s been almost exactly 10 years since she was diagnosed with lung...
Laura Herrod resides in Chesterton today, yet she grew up on the South Side of Chicago. She is a middle school counselor working in the Region. Twice she has battled cancer and survived it. Her stories now serve as testaments of endurance to women...
Donald A. Heichel II was born, raised, and went to high school in the Region in La Porte, Indiana. He still resides there, yet when he goes into the office to work, he’s in Indianapolis, as he currently works for the Department of Defense as a...
Keeping himself busy with his teaching career and the management of his own business, Timothy Paul lives and resides in La Porte, making a magnetic mark in The Region. One of his jobs is at La Porte Middle School, where he teaches seventh-grade...
Playing around on his uncles’ dairy farms when he was younger, Jon Hook has always frolicked and relished in the beauty of the green farmlands of Indiana’s rural areas, areas that his heart grew fond of, not where he actually grew up. ...
A huge fan of "Top Gun" – who, by now, has probably seen the film’s recently released sequel – and hailing from La Porte, comes Marshawn Sherrod. Reflecting on his younger days, Sherrod was not short in saying how fantastic it was to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped us better appreciate the nurses who work day-in and day-out to bring wonderful service to patients. Here in the Region, Teresa Tuholski is one of those selfless medical caretakers, working as a patient navigator at...
Before she wound up in La Porte, Indiana, Julia Kanestrom was all over the place, moving from spot to spot. It was a stroke of pure love that caused her to arrive where she is now, and she now leads a hard-working life in the humble Region. ...
