The Town Council approved a facility usage agreement allowing the youth organization to use three community rooms and other aspects of the Dean and Barbara White Community Center for the
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
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Merrillville will provide $225,000 per year for the next decade to the Boys & Girls Clubs to lease space in the facility Epic plans to build adjacent to the Dean
“It is a part of the overall plan for the town of Merrillville multipurpose recreational campus,” Merrillville Planning and Building Director Sheila Shine said.