On Saturday afternoon nine civilians underwent their final day of Community Emergency Response Team training at the Multi-Agency Academic Cooperative Foundation Emergency Services Training Center in Valparaiso. Jeff Nichols, The Times
VALPARAISO â Local residents sprung into action Saturday to locate trapped victims scattered across a simulated disaster zone in the wake of an earthquake.
The simulation was part of nine civilians final day of Community Emergency Response Team training Saturday at the Multi-Agency Academic Cooperative Foundation Emergency Services Training Center in Valparaiso.Â
Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT, training is a hands-on free course that educates residents on search and rescue, HAZMAT, fire emergencies, electrical hazards, medical training, disaster response and more.
Northwest Health Porter Hospital nurses are among many of the Region s health care providers, who have spent much of the past year on the front lines working tirelessly and selflessly in the ever-growing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Bob Kasarda
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP â A late January ice and snow storm was not enough to keep nurse Marianne Ashby from showing up at 5 a.m. to kick off another day of COVID-19 testing from a camper set up outside the emergency department at Northwest Health Porter Hospital. It s gratifying, you get to help the community, the Ogden Dunes resident said.
Ashby is among many of the Region s health care providers, who have spent much of the past year on the front lines working tirelessly and selflessly in the ever-growing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Editorial
Bill aligns juvenile treatment with redemptive goals
Indiana for years has lacked a critical mechanism to protect some of the state s most vulnerable citizens: children charged with crimes.
There now is no system in place for determining the competency of children navigating the state s juvenile justice system, an omission that s left lawyers and judges struggling to find ways to help children who might not understand the trouble they re in or the next steps in their cases.
A bill that so far has had wide bipartisan support in the Indiana General Assembly would change that and implement needed safeguards for children.
The measure requires those younger than 18 and charged as adults to still be housed in a juvenile facility and provides for automatic expungement of most juvenile offenses when a