CALUMET CITY â Aaron Altenburg and Chris Russo believe their teaching roles at TF North High School extend beyond the classroom. We re always trying to look for new and different ways to get involved with the school and community, Altenburg said.
Staying up all night to run 24 miles in 4-mile chunks over 24 hours is new and it is different, no doubt about that. So that s what the co-workers and running buddies are doing this weekend.
Ride along with LaPorte Police Specialist Justin Dyer as he patrols the streets of LaPorte.
Altenburg and Russo are staging the Endurance 24 Challenge: an overnight and into the next day event that starts at 4 p.m. Friday at Lincoln Elementary School in Cedar Lake and winds up 24 hours later with a few laps around the TF North track. The goal is to raise scholarship money for TF North students whose lives have been impacted by the pandemic.
Narrator: The 309th AMARG stores the world s largest collection of military aircraft here in the Arizona desert.
Col. Jennifer Barnard: I like to call this the ugliest plane out here, the YC-14. It was an aircraft that never went into production.
Narrator: Eight hundred mechanics work nonstop, reclaiming critical old parts and regenerating aircraft so they can go back into service.
Barnard: I can t just pull over an airplane like you can a car. And we have to make sure that these aircraft are safe to fly. Our goal is not to be like a cemetery for the aircraft.
Narrator: That s Col. Barnard. She s served 25 years as a US Air Force Aircraft Maintenance Officer.