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...

Stephanie Johnson is a woman with many talents ranging from being a stay-at-home mom to owning HAPPY Popcorn, a gourmet popcorn business in Portage. In 2018, Johnson decided that she wanted to create her own gourmet popcorn business. “Our claim to...

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...

In 2013, Debra “Dis” Disney retired from teaching health and physical education at Wheeler High School. Before Disney’s retirement, though, she shared about how much teaching meant to her and how much she enjoyed her position of...

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...

Ever since March of 2020 the world has turned upside down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Letty Zepeda, health administrator for Porter County Health Department, believes that staying inside and getting vaccinated are the best things we can do to...