“Servants’ hearts and a love for helping people – that’s having this profession,” said Melinda Malaski. Malaski may appear to just be a sixth-grade teacher at Fegely Middle School, but she is more than just that. In addition to teaching...
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A Portage Life in the Spotlight: Melinda Malaski
A Portage Life in the Spotlight: Sean Tomei
Sean Tomei is a third generation tree arborist who took over the Tree Bee Arborists business. The Tree Bee Arborists are members of the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) and the Indiana Arborist Association, and are Indiana Society of...
Read MoreA Portage Life in the Spotlight: Clarissa Espinoza
Clarissa Espinoza has always wanted to define her own reality. While many of her peers have chosen to make impacts in traditional jobs, Espinoza wanted to chart her own course. As a professional in the media industry, she simultaneously makes an...
Read MoreA Portage Life in the Spotlight: Melissa “Mel” Floyd
As a single mother of three kids, Melissa “Mel” Floyd never imagined she’d one day be running her own flower shop, but when the opportunity arose 5 ½ years ago, her faith compelled her to answer. “I never really wanted to be a business...
Read MoreA Portage Life in the Spotlight: Melinda Metz
Melinda Metz bought the Minuteman Press on Willowcreek seven years ago and has not looked back. She started as a graphic designer 20 years ago and was able to work her way to buying the franchise. As the owner, she now gets to interact with a...
Read MoreA Portage Life in the Spotlight: Paul Konrady
Longtime Michigan City Resident Paul Konrady is now a co-owner of his family’s Portage-based Konrady Plastics company that distributes and machines plastic. After graduating from John Carroll University, Konrady worked for several years on his own....
Read MoreA Portage Life in the Spotlight: Rachel Jablonski
Rachel Jablonski has worked as the secretary for Aylesworth Elementary School for six years now, but had been working at the school since 2006 as the school nurse. When she was in high school, Jablonski wanted to be a nurse and studied nursing at Ivy...
Read MoreA Portage Life in the Spotlight: Stephanie Naumoff
Stephanie Naumoff has been the Home School Advisor at Wallace Aylesworth Elementary School since January of this year. Naumoff was born in Arkansas and while she went to school in Lombard, Illinois, she hails from Phoenix, Arizona. Before working at...
Read MoreNWI Media in the Spotlight
The region is packed with outstanding, talented journalists, and we here at GreatNews.Life have taken the opportunity to interview several of them to tell their stories - finding out who they are and what they contribute to the Region outside of the...
Read MoreA Portage Life in The Spotlight: Mary Martinez
A long time resident of Portage, Mary Martinez took the lessons she learned from her own mother, and it sparked a passion. She changes lives every day with her work in the hospital. “Her success was all heart and hard work. I learned so much...
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