Sami Welter has been right in Valparaiso since birth. After graduating from Valparaiso High School (VHS), Welter then went off to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The traveling of her life hasn’t been limited to the Region,...
Kara Baltz went to Portage High School, and is now a registered nurse (RN) at the Methodist Hospitals in Merrillville and Gary, Indiana. Every minute of her job is about preserving life; her desire to do so enriches her own and all the other lives...
Homegrown all-star Sarah Arnold has been in Valparaiso almost all her life. It’s where she was born and raised and attended high school. After that, she went off to Indiana University Bloomington for both her undergraduate and law school...
Meghan Doyle is from and still resides in the Region. She attended high school in Portage when she was a teenager, and after graduation she studied at Purdue University in West Lafayette, double-majoring in elementary and special education. Working...
Debra Farrar-Schneider grew up in Mississippi and resided there for some time before moving on to live in the Region, where she’s been for almost 29 years now. The thing she perhaps misses the most about the South is the food, with the selections...
Elaina Miller is the principal at Cooks Corners Elementary School, which is located in Valparaiso. She herself attended school in the area at Morgan Township Middle/High School, starting in kindergarten and going all the way up to her senior year....
Hannah Trueblood was born in Valparaiso. She’s lived in the Region all her life. In 2013, she graduated from Valparaiso High School and later went on to study at Ivy Tech Community College. Today, she works as a real-estate agent under @properties,...
Cassie Reedy is a speech-language pathologist living and working in the Region. She’s been doing what she does for about 16 years. Believe it or not, when she started college, her interests were elsewhere, and the field she’s in now wasn’t one...
Kristen Secviar is from Gurnee, Illinois, and studied as an undergrad at Ball State University in Muncie. Today she works as an account executive in software solutions for Jamf, an information technology (IT) company that collaborates with Apple. ...
The world’s currently a changing place. Regardless of any form that change takes, however, it’ll always need its protectors. Jeremy Corning is one of them. He is a deputy sheriff with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois. He grew up in...
