Valparaiso remembers 9/11

Cooks Corners Principal Erin Utesch speaks Tuesday during a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks at Foundation Meadows Park.

Valparaiso remembers 9/11

Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas speaks Tuesday during a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Valparaiso remembers 9/11

The Valparaiso Fire Department color guard leads Cooks Corners students to a ceremony at Foundation Meadows Park that marks the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Valparaiso remembers 9/11

Valparaiso firefighter Stephanie Hart posts the American flag Tuesday during a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks at Foundation Meadows Park in Valparaiso.

Valparaiso remembers 9/11

Valparaiso firefighters salute while a color guard processes during the city's ceremony marking 11th anniversary Tuesday of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks at the city's Foundation Meadows Park.

Valparaiso remembers 9/11

Cooks Corners fifth-grader Nick Taskoff waves an American flag Tuesday while singing "God Bless America" during a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Valparaiso held their annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony at Foundation Meadows Park.

Valparaiso remembers 9/11

Valparaiso firefighter Cpt. Jon Daly, center, along with other firefighters listen to the song "Amazing Grace" while marking the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks Tuesday with a ceremony at Foundation Meadows Park.

Valparaiso remembers 9/11

Valparaiso firefighter Jim Scarbrough salutes during a cermeony Tuesday marking the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks at Foundation Meadows Park in Valparaiso.

Valparaiso remembers 9/11

Valparaiso firefighters and others mark the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks Tuesday during a ceremony at Valparaiso's Foundation Meadows Park.

Health benefits

HealthLinc CEO Beth Wrobel speaks during a groundbreaking for their new clinic on Sturdy Road in Valparaiso.

Health benefits

Indiana state Sen. Ed Charbonneau speaks Tuesday during the HealthLinc Clinic groundbreaking in Valparaiso.

Health benefits

A rendering of the Valparaiso HealthLinc Clinic in Valparaiso.

Health benefits

Porter County Commissioner Nancy Adams and others clap Tuesday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the HealthLinc Clinic in Valparaiso.

Health benefits

Officials use shovels Tuesday during a ceremonial groundbreaking at the HealthLinc Clinic on Sturdy Road in Valparaiso.

Health benefits

Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas puts his hands up Tuesday and says "hallelujah" in referrence to the HealthLinc Clinic renovating a once empty building on Sturdy Road. HealthLinc held its groundbreaking Tuesday with officials from around the region.

Health benefits

HealthLinc Board of Directors Chairman Tim Warner speaks Tuesday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Valparaiso HealthLinc Clinic on Sturdy Road.

Health benefits

HealthLinc Board of Directors Chairman Tim Warner speaks Tuesday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Valparaiso HealthLinc Clinic on Sturdy Road.

Mayor Costas - Valpo

Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas

Mayors swap cities for show, discussion

Lakeshore Focus host Keith Kirkpatrick talks to the audience Monday before the taped show "What Would You Do: Urban Revitalization and Community Transformation" at the Valparaiso University theater.

Region full of effective bridge builders

Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas visits second-graders at Hayes Leonard Elementary School on Nov. 14 and explains his job. The students were studying government.