Citizens Utility Board to help Cal City residents at health fair

CALUMET CITY | The Citizens Utility Board will give Calumet City consumers money-saving light bulbs, helpful tips, and information about a free, energy-saving online service that has been showing people how to save about $100 a year.

Health tests among freebies offered at Portage Senior Fair

PORTAGE | Linda Bryann got her hearing and blood pressure checked.

Hobart program ensures safety of city's seniors

HOBART | Doris Christian doesn't get paid for a job that plays upon her skills as cheerleader, counselor and sometimes police detective.

Hobart High troupe performs March 10 for senior citizens

HOBART | The play "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" will be presented at 3 p.m. on March 10 at Hobart High School, 32 E. 7th St.

Advocacy group encourages elderly to get flu shots

Dr. Meeta Khan wears a face mask as she examines a respiratory patient at the Rush University Hospital emergency department on Thursday in Chicago. Flu season in the U.S. has hit early and, in some places, hard. But whether this will be considered a bad season by the time it has run its cour…

Advocacy group encourages elderly to get flu shots

CHICAGO | Illinois residents are being reminded to check on older family members during this flu season and, if needed, to help get them to clinics or a pharmacy to get a flu shot.

At 88, woman ends her role at day care center

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. | Marie Handley started her day Sept. 26 the way she has for 26 years: eating breakfast with more than a dozen toddlers, seated in booster seats around her.

Woman ends her role at day care center

Marie Handley, 88, is surrounded by toddlers she has cared for at the Elk Grove Township Day Care Center. Handley has retired after working 27 years at the day care center.

Woman ends her role at day care center

Marie Handley, 88, holds up a keepsake photograph gifted by co-workers upon her retirement at the Elk Grove Township Day Care Center. Handley has retired after working 27 years at the day care center.

36-year sentence upheld for Lowell man who raped elderly neighbor

INDIANAPOLIS | The Indiana Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected a sentence-reduction request from a Lowell man convicted of raping his 91-year-old neighbor.

Lake County Fair contest is a-peeling

CROWN POINT | Casimira Bilinski was clearly a cut above most of her competition during back-to-back events Monday at the Lake County Fair.

PHIL AT THE PHAIR: Bidding a fond fair-well to the Porter County Fair

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP | As I carefully clip the final re-admission stamp for this year's 162nd Porter County Fair from the back of my hand, let's look back at some of the precious memories I will be trying to forget until the 163rd fair.

Community design plays role in quality of life for senior citizens

VALPARAISO | A downstate anthropologist is trying to reframe the way people see older residents and the role municipal planners play in creating livable communities for all ages.

Senior citizens admitted free to Hobart High School play on Sunday

HOBART | Hobart senior citizens can attend the high school play "Back to the ’80s" for free at 3 p.m. Sunday.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Build resiliency to ease financial hardship

Every day, my office phone, cellphone and email are filled with distress messages from people reaching out for resources to ease their desperate situations.

Lake Station Lions Club holds senior citizens dinner Sunday

LAKE STATION | The Lake Station Lions Club will hold its annual Senior Citizens Dinner at noon Sunday at Edison Junior-Senior High School, 3304 Parkside Ave.

Hobart High 'Crucible' matinee free Sunday for senior citizens

HOBART| A special showing of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is free to senior citizens attending the 3 p.m. Sunday matinee at Hobart High School, 2211 E. 10th St.

Open house set for remodeled senior center

CEDAR LAKE | Holy Name Parish, South Lake County Community Services and Northwest Indiana Community Action Agency will have an open house at noon Wednesday at the new Cedar Lake Senior Center.

Event at Hobart center educates seniors about healthy lifestyle

HOBART | Dolores Armenth and two of her friends were among those first in line Thursday to take part in the Maria Reiner Fair for Seniors.

Seniors get fit with Wii system

Valparaiso's Life Care Center of the Willows helps its residents' get fit and rehab their injuries by using a Wii video game system. The program has been very popular with residents.