past events
Please join us as we honor our Heroes, Veteran’s Honor Rally and 5k Benefit Run. Saturday, November 5, at Lake County Fair Grounds – 10am 5k Run – 11am Honor Rally
The Northwest Indiana Veterans Action Council Hosts 3rd Annual “Veterans Honor Luncheon” On October 12, 2016 the Northwest Indiana Veterans Action Council will be hosting its 3rd Annual “Veterans Honor Luncheon” to honor those who served during WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. In past years we have…
On August 20th, 2015, Folds of Honor will be holding its fifth annual “Patriot Golf Day” at the Sandy Pines Golf Club in De Motte, Indiana. The event will feature 18 holes of fun on the links, dinner, and prizes for the day’s best performers on the course. Come have…
by Carrie Steinweg, NWI Times Correspondent Despite a rainy start, a steady crowd came through the historic Ford Hangar at the Lansing Municipal Airport last month for the annual Wings and Pancakes Breakfast and a look at some airplanes and vintage Ford automobiles. The breakfast was a fundraiser for Experimental…
For the fourth consecutive year, the Northwest Indiana Oilmen held a Veterans Benefit Game on July 1. The game allowed the Oilmen to show their support for all veterans of the United States armed forces. For the second straight year, the Oilmen partnered with the Northwest Indiana Veterans Action…
April 06, 2015 12:00 am • Times Staff MERRILLVILLE | Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana and the NWI Veterans Action Council partnered in January, 2014 to provide housing for low-income local veterans in Lake County.That dream comes true this week, when the first Veterans Build home in dedicated in…
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spending figures include only categories that go directly to veterans (such as medical, compensation or education benefits) and exclude capital expenses (such as facilities and new construction). PORTER COUNTY VETERAN ADMINISTRATION Spending in 2013 Source: NPR analysis of VA data Credit: Robert Benincasa and Alyson…
Executive Director Dan Klein, from left, of Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana, Secretary Mary Morstadt and chair Michael Sparber, both of the NWI Veterans Action Council, accept a donation for $9,000 recently from North Township Trustee Frank Mrvan to assist the collaborative Veterans Build initiative now underway in Merrillville….
HIGHLAND — John Goodpaster left home to join the U.S. Army’s 11th Airborne to fight in World War II. Like thousands of other veterans, decades later he flew on an Honor Flight out of Chicago’s Midway Airport, a program taking veterans to the World War II memorial and others in…
This Tuesday July 1, 2014 at 7:30pm at the Oil City Stadium located at 1700-118th St. Whiting, IN, we will be hosting the Veterans Benefit Game.
Dear Friend or supporter of the NWI Veterans Action Council Ghandi once said: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” We invite you to take a look at our 2014 Habitat Veterans Build project. We are enlisting support to help provide Veterans…
Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana and Northwest Indiana Action Council will be “Serving those who have served” with the Veterans Build Breakfast featuring Keynote Speaker: Major General R. Marting Umbarger – Adjutant General of Indiana This Event will be Friday April 11, from 8am to 9:30am. It will be…
Dear Friend or supporter of the NWI Veterans Action Council Ghandi once said: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” We invite you to take a look at our 2014 Habitat Veterans Build project. We are enlisting support to help provide Veterans…
Friday Mornings, 9:05 to 10:05 am with Co-host Pat O’Donnell, Don Shults, Ernie Dillon, and Bill Emerson.
