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FIND MORE NEWS ONLINE AT NWI.COM Friday, Oct er 23, 2015 PAGE A3 LOCAL TODAY: Man charged with filming tenant. PAGE A4 TODAY IN HISTORY 10 YEARS AGO: VHS girls win semi state The Vikings rebounded from their regional loss to capture the New Prairie Girls Prep semi state title over runner-up Chesterton. WEEKEND PICK Boo Bash is Sunday in Porter popular Boo Bash Halloween Event returns from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday at Hawthorne Park. This family-friendly event features crafts, games, prizes, a donut decorating table, and a costume contest.

Costume contest prizes will be awarded to the top three costumes in the following divisions: group costume, ages 0-3, ages 4-6, ages 7-9, and ages 10-13. Costume contest will be judged at 1 p.m. Boo Bash is a free community event sponsored by the Town of Porter Park Department. For more information, contact Brian Bugajski, Town of Porter Park Department Director at (219) 921-1687 or CONTACT THE EDITOR: JOHN SCHEIBEL, Porter oun ty writer-editor john.scheibel@nwi.com, (219) 548-4358 i Valparaiso (219) 462-5151 i Portage (219) 762-4334 DEBORAH LAVERTY i mes rrespondent VALPARAISO Lakeshore PAWS, an animal adoption center, is moving to a new home. The Porter County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved on Wednesday a zone request from Lakeshore PAWS Director Jeanne Sommer to allow the center to move to 4611 E.

Evans in Washington Township. Lakeshore PAWS is a volunteer-run, nonprofit organization now housed at 405 Elm St. No one came to the meeting to protest the move but a number of volunteers, wearing the Lakeshore PAWS T-shirts, came to lend their moral support. Todd Leeth, an attorney representing the center, said the organization currently has 18 dogs in the shelter that are ready to be placed up for adoption. The new center, at 4611 E.

Evans, has a total of feet on 1.7 acres and has a large fenced in area for the dogs to be exercised. Sommer said that even though the new location will allow the organization to care for up to 50 dogs, on the high side. though we can increase our capacity the maximum that we have at any one time will be 25 with the rest taken to foster Sommer said. BZA member Marvin Brickner said he thinks the move is a great idea but questioned whether there were any plans for landscaping at the new site. Sommer said.

In other business, the BZA approved a request from the Valparaiso Community Schools to allow a reduction in the buffer area and removal of landscape bumpouts and landscaping islands in the parking lots of the new Heavilin Road elementary school to be built at 50 W. Heavilin Road in Center Township. Brickner questioned school officials about the possibility of having at least some green strips in the parking lot to help beautify it and to assist with drainage. School has solid asphalt and a Brickner said. School officials, including School Attorney David Hollenbeck, said removal of the islands from the parking lot will make it easier for cleaning the parking lot, especially snow removal.

Plans are to start building the new school by this spring, officials said. The BZA also approved the following: A request by Donald Furcsik, 398 W. 100 N. in Union Township, to allow the operation of a gun manufacturing and gun smith business out of his home; a request by Lacee Moore to allow an in- ground pool at her home at 398 Greendale Drive in Portage Township and a request from John and Dawn Osborne to allow a reduction in the minimum moral side yard setback to allow for the building of a proposed accessory structure. Lakeshore PAWS moving to new home BOB KASARDA bob.kasarda@nwi.com, (219) 548-4345 VALPARAISO Wanatah resident Raven Foreman said her 3-year-old son, Dylanger, is a big fan of pizza.

probably one of the first words he could she said. When her work schedule recently changed and the family of four got a shot at their first night out for dinner, Foreman said they headed out Monday to the Tomato Bar Pizza Bakery in Valparaiso. The night was going great until a nearby customer leaned over into the booth and in opinion aggressively complained about Dylanger kicking the bench below him. only have five minutes left to eat and the kicking has to stop the other customer said, according to Foreman. Foreman said she was surprised by the tone of the comment, especially since Dylanger and his 6-year-old brother, Remington, were pretty well behaved during the meal.

She said her son was kicking the front of the bench because he had to scoot up close to the table to eat and his short legs could not reach the floor like an adult. The evening took a dip in tone, but soon rose again when their bill arrived and it included a 10 percent behaved discount. have never heard of anyone giving behaved discount rescues night Surprise move is a tradition at mato a in Valparaiso id ed Foreman family from rear left clockwise, Dave, Raven, Dylanger and Remington. CARMEN MCCOLLUM carmen.mccollum@nwi.com,(219) 662-5337 The pinning ceremony long has been considered a rite of passage for newly graduated nurses. But in a break with tradition, Purdue University Calumet is joining colleges and universities across the country that have ended the ceremony, calling it an outdated ritual.

The pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcoming of new ranks into the hallowed profession. New nurses are presented with nursing pins, which they purchase themselves, by nursing school faculty. Some new nurses also recite the Nightingale Pledge. PUC Professor and Interim Dean of the College of Nursing Lisa Hopp recently sent a letter to students saying, is an old and outdated ceremony that many of us see as a regressive piece of the Instead, the university plans to replace the recognition ceremony with a post- commencement reception to honor the accomplishment of graduates. Hopp said she has heard from 10 people about the decision to end the recognition ceremony.

Hopp wrote that some students said they felt cheated because faculty members were honored with the pinning ceremony, though others did not. She said she graduated from Rush University in 1979, and there was no pinning ceremony. dean was an exceptional leader who viewed the pinning as paternalistic a symbol of to she said. would disagree with that interpretation and see the ceremony as a way of honoring your hard work and entrance into the profession. That would be the best way to interpret Hopp said few students purchased pins, however, and a reception held for graduates and their families was not well attended.

However, other local schools of nursing, including Purdue University North Central in Westville, have no plans to eliminate the longstanding honor and said it still holds meaning for their nursing graduates. The next PNC pinning ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 17 at Michigan City High School. Valparaiso University also phased out the pinning ceremony several years ago, but brought it back for May 2013 at the request of students, said Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of undergraduate nursing Suzanne Zentz. students really wanted she said.

student has the option of purchasing the pin, and we put a little ribbon on it. Some students choose not to purchase it. Across the country, there have been uni versities which have phased out the pinning Jennifer Philbin, Ivy Tech Community College Region 1 dean of nursing, said they have always had the pinning ceremony and intend to eliminate it. PUC to eliminate traditional nurse ceremony Other area nursing schools keep the symbolic tradition id ed art Valparaiso University College of Nursing Dean Janet Brown pins new nurse Sheryl DeHenau during a pinning ceremony in 2013. The university had phased out the tradition but brought it back in May 2013.

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