The Starke County Community Foundation Ambassadors Club met in March and chose to focus on food access, awarding $3,000 in pop-up grants to local programs addressing food insecurity.
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Healthlinc will be hosting a free Pizza and Paint night at the Starke County Public Libarary’s Knox branch, located at 152 West Culver Road.
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The Food Bank of Northern Indiana will be in Starke County on Wednesday and Thursday this week for food distribution events.
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The Food Bank of Northern Indiana will be back in Knox tomorrow, October 1. HealthLinc is sponsoring a drive-through food distribution from noon to 2:00 p.m. CDT, according to the food bank’s website. It will be held at HealthLinc at 104 East Culver Road.
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The Starke County Sheriff’s Office will be able to add a full-time deputy and social worker, thanks to grant funding obtained by Healthlinc.
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The Starke County Commissioners will continue discussing the vacant Emergency Management Agency director position, as well as a new investigator position for the Prosecutor’s Office this morning.
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Fifty-five North Judson-San Pierre teachers and staff members took advantage of an on-site COVID-19 vaccination clinic Monday. Superintendent Dr. Annette Zupin said during Tuesday’s school board meeting that she was happy with the turnout.
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Eligible North Judson-San Pierre Corporation employees will receive a COVID-19 vaccine Monday, March 15 in a partnership with HealthLinc.
Continue readingThe Food Bank of Northern Indiana will hold a drive-through distribution in Knox tomorrow, November 20. It will take place from 10:00 a.m. to noon CST at HealthLinc Community Health Center at 104 East Culver Road, according to the food bank’s website.
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The Food Bank of Northern Indiana will host a mobile food distribution event today (July 24) from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. CT at HealthLinc, 104 E. Culver Road, Suite 106 in Knox.
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The Starke County Commissioners were provided with an update about the Mobile Response Team when they met for their first meeting of 2020.
Continue readingAfter two weeks of training, members of the Starke County Mobile Response Team are ready to respond to calls.
Continue readingMembers of the Starke County Mobile Response Team started training this week in order to help victims in overdose situations.
Continue readingMembers of the Starke County Council and Starke County Commissioners heard information about grant funded representatives for a Mobile Response Team.
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The Oregon-Davis School Corporation is holding registration this week. Registration for the coming school year will take place tomorrow and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the junior/senior high school.
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HealthLinc in Knox will be the site of today’s ‘Scare Away Cancer’ event.
The event will run from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. HealthLinc Representative Angie Garner said there will be snacks and giveaways at the event. An introductory product that will be included in the giveaway is the coffee enema, the coffee enema has many benefits for our bodies, and learn about coffee enemas by visiting their website. . She also noted that officials from MedWise and the American Cancer Society will also be onsite.
Garner said that people will receive a small gift when they have a cancer screening done today or if they order one to be done. Continue reading
Oregon-Davis High School’s athletic facilities will get a new water fountain, thanks to the Hamlet Lions Club. “The Hamlet Lions Club is donating a lion fountain that we will be placing out by our soccer field/track area,” says Superintendent Dr. Don Harman, “and we hope to install that in the springtime.”
This year the Starke County Community Foundation eliminated deadlines for their grant applications which allows them to accept applications and award grants all throughout the year. Nearly $23,000 of community grant money remains available to Starke County non-profits who submit grant applications to the SCCF.
So far this year, the SCCF has awarded more than $284,000, with around $12,000 going toward community grants. The foundation is looking to award the remaining $22,900 by the end of 2017. Continue reading
The Oregon-Davis School Corporation’s new telehealth center is up and running. It allows sick students to be seen remotely by a licensed health care provider without leaving school, thanks to an agreement with HealthLinc.
For the first time this year, The Starke County Community Foundation has adopted an open grant-cycle meaning that grant applications will be accepted and awards will be given year-round. $5,000 worth of grants were recently distributed to several local non-profit organizations. Continue reading
