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Jason Springer has been appointed vice president of human resources at Advocate at South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest.Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter was named to the National Governor's Association (NGA) State Alliance for e-Health, an initiative designed to improve the quality and efficiency of the country's health care system.Kevin Keough was reelected as association president for 2007 at January's Plumbing and Piping Contractors Association of Northern Indiana meeting. Others elected include Doug Young as vice president; Tom Fistrovich as secretary/treasurer; and Jerry Keough, Walter Reichelt and David Chermak as directors.American Trust & Savings Bank, with branches in Whiting, Hammond, Crown Point and Munster, announces the hiring of John Wilkening as vice president-director of business development and Rory Restle as residential mortgage manager.Peoples Bank announces that Mary Ciciora has joined the Wealth Management Group at Peoples Bank, Jennifer Gunning as been promoted to assistant banking center manager of the Schererville Banking Center and Susan Crose has been promoted to head teller of the Munster Banking Center.Dr.
Two Injured In Richmond Senior Complex Fire
A two-alarm fire broke out early Tuesday at a Richmond senior citizen's housing complex, completely destroying one apartment and sending two residents to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Richmond Fire Chief Michael Banks said the fire began at 8:03 a.m. in a sixth floor apartment of Hacienda Apartments, located at 1300 Roosevelt Ave. It was contained by about 8:20 a.m. Residents on the first five floors were instructed to shelter-in-place while firefighters got the blaze under control because many of them have trouble walking, Banks said. Of the 150 units in the building, 140 were occupied. The apartment where the fire started suffered heavy fire damage and other apartments on the sixth floor may have suffered smoke damage. At least one resident, a woman who had been living in the apartment where the fire started, has been displaced.
Long-term care bill clears Senate
CHEYENNE -- A bill that offers people choices in long-term care easily passed the Senate Thursday, but with only about half the state dollars the original measure called for.Senate File 89, sponsored by the Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Committee, passed the Senate on a 22-6 roll-call vote and now goes to the House.The original bill requested about $7 million in general fund dollars. The bill now allocates about $3.5 million in state money."I would have liked to have had more money, but the Appropriations Committee did a responsible job," said Sen. Charles Scott, R-Casper, the committee chairman. He said he expects to be back in the budget session next year to seek increased reimbursement to the people who work in the home- and community-based waiver program for Medicaid recipients.The committee bill included $1.4 million in general fund money for one year and $1.5 million in federal funds for this program.
Engaging China will ease trans-Atlantic tensions
BEIJING: For several years now, one of the most important trends in international relations has been the apparent disintegration of what was once called "the West." Under George W. Bush, it was often noted, America was becoming hawkish, religious and unilateralist, while Europeans were seeking to create a "multi- polar world" based on international law and very different cultural values. Viewed from Washington or Paris, there was certainly much to be said for this assessment — which the split over the Iraq war seemingly confirmed. Viewed from the other side of the world, however, and in light of recent developments, the differences within the West no longer seem so great. On a wide range of global issues, Americans and Europeans are coming together.
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