INDIANA — The 12th Annual State of Obesity report reveals large regional and racial differences when it comes to obesity in America.

    The Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club donated $300 to the Boomerang Backpack program. Boomerang Backpack is a program developed by students at Warsaw Community High School where food is supplied to underprivileged children over the weekend through the school system in a backpack that is returned on Monday to be refilled. Through various fundraising …read more.

Mentone resident, Rosy Jansma, serves on the K21 Health Foundation board of directors and, because of that and her commitment to making a difference, the K21 Foundation made a donation of $1,000 in her honor. Mrs. Jansma decided to use the donation to continue her support of Tippecanoe Valley Boomerang Backpacks program. Boomerang Backpacks is …read more.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A 1974 Purdue University graduate has donated $750,000 to his alma mater to be used for a named professorship in the school of engineering education. The university says the gift by a foundation created by Geoffrey Crowley will be matched through Purdue’s Faculty Fund for Excellence, bringing the total for …read more.