WINONA LAKE — Lakeland Christian Academy seventh-grader Katherine Alderfer was recognized Wednesday, Sept. 18, during a ceremony honoring her as a 2020 Riley Champion. LCA students, staff and Alderfer’s family attended the event, including her parents, Kristine and Alan Alderfer; and twin sister Caroline Alderfer. Alderfer is a 13-year-old who goes to Riley Hospital for …read more.

This holiday season give your friends, family and clients more than season’s greetings – give them cards designed by patients at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health. Proceeds benefit Riley Children’s Foundation’s year-end giving campaign called The Gift of Hope Happens Here. Making the cards even more meaningful, is that one of them …read more.

Kristine Alderfer of Warsaw and her family were recently recognized as Cure JM Heroes at the Cure JM Foundation National Conference in Chicago. “It is an honor to be awarded the Cure JM Hero Award” says Alderfer. “But Katherine and the other children battling Juvenile Myositis are the real heroes. They are the reason we …read more.

The Warsaw Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis was held Saturday, Dec. 8, and as of today the event has raised $13,100 for arthritis research, education and life improvement. This year’s Jingle Bell Run had 120 participants. The Arthritis Foundation also recognized 6-year old Katherine Alderfer, who was diagnosed with Juvenile Dermatomyositis in May 2010, as …read more.

The Arthritis Foundation’s Jingle Bell/Run Walk is being held this Saturday in Winona Lake and aims to raise awareness of arthritis, the nation’s leading cause of disability, and desperately needed funding for research, education and government advocacy to improve the lives of people living with arthritis. The Jingle Bell/Run Walk kicks off in communities nationwide during the …read more.

Two and a half years ago, at the age of 4, Katherine Alderfer was diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease called Juvenile Dermatomyositis. Katherine still fights this disease on a daily basis. From the outside, she looks like a normal kid, but on the inside, her body is raging to fight against this auto-immune …read more.