In 2009, Amy Segally found a new passion in fostering animals. Not only did Segally want to foster dogs and cats, but she also wanted to help as many kinds of animals as she could. By the end of 2012, Segally and another volunteer, who was also...
On January 26, 2016, Bill Nelson was hit with the most life changing news. Nelson was diagnosed with Medullary Thyroid Cancer (MTC). MTC is a very rare and incurable thyroid cancer. “I assumed I wouldn’t be alive by the end of the year. The word...
Jennifer “Jenny” Guillen is a physical therapist who has been working at Franciscan Health Crown Point for the past 10 years. Guillen found her passion for physical therapy after she got injured while running track in high school. Before...
Dan Plath is Chief of Resource Management at the Indiana Dunes National Park for the National Park Service. Plath was inspired to start working for the National Park Service when he started to see the destruction of nature as a kid. “We had miles...
In August of 2021, Justin Budde was welding in the back of a trailer when he suddenly slipped and landed on his feet. After he fell out of the trailer he started to feel pain in his right testicle. Little did Budde know that...
In August 2021, Trisha Fraker received news that would change her life. After feeling a lump in her breast, Fraker immediately went to the doctor. “I was laying down and my son was laying on my chest area, watching a movie with me and I felt a lump...
Joe Conboy is the proud owner of Conboy's Detail & Customz, a full-service interior and exterior shop, and has been since March of 2021. “Conboy’s Details & Customz started in my house and outgrew that too fast. I started making plans to...
Betty Funkhouser is the Health and Physical Education teacher at Hobart Middle School. Funkhouser has been teaching health and PE for 43 years, and her passion for sports and teaching all started in college. “As I went on through college, I did...