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SSCVA Celebrates Indiana Welcome Center’s Three Millionth Visitor

SSCVA Celebrates Indiana Welcome Center’s Three Millionth Visitor Visitor receives gift basket, overnight stay along South Shore The South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority celebrated a major milestone on Saturday, Dec. 14. Since opening the doors to the Indiana Welcome Center in 1999, the South Shore CVA has...

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Indiana Welcome Center Expecting Three Millionth Visitor

Indiana Welcome Center Expecting Three Millionth Visitor Milestone visitor to receive gift basket With a little more than 1,000 visitors left before hitting a major milestone, the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority will be celebrating the three millionth visitor of the Indiana Welcome Center...

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Indiana Tourism Executive Director Mark Newman Talks Northern Indiana

Indiana Tourism Executive Director Mark Newman Talks Northern Indiana What can people expect to find in Northern Indiana? Mark Newman: Northern Indiana is home to the largest tourism attraction in our state: the dunes. It attracts roughly three million people a year. Everything sort of emanates from the dunes because...

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Transcription: Indiana Tourism Executive Director Mark Newman Talks Central and Southern Indiana

Transcription: Indiana Tourism Executive Director Mark Newman Talks Central and Southern Indiana What can people expect to find in Central and Southern Indiana? Mark Newman: Let's start with Southern Indiana because there are so many wonderful untold stories of Southern Indiana. I think folks are aware that Abraham Lincoln, for example, spent...

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Polonica Pilgrimage Society Bus Trip to Chicago

Polonica Pilgrimage Society Bus Trip to Chicago The Polonica Pilgrimage Society will host a bus trip to Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 4th. The luxury coach will depart at 8:30 a.m. from Nativity of Our Savior Catholic Church in Portage, and at 9 a.m. from All Saints Catholic Church in Hammond. Return...

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Feast While You Can on a Bountiful Crop of Apples, Donuts and Good Times at County Line Orchard through November 3rd

Feast While You Can on a Bountiful Crop of Apples, Donuts and Good Times at County Line Orchard through November 3rd Weather can be your friend or foe in the farming business and the huge crop of 2013 apples shows just how sweet the apple business can be. Good growing conditions and the large expansion of 4,000 more trees a few years back, has County Line Orchard...

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