Events for October 2017

Parenting Education Classes

Parenting classes teach parents positive parenting tools that help them raise children who are happy, healthy, compassionate, cooperative and responsible. These classes are offered throughout the year. They include parent-child activities, one-on-one coaching for parents, and in-class learning and support.
Classes are available in English and Spanish.

Attend and learn to:

• Promote positive behaviors
• Reduce power struggles
• Encourage responsibility
• Apply consequences that teach and help
• Control stress

Special Note

• Failure to attend this orientation session will prevent you from beginning the class.
• Due to class-size limitations, your class location may be reassigned.
• It is not necessary to bring your children to orientation. Childcare is provided only if the number of children warrant it.
• Please call if you must cancel your registration.
• No meal or refreshments are offered at orientation
• Registration in advance is required.

What you need to know:

• Ten sessions per class
• Fee: $100/family (All up front; or $50 on the first week and $25 on second and third weeks)
• Meals provided as part of each class
• Child care for infants to 12-year-olds
• Certificates of Completion awarded to qualified participants

To Register by Phone:

Contact Parenting Education at (574) 295-2277

Parenting Education Classes

Parenting classes teach parents positive parenting tools that help them raise children who are happy, healthy, compassionate, cooperative and responsible. These classes are offered throughout the year. They include parent-child activities, one-on-one coaching for parents, and in-class learning and support.
Classes are available in English and Spanish.

Attend and learn to:

• Promote positive behaviors
• Reduce power struggles
• Encourage responsibility
• Apply consequences that teach and help
• Control stress

Special Note

• Failure to attend this orientation session will prevent you from beginning the class.
• Due to class-size limitations, your class location may be reassigned.
• It is not necessary to bring your children to orientation. Childcare is provided only if the number of children warrant it.
• Please call if you must cancel your registration.
• No meal or refreshments are offered at orientation
• Registration in advance is required.

What you need to know:

• Ten sessions per class
• Fee: $100/family (All up front; or $50 on the first week and $25 on second and third weeks)
• Meals provided as part of each class
• Child care for infants to 12-year-olds
• Certificates of Completion awarded to qualified participants

To Register by Phone:

Contact Parenting Education at (574) 295-2277

DO IT FOR YOU.DO IT FOR LIFE. FREE SCREENINGS/ASSESSMENTS Balance and joint screening Blood pressure, pulse and blood oxygen level Body mass index Bone density heel scan Breast cancer risk assessment Carbon monoxide check Colon health risk assessment Diabetes risk assessment Diabetic foot screening Fitness assessment Memory screening Skin cancer risk screening Sleep disorders risk assessment Voice analysis SCREENINGS WITH A NOMINAL FEE* Cholesterol screening (fasting) – $20 Echocardiogram screening – $25 Vascular screening – $50 *Must register and pre-pay by October 4 to guarantee appointment. To register, please call (877) 566-4660 or visit GoshenHealth.com/Find-Events.

Flu shots will be available to the community this flu season. Must be over 10 years of age and have a parent/guardian signature if under 18. Cost is $25 payable by cash, check or credit card. See schedule and locations below. No registration necessary. For more information, call (574) 364-2496.

Parenting Education Classes

Parenting classes teach parents positive parenting tools that help them raise children who are happy, healthy, compassionate, cooperative and responsible. These classes are offered throughout the year. They include parent-child activities, one-on-one coaching for parents, and in-class learning and support.
Classes are available in English and Spanish.

Attend and learn to:

• Promote positive behaviors
• Reduce power struggles
• Encourage responsibility
• Apply consequences that teach and help
• Control stress

Special Note

• Failure to attend this orientation session will prevent you from beginning the class.
• Due to class-size limitations, your class location may be reassigned.
• It is not necessary to bring your children to orientation. Childcare is provided only if the number of children warrant it.
• Please call if you must cancel your registration.
• No meal or refreshments are offered at orientation
• Registration in advance is required.

What you need to know:

• Ten sessions per class
• Fee: $100/family (All up front; or $50 on the first week and $25 on second and third weeks)
• Meals provided as part of each class
• Child care for infants to 12-year-olds
• Certificates of Completion awarded to qualified participants

To Register by Phone:

Contact Parenting Education at (574) 295-2277

Join MDC Goldenrod in the fun at the Shipshewana Auction Barn for their 17th Annual Benefit Auction. · Live auction · Silent auction · Bake Sale · Amish Haystack Meal Items to be auctioned include quilts, handmade wood furniture and gift certificates for some of your favorite restaurants and shops. All proceeds from the sale will go toward the MDC Goldenrod mission.

Flu shots will be available to the community this flu season. Must be over 10 years of age and have a parent/guardian signature if under 18. Cost is $25 payable by cash, check or credit card. See schedule and locations below. No registration necessary. For more information, call (574) 364-2496.

Flu shots will be available to the community this flu season. Must be over 10 years of age and have a parent/guardian signature if under 18. Cost is $25 payable by cash, check or credit card. See schedule and locations below. No registration necessary. For more information, call (574) 364-2496.

How would you like to cheer on the Red Hawks kicked back in an easy chair, enjoying a fresh hot pizza? Well now you can when you and one friend win “the best seat in the house!” Purchase 3 tickets for $5 for you chance at being the winner of the best seat in the house for the second half of the game, presented by Junior Achievement & Lemonade Day of Elkhart County! With Junior Achievement in the classroom, Goshen students are given the skills to own their own financial future through work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Benefiting Goshen High School Athletics and Junior Achievement in classrooms in Goshen Community Schools.

This program is a yearly foot seminar for those with diabetes, to learn how to better care for your feet. Tips on buying shoes, trimming toenails and daily foot care.

Join South Shore Clean Cities, South Bend Office of Sustainability and Michiana Area Council of Governments for the first ever Green Business Workshop & Showcase. Learn how you can uncover cost savings while reducing your organization’s environmental impacts with strategies for fleet, facilities, and grounds. This event is open to the public, but facilities, fleet, or operations managers for businesses or non-profit organization are encouraged to attend. Lunch is included with registration. AGENDA: 9 a.m. Registration, Networking and Vendor Booth Displays 9:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks 10 a.m. Session One: Fleet - Making the Switch for Cost Savings with Alternative Fuels 11 a.m. Session Two: Maintenance - Greener Products for Facilities and Grounds 12 p.m. Lunch: Including Vehicle Showcase and Century Center Tour 1:30 p.m. Session Three: Facilities - Beyond Efficiency with Innovative Strategies 2:30 p.m. Session Four: Facilities - Deep Energy Savings with Performance Contracting 3:30 p.m. Event Concludes 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. All attendees are invitied to stay for the Century Center Energy Event

Place matters. Whether it’s where we live, work or play, our environment has a profound impact on how we feel and how we invest. But great places don’t just happen. They’re made by people who care about the future, have faith their investments will be met with returns, and want to see their children thrive close to home. Keynote speaker Dr. Katherine Loflin will cover all of the aspects of placemaking, the why, the how and the who. Join us, learn more, and be inspired to get invovled with Vibrant Communities. Nicknamed the "City Doctor," Loflin is an internationally award-winning placemaking consultant, speaker, and instructor in cities around the world. She is the principal of Loflin Consulting Solutions. She has held advisory and leadership roles in some of the most groundbreaking and innovative placemaking projects. Event is free, but RSVPs are preferred. Go to www.vibrantelkhartcounty.org/makinggreatplaces to register.

Flu shots will be available to the community this flu season. Must be over 10 years of age and have a parent/guardian signature if under 18. Cost is $25 payable by cash, check or credit card. See schedule and locations below. No registration necessary. For more information, call (574) 364-2496.

Flu shots will be available to the community this flu season. Must be over 10 years of age and have a parent/guardian signature if under 18. Cost is $25 payable by cash, check or credit card. See schedule and locations below. No registration necessary. For more information, call (574) 364-2496.

Do you have questions and concerns about 2018 changes for Small Business Tax Laws? Compliance for your unique Industry? Registering a Business? Closing a Business? InBiz and InTax? WH-3? BIA Bill? Sales Tax Exempt Purchases?  You are invited to a workshop where Michael Pang, a Revenue Tax Auditor for Indiana Department of Revenue, will provide answers for your questions. Field Examiner Michael Pang joined the Indiana Department of Revenue in August 1994 and currently works out of the South Bend District Office conducting field audits regarding income, withholding, and sales & use taxes.  Michael has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant since November 2001 and has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Indiana University – South Bend.   The Stay Strong workshop covers such topics as:   ·         Indiana Department of Revenue policies ·         Where to find information and resources about tax law updates ·         Making tax compliance easier with electronic filing ·         Addressing compliance issues, collection notices and audits ·         Procedures for closing a business

Stay Strong is a workshop for local business owners about 2018 tax laws and compliance issues

 

(This Workshop is sponsored by SCORE Mentors of Greater Elkhart and Nappanee Chamber of Commerce)

 

Do you have questions and concerns about 2018 changes for Small Business Tax Laws? Compliance for your unique Industry? Registering a Business? Closing a Business? InBiz and InTax? WH-3? BIA Bill? Sales Tax Exempt Purchases? 

You are invited to a workshop where Michael Pang, a Revenue Tax Auditor for Indiana Department of Revenue, will provide answers for your questions.

 

Field Examiner Michael Pang joined the Indiana Department of Revenue in August 1994 and currently works out of the South Bend District Office conducting field audits regarding income, withholding, and sales & use taxes.  Michael has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant since November 2001 and has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Indiana University – South Bend.

 

The Stay Strong workshop covers such topics as:

 

·         Indiana Department of Revenue policies

·         Where to find information and resources about tax law updates

·         Making tax compliance easier with electronic filing

·         Addressing compliance issues, collection notices and audits

·         Procedures for closing a business

The Power of Pink is in your purse! Join us, Friday, October 27 as the stage of The Goshen Theater comes alive for our first-ever Power of Pink Purse Sale, raising money for United Cancer Services of Elkhart County. Donate your gently-used purse by October 23 at The Goshen News or any Goshen Interra Credit Union location and get a chance to win a new Michael Kors, Coach, Gucci or Vera Bradley Purse! Receive one entry for each purse you donate and then, join us October 27 as we have a night of fun, food, shopping and surprises. What kind of surprises? Imagine the theater stage filled with quality purses, and some new name-brand selections as well. Pop-Up shops from Boho Pretty, Woldruff’s Footwear and Fashion, Jasmine Wall and other local venders with everything from soaps to sleepwear. Purchase your $20 ticket online at elkhartcancer.org and get $5 off at-the-door admission. Once inside earn a chance to win any number of designer purses. It will be a night to remember, with hundreds of purses to peruse and pop-up stores galore at the Power of Pink Purse Sale. Get your tickets today!

Wear your Halloween Costume and bring your friends. This is alternative for kids, so they don't have to go door-to-door.