Back when they had more ideas than subservience, those who call themselves “conservatives” liked to invoke “Chesterton’s Fence,” a parable by the English philosopher G.K illustrated the difference between progressive and conservative attitudes toward institutions Chesterton wrote “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it The parable’s wisdom is this: Do not destroy something before you understand its purpose — the reason for which someone labored to build it Especially because it is much harder to construct a fence than to tear one down the aim of a longstanding institution — one of Chesterton’s fences — is fulfilled so successfully that it is considered natural by new generations It is then when such a fence is most vulnerable as people see the costs of maintaining it but fail to appreciate the benefits Only after destroying it do they realize the conditions it produced were quite unnatural Americans determined that police are a sometimes dangerous yet extremely necessary pillar beneath civil society it is Republicans — especially the occupant of the White House — who are mowing down Chesterton’s fences with glee The president and his subordinates are oblivious to history of the tremendous efforts and sacrifices undertaken to deliver once unimaginable blessings of modernity They are blowing up the foundations of skyscrapers and expecting the structures to stay suspended in air When government can exact punishment without having to marshal proof of wrongdoing the innocent are no more secure than the guilty Thomas Hobbes recognized that life in mankind’s natural state was “solitary brutish and short.” If the current administration succeeds at tearing down all of Chesterton’s fences that surround it the nation will realize that its natural state is much the same This article has been updated to include a more accurate hyperlink to demonstrate Puri’s argument regarding police defunding Puri is an undergraduate Opinions staff writer studying Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations and Political Economy University Academics Campus Life Graduate Students Business & Technology Equity Project Fall Sports Winter Sports Spring Sports Screen Culture Music Reads Columnists Editorials Letters from the Editor Letters to the Editor Op-Eds Video Podcasts Cartoons Graphics Tech © 2025 THE STANFORD DAILY PUBLISHING CORPORATION Privacy Policy         Accessibility         Advertise Donate and support The Daily when you shop on Amazon Distributism and Small Property in Chesterton An Alternative Vision to Capitalism and Socialism and others embraced the teachings of Pope Leo XIII and developed a social and economic movement known as Distributism distinct from socialism and capitalism (…) based on the rights of the family and the idea that a society and its economy should serve to protect and promote this primary institution” (The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K Chesterton compiled several of his social writings in his book The Limits of Sanity: Distributism and the Social Question (The Dumb Ox developing his ideas about small property widely distributed among ordinary citizens small property is beautiful and the practical condition for exercising freedom This freedom allows the common man to be independent and not dependent on a centralized state or an equally centralized and bureaucratic commercial system He envisions a free market that allows for the development of small businesses and the broadest distribution of property among citizens so that wages allow them to take the step toward ownership Instead of large transnational corporations he prefers a society that facilitates the existence and viability of small businesses Something similar to what is now being encouraged with the return to nature: organic farming Spaces that favor small producers rather than large retailers fostering models of exchange that bring the cow and the milk closer to the end consumer in such a way that the face of the producer so often hidden by the mechanisms of marketing Distributism is inspired by the social doctrine of the Church although it is not the only way to put it into practice He didn’t intend for society to become distributist much less offer the perfect formula for social organization; he proposed proportion “to correct the proportions of the modern state; but proportion is given between different things and a proportion is almost never a mold (…) We do not propose that in a healthy society all land should be occupied in the same way nor that all property should be possessed under the same conditions nor that all citizens should have the same relationship to the city All we maintain is that central power needs lesser powers to counterbalance and restrain it and that these must be of many kinds: some individual quite far from the unifying modes of some models of economic organization A key element of distributism is the principle of subsidiarity part of the Church’s social doctrine: what the person or the lesser society can and should do for themselves that the larger society cannot It is a call to exercise what is rightfully the human being or natural units such as the family It also awakens a sense of responsibility to assume the obligations derived from the talents received alien to the collectivist mentality that leads to the abandonment of rights and duties distributism and subsidiarity promote the entrepreneurial spirit with all that it entails in terms of the desire for achievement Let them come and take their place: their role is to be means “has the right to renounce the machine and live off the land if it truly pleases them more just as anyone has the right to sell their old bicycle and walk if it pleases them more and profit maximization dictate the pace of life a proposal like distributism is shocking and utopian but that doesn’t make it any less impossible it may be a path to the existence of small oases of fresh air and clear water amidst the burdens of our mass society a counterweight to the excesses of technology and hyperactivity Francisco Bobadilla es profesor principal de la Universidad de Piura donde dicta clases para el pre-grado y posgrado Interesado en las Humanidades y en la dimensión ética de la conducta humana de cuyas lecturas se nutre en gran parte este blog «El Código da Vinci: de la ficción a la realidad»; «La disponibilidad de los derechos de la personalidad» Abogado y Master en Derecho Civil por la PUCP doctor en Derecho por la Universidad de Zaragoza; Licenciado en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad de Piura Sleeping Well for a Better Life: Ideas That Will Make You Rethink Your Nights Tweets by Pontifex Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article Dickens, CharlesCharles Dickens.(more)His [Dickens’s] life was destined to end in a whirlwind of an entirely new type of activity; which none the less never interrupted that creative work which was the in-dwelling excitement of all his days He wrote one more complete novel, Our Mutual Friend (1864–65) Indeed it is one of the best though not one of the most Dickensian of the Dickens novels He then turned his restless talent to something in the nature of a detective story more in the manner of his friend Wilkie Collins; the sort of story which begins by asking a question; in this case a question about the secret and the sequel of the fate of the hero The question will never be answered; for it was cut short by the only thing that could be more dramatic than the death of the hero; the death of the author dropping from his chair at the dinner-table in the year 1870 at the comparatively early age of fifty-eight could not but raise doubts about the wisdom of his impetuous industry and debates almost as varied as those round the secret of Edwin Drood But without exaggerating any one of the elements that contributed to it we may note that the very last phase of his life was a new phase; and was almost entirely filled with his new activity in giving public readings from his works He had gone to America once more in the November of 1867 with this particular purpose; and his campaign of public speaking in this style was truly American in its scope and scale If he had indeed been unjust to America as a writer it is curious that he should have reached his final popularity and perhaps his final collapse Differences exist about how far he exaggerated the function or how far his biographer exaggerated the danger; but his own letters full of desperate fatigue and more desperate courage are alone enough to show that he was playing a very dangerous game for a man approaching sixty that this was nothing new in the general conduct of Dickens; that he had long ago begun burning the candle at both ends; and there have been few men with so great and glorious a candle to burn He was buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey; and new and vulgar as many critics had called his work he was far more of a poet than many who were buried there as poets and leaving his works to the judgment of posterity; and in both respects the action was symbolic and will remain significant in history Intellectually limited as he was by the rather cheap and cheery negations of an age of commercial rationalism he had never been a bitter secularist or anti-clerical; he was at heart traditional and was drawn much more towards Anglican than Puritan Christianity; and his greatest work may yet prove to be the perpetuation of the joyful mystery of Christmas he has suffered and may suffer again the changes in the mere fashions of criticism; but his work was creative it added something to life; and it is hard to believe that something so added will ever be entirely taken away The defects of his work are glaring; they hardly need to be detected; they need the less to be emphasized because that he enjoyed writing his worst work as much as his best The charge of exaggeration is itself exaggerated without any consideration of its true meaning Dickens did exaggerate; but his exaggeration was purely Dickensian In this sense his very vulgarity had the quality of distinction to say that a frosty morning froze Niagara; this is something relatively easy to do But the distinction of Dickens can be stated even in the common charge against him He is said to have turned men into monsters of humour or horror whereas the men were really commonplace and conventional persons in shops and offices If any critic depreciates the Dickensian method as mere overstatement the answer is obvious: let him take some of these commonplace people and overstate them He will soon discover that he has not the vaguest notion of what to overstate He will soon realise that it is not a simple matter of mere exaggeration It is not a matter of making a man a little taller or a morning a little colder; the challenge to imagination is not whether he can exaggerate but whether he can find anything worth exaggerating Now the genius of Dickens consisted in seeing in somebody something which only needed a touch of exaggeration to be a charming fantasy or a dramatic contradiction The books of Dickens are in fact full of bores; of bores who do not bore us We have all of us heard a hundred times the tiresome trick of public speakers of asking themselves rhetorical questions which they do not want answered Any of us might have heard a fat Dissenting minister doing it at a tea-party and thankfully forgotten all about him But Dickens seized on the fallacy and turned it into a fantasy; into Mr Chadband’s demands to know why he could not fly or his wild and beautiful apologue about the elephant and the eel We talk of the power of drawing people out; and that is the nearest parallel to the power of Dickens He drew reels and reels of highly coloured caricature out of an ordinary person as dazzlingly as a conjurer draws reels and reels of highly coloured paper out of an ordinary hat But if anybody thinks the conjuring-trick is easy to perform let him try it with the next ordinary person he sees The exaggeration is always the logical extension of something that really exists; but genius appears and second in seeing that it will bear to be thus exaggerated That is something totally different from giving a man a long nose; it is the delicate surgical separation or extension of a living nerve It is carrying a ludicrous train of thought further than the actual thinker carries it; but it requires a little thinking It is making fools more gloriously foolish than they can be in this vale of tears; and it is not every fool who can do it There were other reasons for the injustice in the particular case of Dickens Though his characters often were caricatures they were not such wild caricatures as was supposed by those who had never met such characters And the critics had never met the characters; because the critics did not live in the common life of the English people; and Dickens did England was a much more amusing and horrible place than it appeared to the sort of man who wrote reviews in The Quarterly; and in spite of all scientific progress or social reform The poverty and anarchy of Dickens’s early life had stuffed his memory with strange things and people never to be discovered in Tennysonian country houses or even Thackerayan drawing-rooms Pickwick fought for the recovery of his nightcap he did indeed live in Queer street and was acquainted with very queer fish And it is something of an irony that his tragedy was the justification of his farce He not only learnt in suffering what he taught in song that he caught many of these queer fish because he liked fishing in such troubled waters A good example of this combination of opportunity and eccentricity is to be found in his affection for travelling showmen and vagabond entertainments of all sorts especially those that exhibited giants and dwarfs and such monstrosities Some might see in this truth a sort of travesty of all his travesties It would be easy to suggest a psychological theory by which all his art tended to the antics of the abnormal; it would also be entirely false It would be much truer to say that Dickens created so many wild and fantastic caricatures because he was himself commonplace He never identifies himself with anything abnormal the Giant always falls far short of being a Superman And though he was tempted only too easily to an obvious pathos there was never anything particularly pathetic about his dwarfs The truth is that Dickens’s attitude to the abnormal has been misunderstood owing to the modern misunderstanding of the idea of the normal but still a satirist; and satire is founded on sanity But his moderation was not a limitation but a liberty; for it allowed him to hit out in all directions It was precisely because he had an ordinary and sensible view of life that he could measure the full madness both of Gradgrind’s greed or Micawber’s improvidence It was because he was what we call commonplace that Dombey appeared to him so stiff or Jellaby so slovenly In a later generation a real person often assumed such an unreal pose and lost the power of merely laughing at it; as when Oscar Wilde said seriously all that Skimpole had said absurdly The Victorian commonsense was not a complete commonsense; and Dickens did suffer from having a narrower culture than Swift or Rabelais But he did not suffer from being sensible; it was even more from his sense than his sensibility it was from a sort of inspired irritation and impatience of good sense that he was able to give us so radiant a fairyland of fools His literary work produced of course much more than a literary effect who made something for the people and was in the highest sense popular but to a league or fellowship numbering thousands all over the world In this connection it is often noted that he achieved many things even considered as a practical political and social reformer like the dens of dirt and brutality often called schools especially in Yorkshire; he probably had much to do with making the professional nurse a duller but more reliable person than Mrs Gamp; it is likely enough that his vivid descriptions hastened the extinction of ordinary imprisonment for debt and clarified much of the original chaos of Chancery But precisely because this has often been said It has the effect of making his satire appear much more superficial and utilitarian than it really was; for the great satirist is concerned with things not so easily destroyed We do more honour to Dickens in noting the evils he did not destroy than those he did has by no means disappeared from our own more recent affairs The pompous old Barnacle and the agreeable young Barnacle are still almost as much alive as in Dickens’s day has gone much further than in Dickens’s day But this makes Dickens’s satire the more rather than the less valuable to posterity which pictures all such abuses as things of the past tends not to reform but only too much to repose; and to the perpetuation of a rather snobbish and paltry version of the Dickensian tradition In that spirit we may hear to this day a Stiltstalking telling the House of Commons that Stiltstalkings have perished before the march of progress; or in the law courts a Buzfuz quoting Buzfuz and jeering at himself as an instinct monster The future of the fame of Dickens is no part of the Dickens record and a very dubious part of the Dickens criticism Some have suggested that his glory will fade as new fashions succeed those he satirized; others have said that the difference itself fades when all the fashions have grown old; and that Aristophanes and Cervantes have outlived their descendants as well as their contemporaries But there can be no question of the importance of Dickens as a human event in history; a sort of conflagration and transfiguration in the very heart of what is called the conventional Victorian era; a naked flame of mere natural genius without help from historic religions or philosophies or from the great foreign schools; and revealing a light that never was on sea or land if only in the long fantastic shadows that it threw from common things Chesterton High School (CHS) officially added a new coffee bar to its cafeteria This project has been in the works for many years and is finally complete after numerous setbacks and even federal regulations were just a few of the obstacles that prevented the coffee shop from being finished sooner Thanks to the help of many CHS staff members The Daily Grind Coffee Shop and Bistro is finally open and here to stay The shop is open every day for students between 7:30-10 a.m. and it closes before reopening for lunch hours between 11 a.m The Daily Grind aims to give students more food options throughout the day students can get their morning coffees directly from school instead of sitting in a busy line at local coffee chains and risk getting a tardy slip The Daily Grind is also intended to give students healthier options for food and drink that comply with nutritional standards the school must meet “I was able to get a free sample at the coffee shop recently I also think the cafe will continue to get better and better as the years go on since it is still in the early experimental phase,” Senior Alyssa Pitts said students have something exciting and new to look forward to daily The Daily Grind is a great opportunity for students to try new foods and drinks CHS offers outside of the traditional hot lunches served each day The past few weeks at CHS have been filled with dress and tuxedo shopping and preparation for one of the biggest end-of-the-year high school events CHS will host its Prom this year on Saturday at Duneland Falls Banquet Center in Portage The theme for the special night is “Rockin’ The Night Away,” something students are strongly encouraged to do The students must be inside the banquet hall before the doors close at 6 p.m. as they will no longer be allowed in after that Once everyone is taken to their assigned seats the music will take over the night and people can party on the dance floor until 10 p.m the annual CHS Grand March will take place inside the Fieldhouse at 4 p.m Students and families will be allowed to enter the school starting at 3 p.m. and students will begin lining up to parade through the Fieldhouse and show off their formal attire upon entering “I’m most excited for Prom this year because it’s my first one I had to miss last year due to a cheer competition so I’ve been waiting for this weekend all year The theme makes me even more excited as well,” Senior Marlee Wilson said With all the hard work that has gone into planning prom CHS students are sure to have a wonderful night filled with memories that will last forever Jacob Lukach is an English teacher at CHS who will complete his 10th year as a teacher this May and was even a Trojan himself as he attended the school from 2006-2010 teaching wasn’t the initial career path for Lukach He attended and graduated from Purdue University in West Lafayette and started out studying mass communication “While I always knew that I would enjoy the profession I actually spent my first semester of college studying mass communication because I wanted to be a radio broadcaster so there was some influence there,” Lukach said Lukach holds numerous important roles at CHS to keep himself busy “I am a member of the district AI (automated intelligence) committee I serve as the co-coordinator for the CHS Prom I serve as a class sponsor for the 2026 class currently and will serve the same role for the class of 2030 when they get here I have served as the newspaper director here too I am also a building representative for our Duneland Teachers Association (teachers’ union) I am the “Official Voice,” aka the announcer for the Boys’ and Girls’ soccer teams here at the school,” Lukach said Lukach spends his free time religiously supporting his alma mater He also aims to attend four or five Purdue basketball games each season He even followed the team to Arizona for the March Madness National Championship in 2024 Along with attending all kinds of sporting events he also enjoys watching movies and listening to music Lukach’s heavy involvement at CHS and in the community of Chesterton is representative of who he is as a person He is dedicated to his students and contributes to the town in many different ways “The most rewarding part about teaching is being able to give back to the community that gave so much to me growing up and I love helping young Chestertonians learn and grow as students,” Lukach said She first came to Duneland schools in fifth grade Spencer has been working towards her future with the intention of becoming a nurse practitioner All of Spencer’s hard work as a student has led her into a path of attending St Mary’s College in Notre Dame this fall for nursing Not only did Spencer get accepted into the prestigious school but she was also directly admitted to the nursing program at the school Nursing first became an interest to Spencer because of a family member who took care of her “One of my family members is a nurse practitioner I was encouraged by her and my other aunt to go into the medical field and being a nurse seems so cool,” Spencer said Spencer has taken the Health Science vocational program at CHS for the past two years she has learned what day-to-day life is like working in the medical field and while gaining hands-on experience working with real patients Spencer even earned her license as a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) in March Becoming a CNA at 17 years old is a huge accomplishment that sets Spencer ahead of the game in the nursing industry Spencer credits her mom and God for being role models and the inspiration for her future She told me God led her on the right path of becoming a special education teacher and I’m hoping that I am also being led on the right path to becoming a nurse practitioner,” Spencer said Spencer keeps herself busy by volunteering and being a member of Key Club and is looking forward to spending this last summer before college with all the people she loves Share Good News Contact Us Meet Our Team Our jam-packed night finishes off with the Chesterton Trojans taking on the Lake Central Indians in a DAC clash as the Bearcats host the River Forest Ingots in some Tuesday night baseball action Crown Point starts the week at home against the Portage Indians as the two square off in a conference baseball matchup Our jam-packed night finishes off with the Chesterton Trojans taking on the Lake Central.. as the Bearcats host the River Forest Ingots in.. as this 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A rematch of the 2024 Semi-State is on our hands Take a look at the local selections for this Summer's 2025 North-South All-Star game Here is the 1st Team All-Area from the 2024 football season Here is the 2nd Team All-Area from the 2024 football season Here are the honorable mentions for the 2024 RSN All-Area team for this past.. of course–he shed this mortal coil nearly a century ago But through the Christmas and Epiphany seasons–the “Cycle of Light” in the Christian year–I’ve been absorbed in his writing on Christmas and the Incarnation Chesterton wrote with singular range: He authored novels and books to the theology of God’s self-disclosure in Christ and the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem In one article he wrote about the story of Jesus’ birth “Christmas] expresses better than any religious periphrasis the peculiar richness and intensity which clings round the story of Bethlehem it expresses that quality of instantaneousness which distinguishes Christmas from so many of the earth’s festivals: the sentiment that it does not celebrate some event a thousand years back Chesterton understood that a view of life shaped by the Christmas story had a peculiar richness and intensity a sense of a singular event in the past which has permanently altered our present he saw the Incarnation and revelation of Christ as an invitation to wonder Chesterton saw that this feature of the Christian story as the heart of its genius he discusses the way in which Christianity accounts for the astonishing miracle that is life: I had always vaguely felt facts to be miracles in the sense that they are wonderful: now I began to think them miracles in the stricter sense that they were willful I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician .I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller Epiphany & Making Christianity Weird Again Chesterton’s deep sense of wonder feels timely to ponder during Epiphany–the season of the year in which we Christians celebrate the revealing of Christ to the world in a star describes at length how we in the late-modern West have forsaken the “enchanted-ness” of prior cultures We’ve banished gods and angels and demons; we live within an “immanent frame.” We carry out our lives on the operating assumption that the material world–the one we can record on video and measure in a test tube–is all that’s real we still hear persistent echoes of transcendence–a stubborn desire for spiritual reality that pushes up through the cracks of 21st century Western life like the roots of some great maple tree that keeps growing up through the crevices in a concrete sidewalk.  The story that Almighty God came to us as an infant that the Creator entered into the sweat and frailty and tears of material human life that God’s Spirit fluttered down upon Jesus of Nazareth; and that the barrier between heaven and earth was torn apart forever–this story is a profound gift to a world hungry for transcendence the Church herself in our time has often been sheepish about these staggering claims that lie at the heart of our faith.  I was fascinated to listen to the historian Tom Holland notice this. In a wide-ranging interview Holland did about the indelible impact of Christianity on world history he was asked what he wished he heard from Christian preachers and those who speak for the faith today: I see no point in preachers just recycling the kind of stuff you can get from any soft-left liberal you think that the entire fabric of the cosmos was ruptured when Someone who is God and a man sets everything on its head To say it’s supernatural is to downplay it: this is a massive singularity at the very heart of things .It seems to me there’s a deep anxiety about that Christianity is stranger and weirder that that For unashamedly celebrating this strange story of the invisible God becoming human Because I think that this is exactly what a world starving for wonder is looking for Perhaps this is why Lewis and Tolkien were so much more powerful for many of us in forming our Christian faith than what we got in our Sunday School curriculums I have come to love and appreciate the orthodox Reeformed doctrines of my heritage but what captured my soul and opened my imagination to wonder and joy was Tolkien I brought this joy and wonder back to the Bible and to the world especially within Catholicism and Anglicanism though his first chapter might suggest otherwise I suggest that the Resurrection is more challenging to imagine and therefore even more “wonder-full” I’m struck by your mentioning “…especially to trees,” In preparing to lead a hymn sing on the theme of trees throughout Scripture and in poetry and what we continue to learn about trees even communicating with each other–wondrous indeed For most of my life I had a mental block on how to spell weird I kept wanting to write wierd and even when second-guessing myself I’d get it wrong every time Finally I found the trick to spelling it correctly I’d just say to myself “we are weird.” Yes I think that’s why I was initially attracted to the pentecostal take on the Christian life: it has plenty of room for celebrating the weirdness of God and God’s good news Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Please follow our commenting standards Please make checks out to Reformed Journal and mailed to: Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission These two guest spots really show the range of what can be done with a late night show appearance If you’re probably gonna run for president some day you can solidify your middle aged statesman persona Olivia Munn continued her anti–Blue Origin campaign on The Daily Show this week. She started this beef on Today With Jenna and Friends and kept it going while being interviewed by Desi Lydic A bunch of women are going into space for 11 minutes The way she balks when Lydic calls it an 11-minute “mission” is delicious and her lack of fear while shading these important women (and Katy Perry) is tremendous Munn says she could do a full hour on why this girlboss space thing is stupid Have you seen the Netflix Martha Stewart doc? You gotta. Jon Lovett clearly has. The former Survivor contestant used After Midnight’s “Obsess Sesh” segment to make a spirited and concise argument for why James Comey should be the enemy of all moms They took Martha down for being too rich and too powerful Jared Goldstein and Tawny Newsome were also very passionate about their obsessions (leather repair videos and “winning” air travel respectively) but Lovett argued his dang topic he threw in a li’l “The FBI killed MLK” for spice View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andre De Shields (@andre_deshields) And Richard Kind pretended to be Gene Simmons — a Gene Simmons out of drag to boot This format is so grinding and draining; the least you can do is let people get weird with it Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: you’ll receive occasional updates and offers from New York coming in at 6 foot 4 inches and 300 pounds That much is true in the life of Dale Ahlquist Ahlquist began his conversion to the Catholic church while on his honeymoon in Rome by reading GKC’s “The Everlasting Man.” It may have taken an additional 16 years to fully “go to Rome” in the spiritual sense but he made it back home eventually.  Alquist spoke on GKC’s historical influence- Chesterton’s writings helped inspire Fulton Sheen to write his dissertation Michael Collins to start a war for Ireland’s independence from England Gandhi to start the movement for India’s independence and other British authors like C.S Chesterton had such a wide impact because of the scope of his written works He was a prolific writer with  nearly 100 books and 8,000 literary essays (equivalent to one essay per day for almost 22 years!) Ahlquist included anecdotes about Chesterton’s life and a general sense of who he was Chesterton was both intellectually and physically impressive; his large intellect was matched by a large stature it is said that Chesterton was also the most polite man in the UK as he would stand to offer his seat on the bus and allow three women to take his spot.  Ahlquist did a great job of presenting an overview of Chesterton’s major works historical influence and personal character while entertaining the audience and cracking jokes during the presentation One of the most unique aspects of this presentation was the ambience SB’s multipurpose room was set up more professionally than usual with the stage curtained on either side by the American and Papal flags There was also a professional videographer recording the talk the most unique aspect of the atmosphere was the audience While many audience members were UD students and the murmurings of the crowd added to the moments of humor in the talk There were several older couples whispering to each other throughout the talk asking each other if they heard what was just said or adding their approval One might even say that one particular old man was heckling Ahlquist as he gave the performance offering his personal opinions and being excited about the availability of snacks This lecture was also excellent for the twenty or so students in Dr Hanssen’s “Anglo-American Catholic Intellectual Revival” class because Chesterton is their primary text for the semester go ahead and ask them what they thought of this talk Ahlquist’s talk showed that Chesterton is truly a man for the UD community the enjoyment of a cigar and a good drink and his strong Catholic faith we can all take inspiration from Chesterton in one way or another.  Ahlquist is also working with the ongoing efforts to canonize Chesterton The company “Tiny Saints” has already made Chesterton into a keychain it is ironic for such a large man to be made into a tiny saint.   Sophie del Mazo is a junior history major with an ethics concentration and website in this browser for the next time I comment UPDATE: Appleton Police say Collin Killoren Ignatius Catholic School and Chesterton Academy in Kaukauna was arrested for 10 counts of possession of child pornography Police say the investigation originated from an online tip received through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) was taken into custody without incident on Wednesday there is no evidence to suggest any children were harmed at the school according to the Appleton Police Department ORIGINAL REPORTING: A 7-12 grade teacher at St Ignatius Catholic School and Chesterton Academy in Kaukauna was arrested on Wednesday The school says the Appleton Police Department took Collin Killoren into custody and an investigation is underway following the confiscation of the teacher's personal devices Ignatius Catholic School and Chesterton Academy have been identified in this situation at this time Killoren was immediately placed on administrative leave this is the first the school is hearing of any issues surrounding the teacher who passed all background and reference checks during the hiring process If you are aware of any information that may pertain to this matter the school asks you to contact the Appleton Police Department at (920) 832-5500 Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display Give Now 50th Anniversary issue of The Chesterton Review To subscribe, purchase back issues, or a gift subscription to The Chesterton Review, click here.  Reverend Forrest Pritchett Honored at SRTF Signature Event Physician Assistant Graduate Leads with Advocacy and Service Renovation for New Innovation Hub in Walsh Library UNGA President Philemon Yang at the World Leaders Forum New Book Brings Hip-Hop Pedagogy to Classrooms Nationwide             Please register to access this FREE content The Chesterton Schools Network a Catholic non-profit network of classically based high schools across America was founded in 2008 and now has 62 member schools The organization’s goal is to teach students the fundamental principles of a life well-lived using Jesus’ teachings The Chesterton mission to prepare students to be the nation’s hope for the future and Benedictine College’s vision to transform culture in America align in such a way that Chesterton students find the transition comfortable and rewarding Mary Danner ’27 – Presidential Scholarship is a proud alumna of the Chesterton Academy in Lisle she spent her high school years learning the basics of the Catholic faith while studying in a rigorous curriculum that included four years of philosophy Chesterton not only prepared Mary for college-level courses and a difficult major in Nursing but also prepared her to compete in Benedictine’s Presidential Scholarship weekend during which she won a full-tuition scholarship “It’s definitely more STEM based (the Chesterton curriculum) but I have found that even in STEM just the logic skills I have taken from Chesterton have helped me holistically reason better,” she said Mary compared the staffs of Benedictine College and the Chesterton Academy noting how nice it is that both schools have excellent professors whose passion is to teach their students how to be good people Although she was apprehensive about her abilities at first the small community that Chesterton fostered is what prepared her for the excitement of larger and more difficult classes at Benedictine Mary said the transition from Chesterton to Benedictine was made easier by the similarity of liberal arts courses between the two institutions “The scholars that I am learning about in classes here are all names I have heard before and relate to studies I have already researched,” she said “I was so well rounded in the liberal arts already and I am grateful to have been given it for four years before coming to Benedictine,” Mary said I will not be taking any more liberal arts classes because of my nursing major.” there are many things she adores about the transition from high school at the Chesterton Academy to pursuing her dream to be a nurse at Benedictine College a Benedictine College freshman from Albuquerque is currently majoring in Finance with a minor in Music He recently spoke about the Chesterton Academy and how it challenged him to grow as a person He explained that when he was approaching his high school years his parents thought it was essential to provide their children and the surrounding community with a strong His parents helped found the Albuquerque Chesterton Academy “My parents really wanted to provide for our community,” he said “They weren’t trying to compete with other schools but wanted to give families another option and give them a more Catholic choice It definitely helped me academically and spiritually.” When Joseph approached his senior year and began applying to colleges, Benedictine caught his eye. Having previously attended one of Benedictine’s popular BCYC  summer youth camps “It was an encounter I’ve never had before,” said Joseph regarding his time at BCYC “Adoration and the people there–it was a culture I had never experienced When Joseph saw the transformative effects that Benedictine’s BCYC had on him he decided to enroll at Benedictine College for his college career Mary McDevitt ’26 – The Formation of a Teacher a junior studying Elementary Education with an emphasis in Special Education attended a Chesterton Academy for her senior year of high school she was able to develop her internal desire to teach Being surrounded by and exposed to teachers who understood philosophical theological and classical thought made Mary want to continue to explore the Catholic “I was so engaged in the theology classes at Chesterton coming to Benedictine felt like a continuation in a really good way Mary’s love of education and passion for her faith made it clear to her that Benedictine would be the opportune college to challenge her in her passions With her decision to attend Benedictine College she is fueling hope for her future as she takes her next step to educate the future leaders of America “I knew I could trust Benedictine to mold me and form me into a wonderful teacher,” Mary said Benedictine College is also blessed to have these outstanding students adding to the family and community spirit on campus and an exceptional sense of community and belonging Benedictine College is dedicated to transforming culture in America through its mission to educate men and women within a community of faith and scholarship Subscribe below to receive weekly emails The opinions expressed on this website do not necessarily reflect the views of the college Copyright © 2025 Benedictine College Site Archive ChestertonLEEIMAGE VIA AFP | Background: Olha Yefimova | Shutterstock | Collage by Aleteia No one is quite sure when the first official Thanksgiving was held. Some partisans hold out for the Pilgrims in Massachusetts, others point to the Catholics in St. Augustine Virginia is in the mix claiming the first feast was in their great state Maybe it’s best to not waste energy arguing about which group was more thankful and who was thankful first people have had much to be thankful for as God showers countless blessings upon us as did any countless number of men and women whose names are lost to history particularly gratitude directed towards God Which isn’t to say there aren’t days during which I am fundamentally ungrateful It seems to me that our disordered relationship with time the way we rush around thoughtlessly from entertainment to work to chores the way we put off thinking about death in any shape or form There are entire days I tumble through aimlessly taking food and friendships and fresh air and children for granted I only have so much time and I use it up in busyness I know that if I consider the nature of time and how I use it I will inevitably think about the end of time and my impending death I will be forced to reckon with the fact that time is limited I will be pushed to consider what it looks like to live a good life full of gratitude a manner of living that is something like a lifelong pilgrimage undertaken with the knowledge that every good thing is passing into eternity I hold my days as precious only because they slip away from me I know beauty and goodness only as a traveler searching for a spiritual home pondering time and death is the path to thankfulness These thoughts assist us to live with no regrets and appreciate each moment as it passes knowing that soon they will leave our house to make homes of their own as adults but I am so much happier for having them under my roof temporarily than I ever would have been without them The knowledge that everything we love is slipping over the horizon helps us cherish our limited time with gratitude But we cannot get to this point if we’re constantly rushing to the end of the story we also lose the thankfulness for life part The way Christians might phrase it is that I know this connection between thanksgiving and our limited time sounds tenuous but I can’t help noticing that Thanksgiving providentially arrives at the end of November a season of harvesting and bringing summer to a close a month beginning with All Souls day and dedicated to the memento mori This very month ends begins with death and ends with a feast of gratitude He offered prayers of thanks for everything -- writing written as he knew he was closer to the end of his story than the beginning Not only is gratitude a virtue etched into us from time immemorial but Chesterton explains that it enables us to move past to unrealistic attitudes and achieve greatness An optimist is convinced that he’s never sinned that faith is easy and forgiveness hardly necessary An optimist has little to be grateful for because he can hardly comprehend how deep the pit is from which God is offering to save him despairs of having even a single sin forgiven He looks inside himself and only perceives that which is deserving of eternal death He considers the world and thinks it irredeemable Gratitude places us firmly in the grip of reality A grateful person sits down to a Thanksgiving feast and knows he’s not worthy of it while also knowing that God wants him to eat A grateful person knows that death is his deserved fate and yet accepts that God desires to save him from such a fate He accepts forgiveness and worships God ever thereafter with a thankful heart It is the grateful person who both knows he is undeserving but still accepts the startling and unexpected gift we humble sinners are not worthy of all the delicious turkey and mashed potatoes and stuffing spread out before us even if this feast is consumed as those who are pilgrims on a journey there’s an even better one waiting for us in eternity It is the grateful person who will be dining at the Heavenly banquet God has placed us right where we are to be thankful and happy by God’s grace we’re already over the threshold and entering into Heaven I cannot think of a better reason to be deeply grateful Articles like these are sponsored free for every Catholic through the support of generous readers just like you Please make a tax-deductible donation today Help us continue to bring the Gospel to people everywhere through uplifting Catholic news Office: (219) 809-0445 | On-Air Line: (219) 861-1632 | ric@wimsradio.com Chesterton on the one thing God hides from usCollage by John Touhey | Aleteia | Elements: Public Domain I’ve always been intrigued that tears are considered more serious than laughter it’s always the dramas and high-toned tragedies that earn the description of “serious art.” I’ve always contended that comedy too can also be “serious art,” and simply because levity and laughter are present doesn’t mean we should dismiss it who invented the character of Jeeves the Butler Wodehouse is a genius right up there with any other novelist but we never hear his name in the same conversation as writers like Joyce or Proust He was occasionally asked when he was going to finally write a serious novel but Wodehouse steadfastly maintained that his light-hearted comedies about nothing were serious Joseph Bottum, a fellow Wodehouse admirer, comments in First Things Wodehouse matters precisely because he was willing not to matter Maybe we should take seriously the fact that a major English literary talent of the 20th century was content to use his perfect prose for no purpose greater than the construction of pleasant farces and the buzz of language as it passes through an Edwardian fantasy world of stern aunts A similar separation of seriousness from laughter occurs throughout life Rarely is the genius of the class clown recognized or the insight stand-up comedians have about human nature acknowledged or the joyful approach to life taken by someone St It’s as if all the serious people are off somewhere doing taxes and furrowing their brows at the perilous nature of the human condition Even when laughter and joy are recognized as human goods they never attain quite the same status culturally as other virtues solid scriptural description of Jesus laughing and joking around If you came back at me and argued that Our Lord never ever would have told a joke and I have no evidence to claim he did I could only shrug my shoulders and admit that Jesus is a serious person with a serious mission to accomplish Chesterton has a unique theory of why we have no hard evidence of Jesus ever laughing he claims that during his time on earth Jesus hid his joy it helps to know that Orthodoxy is the story of how his encounter with Christianity was an encounter with paradox the suffering and dying Son of God who becomes the key to everlasting life and happiness This is a paradox that turns the world upside down we must first be prepared to join Christ in his sorrow Chesterton notes that this is precisely the opposite of how joy is typically understood by non-Christians He describes joy as the “small publicity of the pagan.” In other words there are many who proudly proclaim their only goal is to be comfortable They chase earthly pleasure before all else making too many demands and placing primacy on the suffering of the Cross so Christianity is rejected in favor of pleasure-seeking Those who are obsessed with joy “conceal their tears,” says Chesterton They cannot admit that their pleasures haven’t made them happy Because he was confident that the joy hidden within him was greater than any suffering in this life God has a hidden reservoir of inexhaustible joy and one day we will make it to Heaven and dive in Christ perfected human joy through his suffering what seems dour at the outset is revealed as the path to happiness Laughter and mirth aren’t always appropriate depending on the context we find ourselves in This is why God hides them; they’re too serious for us to fully experience this side of Heaven As Chesterton concludes; “There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.” Chesterton High School opened the doors for its first day performance of "Bring It On: The Musical." played the role of Campbell in this performance She discussed the major challenge her character endured and how she was able to overcome this obstacle “The play is about a girl named Campbell who becomes cheerleading captain of her squad before suddenly getting redistricted to Jackson High School,” Cunningham said “She makes new friends at the new school until one day she finds out who was behind her redistricting She wants to get revenge by way of a cheer competition between Jackson High School and Truman High School." "Bring It On" requires constant dancing and singing from the students She believes this performance took a lot of preparation and came together very well in the rehearsals leading up to the show “We had a choreographer come in and teach us the big numbers,” Maddex said “We tackled those first before filling in the details of each scene. The dancing and singing is always a lot of fun and there’s so many awesome songs in this show.”  It’s been an easy show for the students to enjoy putting together Maddex considers this to be one of the most memorable productions she’s been a part of.  “This is probably my personal favorite show that we’ve done in high school,” Maddex said but I feel like it’s a story that the audience can easily follow This one is very audience friendly and it’s pretty easy going.” Maddex cherishes the scenes where she gets to act evil while Cunningham was a big fan of the “We’re Not Done” performance a sophomore at Chesterton High School who played the role of Skylar had a couple of highlighted moments in this production.  “I’m a big fan of the ‘Cross The Line’ scene,” Loving said “I feel like it’s one of the most pivotal parts of the entire show I really love the song there and think it’s a great moment overall." The students had a lot of fun preparing this show for the past several weeks Maddex feels this show has helped bring the cast together on another level “It’s been a fun group of people to work with,” Maddex said I think about how crazy it is for us to have so many great singers at the same school." and director that are all on the same page When everyone affiliated with the play has a great connection with one another it becomes a fun experience that everybody will carry with them for many years to come “Our director gives us a lot of freedom but also wants us to keep growing,” Cunningham said “She might add new things into the show that make it a little bit better each time The cast is never short of coming up with ideas to make this performance a lot of fun.” "Bring It On" will be performed again on Friday For more information on Chesterton High School, you can visit its website Video provided in partnership with The Times The Duneland Chamber of Commerce is bringing back the popular Chesterton European Market for its 22nd season The popular outdoor market takes over downtown Chesterton every Saturday from May until October It brings in a wide variety of vendors who sell a variety of locally grown produce which represents Duneland businesses in Chesterton aims to help drive visitors to merchants in downtown Chesterton like The IN Coast It's helped local stores and restaurants capitalize off of the weekend beach traffic to the nearby Indiana Dunes National Park when the weather is nice The National Park is one of the state's top tourism attractions with around 3 million visitors a year many of whom are locals from across Chicagoland “The European Market is more than a place to shop — it's a celebration of community,” said Maura Mundell president of the Duneland Chamber of Commerce The Chesterton European Market runs from 8 a.m every Saturday at Broadway and Third Street next to Thomas Centennial Park Indiana Dunes Tourism notes it stands out from other farmers markets by offering more than produce having a unique ambiance and having established a reputation as an interesting way to while away a Saturday morning While it does not exclusively sell European goods the market offers many European-influenced items jewelry makers and other artisans come within a 50-mile radius setting up tents across downtown to turn it into an open-air pedestrian marketplace A variety of local musicians also perform live music “We’re excited to welcome everyone back for another incredible season filled with local flavor For more information, visit www.dunelandchamber.org The walls are covered in sports memorabilia like Bears jerseys a basketball hoop with Bulls championship trophy posters and a larger-than-life picture of Michael Jordan Bar stools represent different schools in the Big Ten it 100% revolves around sports," Castor said "There's so much sports memorabilia and pictures hanging up." Draft Picks also has a Golden Tee video game where one can play 18 holes and a boxing machine where one can work out aggression by punching a speed bag The 21+ establishment primarily functions as a bar and will have limited food options both active and retired for autograph signings "It's for the sports enthusiasts," he said Draft Picks sports bar is now pouring cold beers in the glow of big-screen televisions just in time for the big game which is a Valparaiso address but actually in South Haven Draft Picks has 12 high-definition big-screen televisions playing sporting events It even has a wall painted to resemble the ivy-clad outfield wall in Wrigley Field "It's designed for sports enthusiasts," said Sean Castor who owns the building where the bar leases space It expects to employ 80 people at the Lansing restaurant The traditional American menu includes two eggs any style The far-reaching offerings include lox and bagel Honey Berry Cafe will cater to customers with a sweet tooth with decadent offerings like Creamy Nutella Pancakes and the signature Honeyberry Pancakes that feature a berry mascarpone filling vanilla cream anglaise and blackberry coulis Expect more refined culinary offerings than one might find at a greasy spoon diner Omelets include a fig and bacon with aged Havarti cheese and extra virgin olive oil; a California with olive oil-infused sun-dried tomatoes provolone and fresh basil; and a wild mushroom with provolone herb-roasted cremini and both shitake and oyster mushrooms Breakfast can be washed down with a number of cocktails like a Bloody Mary an iced coffee cocktail and a Blackberry Champagne Mule Honey Berry Cafe is coming to take over the prominent spot that Bakers Square long occupied in Lansing the long-running diner chain known for its pie closed its location at 3545 Ridge Road just before the pandemic in January of 2020 It had been a popular breakfast spot in downtown Lansing but a new restaurant plans to fill that void with a more contemporary concept Honey Berry Cafe is now renovating the space It's a breakfast and brunch spot with a dozen locations scattered around the country as well as on State Street in the South Loop in Chicago Mattress By Appointment Schererville is coming to the Oakside Place retail plaza next month The mattress retailer will open at 2137 U.S Merrillville-based Commercial In-Sites brokered the deal to bring in the retailer which aims to discount its merchandise by 50% or more "Mattress By Appointment is a new 'shop when it’s convenient for you' concept," Commercial In-Sites said in a news release "They offer all the top quality brands that you will be looking for and by utilizing their national buying power they are able to offer deep discounts off traditional retail prices as well as a friendly Lunch is also on the menu at the pancake house-style restaurant Honey Berry Cafe will have a selection of salads wraps and sandwiches heavy on diner favorites like a club and a Monte Cristo A unique menu item is the Country Fried Burger in which a half-pound Angus burger is breaded and then fried in the manner of a Chicago-style breaded steak sandwich sauteed onions and pepper jack cheese and served in a potato bun kids and people sticking to heart-healthy diets The restaurant is targeting a spring opening Honey Berry Cafe plans to be open from 7 a.m For more information, visit honeyberrycafe.com closed after being a fixture of Region nightlife for decades sat right off the Erie-Lackawanna Trail and was a place to hang out and nurse a cold one in a plastic cup while hunched over the bar or perched on a high top It's been called a "workingman's pub" that catered to a crowd of regulars One reviewer even described it as "the best dive bar in Northwest Indiana." The small dimly lit tavern had neon beer signs It also had karaoke and allowed smoking long after many bars banished it The neighborhood pub was long a familiar sight in Highland where its hand-painted sign featuring a martini glass clinking a frothy beer mug looked straight out of "Cheers" and hadn't been changed in decades Tzatziki Greek Street Food has scaled back closing its second location in Schererville remains open at 7231 Indianapolis Blvd #2 in Hammond Tzatziki expanded to a take-out and delivery location at 332 Indianapolis Boulevard in Schererville in 2020 It specialized in traditional Greek fare like lamb melomakarona and of course lemon rice soup the marinated shish-ka-bobs originally from Hegewisch that are a staple of summer festivals in the Region It took over a former Rosati's space in a newer strip mall that's now available for lease Nick's Tavern closed after a run of a few years in Cedar Lake The original location in Lemont remains open which was featured on "Chicago's Best" on WGN has been serving up cold beers and its famous one-pound Nickburger taking over the former Carlo's Pizzeria/Big Butt BBQ space we can no longer sustain our day-to-day operations and business activities," the business posted on social media "This was a heartbreaking decision to make We want to thank our staff and customers for the years of loyalty we have created great friendships both business and personal." NWI Business Ins and Outs: El Poblano moves; Safra Small Bites The Vitamin Shoppe open; new managers at Pizza Hut Tropical Smoothie Cafe and Encore Car Wash opening Subscribe to our Daily Headlines newsletter Email notifications are only sent once a day Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account Chesterton Building Commissioner Mark O’Dell had a pretty simple point to make at the Town Council’s meeting Monday night that it’s easy to forget—or simply to overlook—that the sheer quantity of concrete and brick and steel and glass in which businesses and institutions have invested over the last three years in the Town of Chesterton has an economic value And that economic value is significant: $94,574,007 “There’s been a lot of economic development going on in the town,” O’Dell told the Town Council “You don’t always think of the value of what they’re presenting.” the value of new commercial and institutional construction Begin with the three additions: Lakeshore Ambulatory Surgery Center 3111 Village Point ($3,554,000); Urschel Laboratories Inc. 1200 Cutting Edge Drive ($1.5 million); BP gas station At least as impressive is the amount which existing businesses spent on remodeling their facilities or new businesses did on empty ones: NorthShore Health Center 801 Broadway ($3.5 million); Westchester Public Library ($1,951,145); Glacial Sands Oral Surgery Center 525 Indian Boundary Road ($400,000); Smoothie King 301 Indian Boundary Road($134,900); Johnstone Supply 781 Michael Drive ($121,253); Starbucks at Jewel/Osco 747 Indian Boundary Road ($100,000); Parkdale Center 350 Indian Boundary Road ($100,000); Taco Bell Now add four Duneland School Corporation projects: The addition and remodel at Westchester Middle/Intermediate School ($11 million and $16 million respectively); at Chesterton Middle School New commercial construction: Ameling Properties 1100N ($4,417,000); Black Drum Capital LLC 350 Council Drive ($2.8 million); Wise Guys Discount Liquors 2700 Matson Drive ($1.2 million); Luke Oil Company Commercial and industrial additions: Urschel Laboratories Inc. 1200 Cutting Edge Drive ($20,350,000); Hilton Garden Inn Commercial remodels: Westchester Public Library 501-1108 Allen Court ($380,000); Muse Med Spa 501-1101Allen Court ($350,000); University of Chicago Medicine 800 Indian Boundary Road($231,265); Century Complete Homes 757-3 Indian Boundary Road ($90,000); Melt Brow & Blow Out Bar 501-1103 Allen Court ($65,000); Parkdale Center 350 Indian Boundary Road ($14,768); Mia’s Catering And add the remodel of Bailly Elementary School New commercial construction: Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 2940 Matson Drive ($1.78 million); Great & Small Animal Clinic 2780 Matson Drive ($1.25 million); Dunkin Donuts 502 Pintail Trace ($1,120,000); Black Drum Capital LLC 350 Council Drive ($225,000); Chesterton Feed & Garden Center 747 Indian Boundary Road ($875,000); Baugher Center ($837,000); YMCA Healthy Living Campus ($602,734); HSA Commercial Real Estate 1200 Cutting Edge Drive ($250,000); Wing Stop Calumet Road ($200,000); Signature Smiles Dental Spa 711-6 Plaza Drive ($157,144); Red Cup Cafe Commercial additions: Main Street building Calumet Road($300,000); Black Drum Capital And add a remodel at Chesterton High School IN – The Duneland Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to announce the first-ever Winter Pop-Up Markets hosted in partnership with Indiana Dunes Tourism These special events will take place on Saturday This unique opportunity brings a taste of Chesterton’s beloved European Market indoors during the off-season Attendees can shop from some of their favorite market vendors while enjoying the warmth and charm of this winter event From handcrafted goods to delicious treats the Winter Pop-Up Market promises something for everyone “We’re excited to partner with Indiana Dunes Tourism to bring the experience of the European Market to this new setting,” said Maura Mundell President of the Duneland Chamber and Indiana Dunes Tourism Board Member “Visitors will not only enjoy the market but also have the chance to explore and learn more about the area and the dunes at the welcome center.” Don’t miss this opportunity to support local vendors and explore all the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center has to showcase The LC softball squad looks to continue its hot start to the season as they play host to the Chesterton Trojans More baseball on the Region Sports Network today A developer is proposing a 632-home subdivision that's being billed as the largest in town history at the site of the former Brassie Golf Course in Chesterton The 18-hole golf course at 1110 Pearson Road closed in 2021 and immediately hit the market as a prospective residential development The developer Provident Realty Advisors recently pitched a data center at the golf course but Chesterton rebuffed the plan after public outcry Now a new development group is pitching a subdivision that town spokesman Kevin Nevers described as "what would be the single largest residential development ever undertaken in the Town of Chesterton’s history." PMM Chesterton LLC Managing Member Michael Herbers former Crown Point Mayor and former South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority CEO David Uran are pitching a development with 632 homes The new subdivision would include 214 single-family homes Uran said he was working with Diamond Peak Homes out of Crown Point The prolific homebuilder has constructed many neighborhoods all across Northwest Indiana like Deer Creek Estates It's currently building in The Preserve of St Plans call for preserving about 30% of the property as open space greenspace and a trail that connects with the Prairie Duneland Trail The developers are seeking to have the town annex the lower third of the proposed neighborhood which is now in unincorporated Liberty Township The homes will be marketed as workforce housing The price points have not yet been determined but could range from $300,000 to $600,000 Uran told the Chesterton Plan Commission last month No formal proposal has been brought before the town yet It would require the approval of the plan commission and town council in a process that would take months and afford the opportunity for public input The developers plan to host public forums on the proposed subdivision from 6 p.m in the cafeteria of Chesterton High School at 2125 S a popular barbecue food truck that's been featured on Chicago television stations has rolled into a new brick-and-mortar location in Schererville Owner Bill Hazel planted roots with a new storefront location at 7307 Forest Ridge Drive in Schererville The barbecue restaurant sells slow-cooked brisket turkey and other traditional BBQ favorites Hazel helped organized Northwest Indiana's first food truck festival and has done a number of markets and events in Griffith such as the Blues and Barbecue Fest in Griffith and the Live in the Ville festival in Hammond's Hessville neighborhood Bill's Grill also has done a lot of catering for companies as well as markets across greater Chicagoland His business has been featured on Fox 32 Chicago and WGN and sells products at some local Whole Foods Markets "We're now more than just a food truck," Hazel said "We're somewhere you can grab delicious barbecue Wednesday through Saturday in Schererville." It is located near Forest Ridge Academy and Toast and Jam in the same shopping center as Hands on Science "It's a quaint little hideaway I can call my own It's one of those places where you can call it your spot; that's where you go." Hazel crafted his own unique style of barbecue "It's a fusion between Chicago and Memphis barbecue," he said "It's a mix of Chicago cooking style with Memphis blend flavor and a little Memphis smoke We make sure we flavor our meats and have Chicago-style sauce on the side." It also has barbecue staples like chicken and pulled pork "You can dip a bit but they're seasoned so you don't need the sauce," he said "You can't get them anywhere else in Northwest Indiana "I had this crazy idea of smoking meatloaf It completely changes the flavor profile and texture His wife came up with the idea of the corn casserole The 1,800-square-foot restaurant has a few tables for dining in but focuses on carryout and delivery "It's the best-kept secret in town," Hazel said For more information, visit www.billsgrillmobilebbq.com call 219-525-4621 or find the business on Facebook or Instagram Under the Sun Tanning is shining rays of sunshine in downtown Whiting The tanning salon is located at 1114 119th St People bask in the rays of the regular beds for 20 minutes and the more powerful ultra bed for just 15 minutes It offers custom spray tans and has a retail area with 50 different lotions It has 100 different single-use suntan packets tanners can use "We do custom spray tans by appointment," owner Carol Tinsley said Tinsley worked in the banking industry for 18 years and then retired before opening Under the Sun Tanning with her husband Rick "I was retired and my grandkids didn't need me and this opportunity came up I took a chance on it as it gave me something to do I've met so many cool people who have become my friends I enjoy talking to people about their children or their pets." She said it's at a good location with a lot of car traffic "I just hope to maintain a clean and safe environment," she said It's a safe place to sit and get a tan and maybe have a chat." which really starts to pick up in January and February "Tanning is a slow process you don't want to rush," she said "You need to start off slow and then do maintenance especially with the cold weather and the darkness coming early on." Customers can sign up for 30-day tanning packages call 219-473-7841 or find Under the Sun Tanning on Facebook or Instagram United Federal Credit Union closed its longtime branch at 510 N in Griffith as financial institutions everywhere scale back on their physical footprints "Members have let us know they enjoy flexible services that make it easier to bank on-the-go at home and after-hours," a company spokesperson said United is making an adjustment to our branch footprint while continuing to enhance our digital and remote financial services." Michigan-based United Federal Credit Union acquired the former Griffith Savings Bank just north of downtown Griffith in 2012 The purchase was heralded as historic at the time billed as "the first time a federally chartered credit union has purchased the assets of a state-chartered FDIC-insured mutual savings bank," "a major achievement for us" and "an important precedent in the world of banks and credit unions." It was United Federal Credit Union's only location in Northwest Indiana more than 900 customers and a geographic footprint spanning several states Harvest Financial Planning is coming to Munster Centennial Village LLC is building a new 5,700-square-foot building in the Centennial Village mixed-use development by Centennial Park in Munster "Half of it is leased to Harvest Financial Planning Harvest Financial Planning also has locations in Schererville and Valparaiso. For more information, visit www.harvestwp.com Kiya's Kitchen recently opened a new brick-and-mortar restaurant in East Chicago's Indiana Harbor neighborhood Damika Hill first opened Kiya's Kitchen and Catering Service in 2016 The business initially cooked for friends and family gatherings expanding to offering catering for small and medium-sized events across Chicagoland She's put out a number of digital cookbooks full of recipes people can cook at home The new brick-and-mortar restaurant serves soul food and traditional American fare It has vegan options such as vegan tacos and burgers Kiya's Kitchen also has a number of fusion egg rolls For more information, visit www.kiyaskitchencatering.com or call 219-354-0016 NWI Business Ins and Outs: Cute as a Cupcake Hope Center Resale and Region Scrubs opening NWI Business Ins and Outs: Epic Gourmet Popcorn The Brassie Golf Club has closed after more than two decades in Chesterton and is up for sale About $14.8 billion worth of data center projects are now underway in Indiana Merrillville is welcoming data centers in part because they bring significant investment that brings in more tax revenue while requiring few m… As one who has admired Hilaire Belloc for almost half a century it is gratifying indeed to see such a revival of interest in this great and under-appreciated man of genius basking in the light that he brings to a gloomy world Many years ago I had no idea what I was letting myself in for Chesterton’s influence would by life-changing I also discovered the works of his great friend Hilaire Belloc whom George Bernard Shaw had dubbed the Chesterbelloc melding them in his imagination as two halves of “a very amusing pantomime elephant” I became an unabashed disciple of the Chesterbelloc spending hours in second-hand bookshops on the quest to discover new tomes by both men At the time they were decidedly out of fashion The spirit of theological modernism and the rising tide of relativism had made their robust Christian orthodoxy anathema not merely in the wider secular culture but even in the Church Their works were removed from libraries and were dumped unceremoniously onto the market for used books It was not unusual to see an ex libris bookplate on the inside cover of volumes by Belloc and Chesterton indicating that they had once been part of a convent library They were no longer recommended reading and were therefore no longer read they were purged in favour of books on fashionable spirituality the titles and authors of which are long since forgotten The glut of books by Belloc and Chesterton in the second-hand book market made it very easy to build a collection of the works of both men without paying very much which were being practically given away for as little as 20 pence each I could come away from a successful day’s hunting with a dozen or more books without spending more than a few pounds These books have remained my companions through life and adorn the shelves of my office as I write It is no longer possible to build a Belloc and Chesterton library as cheaply This is good news because it reflects a revival of interest in the works of both writers the Chesterton Society began to grow by leaps and bounds; by the new millennium its annual conference was attracting hundreds of Chestertonians of all ages publishing new editions of some of his better known works and embarking on the multivolume series of his Collected Works we are beginning to see the beginning of a Belloc revival This has been made manifest to me personally by the number of requests that I’m receiving to write forewords to new editions of Belloc’s works I’ve written forewords to both the Ignatius Press and Os Justi Press editions of The Path to Rome the latter of which was published this year and have also penned the foreword to the Os Justi Press edition of The Cruise of the Nona I was asked by the American Chesterton Society to write the introduction to its edition of Belloc’s The Four Men and this year the monks at Silverstream Priory in Ireland asked me to write the foreword to the Cenacle Press edition of Belloc’s fine volume A new publishing house in England, Mysterium Press has just published very handsome new hardcover editions of two of Belloc’s historical biographies the latter of which had been scandalously out of print for over half a century published earlier this month and therefore hot off the press are intended to be the initial releases in an array of further Belloc books There are plans to publish new editions of other historical biographies Belloc’s influence on contemporary scholarship is evident in a newly published biography by Justine Brown which mirrors Belloc’s biography in significant ways and also in another newly published volume which explicates Belloc’s importance as an economist The Economic Thought of Hilaire Belloc: A Christian Alternative to the Servile State by Spanish scholar was published this year by Routledge as part of its “Routledge Studies in the History of Economics” series This volume is an adaptation of the author’s doctoral thesis Servidumbre o Cristianismo: El Pensamiento Económico de Hilaire Belloc which was also published this year by the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid Díaz Vera’s work follows closely on the heels of another positive appraisal of Belloc’s economic thinking The Political Economy of Distributism: Property published last year by the American economist Whereas Díaz Vera focuses solely on Belloc Salter considers the economic thought of both Belloc and Chesterton in the light of the great German economist As one who has admired Belloc for almost half a century We’ll conclude with a quip by the great man himself: “When I am dead I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet but his books were read.” We might hope and pray that his sins are forgiven and we may rejoice that his books are read The featured image is a photograph of Hilaire Belloc taken no later than 1914, and is in the public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons All comments are moderated and must be civil Comments that are critical of an essay may be approved but comments containing ad hominem criticism of the author will not be published comments containing web links or block quotations are unlikely to be approved Keep in mind that essays represent the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Imaginative Conservative or its editor or publisher Envy is diabolical I believe so I’m sure when I confess I envy your library of books gathered for just a few pounds I’ll be told to pray a few hail Mary’s for you so as to rejoice in your good fortune and told to pay full price at any book store and do have mitigating circumstance which should be taken into account rather cheeky of him to brag about his acquisitions that way… Not to mention the fact Belloc’s thought begins to be known outside the English-speaking world; for instance has been recently translated into French (no doubt the French-born Belloc would have rejoiced to see his book published in a country he received so much from) Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" The Imaginative Conservative is sponsored by The Free Enterprise Institute (a U.S Your donation to the Institute in support of The Imaginative Conservative is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law The Portage Indians took on the Chesterton Trojans in a sectional basketball game with the winner going onto the Sectional Championship game It was a close back and forth most of the night In the end the Indians came out ahead with a score of 69 to 55 #3 O’mari Evans put up 24 points tonight for Portage The game was very electric tonight between the Laporte Slicers and the Chesterton Trojans The Slicers pulled ahead and took home the win #24 Griffin Ott-large was Laporte’s top scorer with 17 points for the evening Chesterton approved of New Year’s resolutionsPublic Domain | Background: Chris Phutully | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | Collage by Aleteia Most of us realize that we will probably fail; yet we continue to make life-changing resolutions on January 1 For the great G.K. Chesterton that is a good thing – as he explain in the very first entry of 1916’s The G.K. Chesterton Calendar: The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet Unless a particular man made New Year’s resolutions Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven In the same calendar’s entry for December 31 Chesterton warns against viewing what comes tomorrow as “clear and inevitable.” If we do so we will be like those who looked at Medusa and her sisters and were “turned to stone.” That’s because only hope can make us new people To accept that tomorrow must be like yesterday and that life will never change is to die inside Even something as simple as a New Year’s resolution is an acknowledgement that God made us creatures of hope “There is one thing that gives radiance to everything,” Chesterton said on another occasion “It is the idea of something around the corner.” especially in how he looks at life through the lens of his Christian faith finding promise and goodness even in the most mundane things Just imagine what it would be like to go through the Jubilee Year of 2025 with that attitude If you do make resolutions this New Year’s Day perhaps one of them could be to read a little more Chesterton — and to try to imitate his openness and positivity when dealing with the world at large The Duneland YMCA Healthy Living Campus—in the former Chesterton Middle School Chesterton—will be hosting Early Voting this fall Use DOOR 11 or—as it’s more commonly known—the POOL ENTRANCE on the SOUTH side of the school by the football field and track Porter County Voter Registration will be providing exterior directional signage Chesterton coach Marc Urban will coach the boys Indiana All-Stars team in June who led Chesterton to the Class 4A state finals three years ago is 175-56 in his nine seasons leading the Trojans Chesterton has three sectional championships in his tenure including the 2021-22 team that took a 29-0 record into the state championship before losing to Cathedral Urban was previously the girls coach at Lake Central where he went 80-17 with two sectional titles The 2001 Lake Central graduate was a men’s basketball student manager for coach Royce Waltman at Indiana State prior to getting into coaching He is the first boys basketball coach from Chesterton to lead the Indiana All-Stars All-State teams: IBCA's 2025 Supreme 15, large-, small-school top players IHSAA basketball state finals: 35 players to watch this weekend The Indiana All-Stars will compete against the Kentucky All-Stars on June 6 in Kentucky at Lexington Catholic High School. The return game will be played June 7 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse The All-Stars will also have a girls-boys doubleheader against the Junior All-Stars on June 4 at Greenfield-Central Urban will be joined on the coaching staff by assistants Chris Hawkins of Crispus Attucks and Jason Speer of Bloomington North has the Tigers in the Class 3A state finals on Saturday against South Bend St Hawkins won a 3A state title in 2017 and has four sectional titles and three regional crowns at the school Shortridge and Brebeuf Jesuit prior to his hiring at Attucks Speer just completed his eighth season at Bloomington North with a record of 113-75 He led the Cougars to Class 4A regional titles in 2022 and ’23 He coached at Columbus North for seven seasons prior to Bloomington North and owns a 228-123 overall record was the girls coach at Bloomington North for two seasons prior to take over the boys program Indiana All-Stars tickets will go on sale at the state finals on Saturday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse Call Star reporter Kyle Neddenriep at (317) 444-6649 The Town of Chesterton made the following statement on their social media regarding the closure of 100N to close between Fifth Street and 100E this summer: The Duneland Chamber of Commerce and Indiana Dunes Tourism are hosting Winter Pop-Up Markets Jan The events bring Chesterton’s European Market indoors during the off-season Attendees can shop from market vendors and enjoy the warmth of a winter event The market will offer items from local vendors “We’re excited to partner with Indiana Dunes Tourism to bring the experience of the European Market to this new setting,” said Maura Mundell, Duneland Chamber president and Indiana Dunes Tourism board member, in a press release at the Indiana Dunes Welcome Center in Porter The Duneland Chamber of Commerce works to ensure that its member communities are vibrant places to live The Chamber offers community events and educational programming and promotes economic development in the Duneland area You must be logged in to post a comment April – May 2025 Download PDF of issue Publisher's Note, Current Issue: In this issue Around the Region, Current Issue: Professional advancement Best of Business Awards, Current Issue: 2025 Awards Current Issue, Small Business: Fearless entrepreneurs Construction, Current Issue: Controlling costs Current Issue, Tourism & Recreation, Meetings & Events: Bonding experiences The Future of, Current Issue: Goshen: ‘Unlike anywhere else’ Current Issue, Economic Development: ‘Future of energy is bright’ Business Profile, Current Issue: Mno-Bmadsen: Tribal investments Leader Profile, Current Issue: Lifetime of connections Current Issue, Off Hours: A vision for plants Current Issue, Career Path: Matt Lambert: On a Y mission Making a Difference, Current Issue: Health Foundation of La Porte Viewpoint, Current Issue: Let go of goals — just be Copyright © 2025 Northwest Indiana Business Magazine | an imprint of Linker Media Group, Inc | Company logos provided by Logo.dev The Valpo Vikings host the Chesterton Trojans as both sides look to gain momentum heading into the ever-approaching Sectional Here are the All-State selections selected by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association for the.. 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Check out the GSSC's best from the 2024-25 girls basketball season Here are your 2025 PCC All-Conference nods from the boys basketball season The Town of Chesterton announced on their Facebook page that Spring Cleanup Week will be observed during the third week of April: Monday through Friday The Town of Chesterton says both leaves and brush will be collected although residents must separate the two into different piles and those two piles must be left at curbside Leaf vacs are too large to operate easily or safely in alleys Assistant Street Commissioner Dan Moy told the Town Council said “Don’t wait until the last moment to rake but get started early My recommendation is to do it before April 14 because we do not follow a schedule for (Spring Cleanup Week) “We’ll start on one side of the town and work our way across View more information » (OSV News) -- “The hands that made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of cattle,” G.K Chesterton wrote in “The Everlasting Man.” It’s “a line that should be on a Christmas card,” said Dale Ahlquist president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton “The whole center of history is when Christ comes to earth a well-known British writer and Catholic convert marked the 150th anniversary of his birthday in May He is beloved worldwide for “his great way of turning a phrase,” Ahlquist said And that’s especially true for his writings about Christmas which was a special holiday for the writer and his wife While Chesterton wrote on a vast number of subjects one of the world’s most respected Chesterton scholars Chesterton was a big fan of the writer Charles Dickens who penned the 1843 novella “A Christmas Carol,” helping to revive interest in Christmas traditions in Victorian England Chesterton is credited for helping to revive interest in Dickens through Chesterton’s 1906 book “Charles Dickens.” Chesterton’s contemporary T.S Eliot called it the “best on that author that has ever been written.” Dent put out new editions of Dickens’ work in 24 volumes for the Everyman’s Library Chesterton shared Dickens’ love for Christmas traditions and was known to dress as Santa Claus for friends’ children With Chesteron’s girth and jolly disposition “you can imagine how perfect he would have been as Father Christmas,” Ahlquist said Children were important in the Chestertons’ lives in part because of their personal sorrow of not being able to have children of their own “When they realized they were not going to have any children they made a big deal out of Christmas for other people’s families,” Ahlquist said They also developed what Ahlquist described as a “mystical devotion” to the Nativity scene and Frances kept a set in nearly every room of their house “They celebrated the Christ Child in a way that they celebrated the birth of a child because that’s the child for all of us,” he said The couple also sent beautiful Christmas cards that included their original Christmas poetry Two of Frances’ Christmas poems have been turned into carols: “How Far Is It to Bethlehem?” and “Here Is the Little Door.” her biographer Nancy Carpentier Brown described Chesterton’s wife as “obsessed by Christmas.” “Frances had a nativity set up in every room “She collected miniature ornaments and kept them on display all year round Her poetry centered on a Christmas theme and each year she wrote a new poem to be included in the family Christmas card that she sent out to all of their friends.” she began to contemplate that wintry scene,” Brown wrote of Frances “She used her imagination to wonder what it would be like to hold the Christ Child What if she felt the ox and ass breathing in the stable Frances wrote a Christmas play called “The Christmas Gift,” in which a family’s father comes home after having been missing in the First World War but the mother takes the baby in as her own,” Brown wrote of the play “‘Is he the Christ Child?’ asks one of her children who can tell?’ Frances has the mother answer She reminds us that every child is an image of the Baby Jesus and any baby just might be the Holy Child.” One of Ahlquist’s favorite Christmas poems is G.K Chesterton’s “The Wise Men.” “It’s about the Wise Men walking through the rain and snow “We’ve all become children walking up to the Christ Child.” Chesterton’s love of Christmas inspired an Advent devotional “One of the reasons we go to Chesterton to find out what he said is because he has a great way of saying it We can trust him to put it into words in a special way because of his great gift for the language,” Ahlquist said “He seems to just capture the truth in such an obvious and concise way.” He also noted that Chesterton is the “master of paradox” -- “stating a truth that seems to be the opposite of true” -- and that is also the case with Christmas it’s a great paradox that God himself becomes a baby,” Ahlquist said “But then there’s the paradox of Christmas itself and here we are having a huge feast,” continued Ahlquist “We’re 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Please contact us at members@americamedia.org with any questions Chesterton Physical Therapy in Michigan City is having a FREE WORKSHOP for NECK and SHOULDER PAIN on Thursday April 17th from 1pm-2pm Learn effective techniques to relieve neck and shoulder pain Ask questions & get expert advice with NO OBLIGATIONS Join Chesterton Physical Therapy and WIMS on FACEBOOK LIVE as well For more information check out their website at www.chestertonpt.com or call their Michigan City location at 219-898-4360 The relocation of utilities—both underground and overhead—is often a mission-critical part of any infrastructure project Last year a natural-gas service at the town hall had to be moved as part of the demolition of the old police station A buried NIPSCO gas line still needs to be moved as part of Phase III(A) of the Westchester Liberty Trail that a municipality and the utility are on the same page and should a necessary relocation not make it onto a utility’s to-do list in a timely fashion—through some oversight or miscommunication—then the whole project can be delayed That’s why Chesterton Assistant Town Engineer Matt Gavelek wanted the Town Council to know at its meeting Monday night that Assistant StreetCommissioner Dan Moy once again showed why his colleagues regard him so highly by expediting action on a pair of overhead utilities which must be relocated for the construction of one of the two public parking lots in the Downtown this year Last week Gavelek and Town Engineer Mark O’Dell held a pre-construction meeting with Grimmer Construction the general contractor on the Downtown parking project at which it was made clear that “the critical path” for the parking lot in the 100 block of East Indiana Ave is the relocation of a NIPSCO overhead electric line and a Comcast communication line Dan Moy immediately started making phone calls with NIPSCO and Comcast,” Gavelek said “Comcast removed their line with days and NIPSCO has assigned a project manager to work on the relocation Dan went above and beyond his duties to help with a priority special project and his efforts helped ensure the project remains on schedule.” “I want to give credit to Dan,” Gavelek told the Town Council “He came in at the 11th hour and helped us Ground should break on the two public parking lots—the one in the 100 block of East Indiana Ave and a second in the 100 block of Grant Ave.—by the end of March Construction should be completed before the end of summer Twenty-eight new parking spaces will be created while 23 existing ones will be “freshened up,” as Gavelek put it lot will be located immediately west of North Calumet Road and north of Thomas Centennial Park Chesterton High School (CHS) hosted the IHSAA Girls Basketball Sectional Tournament Valparaiso High School (VHS) and Hobart High School went up against each other VHS took the victory at 64-33 and proceeded to the next round where they went up against and beat Portage High School CHS beat the Merrillville Pirates in a close game battled for the title of Sectional Champions the team worked effortlessly all season to maintain a winning record of 15-9 and left Trojan fans proud filled with training and preparation for next year.  I sensed that it took us some time to understand each other and adapt to the new coaching style I was truly happy to see our team beginning to mesh and gel and I am confident that with dedicated off-season training we can bring our best selves to the court next year,” said CHS Girls’ Basketball Team Member Kenedi Bradley.  The CHS Boys and Girls Lacrosse teams will be hosting a pancake breakfast on Saturday Fundraisers like this one help cover the costs of uniforms and any additional expenses that come up throughout the season.  “The pancake breakfast is our biggest fundraiser and it helps us get most of our funding because we are a nonprofit organization,” said CHS Girls Lacrosse Team Member Jocelyn Ringler.  The fundraiser will be held from 7 a.m.-10 a.m at The Original George’s Gyros Spot in downtown Chesterton guests can pick up pancakes for $10 a person served by various members of both lacrosse teams.  Another way to continue to support the teams throughout their seasons is to attend games The girls’ team will have its first game on March 8 against Crown Point at Culver Academy The boys’ team will have its first game on March 29 Be sure to come and support the Trojans as they take on new opponents throughout the season.  and he has been at CHS for all 14 years of his teaching career Knauff’s deep appreciation for the German language inspired him to start teaching and share his love with others but he wasn’t initially interested in being a teacher He comes from many generations of educators and didn’t realize it was his passion until later on in life.  I tried many other jobs before I realized that teaching was what I should be doing,” said Knauff Knauff stays busy outside of school by participating in multiple extracurriculars a public address announcer for football and basketball games He also sponsors the German American Partnership Program (GAPP) exchange with Justin Martinson This program allows CHS students the opportunity to travel across the world and experience a different culture we exchange with a partner school in Germany.  It gives our students an unforgettable opportunity to make new friends halfway across the world and also experience life in Germany for three weeks in the summer It is such an important time on this earth to foster connections with others try to make the world feel a little bit smaller and learn the lesson that no matter where someone is from Knauff’s favorite part about teaching is the students he has He enjoys teaching upper-level German because of the conversations he can have with students who are becoming more fluent in the language One hope he has for all of his students is that they will become more open to the world around them “I hope my students learn that the world is a bigger place than the United States and by learning another language you open up more of the world to yourself,” said Knauff She has been going to Duneland schools since she moved here to Chesterton in 2017 and will be attending Indiana University (IU) Bloomington this coming fall she will study to get her Bachelor of Science in human biology and minor in business or Italian.  I am going to be majoring in human biology at Indiana University I have always had an interest in anesthesia because it deals with many aspects of math and science that I enjoy learning about,” said Sundquist Sundquist has already been working towards her career in the medical field as a student intern at the Northwest Health - Porter she gets to shadow different jobs in the medical field and get an understanding of the profession as a whole Sundquist stays busy with her job at Banana Republic Factory Store at the Lighthouse Outlet Mall in Michigan City She is also involved in the National Honor Society and participates in many volunteer opportunities through the organization She is a member of the Trojan Guard and has been playing the trumpet for four years I love to walk at the Dunes,” Sundquist said Sundquist is looking forward to life after graduation and becoming a new student at IU Bloomington specifically for the career she would like to pursue and take classes that target the goals she has created for herself Crown Point hopes to keep their streak unblemished – but will have to go on the road to face an exciting and talented Chesterton team We will have that for you on the Region Sports Network – with the father son duo of Michael and Ron Brandner on the call Duneland YMCA CEO Dave Kasarda thanks the Town of Chesterton for its unstinting commitment to the Healthy Living Campus Duneland Family YMCA Executive Director and CEO Dave Kasarda attended the Chesterton Town Council’s meeting Monday night to say how deeply grateful he is to the Town of Chesterton for its substantial support of the Healthy Living Campus “I just want to thank you all,” Kasarda told the Town Council These conversations started about eight years ago with our Board of Directors and all of these things are falling into place But the Town of Chesterton has really stepped up and done an outstanding job helping us get to the point we’re at now Kasarda specifically cited Director of Economic Development and Operations Rebecca Parker; Assistant Town Engineer Mark Gavelek; Building Commissioner Mark O’Dell; Park Superintendent Tyler McLead; Fire Chief Sean O’Donnell; and Police Chief Tim Richardson “Rebecca has been outstanding,” Kasarda noted We’re very lucky to have the Park Superintendent that we do the Fire Department played a significant role making sure that our partnership with the school is safe and the building is safe Now we’re working with the Police Department on what happens if—God forbid that it ever happens—but they’re going to help our staff to be better prepared We feel that we’ve been very blessed by all the offerings that the town has available for us “The Economic Development Team as well as the Engineering and the Park departments have been in constant communication with the YMCA to ensure that they have a smooth process.” It’s important to emphasize that the YMCA Healthy Living Campus is open right now for business—in that portion of the old Chesterton Middle School which wasn’t demolished—and not just open but bustling and brimming with programming as YMCA Director of Youth and Adult Enrichment Amy Curtis told the Town Council: which will “mainly involve the current construction footprint enclosing the former football field and track,” Curtis said “Site plans are currently being drafted and finalized and after approval of the site work we look forward to building the Wellness Center,” Curtis reported we will be able to close our operations on Roosevelt Street and move them all to the Healthy Living Campus.” “I took a walk-through and it was amazing,” said Member Erin Collins Something I heard a lot when I was running for office not only giving them a place where they can do different things and participate and be social but also where they can sign up for programs and get help with their cell phones and Meals on Wheels This is all going to tie in for this community “There’s something to be said too for economic development because this offers a new vision for the west side of town,” added Member Jim Ton “This whole development will do much as far as attracting business along Broadway The fact that the Healthy Living Campus is going to be there will attract a lot of attention to the town The west side has needed some uplift for some time.” “I also walked through the project and heard so much positive feedback,” said Member Jennifer Fisher “People are so excited in the Downtown for this project and for the sense of community that it brings I’m really thankful you guys were thoughtful in your approach and considered all the different generations and that you want to have something to offer every age group I think this is going to do a lot to improve the vitality of our Downtown.” The newly created Chesterton Sustainability Board Anyone interested in serving on the Sustainability Board or in otherwise volunteering to help make the Town of Chesterton a greener and cleaner place to live is cordially invited to attend the meeting and the process of drafting an ordinance to establish the body officially will begin Join The Duneland Chamber at Chesterton’s European Market every Saturday from the beginning of May through the end of October in historic downtown Chesterton We’re located two miles south of the Indiana Dunes at Lake Michigan and our Market is easily accessible from Interstate 94 to exit 26A or via the 80/90 Toll Road to exit 31 Our European Market provides a strong tradition of quality shopping live entertainment and a festive community experience merchants and farmers travel to our Market from across Indiana Michigan and Illinois to offer visitors an extraordinary collection of products and services and delight in our artisan breads and pastries jewelry and fresh-from-the-farm produce and flowers and enjoy live performances from the best of Duneland’s professional musicians and support our commitment to nurturing healthy sustainable lifestyles within our Duneland community We’re looking forward to seeing you soon