Area non-profits brave the weather to attend networking session Tuesday
(Talk of the Town photo by Jennifer Zartman Romano) Representatives of several local non-profit organizations in Whitley County gathered Tuesday for their quarterly networking session, Whitley Connections. The group toured the Purdue Cooperative office on Line Street in Columbia City and met afterward to talk about current initiatives within their organizations. Those present for the meeting included Monica Trump of the United Way, Kendra Zickafoose and Jenna Ott of the Whitley County Community Foundation, Nikki Geiger of The Lighthouse, Jan Labas of the American Red Cross, Cindy Barnett of Purdue Cooperative Extension, Tammy Nicholson of Passages, Inc., Bill Webber of Learning Services and Kelley Sheiss of Leadership Whitley County. Touring the facility, above from left, is Nikki Geiger, Tammy Nicholson, Bill Webber and Jan Labas.