From 9:00AM to 2:00PM

Join us for our 6th annual vendor event! We have over 20 vendors to help you get gifts for everyone on your Christmas list! The event takes place at the St. Joseph County 4-H Fairgrounds at 5117 Ironwood Rd. South Bend IN 46714. Enter through gate 2 on Ironwood Rd. & the event is on the first building on the left. Be sure to bring a nonperishable food items or an unwrapped children

Phone: 574-250-5086

The Excel Center is currently accepting enrollment applications for Term 3 of its 2015-2016 year. Applications must be received by Tuesday, January 5th for classes beginning January 19th. Those interested can apply online at: www.ExcelCenterHS.org. The application is free and takes less than 10 minutes to complete. The Excel Center is a public charter school offering adults 18 years and older an opportunity to earn an Indiana Core 40 High School Diploma at no cost. It is located at 2721 Kenwood Avenue in South Bend. Classes are conducted in eight week sessions and an individual academic plan is developed for each student. Free child care is available and a life coach is assigned to provide guidance on balancing family, work and other priorities. For more information, call: (574) 314-5570.

Jim Brickman wouldn’t play by the rules. Literally. He was 8, taking private lessons from a piano teacher down the street from his parents’ Cleveland suburb home, but little Jimmy Brickman wouldn’t conform to the rudimentary regulations of piano playing, even after his piano teacher told his mother he “didn’t have the knack for this.” By the age of 12, Brickman found his mentor in the creative tutelage of a Cleveland Institute of Music graduate. As a child, Brickman had studied music at the prestigious conservatory and was honored in 2011 when the Cleveland Institute of Music established a scholarship in his name.