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Residents and nonprofits push safety initiatives and report service gaps at Hammond council public expression
Summary
During public expression, local advocates described nonprofit programs to assist first responders with autism-related responses, asked for community outreach and fundraising support, and residents complained of persistent unaddressed streetlight outages blamed on NIPSCO.
Several residents and nonprofit representatives used the council's public-expression period Tuesday to raise community-safety concerns and describe local programs serving Hammond families.
Georgianne Glavis, speaking for Logan's Love, said the nonprofit — founded after the death of a child who eloped and was killed by a train — is bringing two sensory events to the area and seeks to expand two safety initiatives: "Ben's Blue Bags," which contain communication devices…
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