While he said the project won’t likely attract new airlines to the airport, he said the goal was to attract more passengers. The new terminal has a business center, a water feature, a restaurant, a children’s play area, a gift shop and a new area for the TSA.

One major event will recur throughout the season Flat Screen Friday will have the Silver Hawks give away a flat screen television between each inning on Fridays. There also will be double fireworks compared to last year and all-you-can-eat Belly Buster nights.

The Silver Hawks are the Class A affiliate of the National League’s Arizona Diamondbacks. The team is owned by Andrew T. Berlin of Chicago.

The agreement calls for Horizon to issue 0.54 shares of common stock for each share of Heartland common stock. Horizon’s price per share is $18 and Heartlands was $9.72.

“Heartland, which has the No. 1 deposit share in Johnson County, will provide a strong foothold in central Indiana and further establish Horizon’s position as in an Indiana-focused financial institution,” said Craig M. Dwight, Horizon’s president and CEO.

Heartland has assets of $246 million and deposits of $217.9 million.

The agreement also calls for Heartland Bancshares to be merged into Horizon Bancorp and operate under the Horizon charter. It will operate as Heartland Community Bank, a Horizon Company.

Heartland co-founders Steve Bechman and Jeffrey Goben will continue to manage Heartland’s operation.

He has been at Purdue since 1981 and since 1985 he has focused on current flow in nanoscale electronic devices and is known for his contributions to spin electronics and molecular electronics.

Three Purdue alumni also were named to the academy. They are Max William Carbon, a professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin; Richard Wilker Korsmeyer, a senior research fellow and head of business development and licensing for pharmaceutical sciences at Pfizer Inc.; and Antonios Georgios Mikos, director of the J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering and director of the Center of Excellence in Tissue Engineering at Rice University.

Konopa was chosen for his work in civil litigation defense, personal injury plaintiffs and business litigation.

The ranking is put together by Thomson Reuters business, and includes more than 70 practice area.

The firm will specialize in estate planning, corporate law and mediation.

Partners in the firm are R. Timothy Fletcher, Wendy A. Fletcher and Stephen J. Sullivan. The office will be at 2005 Valparaiso St.

Paul Wurth is based in Luxembourg and designs facilities for the steel industry around the world. It also services equipment in area mills.

The company opened in Portage three years ago, said manager Jim Tommarello. He said the company expects to use machine shops in the region to manufacture some of the parts is needs.

President Mark Heckler said the center will include historic displays from the university. He said it will be a place where the community and potential students can visit to learn about VU.

A ground breaking for the welcome center will be held April 28.

Carl Lisek, executive director of the organization, said the group helped its members replace 340,000 gallons of gasoline with alternative fuels and cut greenhouse gases by two tons last year.

Among the organizations featured at the meeting was Fair Oaks Farms, which is using methane gas from its dairy herd to power its fleet of delivery trucks.

The research center will be part of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative and will be available for scientists to study the relationships between land, water and wetlands.

The location of the research center is part of 144 acres of farmland the St. Joseph County Parks Department acquired in 1999. David Lodge, a Notre Dame biology professor and director of the ECI, said the site will offer scientific opportunities that aren’t available in a laboratory.