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Indiana Dunes State Park

07-15-09
Irene Tron
Irene Tron: Real Estate Agent in Valparaiso, IN
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This past Saturday, July 11, was the Annual Sand Sculpture Contest at the Indiana Dunes State Park. After a rainy start early in the day, it turned out to be a perfect day to enjoy the sand, water, and sun on the beach. It was sunny but mild temperatures the entire day. We could not have asked for better weather.

The beach was full of families having fun together. Volleyball games, barbecuing, and swimming were all going on in the midst of others hard at work building their sand sculptures.

There is just something relaxing about water splashing against the shore. If you have a chance to spend some time out in the sun and water in your part of the world, do it! Take the rest of the afternoon off and enjoy. We won't tell!

Sand Sculpture

Irene Tron
Making Real Estate in Northwest Indiana
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Real Estate

01-19-09
Paul Boyter
Paul Boyter: Real Estate Sales Person in Chesterton, IN
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Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right!

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Great Time To Be In Real Estate

01-18-09
Paul Boyter
Paul Boyter: Real Estate Sales Person in Chesterton, IN
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There is currently a shrinking pool of Realtors. Now is a great time to get started. Interest rates are low and prices in our area are affordable. What a great time to buy a home. Please let me know if you are looking for a new career or thinking about buying or selling a home.

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NW Indiana Summer Fun: Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve

07-02-08
Kimberly Wester
Kimberly Wester : Home Stager in Valparaiso, IN
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Conveniently located just off of State Road 49 in Chesterton, Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve is both an amazingly peaceful spot for a picnic or a nature walk and a nature photographers paradise.

Carefully planted with native foliage and wildflowers, it is also sprinkled with genius landscaping, rockscaping and engineered structures that include bridges, waterfalls, ponds and walking paths.

The main structural showpiece is an outdoor ampitheater that offers incorporated leveled seating and sits above the largest and most breathtaking waterfall in the preserve.

My girls and I were recently invited to picnic here with my family. At first, I was hesitant to go, as my girls aren't really the picnicing type - especially in such a peaceful spot. To my amazement, the girls embraced to the peacefulness of the spot and enthusiastically took it all in. They were even very patient with me as I indulged my obsession with the macro setting on my camera.

I truly believe that words cannot describe such a beautiful place. I will simply show you in the photos I was able to shoot that day.

As the foliage is destined to change with the season, I'm looking forward to going back and seeing the changes as they take place...and getting more photos.

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The Village of Burns Harbor

03-20-08
laura neal
laura neal: Real Estate Agent in Chesterton, IN
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Dear Friend,

When I was a kid growing up, my buddies and I all lived within a few blocks of each other. In the summer we always somehow showed up at the park every morning at the same time, bikes converging from every direction. We'd play ball, breaking for lunch, paper routes and dinner, but return and play until dark - sometimes taking the game under the streetlights. We didn't have watches. If one of us got hurt, we'd go to the nearest boy's house and his mom would patch us up. We'd leave our bikes in our backyards; we never heard of a wheel lock. We had trees we climbed. The girls chalked out hopscotch patterns on the sidewalk. If someone's parents got a new Chevy, we'd all be there, sniffing in the new car smell and marveling at the design.

It was a simpler time. Some people believe it was a better time. Of course, it was in many ways, and here's what made it different. We lived in a neighborhood, not a subdivision. And that meant we had neighbors - people who knew us and whom we knew. We could walk to the store. We sat on a front porch with the folks from next door and talked. Nobody minded if we played "kick the can" in the street. The back door to most people's homes was left unlocked.

The Village in Burns Harbor was created to recapture that essence, that feeling, that time. Of course, the great advantage we have is being able to take what was unique and worthwhile about yesterday and meld it with what is great from today: modern, superbly constructed homes, designed with a practicality that maximizes efficiency of space, built with the finest materials and most contemporary technology. And we're building them in a neighborhood that we hope will inspire the same conviviality, the same neighborliness, that made my youth so wonderful.

Welcome to The Village in Burns Harbor. We hope you will consider this place "Your New Hometown."


T. Clifford Fleming

MISSION STATEMENT: To undertake Real Estate Development projects that enhance the image of Northwest Indiana, provide meaningful job opportunities for its residents, create a higher quality of life, and aid in the preservation of the family unit.

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