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In some briefs, BBB announces Northern Indiana finalists for Torch.

Twelve finalists have been announced for this year's local BBB Torch Awards for Ethics.

The Better Business Bureau, serving Northern Indiana Charitable and Education Foundation, released the names on Tuesday.

The Torch Awards, the BBB's most prestigious honor, are designed to celebrate ethical excellence in business and community leadership.

Businesses, nonprofit organizations, and individuals who exemplify outstanding character, cultural, culture, customer care, and community involvement can be recognized.

Yeah, I, I'd never thought about that, but that makes sense about, like, feeding the gold miners and people in the Bay Area, and we have a, a pretty similar history too here with, with Indiana.

Um, so I'm down in Southern Indiana, but up in Northern Indiana, there was what was called the Grand Kankakee Marsh, and it was this very, um, pristine waterfowling area, um, this giant marsh that kind of was over a, a giant swath of, of Northern Indiana and then into modern-day Illinois, um, a little bit as well.

Um, and like world-class waterfowl hunting, like, where people would come from all over to, to come hunt-

Mm-hmm