Confessions of a Compulsive Picker Thirty original songs written and performed by Project Neighbors’ very own, Paul Schreiner. ALL PROCEEDS GO TO FUND PROJECT NEIGHBORS AND THEIR PROGRAMS. Music is language. Acoustic guitar music is intimate language, whispering, crying, mourning,...
Dear Friends of Project Neighbors, It is the mission of Project Neighbors to strengthen and enrich the larger Valparaiso community by addressing issues related to race, class, and poverty, and to build healthy families and neighborhoods where diversity of all kinds is welcomed and cherished. For...
Locally owned and controlled media is a rarity these days. For the past 40 to 50 years, the trend has been for national (and international) corporations to buy up small town newspapers, TV, and radio stations. The reality is that six corporations control 90% of the media outlets in America. They...
An amazing, complicated, and often infuriating man, Walt Reiner and his wife, Lois, (pictured) were the founders of Project Neighbors. The story of that beginning is for a later date. Today I want to just give you a sense of the man. Start by looking at the picture. Note the condition of his...
Dozens of people shared their thoughts about two proposals for affordable housing, both backed by Project Neighbors, at a Valparaiso Board of Appeals meeting. While the board went on to vote in favor of the variances for one of the projects and tie on the second, the story of one Valparaiso...
Variance for Valparaiso affordable housing project ends in tie vote; project may get another chance in July Dozens of people shared their thoughts about two proposals for affordable housing, both backed by Project Neighbors, at a Valparaiso Board of Appeals...
Paul Schreiner pulled out the fabled toolbox of Walt Reiner to hammer home several truths about his dear friend who died only days earlier. Reiner was a rebel, a risk-taker, and a human rights crusader. He critiqued church sermons, challenged authority figures and kept a makeshift library in his...
Paul Schreiner stood outside the new duplex at 551 and 553 S. Morgan Blvd. Sunday. “This was the ugliest site in Valparaiso. It was an old shack and it had salvaged scrap metal in it,” he said, adding it burned down and he bought the lot last year. Read...
The foundation is considered to be the most important part of a building but little is ever considered of the walls. Composed of grit, determination, and life lessons, walls provide the continual support and shelter from storms. For many, Respite House, a 15-bed halfway house in Valparaiso,...