Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Aug. 8, 1913 – All of LaPorte attended the best merchants’ picnic ever held in this city on the shores of Pine Lake.
Aug. 8, 1963 – President Kennedy visits his wife following a call on his newborn son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who is suffering from a lung complication.
Aug. 8, 1988 — The New Prairie school district general fund is about $3 million in debt. Equipment and personnel are to be cut.
Aug. 8, 2003 – Episcopal leaders affirm that same-sex blessing ceremonies are “an acceptable practice in the church.”