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Business Team Returns From 24-Hour Visit To Haiti

Last updated on Monday, February 22, 2010

(VALPARAISO, IN) - A team of business people and emergency medical specialists are back in northwest Indiana from a 24-hour visit to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Valparaiso businessman Nick Popovich sent his own plane loaded with food, water and medical supplies Thursday morning from the Gary airport to Port-Au-Prince, with a brief stop in Florida.

Lakeshore Public T.V. Reporter Mike Janssen joined them on the flight.

He says the plane brought back three people who needed urgent medical care.

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