Landscape Forms started 40 years ago with seasonal employees by a man who found a way to keep his workers employed each winter. Now it's keeping employees at work building transit shelters and LED lights that fit in anywhere in the world.
Golf is not just a game in Benton Harbor. It's creating jobs and changing lives, thanks to Jack Nicklaus and a local team made up of community and economic leaders.
Can a retail incubator work to fill up empty storefronts in downtown Kalamazoo? Kathy Jennings sees an experimental program showing success before her eyes.
If you could live anywhere in the world would you choose Kalamazoo? Dr. Firas Al-Ali has. Second Wave editor Kathy Jennings talks to the neurointerventionalist about why he really likes it here.
As the computer titans clash for control of the cloud, a small Kalamazoo company quietly works with Google Apps to find the right solution for a business in need of a computer solution right now. Newmind Group Inc. likes Google because its customers like Google.
In the new script theater lives long and prospers. Downtown, at Studio 246, they're keeping the spirit of alternative theater alive. With a little help from their friends, they're fixing up the place and everyone's invited to see what's up next.
Lakeland HealthCare in St. Joseph hopes to raise $4.5 million for a new outpatient clinic. It's already more than halfway there. Lakeland anticipates breaking ground April 11 on the two-story, 30,000-square-foot building that will connect to the existing Center for Outpatient Services. When complete, the capital campaign would cover a third of the cost of $13.5 million cancer care center.A $1 million donation made in the name of Marie Yeager, an oncology nurse who died in 2008, is the largest to the hospital system's capital campaign. The Frederick S. Upton Foundation has pledged $400,000.Marie Yeager cared for patients as an oncology nurse at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph. Her husband, Tom, is a member of Lakeland HealthCare's Board of Directors. "We are immensely grateful for the Yeager family's generous support for this project," said Bill Johnson, President of the Lakeland Health Foundations. "Lakeland is honored to name the new cancer center after Marie. It is a fitting legacy for someone who exemplified Lakeland's mission of putting the patient first." The Marie Yeager Cancer Center Lakeland Health Park in Royalton Township will provide a full range of oncology services.The opening date for the regional cancer center is projected to be the fall of 2011.Writer: Kathy JenningsSource: Lakeland Health Center
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