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“A Peaceful Ending to Our Life”
National non-profit Compassion & Choices advocates for the legalization of medical aid in dying, which gives those with a terminal illness and less than six months left to live the option of a peaceful death. Medical aid in dying is…
Party in the Park: A Celebration of Early Childhood Literacy
Ready to Read is a “Kalamazoo Public Library (KPL) outreach program that encourages parents and caregivers to share books with children from birth to five years of age.” Every year, they put on Party in the Park, a celebration of early childhood…
“Rooted” A Visual Poem
Kehinde Oladeji, a recent Frank Jamison Fellow at Public Media Network, wrote her poem Rooted as one of her projects with PMN. During the journalism-based fellowship, Kehinde helped behind the camera, editing, and in crafting several stories. But her autobiographic…
Don’t Waste Food Waste: The City’s New Food Scrap Recycling Bins
City of Kalamazoo's Solid Waste Coordinator, Chris Broadbent, discusses the new food waste program and how it works. Residents are encouraged to collect their food scraps and drop them off at the bins located at the lot at 322 E.…
Providing a Second Chance
An expungement removes criminal convictions from a person’s public record, and for many people like Melody Woods, it gives them a second chance. Kalamazoo Defender provides holistic public legal defense, which looks at the whole client and their unique situation.…
Speed Puzzling
Teams such as “Just Piecing It Together,” “Side Pieces,” and “Perpetually Puzzled” competed at the Speed Puzzling Competition at Shakespeare’s Pub on April 24th. The event was meant to raise money for the Grand Rapids Women’s Rugby team which stars…
“This is Unprecedented.”
YWCA CEO, Susan Rosas, discusses a new website that tracks the effects of funding cuts to area non-profits and the populations they serve. SolidarityData.org, now live, provides detailed information on jobs lost and jobs threatened, funds lost and threatened, the…
