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Just a couple of weeks after starting her position as the new chief executive of the Battle Creek Community Foundation, Mary Muliett sits down with Community Matters. Muliett reflects on succeeding longtime BCCF CEO Brenda Hunt, the foundational philosophies at the foundation and what it feels like to finally work in the town she’s called …
A Battle Creek tradition returns to downtown in celebration of cereal: National Cereal Fest 2024. Kelly Walden of Kellogg Arena returns to Community Matters to talk about Cereal Fest attractions everyone knows and loves: The Friday parade and Saturday free breakfast. She also lets us in on a few new reasons to attend the festivities …
The attorney for the Committee for Marshall-Not the Megasite group fighting for a vote on the Ford BlueOval Battery Park zoning expects a Michigan Court of Appeals decision to go their way. Robby Dube returns to Community Matters to talk about the expectations for the June 6, 2024 hearing which offers a chance to turn …
Calhoun County Board of Commissioners Chair Kathy-Sue Vette announced her resignation from the panel, about half a year before her term ended. Vette did not file to run again. The District 3 vacancy will be filled by a resident of the district who applies and is selected by commissioners on June 6. That commissioner will …
It has been a year for severe weather in 2024. A rare EF-1 tornado in Calhoun County struck in the middle of the night in February, causing damage to homes and other property. Another tornado, this one an EF-2, struck in Kalamazoo County in May, and is said to have destroyed more than 60 structures …
Jerry Seinfeld has apparently been rolling around the idea of a movie about the development of breakfast pastries for some time. “I have considered doing a Pop-Tart movie,” Seinfeld told Howard Stern in a 2013 interview. “…about how they discovered the Pop-Tart…in Battle Creek, Michigan.” Eleven years later, enter the star-studded Netflix comedy called “Unfrosted”, a …
Set for Thursday, May 23, 2024 at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek, Calhoun County Senior Services Expo has more vendors than ever registered. That’s the word from Senior Services’ Rebecca de Finta, who talks about the types of vendors expected, parking and how to get a ride to and from the event. Click to listen. …
When caring for a person with dementia, there will come a time when the task will become more than one caregiver can handle. Let’s step back a moment and consider that, very often, a caregiver is a spouse or relative of the person living with dementia. That person – perhaps with some assistance from other …
