Author: Sonya Bernard-Hollins

A one-hour kick-off event will take place on Thursday, September 6, at 9 a.m. at West Michigan Cancer Center, 200 N. Park St., Kalamazoo. CPS-3 champions will receive all the information they need to help educate and recruit community members to enroll in CPS-3. READ HOW TO BE A PART OF THIS STUDY!

Grandparents Day will honor, celebrate the people in our lives who have been an inspiration to their family and community. READ MORE!

Church sells for $1! READ MORE!

Kalamazoo native reflects on his Olympic experience at games in 2000. READ MORE AND LEARN OF HIS RECENT HALL OF FAME INDUCTION!

Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation raises $1 million to help cultivate healthy teen leaders in our community. READ MORE!

What is a hero? Big Brothers Big Sisters, A Community of Caring believes you don’t need to be faster than a speeding bullet or be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to be a hero to a child. All you need to do to be a hero is a friend to a vulnerable child. READ MORE ABOUT THIS EVENT TO CELEBRATE EVERYDAY HEROES!

The new home for the archives is one Dr. Sharon Carlson has long anticipated. After all, it was 20 years ago that the WMU Archives and Regional History Collection was organized in the gymnasium of East Hall, the first building on WMU’s campus in 1903. Carlson joked that no longer will long extension cords be needed for researchers to plug in their laptops. No longer will she have to be the “only college archive located in a swimming pool (the former school’s pool). SEE THE PHOTOS IN OUR PHOTO GALLERY!

Farmers’ Markets, Reunions, Golf Outings, and more! Got Events? Send to Editor@comvoicesonline.com!

Thousands joined in the run as hundreds from throughout the community lined the 3.1 mile path for the 10th annual Girls on the Run event. NEW STORY AND PHOTOS COMING SOON!