Michigan Community Voices

WMU alumni of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Epsilon Xi Chapter will be honored during Homecoming week with various events which feature many of the men who have gained success as mayors, educators, and multimillionaires. READ HOW TO ATTEND!

It’s often said that laughter is the best medicine, and nowhere is that prescription more accurate than in this rib-tickling, all new adaptation of the classic hypochondriac. The wealthy Argan is housebound with every disease in the book. Lurking around are any number of quacks that are only too happy to (mis)treat him. Family troubles, including a money-grubbing wife and two headstrong daughters, only add to Argan’s miseries. Complete with original songs, satirical bite and the requisite bawdiness, this telling of the classic comedy gets an injection of 1960’s French pop culture. If you’re looking for a good laugh, this show is just what the doctor ordered! SEE THIS PLAY!

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!

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