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First Aired April 15, 2023 The Cereal City Concert Band‘s spring concert, set for April 30, 2023, will feature some familiar pieces from stage and screen. The concert, called Fantastical Features: Music of Stage, Screen and Imagination” promises symphonic dances from “Fiddler on the Roof”, A Disney Spectacular and John Williams’ Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, …
First Aired April 15, 2023 Earth Day is April 22, 2023, but Battle Creek has declared the entire week of April 17 Earth Week. Residents are able to volunteer to help clean up city parks and the Battle Creek Linear Park Trail. Bessie Stears, environmental program coordinator with the city’s Public Works Department, shares some …
First Aired April 15, 2023 The Wiggly Tail update for April 2023 includes beautiful, fuzzy Great Pyrenees-mix puppies (yep, they will be big dogs!). Jessica Gilbert with the Humane Society of South Central Michigan also shares with Community Matters some thoughts about the craze to give your indoor cats a little taste of the outdoors: The catio. We also …
First Aired April 15, 2023 Lt. Chris Young with the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department Office of Emergency Management talks about things residents should consider as severe weather season gets started in southwest Michigan. Episode Resources Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Management websiteCalhoun County Rave Alerts-Smart 911 websiteReady.gov ABOUT COMMUNITY MATTERS Former WBCK Morning Show host Richard Piet (2014-2017) …
Anne Clark with Senior Health Partners in Calhoun County, also a Miles for Memories volunteer, talks about the annual Research Update and Thank You Celebration. Set for April 25, 2023 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the Kool Family Community Center in Battle Creek, Anne discusses who should consider attending, as well as what attendees can expect. Episode Resources …
Coach Michele Coy challenges listeners in this episode to think beyond what they are comfortable with as they contemplate their business ideas. Episode Resources Coach Michele Coy’s websiteCoach Michele’s original series Transforming Your Money MindsetScore Resources for EntrepreneursJohn Maxwell LeadershipMore episodes: Transforming Your Business Mindset About MicheleMichele Coy is a business leadership and mindset coach. Michele assists her clients to shift their mindset …
First Aired April 8, 2023 A W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant to help stimulate the Calhoun County building trades workforce has brought together partners working to do just that. Amy Rose Robinson with the Calhoun County Land Bank Authority and Eric Cunningham with LISC – the Local Initiatives Support Corporation – to discuss upcoming events meant to attract those in the building …
First Aired April 8, 2023 Ford’s BlueOval Battery Park Michigan is expected to open in 2026 at the Marshall Megasite. But, as we hear from Marshall Township resident Glenn Kowalske – part of an environmental conservation group called Seedkeepers – some are against the development. Kowalske says the group is most concerned about a lack of information readily provided …
