People across the Great Lakes Bay Region are stepping up to help those most in need during the COVID-19 pandemic – whether it’s volunteering to babysit children who are now out of school, doing wellness checks on the elderly, or calling local agencies to volunteer. Here are a few stories from across the region of people helping people during this time of uncertainty and need.
Greg “Ryno” Rynearson and Alan “Bubba” White, two of the nine owners of Cops & Doughnuts, are teaching short, fun lessons at 2 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for three weeks on Facebook for kids while they’re home from school.
In honor of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, as well as Women's History Month, Ruth Helwig, president of the Zonta Club of Mt. Pleasant, talks about the key milestones for women over the last 100 years, the work of the local Zonta club, and what advancements she hopes the next 100 years will bring for women.
The City of Mt. Pleasant, in partnership with Lake Trust Credit Union, has introduced a new rental subsidy program to help support new and growing businesses downtown. Up to two businesses per year will be accepted for the new Make It Mt. Pleasant program, which is designed to support new retail, dining, arts, and entertainment businesses downtown.
The process of potentially building an aquatic center in Isabella County has reached its second step as a committee comprised of members from the City of Mt. Pleasant, Union Township, and the Mt. Pleasant School District explore the feasibility of creating a recreational authority that would be responsible for governing it.
The City of Mt. Pleasant currently only has about half of the 80-plus election inspectors it typically needs during an election year.
Central Michigan University's President Robert Davies talked about the “Envisioning Our Future: CMU 2030” plan, changes the university is making to help students pay for their tuition, how CMU is addressing food insecurity among its student body, and more.
Barely a teenager when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Ed Haynack had in his mind from a young age that he wanted to join the military to support the efforts of the Allies during WWII. Today, at 91 years old, he still proudly wears his WWII uniform.
Henry Meabrod Sr., 93, remembers exactly where he was when he heard the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor – riding around in a car with friends listening to the radio. He also remembers exactly where he was when the Japanese surrendered at the end of WWII – in Tokyo Bay. This is his story.
Over 30 years ago, Dr. Ryan J. Lilly was born in what was then known as Central Michigan Community Hospital, now McLaren Central Michigan. This summer, he returned to that same hospital as an orthopaedic surgeon and is working side by side with his father, Dr. Charles J. Lilly, who has been an orthopaedic surgeon in the community since 1985.
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