Midwestern Woman Spreads Message of Hope

Midwestern Woman Spreads Message of Hope

Although she’s not technically from West Michigan, Miss America 2012 Laura Kaeppeler did spend some time in the Grand Rapids community visiting school children and spreading her message of hope for a bright future. Laura was crowned this January and will spend a...

Here She is, Miss (Am)erika

I had the unique pleasure of spending two days with Laura Kaeppeler, Miss America 2012, this week. I’d interviewed her previously on the phone for one of our company’s other publications, fourpoints magazine, and I had the sense that we were going to have...