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What to Ask the Nursing Home

What to Ask the Nursing Home

When you or your loved one needs nursing care, here are ten questions to ask when looking for nursing home placement. WHAT ABOUT MY SOURCE OF PAYMENT? Is the facility licensed as a skilled nursing facility? Many facilities that provide a relatively high level of care...

Fashion, Fun, and Family

Fashion, Fun, and Family

Fashion and art rub elbows at the annual There’s No Place Like Home Fashion Show held April 24 at the Goei Center in Grand Rapids. This event benefits Liz’s House and Bridge Street Place, housing communities of Dwelling Place, to continue to offer support to women who...

Lunch and Learn – The Rise of the “Mompreneur”

4 Stories of Michigan Mom-Developed Products Bring your lunch and hear regional experts share experience, advice, and lessons from their profession on April 26 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Start Garden 50 Louis Ave First Floor Grand Rapids.  Veronica Vroon, Stacey...

Grand Rapids Symphony Presents Magic Circle Mime Company April 14

Children will experience an exciting concert designed just for them when the Grand Rapids Symphony presents “The Listener” featuring the Magic Circle Mime Company on Sunday, April 14 at 3 p.m. at Forest Hills Fine Arts Center. The concert is part of the Symphony’s DTE...

Broadway’s Biggest Blockbuster to Return to Kalamazoo

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time in 2010, WICKED, Broadway’s biggest blockbuster, will return to Kalamazoo’s Miller Auditorium from April 24-May 5, 2013.  With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy...

Say YES to the Roth!

Say YES to the Roth!

Janice is 63 and scared. She is frustrated about the possibility of Social Security changing. Having terrible experiences with the returns of the retail investments in her employer’s 401(k) retirement plan, Janice now sees even more potential trouble ahead for her...

How Female CEOs Could Lead with Impact

A record number of women are Fortune 500 CEOs. Women are launching businesses at 1.5 times the national average. There are now 8.2 million American women running their own companies. “The numbers are notable,” said executive and business coach Debora McLaughlin,...

Ready to Run Michigan

More women than ever were elected to U.S. Congress in 2012, yet Michigan lost three seats held by women in the state House of Representatives. To help boost the number of women serving in local, state, and national politics, Grand Valley State University’s Women’s...