One homeless vet is one too many, according to Angela Beaugard, Metro Community Development’s Vice President of Development and a veteran advocate. There are lots in Michigan, where the number of homeless vets tops 5,200. A local group behind the Veterans Stand Down event hopes to change that by helping match local veterans to resources. […]
Camille Coleman, a retired French and African American history teacher, loves to travel. So much so, that she’s converted her personal passion into a full-time business operation, DeTours, Inc. She’s diversified her business over time to include a wide variety of travel options from motor coach, sporting event and educational tours to casino and shopping junkets […]
Thirty-eight-year-old Latashia Perry had a doll when she was 1, but she has a relationship with dolls now that she never had before. Perry recalls having a doll made of cloth with yellow and white hair. “My sister and I would put t-shirts on our hair so we could pretend like we had long, straight […]
Fifty to 100 people walk into the doors of Totem Books daily. Most of the thousands of bookstore visitors who have entered the cultural oasis since it opened three years ago in November have returned, says manager Tyler Bailey. “Inventory-wise we stock and store everything from Flint authors to fairy tales, to Faulkner,” Bailey says. […]