Ask the Business Librarian 6-5

    Q: I’m going to be retiring soon but I’m not quite ready to quit working.  I’d like to do something next and have been thinking a lot about starting my own business.  Does the library have any resources for folks over 50 who would like to start a business?

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    Lansing’s Women Business Organization Celebrates 25th “Silver” Anniversary Founders’ Day Awards Brunch

    Lansing, MI — On Saturday, April 21, 2007, The Greater Lansing Area Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club, Inc. (NANBPWC) will celebrate 25 years of service to the Lansing area community.  This year’s silver anniversary theme, “Honoring our Past, Celebrating Today & Embracing the Future,” will be reflected through a visual historical presentation during the brunch. 

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    Renovating and Remodeling Your House

    Deane Nelson, allied member ASID, Designer of DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen, A Division of Michael Fischer Builders, LLC at the 2007 Michigan State University Spring Home and Garden Show explaining their product line. Photo TNCP.

    Don’t want to move but need to spice up your living area, add to the value of your home through renovation  or remodeling.

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    Kloud 9 brings heavenly soul to 621

    Their Koch-distributed sophomore album, Yearning 2 Love, is set for broad US release on June 12, but first they’ll set foot in Lansing, performing live at 621 E. Michigan Avenue  on April 27.

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    Upscale Goes Green: Homeowners Focus Increasingly on Sustainable Energy, Renewable Building Material

    Green builder, Laurey Wyble (left) at her booth at the 2007 Michigan State University Spring Home and Garden Show.

    At Laurey Wyble Custom Builder they feel that it is their responsibility to our planet, as well as future generations to take care of what we have been given.

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    2nd Annual Earth Day Unity Festival

    Celebrating Earth Day is becoming more and more popular as gas prices rise and high pollution begins to affect smaller communities.  Do your part and conserve.  Photo TNCP.

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    Excuse Me… 6-6

              The week before March 31, 2007, which was the date of our first CCCAN’s (Capitol City Community Action Network’s) first Town Hall Forum, I prepared with feelings of contentment and sentiments ranging from anxiety to excitement.  The members of CCCAN were giving the community a forum to express their concerns and actually be heard.

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      Nu Resolution 6-6

      New Resolution #7: See New Resolution #5

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      As I See It… 6-6

      WHY IMUS WON’T BE FIRED, DESPITE RACIAL COMMENTS

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      Blackflix.com Movie Reveiw: My Brother

      Studio:  Codeblack Entertainment
      Plot:     A story of two impoverished brothers and the adversities they face.
      Cast:  Vanessa Williams, Nashawn Kearse, Christopher Scott, Tatum O’Neal, Rodney Henry, Fredro Starr
      Rating:     PG-13
      Bottom Line:     *1/2

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