Local & State

Local pastors push to keep  polling sites open and urge improved voting education.

Books Open Minds and Doors:  Education is a tool that has proved useful in preventing people from returning to the prison system after their release. However, prison libraries are meager and education programs have been cut. When Mount Hope Ministries approached CCCAN with a request we were able to begin delivering.  In two weeks we have collected over 250 books. We will present them with the books on Prayer Day, August 1, 2007.
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Avoid bumps in the road when buying, selling cars, Cruise Secretary of State Web site for info, HEALTHIEST STUDENT BODIES, TRINITY AME CHURCH’S MEN’S DAY ACTIVITIES PLANNED, Civil Rights Department Affirms Right To File Complaints Without Retaliation,

Giving honor to the seniors: Charter members, Catherine Chandler, Dorothy Nelson, Earl L. Nicholson and Ellis Watson proudly give words of wisdom during a celebration for the most senior members of church and their families.

What do you think? Lansing Branch President James Gill angrily responds to our request for information.

Pre-school students, from Ms. Tricia Bransford’s class at Shabazz Academy, have no problem attracting the butterflies on a recent trip to the Butterfly House

Planting Seeds: Katie Olender, Food Systems Project Coordinator, NorthWest Initiative; Health Committee Chairman of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Chi Epsilon Omega Chapter, Mrs. Harriette Coleman Gillum, a retired registered nurse; Mark Eitrem, Mid-Michigan Leadership Academy Superintendent and Deana M. Newman, President of the Chi Epsilon Omega Chapter.
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LANSING, MI — When Conrad Smith of Lansing was laid off from a 20-year dry walling career last December, he never dreamed the next few months would bring a diagnosis of Stage 2 prostate cancer from a team of volunteer doctors and an opportunity to volunteer his skills to give the gift of health to someone else.

 EAST LANSING, MI – WKAR-TV will present a special, hour-long edition of Off the Record examining the crisis in Michigan’s K-12 education funding. Senior capitol correspondent Tim Skubick will anchor the special, airing Monday, May 21, at 7 p.m. on WKAR-TV and on many other public television stations at the following times:

DETAILS FOR DETROIT INTERNATIONAL RIVER DAYS ANNOUNCED, Councilperson Carol Wood Kicked off Council at Large Campaign,