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The thousands of workers who pick, pack, and process our food have become eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in many states. But they still face obstacles to actually getting the vaccine, as companies sort out their vaccination policies and advocates struggle to secure enough doses for a workforce that ranks among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Labor organizations and the food industry spent months pushing for agricultural and food processing workers to be in early distri...

Simply Give donation cards are available at checkout lanes in all Meijer stores. Meijer and its customers donated more than $7.6 million in 2020 through the retailers Simply Give program to help keep Midwest food pantries’ shelves stocked and feed hungry families. The year 2020 proved a crucial time to help food pantries as they experienced  increased need because of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Despite the difficult circumstances many families faced last year, we were proud to join forc...

Despite jobs purge in Michigan, union membership grew in 2020 Contributors are growth of food retail sector, organizing of health care workers Likely a one-time bump in continued fall of union labor Kroger Rising employment at unionized supermarket chains like Kroger and Meijer in the pandemic accounts for some of the growth in union membership in the past year. Despite Michigan employers shedding roughly 487,000 jobs in 2020, union membership grew slightly across the state, according to data r...

Have a sweet tooth? Here are Michigan’s Top 21 Pies Updated Jan 22, 2021; Posted Jan 22, 2021 Sweetie-licious Pies in DeWitt, Michigan, was our pick as Michigans Best Pie in 2014. They are offering a free slice of pie on National Pie Day, which is Jan. 23, 2021.MLive Facebook Share Pie! Hands down, said Linda Hundt, owner of Sweetie-licious Pies. “No matter what, pie brings you home,” said Hundt, whose store just celebrated 15 years in business in DeWitt, Michigan. “There is no other ...

Top Personal Trainers in Southwest Michigan 2021 Looking for a personal trainer to work off that 2020 weight gain?  We can help. We asked you to nominate then vote for your favorite personal trainers in the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek areas.  After over 7,000 votes this year, the results are in.  Due to the pandemic with gyms either being closed or opened under new hours of operation on and off through out 2020, we received about 60% of the number of votes from last year.  With that being...

A Young Plainwell Woman Fighting Covid-19 Needs Our Help The family of a young mother of 3 from Plainwell, Michigan needs our help as she has been fighting Covid-19 for 3 months. If youre on TikTok you may have seen the heartbreaking video from @kaytee..marie that she uploaded on October 19th.  In the video that has been viewed 38 million times, she is doing her best to breathe and fight back tears as she updates everyone on how Covid-19 was beginning to affect her lungs. Her condition is get...

Alleged ringleader in plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer seeks release from custody Updated Jan 02, 2021; Posted Jan 02, 2021 Barry G. Croft Jr., 44, of Bear, Delaware. He is one of several people charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch Whitmer from her vacation home. Facebook Share WILIMINGTON, DE — A Delaware man all...

Caitlin Allen and Catherine Lemus from Western Michigan Universitys Haworth College of Business were among just six students statewide to win 2020-21 scholarships from The Adcraft Club of Detroits Adcraft Foundation. The Adcraft Club of Detroit is the nations largest advertising club. Its foundation annually awards cash grants to advertising and marketing students from Michigan universities. Students must submit an application and transcript, along with essays demonstrating their knowledge and...

A year after it was drained for ‘emergency’ repair, Morrow Lake refill begins Updated Dec 15, 2020; Facebook Share KALAMAZOO, MI — An impounded section of the Kalamazoo River will become a lake again now that repairs are finished on a hydroelectric dam that allowed huge quantities of sediment to wash downstream after the reservoir was drained. Eagle Creek Renewable Energy said it would begin refilling Morrow Lake this week after repairing spillway gates at Morrow Dam, which impounds the ...

The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are being shipped across the country Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Rey Del Rio, Getty Images Shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are loaded into a UPS plane on December 13, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan. Wisconsin hospitals are preparing to start distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to their frontline health care workers as the first doses were shipped across the country Sunday. The Pfizer manufacturing plant ...