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            center, and Health and Wellness       to preparing Lansing students        their financial goals. Entrants must
            Pavilion. While finishing touches     for the future. The event took       live, work, worship, or attend school
            happened on the building itself,      place at Cumberland Elementary,      in Michigan but are not required to
            clinicians and staff started to train   Lansing. Financial literacy        be a member of LAFCU. Information
            at the new facility in January,       programs continued in classrooms     is at www.lafcu.com/ptft, where
            including tours, day in the life      throughout April.                    entries can be uploaded.
            training scenarios, and mock
            patient moves to get familiar with    Kasch Properties, Ltd. leased a
            the new space and processes for       well-located, well-maintained, and
            move day. McLaren Greater Lansing     well-appointed modern flex space
            hired Health Care Relocations,        in East Lansing to Certus Medical
            which specializes in the coordinated   this January, marking the entry of a
            planning and physical relocation      vital service to the Greater Lansing
            of hospitals and other healthcare     area. Headquartered in Indianapolis,
            facilities, for the move. On Sunday,   Indiana, Certus Medical distributes
            March 6, at 6 a.m., the emergency     orthopedic implants and other
            department opened at the new          surgical equipment. Its largest
            location while the Greenlawn          brand is DJO Surgical, a maker
            Avenue emergency department           of hip, knee, and shoulder
            closed. At 7 a.m., McLaren Greater    replacements. The lease capitalizes
            Lansing met with hospital and         on the property's versatility at     LAFCU offered free document
            moving staff to kick-off move         345 W. Lake Lansing Road. Martin     shredding to the public at the credit
            day. The first patients were then     Commercial Properties, a leading     union's Shred Day on Saturday,
            transferred to the new hospital,      privately-owned real estate services   April 23, to reduce identity theft.
            with all patients safely transferred   and development company,            A mobile shredding truck was
            in approximately six hours.           represented Kasch Properties in      at LAFCU's headquarters/West
            Some 112 patients were moved          the facility's lease. Martin's senior   Lansing Branch, 106 N. Marketplace
            in the process with the use of 14     associate and office advisor Thomas   Blvd., for on-site, secure destruction
            ambulances provided by Medstar        Jamieson facilitated the transaction.   of personal documents. The paper
            and three buses donated by Dean                                            was recycled. Each person was able
            Transportation.                                                            to drop off up to four bankers' boxes
                                                                                       of materials to be shredded.













                                                  LAFCU is now accepting entries for
                                                  an essay contest that will award up   For National Reading Month,
                                                  to $7,500 in grants to those working   LAFCU took its March 16 Listen &
                                                  to build a better financial life for   Learn Program into two elementary
                                                  themselves. The LAFCU Pathway        school classrooms. The featured
                                                  to Financial Transformation Essay    attraction was cupcakes. Partners
            Junior Achievement of Mid-            Contest provides up to $2,500 each   for LAFCU Listen & Learn Crazy for
            Michigan and Jackson National         to three entrants. The funds will be   Cupcakes were East Lansing Public
            Life Insurance Company teamed         applied to the winners' outstanding   Library, Red Cedar Elementary
            up to have Jackson® executives        debts. Winners will be selected      School, East Lansing, and Sweet
            teach third-grade Lansing School      based on their one-page essay        Encounter Bakery, Lansing. Via
            District students how to earn, save,   about how they are trying to create   Zoom, youth services librarian
            donate and spend money utilizing      a financial roadmap. Entrants are    Gillian Streeter read the book,
            Junior Achievement programming        asked what actions have influenced   "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake,"
            on March 21. The effort was part of   their financial decisions, their     written by Laura Numeroff and
            Jackson's sponsorship of Financial    progress during the past year, and   illustrated by Felicia Bond, to
            Literacy Month and its commitment     how the grant could help meet        third- and fourth-grade students.

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