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MEMBERS ON THE MOVE FOCUS MAGAZINE | JUNE 2023
Sparrow Eaton Hospital is Holy Cross Services was recently
celebrating the opening of a awarded a $180,000 Out-of-School
special room designated as a haven Time Learning grant from the
for caregivers seeking a quiet, Michigan Department of Education
therapeutic area away from the to provide summer program
stresses of healthcare. The Lavender activities to high school students
Room was created thanks to a who are currently in or have
remarkable donation from Joseph previously been placed in foster
Eugene Pray, Sr., who joined Pray care. The first “Belong, Be Strong”
family members, Sparrow Eaton Summer Youth Program will be held
board members, and dozens of at the Queen of Angels Campus
caregivers in a recent celebration. at 3400 S. Washington Road in
High School senior, so he can attend Saginaw operating from June 14,
a quintessential part of the high through August 25 and will provide
school experience: prom. The credit remedial classroom instruction for
union, along with other community- credit recovery in Math and Science.
minded donors, including
Centennial Group and Lansing Custom Built
Church of God in Christ, raised Design &
$1,120 to cover Cooper’s expenses Remodeling
for the May 13 event. Cooper, the is pleased to
LAFCU recently took its Listen & American-born son of a Haitian announce that
Learn Program to Perry Elementary refugee mother and absentee Michael Flory
School. The event coincided with the father, faced numerous challenges has become the
school’s Pajama Day and featured throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. sole owner of
a magician and a book intended When schools closed during his Custom Built.
to help young children build sophomore year, Cooper and his Flory Michael founded
confidence in math and learn more family did not have the resources Custom Built
about money. To encourage reading to fully participate in virtual online Decks in 2004, merging with his
LAFCU donated 340 copies of the learning, and he fell way behind. brother Chris in 2006. After over a
book, “Owl and Otter and the Big Several months ago, LAFCU’s former decade of partnership, Chris looks
Yard Sale,” written by Andrea Mills. Local 459 Union representative forward to doing more of what he
reached out to LAFCU and others in loves. Michael and the CB team
the community to provide Cooper will continue moving the mission
with a great experience for his forward to be the trusted guides
senior year of high school. Not only throughout the remodeling process.
did they raise funds for prom, but
LAFCU and other donors raised Sparrow Medical
money for clothing and a vehicle Group (SMG)
to get him to and from work and Orthopedics
soccer practice. Carson City has
expanded to
A new exhibition is now open at the serve patients
MSU Museum on the campus of in the Ithaca
Michigan State University. "WKAR's community.
WILX News 10 is excited to Legacy of Innovation," explores the Orthopedic
announce the expansion of its history of WKAR Public Media Ott surgeon Susan
commitment to local news coverage and its service to the mid-Michigan Ott, D.O., is
with First @ 4 which debuted and Spartan communities for more welcoming new patients at SMG
on Monday, May 8. Viewers can than a century. WKAR went on the Ithaca, 114 N. Main St., Ithaca. In
join anchor Taylor Gattoni every air in 1922 as an AM radio station addition to the new location, Dr.
weekday starting at 4 p.m. for broadcasting agricultural news and Ott will continue to see patients at
your first look at the day’s biggest information. It has grown SMG Orthopedics Carson City, 245 S.
stories and live interviews with local into a robust media organization Second St., Carson City. l
newsmakers. that includes WKAR-TV, WKAR
Radio, wkar.org, Radio Reading
LAFCU held a check presentation Service, WKAR Digital Studios and
on April 6 for Eric Cooper, an Everett WKAR Family.
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