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lansingchamber.org MEMBERS ON THE MOVE
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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