Battle Creek News

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Pastor William Stein of God's Kitchen - Battle Creek presents Darcy Rose of Lansing with a $50 Meijer Gift Card for being the soup kitchen's 50,000th dinner guest.

Inside Arcadia Ales' brewery, the air is pungent with fermenting beer, and Tim Suprise is talking water .

Captain Mike Wolfe pictured with student volunteers from the United Way's Youth Day of Caring event held on Friday, April 26th.

In amounts ranging from $3,000 to $75,000, nine school programs and government projects in Calhoun County were awarded shares of $187,875 in grants by the FireKeepers Local Revenue Sharing Board.

Dr. Mark Russell, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon at Bronson Battle Creek will offer an interactive discussion on Thursday, June 6 from 6-7 p.m. about what options you have to get rid of joint pain.

Dozens of people in Michigan and plane passengers from several states have been contacted after health officials learned they may have been exposed to measles through an 8-month-old from the Battle Creek area.

Kalamazoo City Commissioners added two new names to their list of finalists for City Manager, after candidate Joyce Parker dropped out during the week.

The Barry County Sheriff's Department says the discovery of a mystery powder in a baggie inside the tube at a bank drive-in window in Middleville triggered an emergency hazardous waste response and the quarantine of four bank employees inside the bank for hours last evening.

A Battle Creek-area baby with measles is recuperating without incident. But the 8-month old triggered a search for more than 100 people in 15 states who could have been exposed to the disease when the contagious baby traveled on an international flight, health officials say.

Gov. Rick Snyder was famously successful in college, taking college business while still attending Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, and creating his own degree at the University of Michigan.

John G. Bizon, MD, a Battle Creek otolaryngologist, was elected as a Michigan Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association during the 148th annual meeting of the MSMS House of Delegates on April 27 in Grand Rapids.

The Gang Suppression Unit and the fugitive Team working in conjunction with Clinton Twp.

Dr. Richard H. Allen and Dr. Alfred Hamady were inducted into the Bronson Battle Creek Physicians Hall of Fame recently.

Grace to Live, Freedom to Reign is the theme for Women's Celebration Month at Faith Assembly Christian Fellowship.

An Ascension worship service will be conducted at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 349 Capital Ave.

Maya and Sage stepped up to the challenge and donated the $70 they earned from their lemonade stand to the Inasmuch House Playground Project.

The following information is being provided by the Calhoun County Public Health Department as a public service update on the Measles Disease.

The We Evolve bench, commissioned by the Leadership Challenge class of 2012 will visit Bronson Battle Creek for the next three months.

Calhoun County health officials are tracking down people who may have been inadvertently exposed to measles last Tuesday, April 30 at a Battle Creek area pediatric office or Kalamazoo area emergency room, and are notifying local health care providers to be on the lookout for the disease as well.