Former GVSU Math Professor to Teach at Boxing Club
Muskegon Heights - The Muskegon Heights Boxing Club's summer math program is off and running.
The program, started a year ago by Tribune Publisher and boxing club president Franklin A. Fudail, has hired Melody Lane, a former GVSU Adjunct Professor and Muskegon Public Schools Math Interventionist to teach the summer program.
"We are fortunate to have someone with Mrs. Lane's background to teach at our program. She brings a wealth of math education, experience and dedication to our program", said Fudail. <<CONTINUED>>
Discrimination Complaint filed against Biggby Coffee
A Muskegon resident recently filed a discrimnation complaint through the local branch of the NAACP.
The complaintant, an African American man, alleges he wasquestioned for not buying a beverage and using the internet after being in the 3295 Henry street store for less than five minutes.
And when he left after the alleged harassment, and went home and called to speak with the owner, a staff member named "Tammy" hung up the phone on him. <<CONTINUED>>
Buy a kid his first basketball or his first pair of boxing gloves and you never know what could happen. Sometimes, they try the sport and give up. Sometimes they make it a lifelong hobby. And one in a million times, they become the very best in the country. “From the beginning, he was very competitive. He didn’t like to let anyone get the better of him,” recalls Dennis Shimmell of bringing his then eight-year-old son, Jordan Shimmell, to a boxing gym for the first time. “If someone did get the best of him, he wanted to get back in there and train until he could beat the guy.” <<CONTINUED>
Musical act Dunk Tank is a band from Kalamazoo that plays hard rock covers and original songs. Front man and vocalist Mike Hallam, known to fans as “Cash,” guitarist Rob Seth and bassist Jamie Denison played for many years together in Kalamazoo when they were younger. <<CONTINUED>
Residents of the Muskegon area may not know that one locally-owned business has a unique claim to fame: Shoreline Vision in 2006 established the first ambulatory surgical center in the greater Muskegon area, the only ASC in the area devoted to surgery of the eye.
The best way to forge ahead and represent the citizens of Muskegon County is to have a skilled and unified Board of Commissioners, without regard to party affiliation, according to District 11 Commission Robert Scolnik.
Nobody who has achieved greatness has done so without facing adversity. That’s one of the main messages of a new book, “Achieving Success Through Adversity: The Magic of Embracing Challenges,” by Muskegon Heights resident Kenneth Shelton.
February 17 through April 10, 2011 at Muskegon Museum of Art Wiener Gallery
The Muskegon Museum of Art opens a new temporary glass exhibition, Primal Inspirations: Contemporary Artifacts on February 17. The public is invited to attend an opening reception that evening, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. At 7:00 p.m., guest speaker Ferdinand Hampson, the founder and president of Habitat Galleries from which Primal Inspirations artwork travels, will speak about the exhibition. The museum will also unveil its new contemporary glass gallery—the Robert D. and C. Corcoran Tuttle Gallery—at the event. Admission to the reception and lecture is free. <<CONTINUED>
How long have you been writing and producing plays?
I have been writing and producing plays since November of 2006.
What got you interested in stage productions?
It’s been a teenage dream to write and produce my own plays. It started out in drama class in high school then in church. One day it hit me; why it should be a dream, when I can make it a reality. <<CONTINUED>
How long have you been writing and producing plays?