Earlier this week, I saw a picture on the City of Kalamazoo's Facebook page. Temporary rainbow colored crosswalks have been laid down at Rose and South streets. Paid for privately. And yet.
It sure seems a weekend Facebook post from former Kalamazoo mayor Ed Annen managed to resonate with a large group of current and former Kalamazoo area residents.
The City of Kalamazoo has a regularly scheduled meeting at 7 pm on Monday. They are treating attendees to a picnic at Hayes Park before the meeting in hopes of bringing new people out to get involved in local government.
When you have a state championship held in any sport in Michigan, several parents come to support their kids on the playing field. For the last two years in Team Wrestling, it was held in Mt. Pleasant after a long stretch in Battle Creek that began in 1998.
At Monday night's meeting, the Kalamazoo City Commission voted unanimously to spend almost $1 million dollars to fund three youth development programs for this coming summer.