Local Kalamazoo residents are wondering what's happening at the Westnedge Ave and Gull Rd Meijer stores as a large number of shipping containers have taken up space in the parking lot.
You may not have known Lena Meijer. As with many women of her generation, she was the backbone of the family. In this case, it's the family was the Meijer family, whose stores are all over the Midwest now. Lena Meijer was a daughter, a wife, a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and eventually a philanthropist. She died this past Saturday. Meijer was 102.
There were several alcohol-related crashes and accidents this past weekend. You can see the damage from one of them at the Meijer gas station on Pennsylvania when you drive by.