http://thelansingblog.com The premier source of Lansing news online. Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:18:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/07/08/a-special-moment-lansings-fallen-hero-jeff-kocab-remembered-at-fundraiser/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/07/08/a-special-moment-lansings-fallen-hero-jeff-kocab-remembered-at-fundraiser/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:07:35 +0000 admin http://thelansingblog.com/?p=1915 I feel like I got to know Tampa Police Officer Jeff Kocab a little bit after last night’s fundraiser for his family at the Ponderosa Restaurant on Lansing’s southside.  Kocab was murdered last week during what should have been a routine traffic stop with his wife being nine months pregnant. The Ponderosa on South Cedar [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/07/08/a-special-moment-lansings-fallen-hero-jeff-kocab-remembered-at-fundraiser/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/26/lansing-areas-rich-bearup-and-daughter-headed-to-haiti-orphanage-2/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/26/lansing-areas-rich-bearup-and-daughter-headed-to-haiti-orphanage-2/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:59:03 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=959 Rich Bearup is known for being Michigan’s first children’s ombudsman where he and his staff served as the protectors for hundreds of abused and neglected children.  That’s why his upcoming trip to Haiti to work on a restoring a children’s orphanage is just an extension of everything he has done in the past. He and [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/26/lansing-areas-rich-bearup-and-daughter-headed-to-haiti-orphanage-2/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/16/calendar-item-family-walk-run-on-march-27-for-lansing-ronald-mcdonald-house/ http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/16/calendar-item-family-walk-run-on-march-27-for-lansing-ronald-mcdonald-house/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:06:45 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=871 We have a local Ronald McDonald House where  out-of-town families with sick kids in local hospitals can stay during hospital visits.  And its volunteer organization is sponsoring a “Run for the House” event on Saturday, March 27 at Hawk Island Park to raise money. It’s a 5K walk/run for individuals, teams, families and it sounds [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2010/02/16/calendar-item-family-walk-run-on-march-27-for-lansing-ronald-mcdonald-house/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2009/12/26/in-lansing-mi-volunteers-of-america-deliver-christmas-day-meals/ http://thelansingblog.com/2009/12/26/in-lansing-mi-volunteers-of-america-deliver-christmas-day-meals/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:18:34 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=477 Here’s a neat story from WILX TV 10 about how volunteers with Volunteers of America spent Christmas Day delivering meals to Lansing (MI) residents in needs.  Check out this video of those who spend the day getting the food ready, packaging it and then those who deliver it.  Several hundred meals were  provided.

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2009/12/26/in-lansing-mi-volunteers-of-america-deliver-christmas-day-meals/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2009/12/26/advent-house-in-lansing-mi-serves-700-on-christmas-day/ http://thelansingblog.com/2009/12/26/advent-house-in-lansing-mi-serves-700-on-christmas-day/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:06:26 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=475 This is a great story in the Lansing State Journal about how 700 were served with Christmas morning breakfast and with each person getting a gift because of Advent House Ministries. Lots of people in the Lansing (MI) area are in need and this gives a glimpse of how some of those needs were met [...]

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