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Life as a clown: Kalamazoo clown troupe visits seniors

Pasha Shipp — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:06:00 +0000

“Well my husband’s name is Billy Gumbo, and we have Starla, Pickles, Bloopers, Suzie and Sunshine are real- we had a Sunshine the Clown, we have a Suzie Sunshine, we had a Scrap, we’ve got a Scrappy,” says Donna Wilinski as she lists of the clowns of Clown Alley 44 in Kalamazoo.

Robotics teaches kids hands-on math, science

Maggie Kane — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:03:59 +0000

The Youth Robotics program hosted by Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek is part of a push to introduce kids to STEM topics – that’s science, technology, engineering and math – in a fun and interesting way.

Zombie apocalypse reenacted in WMU game

Patrick Littleton — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:04:00 +0000

Once per semester, students across Western Michigan University’s campus will be running away from one another as if they were flesh-eating, undead corpses.

Retiree finds new joy in the tuba, despite bad memories

Nancy Camden — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:15:52 +0000

“I didn’t play my horn for a long time because I just got burned out, played too many funerals,” says Kalamazoo tuba player George Forrester Sr. He plays with the Kalamazoo Concert Band. Their concert, “Through the Eyes of a Child” will be performed Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Cheney Auditorium.

WMU Paintball

Patrick Littleton — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:40:00 +0000