Greater Lansing Community News

Volunteers of America provide shelter to homeless in Lansing

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Winter time: Ice skating, hot chocolate and for some folks a struggle. “I became homeless for a year and a half now. [I was] Shelter to shelter, struggling and not having a place and feeling lost,” said Diana Ramey of Lansing. Ramey lives now lives at the Volunteers of America shelter, her fourth move since she became homeless over a year ago. She says that she has met a lot of families in need at the shelter.

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Lansing opens new Chick-fil-A location

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It’s been over a week since the opening of the new Chick-fil-A, and traffic has not slowed down yet. “There was just a lot of excitement for the new Chick-fil-A Restaurant,” said Matt Adair. He and about 100 others camped outside of the restaurant to get a years worth of free meals. Some customers camped there for over 24 hours. Adair says that he had been there since 6 a.m. the previous day.

East Lansing
East Lansing City Clerk Marie Wicks says only about 1 percent of students voted in 2015 East Lansing elections.

East Lansing hopes for more student voters

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East Lansing officials are trying to get more students to the polls to vote for the 2016 election season.

In past off-year elections, officials have struggled with extremely low voter turnout. In the 2014 local election, 25 students of around 50,000 voted on campus. That’s less than 1 percent.