Breast Cancer Awareness Month is this week's topic.  Guests are from the Marie Yaeger Cancer Center at Spectrum Health Lakeland:

-Dr. Edmund Paloyan, Medical

Oncologist/Medical Director of

Oncology Services

-Shelley Wilkinson, Nurse Navigator-

High Risk Cancer

Program/Oncology.

Apples & pumpkins& grapes- oh, my!  Dr. Ron Goldy, Senior Extension Educator, MSU Extension, talks a cornucopia of fall produce, wine making, and the upcoming Christmas Tree crop in Michigan in this edition.

Coloma native turned visionary, Blair Struble plans to form a 501c3 not-for-profit to purchase, return to glory and reopen Deer Forest Adventure Park in Coloma as soon as possible.  His plans are featured in this episode.

September is National Suicide Prevention  Month.  This episode features Bella Nichols, Chair, Berrien County Suicide Prevention Coalition. She shares her personal loss of her 17-year old daughter to suicide, and current strategies of the Coalition.

Doesn't 105 virus-safe acres of beauty, peace and nature sound good right about now?  Hear about one of Southwest Michigan's hidden gems - Fernwood Botanical Garden in Niles/Buchanan - from Executive Director, Carol Line and Elaine Rowland. Director of Development & External Relations.

The NTAA (New Territory Arts Association) is now the BHAA (Benton Harbor Arts Association.)

This episode features current president, Tammi Phillippe, on the organization and an invitation to upcoming safe-distance outdoor events!

On this episode, Dr. Ron Goldy, Sr. Extension Educator, MSU Extension, discusses the economic situation facing local growers as the pandemic continues.  He also outlines the late summer/early fall harvest in SW MI.

Trenton Bowens, community activist and justice advocate, discusses the Benton Harbor and St. Joseph Unity Rally he's hosting on 8/29/2020.  The significance of this date is the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's 'I Have a Dream' speech.  The rally starts at 3pm at Dwight Pete Mitchell Park in Benton Harbor.

The new Superintendant of Benton Harbor Area Schools, Dr. Andrae' Townsel, started in February...only to face the crisis of Coronavirus almost immediately.  Listen to his story and plans for moving the largest public school district in Southwest Michigan forward.

On this week's podcast:  Isolation from coronavirus can get you down, whether you're 3 or 103.  Dr. Gale Hackworth, psychologist from Lighthouse Behavioral Health in St. Joseph, offers coping strategies. Also...learn about covid-19 scam calls.