Casey Jones

Grand Rapids

Community Affairs Director at WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI)

Community Affairs Director @WOODTV. “Connecting with community” — Let’s connect!

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SpartanNash’s Helping Hands, deliver 15k meals for families impacted by disaster

Jun 7, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — SpartanNash employees gathered this week in big numbers at DeVos Place Convention Center for the company’s annual Helping Hands Day. Around 700 SpartanNash associates, and representatives from W.K. Kellogg Co., Musselman’s, Hormel, CA Carlin, Dunnhumby, Kellanova, joined forces to pack nearly 15,000 boxed meals.
Mercantile Bank boosts financial education for local students with $75K scholarship program

May 23, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Mercantile Bank is strengthening its support for local students by expanding its partnership with Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) TRIO Upward Bound program. The latest addition to this collaboration is the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis’s (FHLBI) Money Masters Scholarship Program. Over the next three years, the initiative will provide $75,000 in scholarship funds to empower students financially as they pursue higher education.
Solar energy park breaks ground near Sheridan

May 22, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones

BUSHNELL TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Work to change the landscape of more than 590 acres has started in the Sheridan area. Officials from DTE Energy, along with leaders and land owners from the area, broke ground on the new Fish Creek Solar Park, a 132-megawatt clean energy facility. The project, led by DTE, is a step toward reaching the company’s — and Michigan’s — renewable energy goals.
West Michigan ‘shows up for hospice care’ at Barley, BBQ & Beats

May 18, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones |Katie Rosendale

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Good food, good fun and a good cause took over DeVos Place Saturday evening. Barley, BBQ & Beats is a fundraising event that supports Hospice of Michigan. The money it raises helps ensure quality end-of-life care, regardless of age, diagnosis or financial circumstances. Over 1,000 people headed to DeVos Place Saturday to support — and sample barbecue and bourbon from 22 different vendors.
Burton Elementary takes learning to Lansing with grant

May 16, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — For Ena St. Germaine, a fourth-grade teacher at Burton Elementary, teaching about the branches of government isn’t limited to textbooks and tablets. She has used immersive civics education for the 37 years she has taught at the elementary school. “Burton feeds my soul. When I’m working at Burton, the families, the kids, they are so excited to learn, they’re ready to learn,” St. Germaine said. The state academic standards for fourth graders include lessons on civics.
Support takes center stage at Barley, BBQ & Beats

May 14, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Support will take center stage this weekend in Grand Rapids. Hospice of Michigan’s Barley, BBQ & Beats will take over DeVos Place Saturday from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m., raising awareness and money to provide access to a no-questions-asked, no-matter-the-diagnosis, quality end-of-life care.
UM Health-West hosts Drug Take Back Day

Apr 26, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones

WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — University of Michigan Health-West wants to make it easier for the community to dispose of unwanted, unused, and expired prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs. The hospital will host its Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.The event will take place at the UM Health-West Professional Building in Wyoming, 2122 Health Dr SW. It is a no-questions asked, drive-thru collection that is free and open to the public.
Homeless refugee to college grad: How scholarship changes lives

Apr 16, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — In Kalamazoo Friday, there is an event that is all about breaking barriers for Michigan youth who have grown up in the foster care system. It’s the Fostering Futures Scholarship dinner. It’s not only raising money to help support the dream of college, but also writing the story for so many who would otherwise go untold, like an immigrant refugee from Kenya. “Getting ready to graduate, I can now testify that there is something known as an American dream,” Kimaya Bak said.
Homeless refugee to college grad: How scholarship changes lives

Apr 16, 2024 | yahoo.com | Casey Jones

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — In Kalamazoo Friday, there is an event that is all about breaking barriers for Michigan youth who have grown up in the foster care system. It’s the Fostering Futures Scholarship dinner. It’s not only raising money to help support the dream of college, but also writing the story for so many who would otherwise go untold, like an immigrant refugee from Kenya. “Getting ready to graduate, I can now testify that there is something known as an American dream,” Kimaya Bak said.
Teacher uses grant to enrich students with diverse pages

Apr 11, 2024 | woodtv.com | Casey Jones

WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — Hanging high and proudly inside the front doors of Oriole Park Elementary in Wyoming are the flags of a number of different countries. They represent the culture and diversity that exists inside of the school walls. One teacher at the school is embracing that diversity, using books to make sure the windows and mirrors of those pages are big enough for her students to look into.