The 12th Annual Lakeshore Business Expo, West Michigan’s Premier Business Expo & Networking Event where business gets done will take place Thursday, May 10th 2:00 – 6:30 pm at Trillium Events, 17246 Van Wagoner Road.  Over 70 businesses will display their goods and services. 

Get to know your local lakeshore businesses and learn about the products and services that are available to you right here in your own backyard. The Expo is a business to business event that is open to the public and free to attend. Over 500 people are expected to attend.

The Lakeshore Business Expo is presented by Chamber of Commerce Grand Haven, Spring Lake, Ferrysburg and Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce.  For more information contact the Chamber 616-842-4910 or the Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce 231-722-3751.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. --  Former IBM computer network specialist, Paul Murphy, will present “Evolution of the Internet” at the Loutit District Library, Thursday, May 10 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. in Program Room A.

Murphy’s presentation will explore the beginning of the Internet with emphasis on the rapid negative and positive impact it has had on various businesses and our personal lives.

Murphy has an Engineering and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan. He was the lead systems engineer at IBM with responsibility for three major networks in the Chicago area during the late 60s and early 70s. 

For more information on this free program, visit www.loutitlibrary.org or call 616-842-5560, ext. 214.

SPRING LAKE, Mich., April 19, 2012―  Although Haiti missionary Tom Braak has wrapped up his recent visit to west Michigan to speak about the organization he founded in 1997, Faith in Action International (FIAI) - with students in area schools, church congregational members and supporters - work towards his mission continues with recent news of donations and building plans for a new FIAI Development Center.

During his recent visit, Braak met with students in the First Priority Club at Reeths-Puffer High School in Muskegon; Fruitport Middle School; Cherry Creek Elementary School in Lowell; Spring Lake Intermediate School; Lake Hills Elementary School in Spring Lake; and Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Spring Lake.  He also spoke with congregational members about the FIAI mission at First Presbyterian Church in Grand Haven; United Methodist Church of Ludington; and Covenant Presbyterian Church in Racine, Wisconsin.