Meet “Doe-Boy” and his Friends:

George’s favorite characters in our backyard drama “Urban Wildlife in Forest Hills” are “Doe-Boy” and his deer friends.

Doe-Boy loves to steal food from the bird feeder.  That’s him, or is it her, up on his/her hind legs.  Like the Pillsbury Doughboy, he warms our hearts with his antics.  Doe-Boy and his seven white tailed friends come and go all year round.

Doe-Boy is the only one in his herd that takes the food directly from the bird feeder.  The rest of them are content licking up the seeds from the ground. 

White tailed deer have taken up permanent residence in the wooded areas of Forest Hills and other suburban and urban neighborhoods.  They have lost their inhibitions of humans, and they don’t have to worry about hunters.  There is plenty of food from bird feeders to yummy gardens.

When we first moved into our home, I planted all sorts of flowers and bushes.  The dee

Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank announced that area totals from the 19th annual “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive have reached 191,446 pounds - a 98% increase from 2010's total of 96,652 pounds. The City of Wyoming alone donated 24,233 pounds - more than double the previous year's total of 11,121 pounds.
 
The food drive, put on nationwide by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), took place on Saturday, May 14.
 
In eight Grand Rapids-area post offices alone, postal workers and anti-hunger volunteers received more than 90 tons of food from individual contributors along their routes.
 
Food was picked up at post offices by of Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank, which supplies food to some 1,300 food pantries and other anti-hunger agencies in the region.
 

WYOMING, Mich. (WZZM) -- Leaders from the City of Wyoming spent the day in Holland to show off renovations at their water treatment facility.

An open house was held at Wyoming's Drinking Water Treatment facility in Ottawa County.  

The facility was recently went through a $73 million expansion to serve 11 West Michigan communities that utilize Wyoming's water source.

The city wholesales its water supply to several Ottawa County communities, including Zeeland Township, Hudsonville and Holland where the water treatment facility is actually located.

"The number is about 220,000 people... men, women and children that this serves," said Wyoming Mayor Jack Poll. "What that means to them is certainly a steady supply of fresh drinking water. We've increased our capacity to such a degree that all these communities will be very well served."