Jim Keating has witnessed the impact of The Little Red House from multiple perspectives. As Board President, he’s engaged in helping set direction and soliciting support for the community’s premier adult day care services provider. But through the first-hand...
At 88, Colonel Winnick walks a bit gingerly with the help of a cane — but he hasn’t lost a step in sharing his quick wit and positive personality with his fellow participants at The Little Red House in the heart of Spring Lake Village. “Everyone needs a little...
One morning each week during the academic year, The Little Red House becomes a lively off-campus learning laboratory for a small but mighty group of Spring Lake High School students. For an hour or so every Wednesday, seven students and their faculty mentor make the...
Allan Plantenga’s face lights up with delight as he recalls his idyllic and occasionally mischievous childhood in Spring Lake: carefree bike rides with his buddies and siblings throughout the Tri-Cities, exploring the bayous of the Grand River or body surfing in the...
Janet Cox is an unabashed “daddy’s girl” who fondly recalls all the loving-kindness her father lavished on her while she was growing up in the village of Spring Lake. So now, as her 93-year-old father, Ted Ostradick, confronts the growing infirmities and challenges of...
Stuart Baron was fresh out of ideas and desperately short on options when his widowed mother’s health reached a crisis point. She had been admitted to the hospital in nearby Shelby, Michigan, and treated for pneumonia. But as Lydia Baron was being discharged into the...
