Snapshots: Wyoming and Kentwood news you need to know

By WKTV Staff

ken@wktv.org

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When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

- Susan Heller

Getting out of town for holidays

Even if the weather is great, you’d want to give yourself extra time flying out of Grand Rapids during the holiday season. (Supplied/Ford International Airport)

The Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GFIA) is preparing for a busy holiday travel season and is offering these helpful travel reminders. Due to increased passenger traffic, parking lot demands will be greater, and airport facilities are expected to be busy. Also, due to current airport construction, along with the busy holiday traffic, lines could be longer than normal. For the complete story, click here.

Healthy holidays; ya, you can really to it! 

It is easy to over-eat this time of the year. But it does not have to be that way. (Supplied/MSU Extension)

As the days draw shorter and temperatures decrease, we know that the holiday season is upon us. Not only do we usually indulge ourselves during this time, but we also become less physically active. But it does not have to be that way. For the complete story, click here.


And just settle in with a good book

“A Cup of Christmas Tea”, by Tom Hegg. (Supplied/ Kent District Library)

Love reading Christmas poems and stories each year, a new one is a great gift to give yourself or a loved one a great gift by checking out: “A Cup of Christmas Tea”, by Tom Hegg. For the complete story, click here.


Fun Fact: Good to fly on Christmas Day

On average, you’re less likely to be delayed if you’re traveling the week before Christmas or on the holiday itself, the data shows. December 25 has actually had the lowest percentage (18 percent) of delayed flights over the last five years,. (Source) And, you know, you are all in the same boat … er, airport.

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