ANN ARBOR, MI -- Helen Panos opened Village Kitchen in the Maple Village Shopping Center in 1980. Now, 43 years later, she’s still running the business, but now with the help of her daughter, Georgia.

ANN ARBOR, MI - We are one week from Christmas and the start of Hannukah. One day after that is the start of Kwanzaa. Yes, we are in the thick of holiday season. Everywhere you turn you see festivity.

With a recipe at her side, Judith Gio, a resident at The Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children, was busy recently mixing egg batter in a bowl. She was preparing a carrot cake in the ...