The Conductive Learning Center is in the running for grants up to $50,000 in the Art Van Charity Challenge. Public vote will decide the winner in the 4th annual Million Dollar Charity...
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Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: comedy, dave jones
As Dave Jones enters All City Kicks in Eastown, he’s wearing cargo shorts, a t-shirt, a cap and an easy smile. He greets his buddies working at the store and...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Neither luck nor charm responded to GRCC’s third attempt to attract favorable voters to the polls. The college experienced its third consecutive campaign loss since 2007, a $98.6 million-...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: Flying Without Wingz, grrhiphop, hip hop, Irawniq, spacekid, VC, Vernon Carter
#grrhiphop.
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: devos, gvsu, transplant
To qualify for the Transplant Games of America you must have either undergone transplant surgery six months prior to the games and be in a...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: ACLU, homeless, incarceration, Poverty
On Wednesday May 16th, Miriam Aukerman of the American Civil Liberties Union spoke to a full audience for the...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: 88.1 fm, Cabbage Under Glass, Community Media Center, Eugene Davis, Glance at the Past, Grand Rapids, Lettuce, Michigan, Radio, WYCE
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: actors' theatre
I’ve never been big on soap opera — the comas, faked scuba accidents, and love children aside, I just never believed that much damage could happen to one family. There has to be...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: Adrienne Wallace, Christine Lentine, elementary schools, food insecurity, Grand Rapids Public Schools, hunger, kids food basket, sack lunches, youth
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: burma, event, refugee, World Refugee Day
That Wah was born in 1958 in the mountainous Karen State in Burma. Growing up, That Wah and her three siblings worked on a rice patty farm in the village. One day her family went to reap the...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: WYCE; radio; Grand Rapids; Historical Commission; history; baseball; sports; Detroit; Word War II
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: Diversity, economic development, Gay population, Grand Rapids, high-technology industry, young talent attainment, young talent retention
By: Nate Bell, Ben Hazekamp, Michael Phua, Ryan VanderPloeg
Grand Rapids is a gem in Western Michigan, but it currently runs the risk of losing its luster. As the city has struggled to...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
When the staff at the Humane Society of West Michigan was brainstorming to develop a new fundraiser, the conversation turned to dogs in the community who...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: BALLE Conference, Elissa Hillary, environment, Local First, Watershed Moment, WMEAC, WYCE
BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) is a national organization that brings together locally-owned, independent businesses across the country interested in impacting...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: documentary, Dominican Center, free, Honduras., Marywood, Mexico, migrant, Moret, movie, Zulema
On Friday evening, May 18th from 6 - 8 p.m., the Grand Rapids Dominican Associates are...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: ACLU, Grand Rapids, Miriam Aukerman, speaker
Miriam Aukerman, Staff Attorney for the West Michigan Regional Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, will...
Posted: 11 years 48 weeks
Tagged: art, georgia taylor, Israel, Palestine, salon 477
Grand Rapids-based artist, Georgia Taylor, has received the...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: CNA, public safety
By: Akilah F.
What community activities can you do for your block? An extravagant dinner was held at Berean Baptist Church on April 17th in recognition of those members of the...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: active, Active Commute Week, bicycle, Bicycling, bus, commute challenge, commuting, Events, Greater Grand Rapids, Greater Grand Rapids Bicycle Coalition, metro, rapid, transportation, West Michigan
Monday, May 14 kicks off Active Commute Week here in metro Grand Rapids. Held to encourage active transportation use, the...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: apple farmer, cooking class, cooking classes, food, food truck debate, food trucks, local food, Molly Clauhs, The Silver Spork
For Molly Clauhs the role of food is not just one of sustenance or creativity; it is also a way to connect with her community. When...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: Albert Baxter, Baxter Award, cultural historian, Goodwillie Environmental School, Grand Rapids Historical Society, Great Lakes Lifeways Institute, Great Lakes Traditional Arts Gathering, Gun Lake Bank of Pottawatomi Indians, Kevin Finney, Native Americans of the Great Lakes, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Women's City Club
Kevin Finney, local cultural historian, outdoorsman and scholar, was honored with the 2012 Baxter Award Thursday night by the Grand Rapids Historical Society at...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: Bethany Christian Services, Children, Foster Refugee Program, John Britton, Linda Gellasch, Mary Ann Britton, Maureen Homrich
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Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: art, Avenue for the Arts, buy local, Entertainment, event, The Market
The apple does not fall far from the tree when it comes to our first featured artist for The Market presented by the Avenue for...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: Bartertown, Diet, Environmental, Grand Rapids, health, Local First, sustainability, Treehuggers, vegan, vegetarian
There is a saying that goes, “There is no such thing as a free lunch," meaning that every meal costs something to make. This applies when one considers the amount of resources it takes...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: CBOT, KVO, Metro Health, MSU Extension
The Rogers CBOT classroom, part of the KVO&CBOT program, spent nine weeks learning about health and nutrition through the Michigan State University Extensions located at 775 Ball Ave NE...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: education, protesting, teenagers, unequal
As I am walking down the street I see young people standing up for something they believe in. These teenagers are from Tall Turf Ministries'...
Posted: 11 years 49 weeks
Tagged: CMC, Grand Rapids Community Media Center, GRCMC, greening, historic preservation, historic theaters, historic theatre, innovation, John Hyatt & Associates, LED lighting, stage lighting, sustainability, Theater, Wealthy Theatre, WT
An American company has developed a protoype version of the most revolutionary stage lighting instrument in over three decades: an LED version of the Source 4 light, by ETC (Electronic Theatre...