As the world prepares to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, 2012, the Transgender Education Collaboration is proud to be in the midst of the Transgender Visibility Campaign. The...
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Posted: 12 years 6 weeks
Tagged: Meet people, public transportation, the rapid
I ride The Rapid to go back and forth to work and to run small errands. Central Station is conveniently located near downtown Grand Rapids....
Posted: 12 years 6 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids Activisits, Grand Rapids politics, move to amend, Occupy Grand Rapids, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street
For George Bartnick, an active member of Occupy Grand Rapids since the third day of its existence, being a part of the Occupy movement has led him to a greater sense of peace and purpose, which he...
Posted: 12 years 6 weeks
The first few months of Occupy Wall Street saw a storm of media coverage, and the many offshoot groups to follow sparked no less controversy. While some saw...
Posted: 12 years 6 weeks
The diversity within the Occupy movement is often highlighted as one of its greatest strengths by those involved, even by those outside of the movement who are familiar with its anatomy and...
Posted: 12 years 6 weeks
For quite some time the year 2012 has loomed as a year of change. The Mayan calendar,...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
This article was written by Ben Villar, Itza Suarez, Mikaela Chambers, Lexi Rice, and Matt Nortier for EN 102H: Digital Literacy at GRCC.
She vigorously...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: budget, City Hall, Grand Rapids City Commission
How do we budget our city?
The first few City Commission meetings of 2012 sparked an investigation into the planning process of Grand Rapids' budget. Who makes the...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: Angie Walters, Babies, Cameron's Garden, Flourishing Families, Lavita Brown, momsbloom, new mothers, wine, Women and Song
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: All America City Grade Level Reading Award, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Believe 2 Become Summer Learning Academy, Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, Chronic Absence, Community Literacy Initiative, Education Vision Council, Grand Rapids Public Schools, Great Start Collaborative, Heart of West Michigan United Way, Kent Schools Services Network, Literacy Center of West Michigan, mayor george heartwell, NAEP, National Assessment of Educational Progress, National League of Cities, Readiness Gap, Student Advancement Foundation, Summer Learning Loss, United Way World Wide
Kent County, under the umbrella of the Community Literacy Initiative (CLI) of the...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Bye, Bye Birdie is a rocking parody of Elvis Presley. Set in 1958, the musical centers on Conrad Birdie (Jacob Loader), a hip-revolving, twist-turning pop star who, like Elvis...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: composting, environment, Garbage, Landfills, Michigan Law, West Michigan Environmental Action Council, WMEAC
The Michigan House of Representatives passed a package of bills that would allow the commingling of yard clippings and garbage in landfills, a move that has local environmental experts concerned...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: laughfest, Marc Maron, Wealthy Theatre
LaughFest 2012 brings to Grand Rapids some big names in the comedy world, as part of its second annual festival of all things funny. Among...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
This article was written by Shelby Stowe, Sydney Murphy, Stephanie Lara, and Austin Jeltes for EN 102H: Digital Literacy at GRCC.
Upside down, the blood rushes...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: 3rd District, campaign launch party, DADT, HRC, Trevor Thomas
Former journalist and WOOD-TV8 news producer, Trevor Thomas (D), announced his candidacy for Michigan's 3rd Congressional seat to a roomful of supporters in downtown Grand Rapids at...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: Alexander Technique, art, Devina, Dominican Center., fair, food, Hand, Labyrinth, Lavender Foot Bath, Lexio, massage, Movement, music, Paraffin, poetry, prayer, presentation, Sage, Taize
On Saturday, March 24th from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., we invite you to come experience some of the bodyworks modalities and programs that ...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: art, crafts, Dominican Center, fine art, free, gallery, Glass Sculpture, Grand Rapids, Jim VanBeek, Local, Marywood, Michigan, photography, randall nyhof
The featured Artists at Dominican Center Art Gallery from March 2 – April 29, 2012 are:
- Randall Nyhof – Fine Arts Photography
- Jim VanBeek...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: BGC, board, boys & girls club, camp o'malley, nonprofit, seidman, steil, volunteer
With 2012 in full swing and new projects underway such as the addition of the Philip I. Club location, Boys & Girls Clubs of Grands Rapids Youth Commonwealth (BGCGRYC) is excited to add five...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: 2012, Ahmad, buddhist, Deokwun, gvsu, imam, Islamic Center of West Michigan, Kopperl, Maodish, Muslin, Pitts, Pitzer, Russell, Sahibzada, Sharif, Sunim, Taego, Year of Interfaith
In celebration of Interfaith 2012, the third Tuesday Tabletalk will be held on March 20 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Dominican...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: art, Jose Narezo, Jose Narezo Memorial Scholarship, Kendall College of Art and Design, Via Design
Salvador Jiménez, Masters of Fine Arts candidate at Kendall College of Art and Design (KCAD), will soon be traveling to Florence, Italy to study the...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: Emma Higgins, Grand Rapids Public Library, housing market, Jeremy Moore, Joel Van Kuiken, Keith Douglas, public good, RFID, safety net
The Grand Rapids Public Library has announced it will be cutting staff. The proposed re-budgeting will undergo approval in March, hopefully eradicating $494,199 of expenses. The library is...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
On Thursday, March 8, the kickoff party for the 2012 LaughFest event took place downtown Grand Rapids in the Rosa Parks Circle. This party involving over 600 people might sound like...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Fred Stella, George Heartwell, Hindu Temple, Interfaith, Understanding
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure.
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Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Chris Gervat, climate change, Global Warming, meteorology, Peter Chan, weather
To date, this has been West Michigan’s second warmest winter on record since 1932. As we all know, a lot has happened since then in the way of CFC emmissions and greenhouse gas increases....
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: B2B, Believe 2 Become, Benjamin Siekmeier, Clear, comcast, computer, digitial divide, education, family, internet, internet essentials, LINC, low-income, technology
All Grand Rapids families with children who receive free school lunches may qualify for Comcast's "Internet Essentials"...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: mentor, mentorship, volunteer, youth
Bethany Christian Services mentoring program serves three youth populations: Domestic Foster Care, Refugee, and Youth Services (for older youth transitioning out of foster care). Currently, we...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: city government, food, food beat, music, music beat, politics, politics beat, Restaurants
Our music beat met recently at a coffee shop to talk about concerts and venues that the group should cover. While there, they were able to get to...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Monica Zavala is a parent in our Schools of Hope Family Literacy Program. This posting reflects her writing ability at the time of her participation in the program. ...