The Creston Neighborhood Association (CNA) is partnering with The Rapidian to host its very own Neighborhood News Bureau. The focus of the news bureau will...
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Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
Tagged: bureau, Creston, Creston Neighborhood Association, crestongr, Local News, Neighborhood news bureau, youth
Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
Tagged: comedy, Dog Story Theater, Don't We Boys
Joe Anderson, Dave Lyzenga, and Matt Sterenberg are the kind of guys you want to hang out with. They’re quick wits, don’t take themselves too seriously, and despite their ambiguous...
Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
Tagged: album, Ed Nino, hip hop, local music
When I last caught up with Ed Niño, he had just recently released his second studio album,...
Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
A half year ago today, five council members in Holland rejected an anti-discrimination ordinance recommended by the city's Human Relations Commission (HRC), a mayoral-appointed body. Holland...
Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
Tagged: Children, family, Grand Rapids, homelessness
Imagine you are a child and your mother just told you that your family is moving. Your dad left about a month ago and you're not sure where you and your mom and your little brother are going...
Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
Tagged: citizen journalism, college, creative writing, internship, Internship opportunity, journalism
Here at The Rapidian, we are moving forward in full force to continue developing the growth of community journalism, an important part of the community. There are so many exciting things we hope...
Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
Tagged: CBOT, GRPS B2B Class of 2011, KVO, toys for tots
Students from Kent Vocational Options and Community Based Occupational Training (KVO & CBOT), a post secondary special education program run by Grand Rapids Public Schools, took the time and...
Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
Tagged: AmeriCorps, Burton Elementary, Community Literacy Initiative, Dan Drust, ESL, family literacy, Leadercorps, Literacy Center of West Michigan, Schools of Hope, Word Project
By Kristin Brace, Community Literacy Program Assistant
When I walked into Dan Drust's classroom at Burton...
Posted: 12 years 20 weeks
Tagged: atheism, Center for Inquiry, CFI, christian, Community, education, families, Local, non-believer, non-profit, non-religious, organization, profile, relationships, religion, research, Science, secular, service, social, volunteering
Center for Inquiry Michigan may not be a widely known group, but members report that it has become a very important haven for area non-...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
At a time when music education is a controversial topic in Grand Rapids, West Michigan Blues Society (WMBS) continues to provide an interesting music...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: Art Prize, bike lanes, Bookstore, City of Grand Rapids, farmers market, Fulton Street Farmers Market, GRCC Diversity Lecture Series, Literary Life, new to Grand Rapids, zoo school
As I prepared to move to Grand Rapids a few months ago, I had little idea what to expect. While it’s true that I’d spent most of my life living in Michigan (Metro Detroit and then Ann...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: artprize 2009, Grand Rapids Children's Museum, GRCM, Icavia, marketing, non-profit
"The website and logo were in desperate need of help. I'll admit it was very 90's looking,"said Megan Myers, Marketing and PR Manager at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum....
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: Catalyst Radio, Don't Ask Don't Tell, journalism, Kerry Eleveld, media, Progressive Women's Alliance, PWA
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure.
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Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids Public Schools, photos, StellaFly, Terry Johnston
It is a rite of passage that most 17 or 18 year olds go through: the senior portrait. The photographs appear in graduation invitations, yearbooks and kids hand them out to one another. But for...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Thursday afternoon, the Grand Rapids Planning Commission had a public hearing considering an ordinance that would allow mobile food vendors (i.e. food trucks, carts, and so on) to operate on...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: 3rd Ward, Commissioner Elias Lumpkins, Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, Heritage Hill, Parks, Pleasant Park, South Hill
The Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund (MNRTF) has committed $300,000 of the total $731,00 needed to convert an...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: all.i.can., sherpas cinema, ski, sustainability, Wealthy Theatre
A ski film that is looking to make change.
On December 10th Sherpas Cinema makes a stop in Grand Rapids at the Wealthy Theatre to present...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids, Occupy Grand Rapids, protest, Scott Warren, Unemployment Action Day, We Are The People
"I don't think that it's the right solution to extend unemployment benefits. We have to deal with the cause of the problem and not the symptoms." –...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: 5x5, Innovator Spotlight, software application, weather
"Not what the weather is...but what it means."
That slogan captures in miniature a novel software...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
As you may have read in our December 2nd article, Kent Vocational Options and Community Based Occupational...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Community Media Center (CMC) proudly debuts a new video about Wealthy Theatre's pioneering Centennial Sustainability Campaign, which has a fundraising goal of $500,000. We're halfway there...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: board games, Comics, Games, white cap
"Most people don't realize that 20% or less of the games on the market are represented in stores like Wal-Mart or other mass retailers," estimates Priscilla Collins, co-owner of...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: ap2012info, art, artprize, ArtPrize2012
This morning, at the Sponsor Launch Breakfast, ArtPrize unveiled some significant changes to the...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids City Commission
This Tuesday, December 6, the Grand Rapids City Commission will meet for one of its bimonthly meetings. On the...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: Community, human rights
This week kicked off the Amnesty International(AI) Global Write-a-thon, which is a mobilization for people from around the world to write...
Posted: 12 years 21 weeks
Tagged: George Heartwell, GRCMC, GRTV, Linda GalleschCity Connection, Mayor Heartwell, Sr. Barbara Hansen
At 5 p.m. Monday night, Mayor Heartwell's live interactive public access show City Connection was simulcast right here on The Rapidian. City Connection is an...
Posted: 12 years 22 weeks
Tagged: Christmas dinner, family dinner, meal, Poverty
As old-fashioned and unrealistic as Norman Rockwell’s paintings seem today, there is something alluring about them. I have never been a fan of his work, but some of Rockwell’s...
Posted: 12 years 22 weeks
Tagged: blandford nature center, Christmas, community engagement, fun, Grand Rapids, holidays, hwmuw, Kent County, living water ministries, salvation army, service, toys for tots, volunteerism
There's nothing quite like volunteering to get you into the holiday spirit. And there's nothing like the holidays to bring you lots of fun ways to volunteer!
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Posted: 12 years 22 weeks
Tagged: Catalysts Radio, Diversity, Hate Crime, inclusion, Not in our Town
Don't have time to listen now? Download the MP3 and listen at your leisure.
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Posted: 12 years 22 weeks
Kent Vocational Options and Community Based Occupational Training (KVO & CBOT), in cooperation with Grand Rapids Public Schools Nutrition Services, is teaching students who qualify for special...