The date was January 1946. America was just coming out of World War II. The young men and women called to serve our country were either recently home or on their way back to see their...
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Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: active duty, air force, army, coast guard, iraq war, marines, military, military family support, national guard, navy, reserves, veterans, war
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: air force, army, coast guard, iraq war, marines, military, military family support, national guard, navy, veterans
The date was January 1946. America was just coming out of World War II. The young men and women called to serve our country were either recently home or on their way back to see their...
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: 1st ward, alger heights, city commission, city services, Dave Shaffer, development, Downtown, first ward, Jim Jendrasiak, nov09, Obsolete Properties Tax, PA 146, police, Schools, stockbridge, west fulton, west leonard
To some voters, their ballots Tuesday will leave them with a slight case of déjà vu.
Incumbent Jim Jendrasiak and Dave Shaffer both ran four years ago to be elected to the Grand Rapids City...
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Balance. One might think of it as something that older people need to be concerned with or as something those who practice yoga are working to attain. But, balance for runners is important, too....
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: fun, Halloween, makeup, zombie walk, zombies
Getting ready for Halloween and/or the Zombie Walk is great fun. Zombie's are everywhere and it's easy to create that look if you know how. This is a video demonstration of basic...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: boys & girls clubs, camp o'malley, fundraiser, Grand Rapids, kids, programs, seidman, special event, steak & burger dinner, steil, youth
Forty tables surrounded by caring faces and eager minds, all there to help support each other. At this year’s First Annual Steak & Burger Dinner to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: American Red Cross, flu, Grand Rapids, H1N1, Halloween, kids, Red Cross, safety tips, swine flu, trick-or-treating
With Halloween right around the corner, and H1N1 flu widespread across the country, the American Red Cross offers tips to help parents and children celebrate safely this year.
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Tagged: Downtown, monroe center, opening, restaurant, thai
Angel’s Thai Café, a new Thai restaurant, is in development at 136 Monroe Center NW.
According to Ger Lee, the café’s chef, the restaurant will feature Thai-fusion cuisine, much of which...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: award, local donors, philanthropy
Each year Grand Rapids Community Foundation awards the Jack Chaille Community Philanthropy Award to a Community Foundation donor(s) who exemplifies the spirit of community philanthropy. The award...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: 3rd Ward, candidate, Carol Townsend, commissioner, Grand Rapids, nov09
In 1971, Volunteers In Service to America sent a young Carol Townsend to Grand Rapids. Having seen the bright lights of two big cities, Carol was bummed to be here. Early disappointment soon...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: Aquinas College, Calder Art, Calder Plaza, Calvin College, City Hall, climate treaty, community college, conference of youth, COP15, Copenhagen, expedition copenhagen, Federal Building, Grand Rapids, Grand Valley State University, international climate negotiations, Kendal College, Mayor Heartwell, midwest youth delegation, Sierra Club, stonyfield, students, sustainability, The Bloom Collective, UN climate change, UNFCCC, will steger, will steger foundation, WMEAC, youth, youth climate movement
On Saturday, October 24th nearly 60 activists gathered at Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids, MI for the 350.org International Day of Climate Action. Overall 5...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: Charles Honey, Ecumenical Service Awards, GRACE, Grand Rapids Area Center for Ecumenism, Grand Rapids faith community, Kuyper College, Westminster Presbyterian Church
Nearly 200 people gathered at the Dominican Center at Marywood on Tuesday evening, October 27, giving honor to the service efforts of Kuyper College and...
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One Stop Coney Shop, Grand Rapids’ newest hot dog joint, opened yesterday at 154 E. Fulton, former home of the Flute Boutique.
Leslie DeGalan and her husband, Brian, moved to the NW...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: art, exhibition, family, film, music
This Weekend at the Grand Rapids Art Museum
Catch a film on American Impressionists during Friday Nights at GRAM, Halloween and art activities for kids on Saturday and an...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: Clothing Matters, CSA, Forum, Free Trade, Local First, Trillium Farms, Unitarian, Universalist
All Souls Community Church of West Michigan is a local Unitarian Universalist congregation. As Unitarian Universalist, we hold to certain core principles such as the...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: Aquinas College, Atom Bomb Survivor, Barbara Hansen, Culture of Peace, Dominican Center, Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids, Hibakusha, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Peace, war
From February 21 through March 14, 2010, The Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids, Culture of Peace Committee...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: alternative energy, logistics, sustainability, WMSBF
The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum (WMSBF) will be hosting its next monthly meeting at Aquinas College on November 9, 2009. The curriculum includes a...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: child welfare, D.A. Blodgett for Children, fundraiser, Grand Rapids, Mrs. Blodgett, special event
Written By: Carrie Lyzenga, Special Events Coordinator and Linda Postma, Development Director
D.A. Blodgett for Children hosted their 4th...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: Barbara Kingsolver, Book Review, read, The Lacuna
Once, over a decade ago, I picked up Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver and promptly put it down after the first chapter. There was a plainness about it that I found uninteresting. Earlier...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Oakhill Cemetery has stories to tell. It is the final resting place of numerous Grand Rapids leaders. Its monuments reflect the architecture of ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Its trees...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: Brian Albert, reactive training, runners, running, speed
If you were an athlete in high school or college, reactive training might be familiar. But, you came to running later in life, have never done any other sports or are a self-coached runner the...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: black belt, championship, community college, competition, event, ford field house, GR, Grand Rapids, institute, martial arts, MI, Michigan, sports, Tae Kwon Do, Tae Park, tournament, world class
This weekend Grand Rapids played host to the Tae Park Institute's 2009 World Class Championship Tournament. Over 500 competitors both local and abroad gathered at the Ford Field House on GRCC's...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: Advance newspapers, Bag Mag, Batman, Big Boy, Brave New World, death, DIY, Drew Storey, Jack Kerouac, Matt Russell, Photoshop, The Rapidian, Tuesdays with Morrie, Woody Guthrie
The first time I met Drew Storey I never would have thought that I’d soon be in a van with him, driving into the middle of someone else’s cornfield to drink whiskey, smashing a Batman piñata,...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: content facilitator, death, Drew Storey, life, The Rapidian
I found out early Monday morning: Drew Storey, The Rapidian's content facilitator, had passed away.
After the first hour, I decided I wanted to make a plan. That's how I react. Make a plan...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: AIDS, death, Detroit Free Press Marathon, Drew Storey, Grand Rapids Marathon, living, running
When I pray, which is usually as I drift off to sleep, I almost always thank God for my good health and my ability to run. Sure, there are other things I am thankful for: a good job, a great...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: Local
I carry in several bags of groceries; Mary has half a bag. I carry in a bag with brightly colored shirts for my son for school from a retail chain clothing store; Mary carries in a clear...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Drew Storey, content facilitator and editorial mentor for The Rapidian, passed away suddenly on Sunday, October 18th.
Drew, 31, was one of the first community members who volunteered...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids Marathon, race results, road racing, running
The streets of Grand Rapids were filled with runners Sunday morning as nearly 3,000 runners headed out to take on the challenge of the Metro Health Grand Rapids Marathon and Half Marathon. In all...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
The airline industry is in deep trouble. Possible pollution of the upper atmosphere is giving environmental groups a cause for demanding curtailment of services and taxes on putative excess...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: animal rescue, carol's ferals, cats, spay, tnr, trap neuter return
Friday, October 16th was National Feral Cat Day! It's a good time for you to learn about feral cats in your neighborhood and how you can help them.
Feral cats (aka: wild,...