An overwhelming number of adults in Grand Rapids are functionally illiterate. These adults cannot complete everyday tasks such as writing a check, reading a menu, or filling out a form at the...
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Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
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Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: artprize, Arts, local life, opinion, Young Kim
Young Kim’s entry in ArtPrize 2009, Salt and Earth, has been swept away, but for many the message and memory of his work will remain. Created solely for the contest, the site-specific...
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If you arrive early for your appointment you get served coffee brewed to perfection in the morning, a refreshing juice or bottled water. While waiting a supple brown leather couch beckons you to...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Participants in Sunday's Metro Health Grand Rapids Marathon have much to look forward to-...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids, MDGs, NGO, United Nations
In the year 2000, the United States along with 188 other members of the United Nations, enthusiastically signed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: bisexual, Carissa Anderson, electronic music, Flying Without Wingz, gay, hip hop, lesbian, LGBTQ, National Coming Out Day, queer, Rock Out 2 Come Out, Speak Equal, transgender
In this video, Flying Without Wingz performs at...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Buddy Walk, down syndrome, fundraiser, Grand Rapids, millenium park, trisomy 21
BUDDY WALK HELD TO RAISE AWARENESS OF DOWN SYDROME
Cool Weather Cannot Keep ‘Walkers’ Away, Event Sets Record for Funds Raised
The 2009 Down...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Arts, B.B. King, local life, Music review
B.B. King thrills Grand Rapids at DeVos Performance Hall
He is a living legend at 84. Although he moves with some difficulty, once he takes his place on his chair center...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
The car pulls slowly to the side of the road. A booming voice comes from behind the flashing red and blue lights. Driver step out of the car and face forward, lace your fingers together behind...
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Local nonprofit partner relations associate, J. Somers, shocked co-workers last week when she pulled into work at 7:53 a.m.—a full seven minutes early.
“I just didn’t see this coming,”...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Inspired by ArtPrize's commemorative poster. Click here...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: Art Prize, artprize, Devos Hall, Jeff Hage, party store, Tillie's, West Side
The conversation continues . . .
This morning I stopped into Tillie’s, a party store on north Monroe Avenue. I’m a regular there. Whether I desire a lottery ticket, Cheetos or an adult...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: Activities, Entertainment, Golfing
Drive down interstate 96 near where it meets the Paul Henry Freeway and find a brief view of lush green fairways. Blink and miss a chance to see one of the great beauties that Grand Rapids has to...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: ACSET, Community Action Agency, Grand Rapids Public Schools, Read 4 Rent, Read for Rent, Rental Property Owner's Association of Kent County, South East
You see and hear it every day. Many of us live and breathe it. These are tough economic times. Mulick Park Elementary Principal Jamie McCabe wanted to do something to ease the financial burden for...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: volunteering, volunteerism, youth
Grand Rapids, Michigan. October 12, 2009 – The Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Youth Grant Committee (YGC) is hosting an “Upside Down Roof Sit” at The Adobe Restaurant...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: 2009, Art Prize, artprize, Open Water, Rick Devos, top 10, top ten, winner
Rick Devos reads off the top ten of Artprize 2009 amidst cheers and applause.
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Now that ArtPrize 2009 is nearly behind us it becomes time to start considering ArtPrize 2010. This year over 37,000 people registered to vote, which shows that there is an obvious desire to...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Kate Washburn is a very unassuming runner. She laughs a lot when she talks about running and gives the impression that she even wonders how she ended up training for a marathon.
Kate began...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: Buddy Walk, down syndrome, Down Syndrome Association of West Michigan, fundraiser, trisomy 21
What It “Means” to Walk – By Lois Roelse
The word “walk” is defined by Merrium-Webster Dictionary as “to move along on foot; to make headway; to pursue a course...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Denise Cheng for Kurt Stolzman: Kurt called into The Rapidian office...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: commercial district, community development, LISC, Neighborhood, Outer Space Grand Rapids, retail
Potential translates into numbers now available from an online decision-support tool. The Outer Space Grand Rapids website (...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: artprize
An evolving internal monologue, now published:
Brett’s addition to the ArtPrize Conversation
In its efforts to “reboot the public...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: GR Historical Society, tornadoes, weather
GRAND RAPIDS – A mini-documentary highlighting the deadly West Michigan 1956 tornadoes that killed 17 people and injured more than 300 will be aired on PBS WGVU-HD, TV Channel 35, for the first...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: bruce langlois, carol manos, carol's ferals, cat, cats, education, erin rose, feral, fix, kitten, kittens, neuter, nicole capizzi, spay, stray, tnr, trap neuter return
After six weeks of separation, Sugar the cat was happily reunited with her owner. This may not have been possible without the help of a caring bystander, Sugar's microchip, and Carol's...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: Afghanistan, Heartside Park, protest, war
Despite rainy weather a crowd of about 15 gathered in Heartside Park today to protest the ongoing Occupation of Afghanistan. Organizer Stelle Slootmaker said Its been 8 years since the US began...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Grand Rapids Whitewater is hosting an Art Prize Paddle in the Grand. It's a Nessie Float. This Sunday October 4th, paddling off at 2:00 pm. Be at Ah-Nab-Awen Park early to off load your sea,...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: animation, ASIFA, CMC, Deanna Morse, GRCMC, International Animation Day, Koning Micro Cinema, Wealthy Theatre
Animation lovers this is your chance to see some of the best animation from around the world. Internation Animation Day is a global event celebrating the art of animation. The CMC and...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: artprize, Detroit, Emily Moiseef, God's Kitchen, Mitch Albom
Artist Emily Moiseeff quotes an article in which Mitch Albom says Detroit “is a place where living, breathing giants, die a slow and painful death.” Moiseeff wants people “to see the beauty...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: artprize, Austin Powers, Bill Vits, DeVos Performance Hall, Ellen Sherman, Fox Motors Pop Series, Grand Rapids Symphony, James Bond, Jeans 'n' Classics, Jeff Christmas John Berry, John Varineau, Jon Regan, Mitch Tyler, Monte Norman, Neil Donnell, Peter Brennan, Quincy Jones, Rique Franks, Shaken not Stirred
Sept. 26 — The arts have exploded in downtown Grand Rapids much like the fall color does this time of year. Faced with a smorgasbord of choices for Friday night’s activity, no self respecting...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: Buddy Walk, down syndrome, DSAWM, fundraiser, Grand Rapids, trisomy 21
Down Syndrome Association of West Michigan - WHY I WALK Series - Part #4
A Precious Princess - By Susan Blanchard
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