The 36th Annual Eastown Streetfair will take place on Saturday September 19th, along Wealthy Street between Atlas and Lake, and on the first block of Ethel Street. The event commences...
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Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: art, artprize, austrailian rules football, collaboration, Community, competetion, cooperation, digital conversion, Grand Rapids, lip gloss, monkey, PBS, sandy feet
The recent conversion to digital broadcast television has tripled my television viewing options from one PBS station to three PBS channels. I do not watch much TV but, occasionally, I flip it on...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: economy, film incentives, film industry, filmmaking, legislation, taxes
It’s no secret that Michigan is in a financial mess. Rumors have been flying this summer about proposed cuts or caps for the Michigan film incentives. The...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: autism, disabilities, disability, down syndrome, Easter Seals, leyla kayi, lkayi, sensory integration, therapy
On my way to Easter Seals to conduct the interview for this article, I had some time to kill so I swung by Barnes and Noble. There, I ran into my little buddy Andrew...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: cash for clunkers, democratic party, democrats, demonstration, health care, labor, medicare, organizing, protest, public option, tea party
August 29, 2009
This Sunday a group of around 250 gathered outside of the Ford Federal Building to support health care reform. The...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: chili cook-off, craft vendors, farmers market, Oct. 10, October West, Octoberfest, street fest, Westside
The 3rd annual OctoberWest – the festival highlighting Grand Rapids’ Westside – is planned for Saturday, Oct. 10, and this year’s event is shaping up with a slate of fun fall activities even...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: artprize, Catholic Central High School, fire, GR, Grand Rapids, Michael Glenn Monroe, Sharing Tree Project, Woody
(Video) Michael Glenn Monroe was welding his The Sharing Tree (fondly known as "Woody") Project for ArtPrize at the...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: East Hills, local business, Restaurants, Shops, store front, Wealthy Street
A late summer stroll down Wealthy Street:
- Wealthy Bakery
- The Winchester
- Wealthy at Charles
- La Esperanza
- ABC Nails
- Armenta Studio
- ...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: aag, art, artprize, artprize 2009, erwin erkfitz, mural, outdoor art, photography, slideshow, thomas woodhouse
ArtPrize, the biggest art venue to hit Grand Rapids, is just around the corner. Hundreds of artists from all...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: creative class, Grand Rapids
They have been yelling it from the mountains for a few years now, that the Creative Class will dominate the New Economy....
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: Advance newspapers, American Heart, AstraZeneca, cardio, Clear Channel, Connie, Connie Jones, Grand River, Healthy Choice, Heart Association, heart walk, HermanMiller, Ice Mountain, Jones, lifestyle change, Mary Free Bed, Mlive, riverside Park, Shalifoe, Star 105.7, start, Start! Heart Walk, stroke, Subway, walking, weightloss, WOOD TV8
Connie Jones of Grand Rapids is fun-loving and supporting of anyone who asks for her help in their health journey. She is motivated now to stay healthy though she wasn’t always that way. When...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: AMerican Heart Association, Arizona, Barb Ziemann, businessman, careers, Community education, downsizing, Grand Rapids, hobby, John R. Ziemann, John Ziemann, photographer, relocating, sailing, walker, Ziemann
John Ziemann was living in Tucson, AZ in 1995 when he was presented with a dilemma. Work was no longer enjoyable and he was facing a downsizing from a career he loved and that had defined much of...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: doubles, eights, Grand Rapids Crew, Grand River, high school rowing, sculling
What divides them is what unites them. About 45 kids from various high schools across Grand Rapids...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: Architecture, Businesses in Grand Rapids, Citizen, City of Grand Rapids, Community, Diversity, GP Sports, Grand Rapids, Heart, Heritage Hill, Local, Love, Love Thy Rapidian, Mad Cap, Medical Mile, Neighbor, Neighborhood, Parks, Rapidian, Sculptures, Soul, Streets
Love Thy Rapidian - Love Thy Neighbor, they basically mean the same thing. Your neighbor is your fellow Rapidian. Not always necessarily those which live within the same proximity of each other,...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Hello fellow Rapidians. I’m Carol Manos of Carol's Ferals. You will be hearing a lot from me. Mostly about stray and...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids will be a venue
during the first annual ArtPrize event. Liz Heller, Benjamin Duke,...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: advocacy, Lisa Oliver-King, Moord, Our Kitchen Table
In four Grand Rapids neighborhoods (Baxter, Garfield Park, Eastown, SECA) there are residents looking at the partnership between household vegetable gardens and the urban community. An...
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Helen DeVos Childrens Hospital is a Grand Rapids-based hospital serving children throughout Michigan. A teaching hospital, it includes more than 150 pediatric specialty physicians with...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: running, Shelley Irwin
A Q&A with the host of WGVU’s Morning Show
This periodic...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Written by Sister Sue Tracy, OP
Sent forth by the leadership team’s sung blessing, Sister Sue Tracy, OP, and Laurie Sefton, RN, headed to the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament in...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: John Ball Park, recovery, substance abuse, Tina Dee
Once again, it’s time for Recovery Palooza! It will be held Saturday, September 19th at John Ball Park. The event is the fourth annual celebration of substance abuse recovery. It is held every...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: Calvin College, Christianity, Corwin Smidt, Evangelical, Grand Rapids Historical Society, Paul Henry, politics
Many modern-day Evangelicals believe integrating Christian faith with political practice represents a clear battle between good and evil. But that’s not how one of earliest and most popular...
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: GRCC, higher education, Steam Engines
GRCC students use a classic text to learn useful skills and machine mini steam engines. Watch this video to learn more about this valuable learning experience.
Posted: 14 years 32 weeks
Tagged: beta, cirivello, citizen journalism, launch, Rapidian
The Rapidian is an experiment. Not so much about technology, but about community building. The free flow of local information is crucial to community vitality, civic engagement and a functioning...
Posted: 14 years 33 weeks
Tagged: audio report, Bicycling, bike, Thomas Valdez, thomasav
Every Wednesday night at 9 p.m., bicyclists swarm on Division SE to take part in a leisurely group ride. Led by Commute...