autism
GRPS board approves moving special education programs to Kent ISD
by (Elizabeth Roger...)
Submitted 08-07-2018 under NEWS
On Monday, August 6, 2018 Grand Rapids Board of Education voted to transfer center-based special needs programs administration over to the Kent Intermediate School District, or KISD. The vote was 7-1 with Dr. José Flores voting no. Over the last...
Grand Rapids Public Museum looks inside brain, shows off subatomic discoveries
by (Grand Rapids Pu...)
Submitted 10-18-2017 under PLACE-MATTERS
Brain: The World Inside Your Head Now open at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, Brain: The World Inside Your Head, takes you literally inside the head! Probe the geography of a giant brain and stand in the midst of the brain’s constant...
Local videographer's Kala Project highlights beauty, strength in adversity
by (kendravanderlip)
Submitted 08-14-2014 under LOCAL LIFE
Bradley Productions, a Grand Rapids videography studio, has created The Kala Project, a videography based charitable organization with a desire to tell stories that connect, provoke and inspire in the community around them. The goal...
Dreams and Wings touches down, soars in Grand Rapids
by (David V. Urban)
Submitted 09-13-2012 under NEWS
Jack Lewis had always been adventurous. As a teen growing up on a farm, he rode horses bareback. As a young man, he drove race cars. Then the accident happened. In 1981 Lewis, then 37, was working under his jacked-up pickup truck. The truck...
A visit with Easter Seals
by (lkayi)
Submitted 09-15-2009 under LOCAL LIFE
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. Andrew, who is 5 and has Downs Syndrome, is also a client of Easter Seals and...