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Your Chauffeur provides new way to arrive home safe

Submitted 07-23-2013 under NEWS

Located in a 12-mile radius of Downtown Grand Rapids, Your Chauffeur is licensed to drive you home in your car for a safe ride home with your car in your driveway the next morning.

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Vote for the best representation of Grand Rapids food culture in Grandwich competition

Submitted 07-23-2013 under NEWS

The annual sandwich competition returns for its third year in Grand Rapids Today to determine the sandwich that best represents our city.

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Send your kids to food camps at the Downtown Market

Submitted 07-23-2013 under LOCAL LIFE

Two new summer camps for kids, Camp Sprout and Flavor Lab, will be hosted at the Grand Rapids Downtown Market starting at the end of July.

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Daredevil Circus builds cooperative community for City Lights

Submitted 07-22-2013 under OPINION

Last weekend, the City Lights Music Festival included a circus troupe among its performers. This conversation and photo essay of their performance give a window into what goes into creating their performance.

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City Lights Music Festival aims to entertain with light, sound show

Submitted 07-18-2013 under LOCAL LIFE

The City Lights Music Festival will incorporate lights, music and art in a two-day event in the heart of Downtown Grand Rapids on July 19 and 20.

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The Bard is Back

Submitted 07-16-2013 under NONPROFITS

Heritage Theatre Group presents <I> The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)</I>

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Heritage Hill Garden Show draws a crowd

Submitted 07-16-2013 under NEWS

The Heritage Hill Association recently held their 6th Annual Garden Show event.

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Tuition-free career training for in demand medical technology fields available

Submitted 07-16-2013 under NONPROFITS

The West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology (WMCAT) is enrolling students now for tuition-free career training in medical coding, medical billing and pharmacy technician.

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Become a Certified Tourism Ambassador

Submitted 07-16-2013 under NEWS

Certified Tourism Ambassadors are wanted to assist Grand Rapids visitors and residents as they navigate toward area attractions.

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Blue Bridge by GVSU undergoing $1.35 Million reconstruction [PHOTO ESSAY]

Submitted 07-16-2013 under NEWS

The City of Grand Rapids is preserving the life of our well-known Blue Bridge, and pedestrians should be able to walk it mid-August once again. Our Rapidian photographer Owen Fifield got a sneak peek at what's going on inside the temporary covering.

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