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Pleasant Park receives $300,000 development award

Submitted 12-08-2011 under NEWS

The Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund (MNRTF) has committed $300,000 of the total $731,00 needed to convert an empty 2.3 acre parking lot at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and Pleasant Street to a fully functional neighborhood park....

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ArtPrize adjusts the architecture for 2012 event

Submitted 12-06-2011 under NEWS

This morning, at the Sponsor Launch Breakfast, ArtPrize unveiled some significant changes to the annual event for ArtPrize 2012 September 19- October 7.  Catherine Creamer, Executive Director, started the event by sharing some of the things...

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City Commission to meet December 6

Submitted 12-05-2011 under NEWS

This Tuesday, December 6, the Grand Rapids City Commission will meet for one of its bimonthly meetings. On the agenda for this week's meeting are a number of issues relevant to residents of Grand Rapids. 1. A hearing to discuss a possible...

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Best-selling author and spiritual guide Mark Nepo to appear at Fountain Street Church

Submitted 11-29-2011 under NEWS

The Grow the Soul Ministries at Fountain Street Church is presenting  As Far As the Heart Can See: The Practice of Being Human, a public talk and workshop by acclaimed poet and teacher Mark Nepo at Fountain Street Church, December 2nd...

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Religious political party looking to partner with Occupy GR

Submitted 11-21-2011 under NEWS

Unlike the large demonstrations all over the country following the Occupy movement that started in New York City this fall, Occupy Grand Rapids has been fairly quiet. After their initial General Assembly in early October, the group took up...

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Renowned Acapella group to perform at St. Mark's Episcopal Church

Submitted 11-19-2011 under NEWS

Billboard Classical Music chart-toppers Anonymous 4 make an appearance at St. Mark's Episcopal Church this Sunday, as part of the downtown church's Sacred Sounds Concert Series. The award-winning female vocal quartet is perhaps the best...

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Mike Cohen Kirtan Benefits Kids Food Basket

Submitted 11-16-2011 under NEWS

The kirtan music scene is growing in popularity in the US, making inroads into regions where it was once little heard, or heard of. Emerging from the yoga studios and healing centers that cultivated it in the West, this interactive spiritual...

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Organissimo and jam/fusion veterans to play benefit for Wealthy Theatre

Submitted 11-14-2011 under NEWS

This Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Wealthy Theatre's Centennial Sustainability Campaign gets a boost from a benefit concert headlined by a notable cadre of the region's jazz/rock fusion innovators. Organ-based trio organissimo headlines...

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Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family

Submitted 11-08-2011 under NEWS

"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the...

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"Then They Came For Me": Iranian-Canadian political prisoner to speak at Fountain Street Church

Submitted 11-07-2011 under NEWS

Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari, who was detained by Iranian security forces and held in solitary confinement for 118 days, brings his story of survival to Grand Rapids this week. In the wake of the contested 2009 elections in Iran, Bahari was in...

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