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Community updates: Tuesday, Aug. 18
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 08-18-2020 under NEWS
MHSAA moves Michigan high school football to spring The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) announced Friday it will move the 2020 fall football season to spring 2021, due to football's higher risk for spreading COVID-19. The move...
Rethinking youth drug education
by (abbycraig09)
Submitted 03-12-2020 under OPINION
During my freshman year, my health class spent multiple weeks learning about lots of different drugs and that information ended helping me out more than I thought it would. One of my best friends at the time had been acting differently for a few...
Meet Grand Rapids' future leaders who serve food to neighbors in need at Innovation Central High School
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 10-21-2019 under NONPROFITS
Innovation Central High School’s Mobile Food Pantries aren’t run by a team of teachers, parents or by any adults at all. Instead, each month, the school’s JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) cadets serve neighbors...
WMCAT Opens Fall Enrollment for 15th Year of Free Afterschool Programming
by (wmcat)
Submitted 08-29-2019 under NONPROFITS
The West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT) has opened its fall enrollment for arts and technology studios available to all Grand Rapids Public high school students. WMCAT will host an open enrollment information session for fall...
Spark your teens' creativity this summer with WMCAT's summer art & tech camps
by (wmcat)
Submitted 05-31-2017 under NONPROFITS
This summer the studios at WMCAT (West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology) will be open to any middle or high school student who wants to explore, experiment and elevate their voice. WMCAT is excited to offer 41 different art and tech camp...
Refugee students serve those in need at Union High School
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 03-03-2017 under NONPROFITS
If you need food and you visit the Mobile Pantry at Union High School, chances are the person who serves you will be a refugee. Refugee students, explains school improvement facilitator Halima Ismail, are at the heart of Union's partnership with...
Experience of food insecurity inspires Grand Valley student to help others
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 12-15-2016 under NONPROFITS
It’s late September and Gabby Vernon is standing in a field in Allendale, launching a drone. The drone lifts off and hovers more than a hundred feet above Ham Family Farm where a dozen volunteers are picking kale and loading it onto a van...
Open letter to Forest Hills Public Schools superintendent from equity leaders, parents and alumni
by (Jeremy Moore)
Submitted 09-20-2016 under OPINION
Dear Superintendent Daniel Behm & the Forest Hills Board of Education: Mary Vonck Martha Atwater Susan Lenhardt Walter F. Perschbacher III Suzanne Callahan Michael Seekell Douglas Josephson It is with great concern that we write you...
Local scholarship program grows for high school juniors, seniors
by (WestMichiganSav...)
Submitted 03-29-2016 under NONPROFITS
West Michigan Savoyards is not a local household name, but their scholarship program is becoming well known to area high schools. The Savoyards have been putting on Gilbert & Sullivan performances each spring for 17 years and are now in their...
Long time Westsider works to build community as Union High School's new football coach
by (Elizabeth Roger...)
Submitted 08-11-2015 under INNOVATION-SPOTLIGHT
Rick Angstman, recently hired as the new Head Varsity Football Coach for Union High School for Grand Rapids Public Schools, says his job as the football coach is not just passing along a love of football to the teens at Union- but is also a channel...