The Literacy Center of West Michigan's Family Literacy Program serves many families that have chosen to improve their lives by advancing their English language reading and writing...
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Posted: 13 years 13 weeks
Tagged: education, English as a Second Langauge, family, Head Start, Literacy Center of West Michigan
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, fitness, Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, LINC, MLK Boxing Club, Project FIT
After a long week of sitting at the computer it felt great to play in the dirt. Friday morning I joined Friends of Grand Rapids Parks and a diverse group of volunteers at Martin Luther King Park....
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
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Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: cult, David Bixby, Don DeGraaf, folk, History, Records, The Daac, The Group, The Movement
Part II: “FALSE PROPHETS”
This is part two in a three-part series re-introducing folk musician Dave Bixby to the...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: B2B, Believe 2 Become, billboards, Class of 2011, GRPS, students
To congratulate the graduating Class of 2011 and recognize their tremendous success, five billboards recently went up around the City of Grand Rapids. The five billboards that are on display...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: civic engagement, journalism, Knight Foundation, Rapidian
When discussing and writing about the Rapidian, we often use the words hyper-local, news and information, and citizen reporter. A few words I think we don’t reference often enough, are “Democracy...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: blandford nature center, Erik Vosteen, Goodwillie, Grand Rapids, Great Lakes Lifeways Institute, Kevin Finney, maple sugar, Native Americans
Students of Blandford School and Goodwillie Environmental School helped a research team to figure out the historically accurate way that Native Americans may have made maple sugar from tree sap,...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: cult, Dave Bixby, Division Avenue Arts Collective, Don DeGraaf, History, Records, The Daac, The Movement
Part I: THE "CULT ALBUM"
This is part one in a three-part series re-introducing folk musician Dave Bixby...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: Bartertown Diner, Bartertown Diner & Roc's Cakes, Matt Russell, restaurant opening, Ryan Cappalletti, vegan, vegetarian
After an outpouring of support and a modicum of controversy, Bartertown Diner and Roc’s Cakes...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
The sun has set, the evening breeze offering a welcome relief from the merciless heat of the long day. Real solitude has been hard to find these past six months, surrounded in a foreign land by...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Grand Rapids Community Foundation is helping local youth gain valuable work experience this summer with the help of a $400,000 grant from the...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Bigger crowds, more vendors, exciting performers and a beautiful summer day made this year’s West Michigan Pride Festival, celebrating the LGBT community, one to remember. The festival...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: Baxter, Community, devos, friends, Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, Green, green space, Joe Taylor, Neighborhood, Park, Parks, Radio, splash, sustainability, WMEAC, WYCE
West Michigan Environmental Action Council's Dan Schoonmaker speaks with Steve Faber, Executive Director of Friends of Grand Rapids Parks. Faber talks about Baxter neighborhoods' new...
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Midtown Neighborhood Association and the City of Grand Rapids are partnering to host a free dumpster clean-up event for Midtown residents this Saturday at Congress Elementary School (940 Baldwin...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Welcome to a wonderful warm June! This month It’s All Happening includes a peek at a few new Neighbors, an inside look at an exciting event series and...
Posted: 13 years 14 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids Public Library, GRPL, Library, literature, reference, retirement, William Hill
Regular patrons of the downtown public library probably recognize William "Bill" Hill by sight if not by name. Sharp-featured, sandy-haired (though sporting a bit more grey these days),...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Astronomy, constellation, galaxy, night, planet, planetarium, public museum, Science, sky, star, universe
Don't have time to listen right now? Download the episode and listen at your...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Badenya Drumming Ensemble, Methodist church, refugee
South Wyoming United Methodist Church has founded a new organization to assist Grand Rapids area refugees with a variety of issues. We are starting a transportation program to assist...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
The Literacy Center of West Michigan welcomed Luke Ridout as the new program assistant for the...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Each week the Volunteer Center highlights a compelling skills-based volunteer (SBV) opportunity found on our Volunteer Solutions website. This week's SBV opportunity comes from...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Tagged: college, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, GRPS
$4.5m expected to be poured into GRPS schools over next ten years for college pathways coordinator, math/literacy coaches
Additional $3m annually expected to be granted for...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Barely seven months old, one of Grand Rapids' newest yoga studio is expanding to accommodate the growing number of students walking into their studio.
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
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Currently at the market:
- Strawberries!!!
- Sugar Snap Peas
- Greenhouse Tomatoes
- Carrots
- Radishes
- Kohlrabi...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Tagged: art, ceramics, clay, Grand Rapids, Israel Davis, Italy, kiln, Michigan, Muggia, UICA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
On the northern coast of Italy, sits the small city of Muggia. Surrounded by a system of hills, Muggia’s name is derived from the ancient word for coastal swamp. But when Israel (Izzy) Davis...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Audio, communication, interviewing, journalism, learning, observation, Radio, reporting, storytelling
Reporting. It's for the curious.
"I think that it's very easy to go about everyday life, to go from place to place, having the same conversations, getting very comfortable in...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Tagged: American Civil Liberties, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Grand Valley State University, grants, Kent County Parks, Land Bank Authority, summer jobs, trout unlimited
Trustees of Grand Rapids Community Foundation recently approved $454,500 in grants to nonprofits in...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
World Refugee Day celebrations will commence in Grand Rapids on June 20th with the screening of “Welcome to Shelbyville”, a...
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Posted: 13 years 15 weeks
Tagged: foraging, gardening, health, local food, organics
For many, the term herbal apothecary evokes images of shelves, bottles and jars all filled with mysterious herbs and herbal formulas from exotic plants.
But to have an herbal...