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Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
Tagged: album, charles the osprey, Consider, Derek Lancioni, Founders, Friction, LP, music, Rafael Ohli, record
Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
Tagged: bulb, CFL, efficiency, energy, Light, Project Light Change, West Michigan Environmental Action Council, WMEAC
Many Grand Rapidians are in the dark when it comes to the use of energy efficient compact flourecent light bulbs (CFLs), but the West Michigan Environmental Action...
Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
Tagged: career training, education, GED, Gerald R. Ford Job Corps
Everything you know about Job Corps is wrong. Or at least, that’s how one might feel after spending an afternoon with the students and staff at Grand Rapids’ vocational training center. Nearly a...
Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
Tagged: fainting generals, Grand Rapids Press, Juliet Bennett Rylah, local music, Meanwhile, Rapid Growth Speaker Series, Revue
Juliet Bennett Rylah is part of the local band, The Fainting Generals, which has been in existence a little over two years and makes...
Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
Tagged: 4th of July, volunteer, volunteer opportunities
Please join the Volunteer Center in supporting Grand Rapids' Fourth of July fireworks at Ah-Nab-Awen Park along the Grand...
Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
Tagged: carts, recycling, sanitation, trash
At the Midtown Neighborhood Association's latest board meeting on Monday night, Barbara Small from the...
Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
Tagged: food desert, Grand Rapids, Local, organic, produce, Scott Warren, South East Area Farmer's Market, vegetable
Summer is here and that means many of us in the City of Grand Rapids are enjoying one of our favorite pastimes; visiting our local farmer's market. The local farmer's market can be an invaluable...
Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
Tagged: calendar, story pitches, storybank, writing
From The Rapidian staff*: One of the ways we at The Rapidian try to help our citizen reporters is by providing them with story ideas. The...
Posted: 14 years 14 weeks
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What's in season? What fresh produce is on the horizon? If you're curious about what's at market, the Fulton Street Farmers Market publishes a list of goods every Tuesday.
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Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Flickr, images, mapping, maps, The Rapidian
From The Rapidian staff*: From the beginning, story mapping has been a key component of The Rapidian. With that in mind we built the site so that it...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Glance at the Past; history; radio; Albert Baxter; WYCE; Grand Rapids; Historical Commission
(1823-1905) The father of Grand Rapids history, in his own words.
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: AT&T, film, Filmspotting, Grand Rapids Technology Partnership, GRTP, HTPC, Justified, NFL Network, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Biggest Loser, TV, U-Verse
Will Hartwell is a local attorney and a Partner in the Grand Rapids Technology Partnership (GRTP). To promote the GRTP's goals of providing technology education and...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Frequently cited as “the most popular European film of 2009”, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, is based on Stieg Larsson's international best-selling novel. The story begins with the...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Habitat for Humanity, Kent County, LEED, net zero
Joining us in the studio is Christopher Hall, director of construction for Habitat for Humanity of...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: art, Brian Kelly, Dottie Rhodes, good, Plenty Creative, Rapid Growth, Terry Johnston
On Wednesday, Rapid Growth Media hosted the fifth panel discussion in its monthly series of conversations about issues facing Grand Rapids. Titled "...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
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Last night I had the distinct honor of moderating a panel for Rapid Growth. The panelists and crowd were totally interesting covering some pretty heavy arts/economic topics and the general...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: skill-based volunteering, volunteerism, Volunteers
Each week the Volunteer Center will highlight an exciting skill-based volunteer opportunity found on our...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: ArtPeers, Avenue for the Arts, Brian Kelly, Brian Kelly Photography, Community Media Center, Corey Ruffin, DAAC, Division Avenue Arts Collective, Dwelling Place, Endtimes Orchestra, Erin Wilson, G-Rad, George Wietor, Grand Rapids Social Diary, Jenn Schaub, Kickstarter, Laura Caprara, Miriam Slager, Nest, performance, photography, Rapid Growth, Speaker Series, Super Happy Funtime Burlesque, tommy allen, UICA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Wealthy Theatre
Photos by Jon Clay
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Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Ace, Amy VanZoeren, Association, Brikyaat, cleanup, Community, dumpster, Farmers, garden, Hardware, Haviland Plastics, Jayson Otto, Jennifer Holshoe, Kelly Otto, market, Midtown, Neighborhood, Rich Holshoe, Rylee's
Brikyaat Community Garden comes together with contributions and volunteer efforts
Following the final thaw, volunteers and Midtown staff...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: American Red Cross, Bethany Christian Services, Mars Hill, refugee, Senior Neighbors Inc, West Michigan Refugee Education and Cultural Center, World Refugee Day
Each year on June 20, World Refugee Day offers Grand Rapids an opportunity to call attention to refugees affected by disasters, armed conflict and other situations of violence.
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Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
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What's in season? What fresh produce is on the horizon? If you're curious about what's at market, the Fulton Street Farmers Market publishes a list of goods every Tuesday.
New at...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: art, Downtown, Grand Rapids, sidewalk chalk flood
With Rosa Parks Circle at the center, chalk art spread throughout downtown Grand Rapids during Sunday afternoon's Sidewalk Chalk Flood. Organizer Rob Bliss passed out thousands of pieces of chalk...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Arts, Dwelling Place, economic growth, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, grants, GRCC, health, homelessness, neighborhoods, urban market
This week, Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees voted to approve $1.5 million in grants. The grants address four areas of need in Kent County including economic growth...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: contemporary art, exhibition space, Grand Rapids Michigan, LEED certified, UICA New Building
For more than a year there has been much talk and anticipation about the new mixed use building that will be home to the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (UICA)...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: burlesque, East Hills, Electric Cheetah, fire, fire dancing, fundraiser, Fundraising, glass, Grand Rapids, Michigan, national tour, photos, photostory, playing with fire, SHFTB, spinning fire, Super Happy Funtime Burlesque, tour, walking on glass, Wealthy
Super Happy Funtime Burleque is a Grand Rapids based ragtag group of talented performers who bring action and entertainment to the people all...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Written by Joyce Conley, Foster Care Licensing & Recruitment
The new decade of 2010 has brought about the start of a...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: art, Ave for the Arts, Downtown, folk art, heartside
Heartside Gallery and Studio began in 1993 as a small program of Heartside Ministry. This ever-expanding program continues to offer the Heartside community and its neighbors a supportive...
Posted: 14 years 15 weeks
Tagged: Neland Church, RAK, random acts of kindness, weed and seed
Grand Rapids, MI – Weed & Seed is calling all the community residents to help spread kindness throughout Grand Rapids’ Southeast site for its second annual...
Posted: 14 years 16 weeks
Nixon is arguably the most preeminent producer in the local scene having captured a number of Grand Rapids Hip Hop...
Posted: 14 years 16 weeks
Tagged: amateur, boxing, Denise Cheng, Linda Gellasch, Matthew Altena
This week on Catalyst Radio, Matthew Altena is joining us in the studio. Matt covers the amateur boxing beat in Grand Rapids with regular blow-by-blow...