April is the fourth month of the year, and the month we examine the talent for community described as deriving pleasure from the simple things of life.
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Tagged: april, artist, bird, Color, Community, compassion, Emotion, enjoyment, fiendship., gratitude, happiness, holidays, robin, sense, Sensitivity, Spring, tea, trips, vacation, wonder
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Every March 31 since 2000, the Committee to Honor César E. Chávez has celebrated the anniversary of his birth with a social justice march down Grandville Avenue. For an hour this morning traffic...
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Tagged: art, art downtown, Art.Downtown., Grand Rapids, KCAD, Kendall
Art.Downtown. keeps gaining momentum, with over 300 artists participating at over 25 venues. Kendall College of Art...
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Tagged: Aquinas College, Dominican Sisters, feminist, human rights, Kathy Kelly, leader, Maria Goretti Beckman, nonviolence, Pax Christi, poet, Voices in the Wilderness, Writer
The Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids were well represented at the 29th Annual State Conference of Pax Christi Michigan. The 2010 conference was held at Mercy High School in Farmington Hills on...
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Tagged: community development, event, non-profit, West Side, Westown
Save the date: May 16th is your opportunity to explore this time-honored community ministry
Written by Matthew Nickels (...
Posted: 14 years 26 weeks
Tagged: art, Community Service in Grand Rapids, Grand Valley State University, gvsu, UICA, volunteer
Over the past six years, Brett Colley has been a dedicated volunteer, leader, arts advocate, educator, and peer. Brett has generously given countless hours to UICA and to our community as one of...
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Tagged: 2010 Golden Gloves Tournament, Arryn Guy, Burim Beqiri, Cameron Glenn, Christian Thomas, Craig Rood, Dean Allen, Grand Valley National Guard Armory, Jason Thompson, Jordan Shimmell, Kalamazoo Kayo Boxing Club, MGGA, Michigan Golden Gloves Association, Mike Lucsher, Miles Murphy, MLK Boxing Club, Nathan McDonald, Niall Shimmell, Russell Breazegle, Sand Lake Boxing Club
The action was intense Saturday as amateur boxers battled it out for the...
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Tagged: broadcasting, Headlines, information, paraphrase, paraphrasing, publishing, relevance, subsection
From Rapidian staff: When presenting information to your audience, don't pile it up. Deconstruct it.
It happens all the time in classes, at conferences, at public...
Posted: 14 years 26 weeks
Tagged: cash awards, Contest, high school, multimedia, students
The 32 Kent County high school students who make up Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Youth Grant Committee want to get teens thinking about philanthropy. That’s why...
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Tagged: Atomic Object, Bob Walsh, Charles Nutter, java virtual machine, JRuby, JVM, language, programming, Ruby
by Matthew Fletcher
Charles Nutter visited Grand Rapids last week to speak at the March SoftwareGR event....
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Tagged: apr101, Conservation, free, Water
The unmistakable, sugary smell of Coca-Cola effervesces from twenty white-plastic barrels scattered about a room in an activity center on West Fulton Street. Saturday...
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Tagged: American Red Cross, Bottom40, Citzenshirt, dance party, fundraiser, Litribune Magazine, Measles Initiative, Red Cross
The American Red Cross Measles Initiative, Citizenshirt, and local literary newcomer The Litribune Magazine are teaming up to entertain and educate the masses with “Dance Party: More Music &...
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Tagged: economy, education, health care, teens, volunteer
I was a straight B and C student all through high school with very little to show after leaving other than a degree. I never cared that much or tried all that hard. I knew from my junior year on...
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Tagged: boys & girls clubs, camp o'malley, comprehensive therapy center, Grand Rapids, monopoly, prizes, steil, youth
Do not pass GO, do not collect $200 dollars. This is the dreaded Monopoly game phrase that would upset any game-player. We’ve all heard these words before and felt the...
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: amateur, box, boxing, Cameron Glenn, Grand Valley National Guard Armory, MGGA, Michigan Golden Gloves Association, Niall Shimmell, Raymond Mendoza, show, tournament
The Golden Gloves Tournament on Wednesday was an action-packed evening. There were 17 bouts of amateur boxing featuring...
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The first days of spring have ushered in Grand Rapids Community College’s Sustainability Series entitled: “Visioning the Change.” Wednesday, March 24 was the first installment in the month...
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Here is Word on the Street for March 24, 2010
WEDNESDAY!
Every Wednesday from 6:30-8:30pm, Bar Divani hosts a wine social. These socials are a gathering of people who share a love of...
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids Youth Commonwealth are excited to recognize Steil Club member Cesar Vargas for his dedication to his community. Vargas was recently nominated for the...
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Join the community in a reception next week welcoming Dr. Marsha D. Rappley, dean of Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine, to Grand Rapids for the final event in a month-long...
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Carlos Salinas, Charles Schumer, Drug War, Economics, George H.W. Bush, Immigration Reform, John Ross, Juan Garcia Abrego, Lindsay Graham, Mexico, NAFTA, Noth American Free Trade Agreement, protest, Trinity Church, Vietnam War
Radical journalist, poet, and activist John Ross spoke at Trinity Church on Lake Drive on...
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The late morning got loud and smokey with the sound and smell of squealing tires on the street, today, outside the Institute for Global Education (IGE) 1118 Wealthy SE.
A white, late-...
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: ecology, economicology, economy, environment, farm, foundation, great, institute, lakes, peter, sustainability, Theatre, urban, Wealthy, Wege
The Wege Foundation hosted a press conference today, to announce the release of Peter Wege's newest book, "Economicology II." Local media were well represented, including WGVU's Shelley...
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From Rapidian staff*: As a hyperlocal news source, a main thrust behind The Rapidian is to cover the news and events that affect lives within the City of Grand...
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: A.B. & Coconut Brown, ArtPeers, boys & girls clubs, charles the osprey, dance, dance in the annex, DITA, Grand Rapids, lights at sea, Local, music, non-profit, paucity, rick beerhorst, ritsu, seth thompson, trip the light, youth
ArtPeers, an arts organization encouraging local art, and Dance in the Annex (DITA), a contemporary...
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: art, art downtown, Grand Rapids, mariel versluis, old public museum, paul amenta
The Grand Rapids Public Museum has partnered with Paul Amenta, originator and former director of Activesite to bring a new vision to the former Public Museum site at 54 Jefferson. The building,...
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Tagged: Cook Library Center, LEED certification
Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities is pleased to announce that the Cook Library Center was awarded Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council under its Leadership in Energy and...
Posted: 14 years 27 weeks
Tagged: business, Calder, Calder Plaza, education, Flash Mob, Google, Google 616, Google Fiber, Grand Rapids, politics, Rally, technology
Families, business people, college students, politicians, unemployed workers, company owners, educators and high school students came out Friday, March 19 to Calder Plaza to support the nomination...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: Activesite, art, Avenue for the Arts, Grand Rapids, Spring
Over three hundred artists, twenty five venues, two trolleys and one big heaping dollop of fun on Friday April 16th from 6 to 11pm. Now in its eight year, and the second under the...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: death, Mountain Climbing, North Face, UICA Films Review
North Face is a drama based on real events prior to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Two renowned mountain climbers, ...
Posted: 14 years 28 weeks
Tagged: Barbara Hansen, Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Community Media Center, imagine peace, Michigan, Peace, Preaching through Media, Reflection, relax, video.
This brief video is Part Four of four short meditative pieces called Imagine Peace produced through a collaborative effort by members of the...