The Center for Community Leadership (CCL), the leadership program of the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, is proud to announce the recipient of its annual Distinguished Community...
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Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: Downtown, Events & Activities, free
Why pay when you can have fun for free (or close to it)?
Downtown Grand Rapids has hundreds of places to go and things to do. Entire Web sites and advertising...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
I have to disclose a few things straight away.
- I'm the director of Wealthy Theatre.
- I dislike seeing the Rapidian used by venues to promote events. ...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: april, boys & girls club, census 2010, constitution, count, demographics, Grand Rapids, mayor hartwell, president, socioeconomic, united states, youth, youth commonwealth
Warm weather means spring is upon us, which also means April is creeping up rather quickly. Everyone knows that very special tax season deadline that falls in April, but this year another date...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: art, Ashley John Pigford, installation, kinetic, mar101, Pigford, UICA
Ashley John Pidford's installation features a series of kinetic sculptures called Spin, Click, Knock. His installation explored how sound communicates and evokes when combined with visual and...
Posted: 14 years 29 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids, Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council, GRPL, Historical Commission, Historical Society, mar102, Marcella Beck, Public Library, Women's history
On a beautiful Saturday morning—perfect weather for walking—more than 130 people crammed into two rooms at the ...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: art, DAAC, humanature, nature
The Division Avenue Arts Collective presented its first collectively organized art exhibition on Friday March 5th. The theme was Humanature, purposely spelled with only one N...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
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Have you picked up your monthlys yet? Both Revue and On-the-Town have a superwomen theme this month…which reminded me that it is women’s history month. There are a few events here and there that...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Adjective, Analog Mutant, Corneliu Porumboiu, Dragos Bucur, police, Romania, Scott Warren, UICA Films Review, Vlad Ivanov
Police, Adjective is the story of Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a detective struggling with something of...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Big Brothers Big Sisters, bowling, Children, D.A. Blodgett - St. John's, D.A. Blodgett for Children, fundraiser, kids, mentor, St. John's Home
Above is a video of our interview on WOOD TV8's EightWest with Paul Miller, Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters and Lisa Puente, Mentors For Success Coordinator. Take a look! ...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
From Rapidian staff*: The headline of your story is the first thing readers see on The Rapidian, Facebook, Twitter and many other places online. It’s a marquis...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Lights, camera, stairs? February 24th the girls began their documentary to earn their Gold Award, the highest honor of a Girl Scout. The title, Taking Charge: Changing to...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Hyper-local food just got a few steps closer to home, and you don’t even need a yard.
Container gardening is an easy, low-maintenance project that...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: art, artwork, fundraiser, non profit, UICA
LIVE COVERAGE
March 13, 6:30–11 PM
Showcasing fifty of West Michigan’s most talented artists, Live Coverage gives you the opportunity to purchase one-of-a-kind...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: GR Historical Commission, GR Historical Society, GR Public Library, Greater GR Women's History Council, Legacy 2010
A month-long celebration of Women's History Month continues Saturday, March 6 with a new walking tour of downtown landmark sites significant in the history of Grand Rapids women.
... Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
The life of a military family can be a difficult one. Many families are forced to spend months apart from their loved ones and it can become stressful. The American Red Cross of Greater Grand...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: artist, Birth, Color, Community, compassion, Composition, contempt, control, criticism, defensive, Emotion, Friendship, Gentle, Light, Listening deeply, living, marriage, Meaning, Musician, Pitch, sarcasm., Sensitivity, Sound, Speak truthfully, speech, Texture, Truth, withdraw, Word, Writer
This is the third in a series of eight brief reflections written by ...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Gerald R. Ford Museum, GR History, Grand Rapids Historical Commission, Grand Rapids Historical Society, Grand Rapids women, Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council, History, Legacy 2010, mar102
A look back in history shows West Michigan women have long worn different hats while at work or play. Their lives took them to crowded cigar factories, warm laundry rooms, noisy newsrooms and...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: After School Tutoring, Conrad Hilton Grant, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Dominicans., HASD, Hilton Fund for Sisters, tutor, Vera Tilmann, volunteer
The WORD HASD After-School Tutoring Program in Grand Rapids received a grant in the amount of $2,500 from the...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: 024 bits of you and me Scott Warren Analog Mutant, Pesi Anthony Pesi Kwiatkowski Grand Rapids art ArtPrize 1
“I'm an artist, designer, dj, geek, paperboy, and general gadfly living in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I make awesome stuff for awesome people. Someday I...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Commute, CWD, Degage, Division St, Grand Rapids, heartside, Imagination Creation, Mel Trotter, Sam Cummings, Vertigo
A collaboration between Nick Manes and Michael...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: artprize, broadband, City of Grand Rapids, dial-up, Douglas Lang, facebook, fiber, Google, Grand Rapids Technology Partnership, GRTP, internet, LEED, Medical Hill, NAMAC, Sally Wesorick, Urban Mill Cafe, Web
Japan has it. Other European and east Asian countries have it, and now Google is working to bring fiber connectivity to the United...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Clean Sweep, Grand Rapids, heartside, Spring
On Saturday, April 24th, 2010 over 200 volunteers will remove 175 bags of trash, 50 bags of yard waste and 8 bins of recycled debris from the Heartside Neighborhood as a part of Heartside Pride...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Board of Directors, boys & girls club, Camp O'Malley Beach Ball, Chicago Diversified Foods, Grand Rapids, Michelle Lewis, steak & burger dinner, taco bell, youth, youth commonwealth
This past February, Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids Youth Commonwealth experienced some shifts within their Board of Directors that will hopefully help to jump start 2010. After two...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: American Red Cross, Red Cross
Down the street. Across the country. Around the world. Every day, the American Red Cross of Greater Grand Rapids turns compassion into action, assisting more than 61,000 people in our community...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
• 8:00 am Check-In
• 8:30 am Walk Start
• The walk begins at First United Methodist Church, 207 E. Fulton at Barclay...
• The walk begins at First United Methodist Church, 207 E. Fulton at Barclay...
Posted: 14 years 30 weeks
Tagged: GRACE, PRFC, Racial Justice, Racism, Victor Lewis
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: feb102, winter blues
Startled awake by the grating of my neighbor's ice scraper, I roll over and pull the covers over my head. A continuous chip, chip, chip, interspersed with the grating suggests we...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: Diversity, division, Downtown, England, Grand Rapids, heartside, homelessness, Social Services
A collaboration between Nick Manes and Michael...
Posted: 14 years 31 weeks
Tagged: call-in, facebook, George Heartwell, GRTV, Logie, mayor, television, twitter
A clip from City Connection's first episode on April 24, 1992 with Mayor John Logie.
Here at GRTV we constantly meet people with a need to share ideas. Whether it be analysis...