They have been yelling it from the mountains for a few years now, that the Creative Class will dominate the New Economy....
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Tagged: Advance newspapers, American Heart, AstraZeneca, cardio, Clear Channel, Connie, Connie Jones, Grand River, Healthy Choice, Heart Association, heart walk, HermanMiller, Ice Mountain, Jones, lifestyle change, Mary Free Bed, Mlive, riverside Park, Shalifoe, Star 105.7, start, Start! Heart Walk, stroke, Subway, walking, weightloss, WOOD TV8
Connie Jones of Grand Rapids is fun-loving and supporting of anyone who asks for her help in their health journey. She is motivated now to stay healthy though she wasn’t always that way. When...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: AMerican Heart Association, Arizona, Barb Ziemann, businessman, careers, Community education, downsizing, Grand Rapids, hobby, John R. Ziemann, John Ziemann, photographer, relocating, sailing, walker, Ziemann
John Ziemann was living in Tucson, AZ in 1995 when he was presented with a dilemma. Work was no longer enjoyable and he was facing a downsizing from a career he loved and that had defined much of...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: doubles, eights, Grand Rapids Crew, Grand River, high school rowing, sculling
What divides them is what unites them. About 45 kids from various high schools across Grand Rapids...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: Architecture, Businesses in Grand Rapids, Citizen, City of Grand Rapids, Community, Diversity, GP Sports, Grand Rapids, Heart, Heritage Hill, Local, Love, Love Thy Rapidian, Mad Cap, Medical Mile, Neighbor, Neighborhood, Parks, Rapidian, Sculptures, Soul, Streets
Love Thy Rapidian - Love Thy Neighbor, they basically mean the same thing. Your neighbor is your fellow Rapidian. Not always necessarily those which live within the same proximity of each other,...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Hello fellow Rapidians. I’m Carol Manos of Carol's Ferals. You will be hearing a lot from me. Mostly about stray and...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids will be a venue
during the first annual ArtPrize event. Liz Heller, Benjamin Duke,...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: advocacy, Lisa Oliver-King, Moord, Our Kitchen Table
In four Grand Rapids neighborhoods (Baxter, Garfield Park, Eastown, SECA) there are residents looking at the partnership between household vegetable gardens and the urban community. An...
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Helen DeVos Childrens Hospital is a Grand Rapids-based hospital serving children throughout Michigan. A teaching hospital, it includes more than 150 pediatric specialty physicians with...
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Tagged: running, Shelley Irwin
A Q&A with the host of WGVU’s Morning Show
This periodic...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Written by Sister Sue Tracy, OP
Sent forth by the leadership team’s sung blessing, Sister Sue Tracy, OP, and Laurie Sefton, RN, headed to the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament in...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: John Ball Park, recovery, substance abuse, Tina Dee
Once again, it’s time for Recovery Palooza! It will be held Saturday, September 19th at John Ball Park. The event is the fourth annual celebration of substance abuse recovery. It is held every...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: Calvin College, Christianity, Corwin Smidt, Evangelical, Grand Rapids Historical Society, Paul Henry, politics
Many modern-day Evangelicals believe integrating Christian faith with political practice represents a clear battle between good and evil. But that’s not how one of earliest and most popular...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: GRCC, higher education, Steam Engines
GRCC students use a classic text to learn useful skills and machine mini steam engines. Watch this video to learn more about this valuable learning experience.
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: beta, cirivello, citizen journalism, launch, Rapidian
The Rapidian is an experiment. Not so much about technology, but about community building. The free flow of local information is crucial to community vitality, civic engagement and a functioning...
Posted: 15 years 2 weeks
Tagged: audio report, Bicycling, bike, Thomas Valdez, thomasav
Every Wednesday night at 9 p.m., bicyclists swarm on Division SE to take part in a leisurely group ride. Led by Commute...