Grand Rapids

Plaster Creek Stewards stepping out: Connecting Grand Rapids with Sarnia, Okayama

Submitted 11-25-2014 under PLACE-MATTERS

Plaster Creek Stewards has been recognized for environmental advocacy, and shares accolades with other award winning programs worldwide for efforts to educate community and facilitate action to restore vital watershed.

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Lyon Street Cafe brings pourover coffee to Midtown

Submitted 11-25-2014 under NEWS

Kameel Chamelly and his daughter Alex Chamelly have brought Madcap coffee to the Midtown neighborhood, with much of the interior furnishings created from reclaimed lumber from the Grand Rapids area.

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Story Matters: Kiaeem shares his one wish for his family

Submitted 11-25-2014 under NONPROFITS

Kiaeem talks about his family and his future choices.

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Cosplay at Grand Rapids Comic Con explores media's final frontier: diversity

Submitted 11-25-2014 under OPINION

Civil rights took center stage at Grand Rapids Comic Con 2014 with Nichelle Nichols, the first woman to play a character who was not submissive to a man, and the first black woman in a position of power as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek.

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Grand Valley Ford team "goes further"

Submitted 11-24-2014 under LOCAL LIFE

A team of Grand Valley State University students created a video to tell the story of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, a nonprofit organization that propagates, archives and reforests species of ancient trees.

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Portrait: Artists deal with self, identity, culture at Free Radical 2014

Submitted 11-24-2014 under OPINION

Artists continue to explore self-awareness and self-presentation through portraiture work of various forms. Multiple artists at the 2014 Free Radical event are worth exploring.

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Story Matters: Officer Mike Harris explains his work at Boys and Girls Club

Submitted 11-24-2014 under NONPROFITS

Officer Mike Harris shares why he values his work at the Boys and Girls Club and how he would like to be remembered.

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Campaign to End Circus Cruelty Heats Up

Submitted 11-24-2014 under OPINION

End Circus Cruelty's campaign gathers at the City Commission meeting in large numbers, urging city leaders to pass an ordinance banning the use of wild animals in Grand Rapids.

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