Cesar Vargas wins Grand Rapids Youth of the Year title
Submitted 03-29-2011 under NONPROFITS
Club members from the Steil and Seidman Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids recently submitted applications for this year’s Youth of the Year scholarship competition. After reviewing applications and holding interviews, this March, Cesar Vargas...
Presentando el Club Prensa GAAH—Millie M.
Submitted 03-28-2011 under NONPROFITS
Read this article in English | Leer este artículo en inglés Edición a cargo de Ruthie Paulson Gómez. El propósito del Club Prensa en el Centro Cook Arts es proveer para los jóvenes de la vecindad Avenida Grandville con la oportunidad para encontrar...
West Michigan therapy dogs create smiles one wag at a time
Submitted 03-25-2011 under NEWS
Friends Terrilynne Lymburner and Jeanne Lewis founded West Michigan Therapy Dogs (WMTD) in 2001 after witnessing the therapeutic effects on hospitalized patients during visits with therapy dogs. Lymburner and Lewis realized...
Help Your Child Become a Better Reader
Submitted 03-25-2011 under NONPROFITS
Literacy Center of West Michigan family literacy coordinator Shay Kraley provides complimentary tutoring, workshops and events designed to assist parents and caregivers in becoming better readers for themselves as well as their families. This ...
Skeptics in the Pub at Brewery Vivant on February 25th
Submitted 03-24-2011 under LOCAL LIFE
Skeptics in the Pub (SITP) is the name of the monthly meetup by the organization Center for Inquiry (CFI). According to the Center's website, their main mission is “to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and...
[VIDEO] GAAH Press Club cubs experiment with multimedia, learn to distinguish fact from opinion
Submitted 03-22-2011 under NONPROFITS
On a gray afternoon, the Cook Arts Center (644 Grandville SW) is a beacon of color. In the lobby, kids sit around a table, each with beams of crayons radiating around them. One floor above, their peers are busy at work patching together video...
Music of Cantarte Choir floats above the eyebrows
Submitted 03-16-2011 under LOCAL LIFE
*Leer este artículo en español | Read this article in Spanish If you happen to wander into Cook Arts Center (644 Grandville SW) on a Tuesday evening, follow the mellifluous voices of Cantarte practicing its repertoire in the...
Introducing the GAAH Press Club--Alexy C.
Submitted 03-15-2011 under NONPROFITS
Leer este artículo en español | Read this article in Spanish The purpose of the Press Club at the Cook Arts Center is to provide youth in the Grandville Avenue neighborhood with the opportunity to find, develop and share their creative voices...
Literacy Center honors The Rapidian at its annual BeeDazzling Spellebration
Submitted 03-14-2011 under NONPROFITS
By Lindsay McHolme, Community Literacy Liaison The Literacy Center of West Michigan presented awards to exceptional students, tutors and partners at its annual BeeDazzling Spellebration event on March 10. The Marshall Pitler Public Relations Award...
Civic Studio presents exhibition: Envisioning Art in Public
Submitted 03-11-2011 under NONPROFITS
Civic Studio will present Envisioning Art in Public, an exhibition focused on art and its public function on March 18th, 2011 at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. Projects in the exhibition aim to visually interpret a range of topics...