SBV of the Week: Develop Recycling Plan for Camp Facility
Submitted 01-06-2011 under NONPROFITS
Each week the Volunteer Center highlights an exciting skill-based volunteer (SBV) opportunity found on our Volunteer Solutions website. This week's SBV opportunity comes from Camp Blodgett: Camp Blodgett is located on the shore of Lake Michigan...
Thinking Green: Ethics for a Small Planet
Submitted 01-04-2011 under NONPROFITS
You are invited to a presentation by Dr. Karel Rogers, author of Thinking Green: Ethics for a Small Planet, on Saturday, January 29, 9:30 a.m. at Dominican Center at Marywood, 2025 East Fulton in Grand Rapids. Parking is accessed from Lakeside...
WT Centennial: The Ghost Light
Submitted 12-23-2010 under NONPROFITS
As you may know, Community Media Center's Wealthy Theatre kicks off its Centennial Celebration at Midnight on Dec. 31, 2010 - at the Starlight Six New Year's Eve Concert, on the theatre's main stage, in Peter Wege Auditorium. At Midnight, Wealthy...
Stability through Innovation: Securing the Wealthy Theatre’s Next 100 Years
Submitted 12-23-2010 under NONPROFITS
Stability through Innovation: Securing the Wealthy Theatre’s Next 100 YearsBy Erin Wilson, Theatre DirectorWealthy Theatre, in Grand Rapids, MI, designed by prolific architect Pierre Lindhout (1891-1940), turns 100 in 2011. Operated by Grand Rapids...
Green Retro Goods: Minty Keen
Submitted 12-16-2010 under LOCAL LIFE
Like its carefully selected name, Minty Keen is fresh (as in minty) green (as in minty), filled with vintage goodies (as in keen) and Michigan-made goods (the MI in minty). All this thinking about a name, a location and what she would sell, kept...
Live coverage of Sunday Soup #9 - Holiday potluck
Submitted 12-10-2010 under NEWS
Today is Sunday Soup #9, and after salivating all week, attendees will be ready to chow down. The holiday edition of Sunday Soup at 6 p.m. is a combination of the November and December soup events. For those who cannot make it, I will be...
Pollution in the Grand River
Submitted 12-07-2010 under OPINION
"Filthy water cannot be washed." - African Proverb If you’re familiar with downtown Grand Rapids, you’ve likely been exposed to the deteriorating quality of the Grand River. Poor water quality prevents people from fully...
The Urban Shopping Experience
Submitted 12-03-2010 under OPINION
Downtown retail is an indicator of a healthy city. The suburban ethos of the 50s and 60s left Grand Rapids, like many other cities, with deteriorated business cores that were primarily only used as commuter office spaces on a nine to five schedule....
White House Asian Carp Director Speaks in Grand Rapids
Submitted 12-03-2010 under NONPROFITS
WMEAC hosted John Goss, Asian Carp Director for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, as one of its keynote speakers at Tuesday’s FIGHT EM & FILLET EM Asian Carp Awareness Dinner. Goss was appointed earlier this fall by...
WMEAC Puts Asian Carp On the Menu for FIGHT ‘EM & FILLET ‘EM Awareness Event
Submitted 11-29-2010 under NONPROFITS
The West Michigan Environmental Action Council and San Chez Bistro are putting Asian carp on the menu as part of an exclusive culinary event to benefit efforts to keep the notorious invasive species out of the Great Lakes. FIGHT '...