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Westside Neighbors Unite for Post-Flood Community Clean Up this Weekend
With the recent flooding along the Grand River, one local neighborhood is organizing and taking action. Westside neighbors will come together for the 5th Westside Community Clean Up this Saturday, April 27th. City dwellers from the downtown residential community are partnering with local businesses and area non-profits to recruit volunteers for this Saturdays Westside Clean [...]
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Women for the Westside Event, Thursday, March 7
You are all invited to a happy hour meet and greet next week called, Women for the Westside. The purpose of this event is to create an opportunity to celebrate women, diversity, unity and our love for the Westside. We are going to have featured beverages that we will name after Westside landmarks, a women-powerment [...]
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WinterWest 2013 Weekend #2 Round-up
Weekend #2 of WinterWest 2013 is in the books! Here’s a recap of this past weekend’s happenings and what you have to look forward to in the final week/weekend of WinterWest. The WinterRush folks held the 2nd Annual Richmond Park WinterRush 5k Adventure Race on Saturday. The course was adjusted this year to make it [...]
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Richmond Park Winter Rush 5k Adventure Race to highlight second weekend of WinterWest 2013 at Richmond Park
WinterWest 2013 rolls on this weekend with two exciting events presented by Winter Rush and Central District Cyclery – the Richmond Park 5k and the Fatbike GRR finale race. The second annual Richmond Park Winter Rush 5k Adventure Race will be held Saturday morning, with the first heat starting off at 11 am. Last year, [...]
WinterWest 2013 Weekend #1 Round-up
With the first weekend of WinterWest 2013 all wrapped up, we thought we’d give you a run-down on what has happened and what’s yet to come: Our motto with rink building tends to be, “What could possibly go wrong?” Unfortunately, things usually go wrong. While the weather cooperated for the most part, with a warm [...]
Crazy Cardboard Sled Competition to highlight first weekend of WinterWest 2013 at Richmond Park
On Sunday afternoon, the sledding hill at Richmond Park will play host to the Crazy Cardboard Sled Competition, a premier event of the WinterWest Festival on Grand Rapids’ Westside. WinterWest kicks off this Friday and runs through February 10, offering a variety of planned events like a 5k adventure race, a 3-on-3 Hockey Tournament, and [...]
News Archives
- Press Release: With 3rd Annual WinterWest just around the corner, festival organizers welcome return of cold weather to extended forecast
- It’s not too late – Come to the Green Gala Aug. 23!
- Downtown neighbors work together to clean up 10,000 lbs of garbage and invest in the cities West Side!
- Richmond Park Winter Rush releases seventh course element: The Limbo
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