WelcomeWest
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Press Release: With 3rd Annual WinterWest just around the corner, festival organizers welcome return of cold weather to extended forecast
After another unseasonably warm weekend, organizers of the annual WinterWest event are excited to see sub-freezing temperatures in the 10-day forecast. The two-week event, which will be held at Richmond Park on Grand Rapids’ Westside, begins in less than two weeks and will run from January 25 – February 10. “Temperatures in the teens by [...]
It’s not too late – Come to the Green Gala Aug. 23!
It’s not too late for you to enjoy the greenest bash of the year – the Green Gala – a fundraiser for the Friends of Grand Rapids Parks. Friends of GR Parks is one of the presenting partners of WinterWest and working on a number of amazing projects around the City. This is a great [...]
Downtown neighbors work together to clean up 10,000 lbs of garbage and invest in the cities West Side!
Downtown neighbors are teaming up on Saturday May 19, to pick-up the trash left behind the cities’ West Side during the long winter months. The fourth annual West Side Community Clean Up will mobilize volunteers and arm them with maps, trash bags and rubber gloves for the three hour power clean up. “Last year, 30 [...]
Richmond Park Winter Rush releases seventh course element: The Limbo
Grand Rapids, Mich, January 18, 2012 – The Richmond Park Winter Rush (www.WinterRush.com) will be held at Richmond Park (1101 Richmond St NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49504) on January 28, 2012 starting at 11AM. The Winter Rush is an extreme race designed to incorporate the natural outdoor elements of Richmond Park. The course consists of [...]
