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For the first time ever, Local First is putting up billboards and placing Web advertisements all over West Michigan. The message is simple: Support the people that live in your community by shopping local. West Michigan is full of locally owned businesses that make this place unique. The Discover Your Local Treasure campaign will give business owners the chance to tell their stories and community members the platform to share their local treasures.
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Many may never know the story of going without good food for days or trying to sleep hungry, but there is a simple way to help one child who does—dining at one of twenty-five restaurants through FoodCircles.
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The annual Tanglefoot Building Artists Studio Sale returns invigorated for its twenty-second anniversary of the annual open studio place-making event on Friday, November 22, and Sunday, November 24, 2013.
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Elaine Dalcher, Painter
Dalcher’s new paintings and monotypes continue her interest in the landscape. Beginning her work outdoors within the landscape, she moves the canvas into the studio to continue the work, concentrating on creating a mood referenced by the landscape and remembered, not tied to it. Dalcher received the YWCA 2012 Tribute! Award in the Arts, honoring her work as an artist and educator in the greater Grand Rapids community.
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Dégagé Ministries will host its annual year-end benefit, Celebrate Dégagé, on November 22, 2013 at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. The event will bring together Dégagé staff and volunteers, along with donors and friends of the ministry. Among the milestones being celebrated is the recent tenth anniversary of the Open Door Women’s Center, an overnight shelter for women in crisis. Some of its undertakings:
