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Downtown Market 2015 Classes

Downtown Market 2015 Classes

New Series for Kids, Parents, Gardeners, and Foodies The new year brings a brand new class schedule at the Grand Rapids Downtown Market, a destination for local food innovation, education, and experimentation. Beginning this month, many classes at the Market are part...

Quality Workspace in the Workplace

Quality Workspace in the Workplace

You know that scene in the movie Office Space, when the characters break free from their stifling cubicles, steal the malfunctioning printer, and use baseball bats to bash it to pieces in a field? Have you ever felt like that about your workspace? And then there's the...

Elizabeth Schenk: Business is Blooming

Elizabeth Schenk: Business is Blooming

Once upon a time, there was a young woman who enjoyed flowers. She was working at a greenhouse when she discovered she loved floral design, and dabbled in the art for years, learning mostly on her own. In 2005, she did flowers for her brothers—three family weddings in...

Inforum in West Michigan

Inforum in West Michigan

Ten Years. Extraordinary Experiences. 2015 marks a milestone in Inforum's 53-year history with our 10th anniversary in West Michigan. For a decade, Inforum and the West Michigan community have worked together to forge a future for women where talent meets opportunity...

The Power of Personal Branding

Join us! Wednesday, February 115:00 – 7:30 PM (5:00-6:00 Networking. Presentation begins at 6:00.)Bar Divani15 Ionia Avenue Southwest, Grand Rapids, MI 49503$25 per person includes: Networking, Wine, Hors d'oeuvres, and Presentation Professional success is no longer...

Vicki Poleni: Making Difficult Situations a Little Easier

Vicki Poleni: Making Difficult Situations a Little Easier

Licensed Master Social Worker Vicki Poleni recently began working in association with Plachta, Murphy & Associates, P.C. in an advocacy role. With more than twenty-three years' experience in behavioral health care, hospice, advanced care planning, and medical...

Five Habits for the New Year

Five Habits for the New Year

Allegedly, it takes twenty-one days of a particular activity to "create a habit." I like the idea of creating new habits—not necessarily resolving to do anything in the new year. Resolutions feel like a setup for failure. I mean, I'm still waiting to lose those thirty...

Fashionably Fit

Fashionably Fit

If you've just penned your New Year's resolutions and more exercise made the list, you'll want to know about the must-have items for a well-rounded exercise wardrobe. When heading to the gym or yoga studio (or working out at home), sport your prAna Roxanne legging...

Wine About Winter

Wine About Winter

So far, this winter hasn't given us too much to whine about ... but we don't need a reason to enjoy Wine About Winter, Grand Haven's annual wine and art event. Friday, January 16, from 5 – 9 p.m., a collection of businesses in Grand Haven's Centertown and Downtown...

Begin the Year With a Clean Slate

Begin the Year With a Clean Slate

Learn about the health benefits of detox. Keystone Pharmacy will host a free detox seminar on January 6 at 5:30 p.m. Brandi Grimmer, CPht, CNC, will lead the event. Grimmer says that a periodic detox can support the liver, which filters toxins from our bodies. The...