Updated on August 10, 2017
New to Grand Rapids, Michigan?
If you are new to Grand Rapids, please see below. Items
for visitors are listed first, then links for people who live
here.
If you are only here for a day or two, please see:
• Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
• Gerald Ford Museum
• Events!
• Events!
Enjoy!
Overview
Museums
Outdoors
Outdoor volunteering
Music and Performances
Pubs
Education
Lecture Series
User Groups
Jobs
Financial Help
Sports
Local News
Independence Day
Aviation
General Info
Neighborhoods
OVERVIEW
View videos "My Giant Little Town - Visit Grand Rapids"
and "The Grand Rapids LipDub".
Grand Rapids is NOT a dying city.
MUSEUMS
OUTDOORS
- Grand Rapids Hiking Group
- State Parks in the area (finder), such as Hoffmaster and Ionia
- North Country Trail Association NCTA
(map of the trail), kinda like the Appalachian Trail ACT and the Pacific Crest Trail PCT, but
longer--from New York to North Dakota, via Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
- For hiking (summer), cross country skiing and snowshoeing
(winter) at the 37 parks in Kent County.
- Grand Haven
Coast Guard Festival July30-August 8, 2010
- 5K run in Muskegon
- Bicycle group. Another bicycle group. Michigan bicycling and trail info.
Maps.
- Day hikes and programs > Outings or >
Current Newsletter
- For kids, there is a water park around here
somewhere—Michigan Adventure?
- swimming pool (indoors, actually) map
- Ada
Township video Space Worth Preserving
- short tourism documentary on areas north of here, from
about 1949
OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERING
MUSIC AND PERFORMANCES
PUBS
EDUCATION
LECTURE SERIES
USER GROUPS
(mostly computer programmer-type)
JOBS (mostly computer
programmer-type)
- Atomic
Object (awesome) (GR) now hiring! as of
2011-01-12 and 2012-10-22
- Bendix
- Collective
Idea (Holland)
- Consolidated Resource Imaging (CRI)
- Eaton
Aerospace (staffing up)
- Elevator
Up
- GE
Aviation > About > Careers, and its contracting
houses:
• Technisource/Randstad Technologies (head recruiter, my recruiter, say Hi from me),
• DornerWorks, or
• Belcan (GE's
preferred Integrated Supplier ISA, but don't see badges)
• Verocel
(Massachusetts)
• Performance Software
PSW (Phoenix, Arizona and elsewhere)
• Avista
(Wisconsin)
- Gentex
(Zeeland) now hiring! as of 2010-8-20 and 2010-11-30
- Gordon Food Service GFS
- Idea
Foundry
- JCI
- L-3
- Michigan
Aerospace Manufacturers Association (GR-based)
- Midcom
Corporation
- Mutually
Human Software (Grand Rapids)
- NVINT
(GR)
- Parker
Hannifin (Kalamazoo)
- Precision Aerospace (GR)
- Spectrum Health (GR)
- X-Rite laid
off lots of people. Then posted entry-level and senior
jobs.
- Got some Java jobs in my Inbox somewhere.
- Keep ears open on renewable energy companies:
• United Solar
Ovonic,
• Cascade Engineering
(by GRR airport) and others.
- I hear that of the outsourced Smithies who did not go to the
above, some moved to Maryland (Lockheed Martin), Phoenix
(Honeywell?), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Rockwell Collins), and Los
Angeles.
- General job-hunting
tips (ignore if you came from my other page).
FINANCIAL
HELP
Many Michiganders need help these days:
SPORTS
LOCAL NEWS
INDEPENDENCE DAY ACTIVITIES,
INCLUDING FIREWORKS!
- July 3 dusk, the valley behind Forest Hills Central High
School, bring a blanket to sit on and a flashlight and maybe a
cooler, many people park in this neighborhood and
walk—get here at 9 or 9:30pm, park and follow everyone
else, more info, free.
- Grand Rapids, East Grand Rapids and Grandville seem
to be putting on their fireworks July 4.
- More fireworks locations.
- July 4 7-9:30am pancake breakfast at the Ada firehall,
10am parade nearby, etc.
- July 4 parade and so on in Cascade info.
- Most communities have activities all weekend long, see this list or check your local paper!
- Grand Haven
Coast Guard Festival July30-August 8, 2010
AVIATION
GENERAL INFO
NEIGHBORHOODS
To learn more (including demographic information and excellent maps) about West Michigan's neighborhoods, cities, townships and counties, please see http://cridata.org > top navigation bar > Community Profiles > your neighborhood, city, township or county. Can waste use lots of time with the Interactive Map!
My neighborhood, map. Ada Township video Space Worth Preserving.
Closest school districts are (in order):
View my profile on Google.
Authored by Eric Piehl 2006/2017. Comments on/updates to this Web page.
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