Tom Rademacher

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Tom Rademacher was long-time reporter and columnist for The Grand Rapids Press, where he specialized in wringing the extraordinary from the seeming ordinary.

Food ‘angels’ support hungry kids through pandemic

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They work all across Kent County, guardian angels with peanut butter on their hands and crumbs on their shirtsleeves...

Dean Transportation: It’s all about the kids

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Dean Transportation, which carries some 80,000 students to and from school in Michigan, operates on a philosophy of caring for each one of them under the leadership of Kellie Dean, a former special-education teacher...

A limp can’t slow this high-achieving fighter who helps others

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

Lauren Hudson, the most recent student recipient of the YWCA West Central Michigan’s Tribute Award, overcame the painful effects of a rare hip disease to do great work in school and for others...

Nick Minnema – special and driven, for all the right reasons

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The Forest Hills Transition Center student and athlete competed this month at the Special Olympics World Games half a world away – in the United Arab Emirates’ capital city of Abu Dhabi, as well as the UAE’s largest city, Dubai...

Ryan Colburn, MacGyver of the vet world

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Ryan Colburn is the only full-time veterinarian at the John Ball Zoo, and the man behind the scenes who makes sure that some 1,500 animals are physically fit for your viewing pleasure...

Dedicated educator retiring after 44-year career, during which “I knew ‘em all”

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

When the school bells ring and they throw open the doors at Northview Public Schools this coming autumn, it’s likely Dan Duba, principal at Crossroads Middle School, will be elsewhere. For the first time in 44 years...

Lupe Ramos-Montigny: ‘Everyone Deserves to be a Part of Something’

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

Lupe Ramos-Montigny has done as much as anyone – and perhaps more than any Latina – to advance educational opportunities for children in Grand Rapids and beyond...

Stop, Look and Here’s Some Love

Grand Rapids Tom Rademacher

When Kattie Eason first stepped onto a Wealthy Street SE corner to serve as a school crossing guard at Henry Elementary School – now Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Academy -- she was 21 years old.

Can’t Keep A Can-do Man Down

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It took the better part of four years for Mike Alanowski to get his foot in the door as a full-time employee in the...

A Promise Made, a Promise Kept

Grand Rapids Tom Rademacher

For more than 150 years, they've been turning out heroic figures at the former Grand Rapids Central High School – now Innovation Central High. But...

‘Make a Place Better Than When You Got There’

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It's not so much that Wyoming High School graduate Mirnes Kukic is bound for Harvard University as it is the personal qualities that surface...

A Special Chair for a Special Child, Designed with Love

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It's billed as a "Health Sciences Early College Academy" for area high schoolers to get their feet wet in healthcare professions, biomedical technology and...

From Childhood Terrors to Lofty Dreams

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

For weeks on end, she chose to hold her tongue, and at one point, an instructor finally asked her why. With absolutely no malice, she...

Young Giants on the Move

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You'll have to excuse Justice Shoalsand Hannibal Spencer if they appear more as a blur than standing still. It's just that these two young...

There’s No Reining in This Student Leader

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Once upon a time, there was a little girl of just 4 years old who lost her foot in a tragic accident involving a...

Stepping up to Eleven

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At Grandville Middle School a while back, they lifted up a beautiful bunch of Somebodys. But these six seventh- and eighth-graders weren't elevated for their...

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