RIVER CITY WATER FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE GRAND RIVER

Grand Rapids is gearing up to celebrate the third annual River City Water Festival, which will be held on March 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Grand Rapids Public Museum. The festival is a celebration of the Grand River and the ways in which to shaped the city of Grand Rapids.

The festival will feature hands-on and educational exhibits that will show participants the importance of keeping the waterways clean and preventing future destruction. There will also be an award ceremony for the Water Superhero Poster contest, a contest that was open to 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students in the era. The top 20 posters will be on display.

The event is free and open to the public.

GRAND VALLEY NAMED TO TRANSFER HONOR ROLL

GVSU has recently been named to Phi Theta Kappa’s(the world’s largest international honors society for two year schools) 2017 Transfer Honor Roll, a list that recognizes colleges and universities for their excellence in providing pathways for community college students to transfer with ease. GVSU is one of 63 schools that made the list.

Schools that made the list are judged on partnerships between institutions, collaboration with community colleges, assistance pre and post transfer and innovations in transfer pathways. The university will be publicly recognized in PTK’s publication “Partners in Excellence”.

CAGE FREE TO HOLD FILM SHOWING ON THE EFFECT ONE’S DIET HAS ON THE PLANET

Cage Free, a student led advocacy group on campus, will be holding a three part film series on the effect changing one’s diet has on the world around them called “Vegucate Yourself: Showing off Forks Over Knives”. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday March 16 in Area 51 at the Kirkhof Center.

The group hopes that the film will shed some light on the positions one puts their health, environment and society in because of unsustainable practices. The event is LIB 100 approved.

RESISTANCE SERIES HOLDS SECOND PART ON ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICES

The Resistance Series will be holding it’s second part of its awareness and action campaign on Monday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Kirkhof Center, focusing on environmental injustices that have taken places over the past couple of years in places like Flint, MI and the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Native American reservation.

The discussion will focus on the racial/ethnic disparities as well as addressing the effects they can have at local, regional and national levels. There will be a guest speaker and the event is LIB 100/201 approved.