A West Michigan teenager has literally beaten cancer.
Fox 17 reports that Helen DeVos Children's Hospital held a special ceremony in which 17-year-old Henry Dai smashed a 3D replica of his tumor with a sledge hammer.
Henry was diagnosed with lymphoma in August and since then has undergone extensive chemotherapy, which ultimately shrunk and eliminated the tumor in his chest...
This weekend we have a lot of Sporting Events, Music, Video Games, Photographs, Holiday Gifts, an Ethnic Heritage Festival, a Healing Body, Mind & Spirit Expo, a .1K Race for Charity...and the weekend is an hour longer because of the time change! (Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour Sunday morning!)
One of Grand Rapids' most recognizable figures passed away yesterday at the age of 90. Helen DeVos, wife of Amway founder Richard DeVos and namesake of the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, passed away Wednesday, October 18th.
If you were driving along US 131 late Sunday morning, you likely saw firetrucks on most of the overpasses as you went through Grand Rapids, and Wyoming honoring someone or something, but what was it?
Well, fortunately, it wasn’t a funeral as many speculated; instead it was the annual send off for Kids Burn Camp which happens at YMCA's Camp Manitou-Lin...
Last week I sported my Wonder Woman Costume at Helen Devos Children's Hospital here in Grand Rapids. While I was there I had a special request to escort a young girl to one of her treatments because she was nervous. This girls name was Lola. Lola has leukemia and was a very impressive little girl.
I am very excited to announce that May 3 is Free Comic Book Day.
You can join me at Vault of Midnight in downtown Grand Rapids for the festivities! There will be tons of deals, prizes and giveaways that you could score!