Minock Park resident Anthony Cheatham, 16, is a thinking young man, a young man who pays quiet attention and then, seemingly effortlessly, figures stuff out. Last summer Anthony participated in the GRDC’s Youth Summer Arts Program. This was not Anthony’s first venture into art: “I’ve done art since I was a little kid. I’m good…
For its first two seasons, from 1990-1991, Grandmont Rosedale had two baseball teams: one T-ball team and one coach-pitch team. These two teams played in the Livonia YMCA League. After a season-ending trip to a Tiger’s game and a picnic in 1991, several parents believed that there was enough local interest for Grandmont Rosedale to…
Spend just a few minutes with 12 year old Grandmont resident Marcedes-Antoniya Preston and you’ll be convinced there’s nothing this girl can’t do. Soon after moving to Grandmont in 2012, she looked for a way to be on the Grandmont Community Association Board. “I noticed in the Grandmonitor that there was a board, so I…
Early this week a familiar friend’s life was saved by the attentive and vocal community of Grandmont Rosedale. A 200 year old white oak, with the circumference of 144” was scheduled to be cut down for the repaving of Verne Street between Warwick and Shaftsbury. Word quickly got out that “the tree in the road”…
There’s a good chance that as you read this North Rosedale Park resident Josh McClendon, age 14, is practicing cello. He plays every day, “whenever I can,” Josh says with a smile. His mother, Voncile Campbell, never has to tell him to practice: “He’ll play before he eats in the morning.” Josh’s first instrument was…
North Rosedale Park resident, Community House Building Manager and book club coordinator Nicole Daniels set up another table to accommodate the women who were arriving, books in hand. Shirl Ryan brought Jollof rice, a dish popular in Nigeria, the setting of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, the novel they were set to…
Grandmont resident Kevin Johnson is a busy man. As the Grandmont historian, Kevin stores and keeps track of his neighborhood’s newsletters, The Grandmonitor. Kevin doesn’t just store them though, he reads them. He reads them because he believes that “history is important. It’s important to leave a legacy, and that’s what I find in the…
Submitted by Kathy Garrett Have you noticed the new bench on the southeast corner of Grand River and Evergreen? Have you noticed the books sitting underneath the bench? Sit On It Detroit put that bench there because they saw a need for bus riders to have a place to sit while they wait. To make…
Submitted by Kathy Garrett The Best Classroom Project is a group of parents whose children were born since 2009 who are collaborating to find the best schools in Detroit. This city-wide effort welcomes parents who wish to share information, ideas and support in choosing schools for their children. North Rosedale Park resident, Sarah Hulett, has…
Seven years ago Commissioner Alisha Bell had a great idea. Commissioner Bell was talking with her mother about all the dresses so many women have in their closets that they’ve worn only once, and Commissioner Bell decided that those dresses shouldn’t just hang there unused. “At the time the economy was bad and many people…