Yvette Jenkins will open her shop, Love Travels Imports in the Grand River WorkPlace, 19120 Grand River, on Saturday, Sept. 20, and she is very excited. Her pop-up store combines her loves of travel, hand-made art, and her desire to know about the artists whose work she buys. Yvette’s store will sell fair trade goods…
It’s an interesting story, that of Rich Castillo. The path from ballroom dancing lessons at the North Rosedale Park Community House to an underwater stand-off with a male sea lion weighing in at 1000 lb.s is unusual and unusually interesting. While his footwork was no help in that situation, he did manage to escape unharmed,…
Looking for a new way for your friends and family to have fun? Sherrie Savage of Car-Go Paint has got an idea for you! For a fee of $25 or $30 a person, Sherrie will direct a group of people to paint a picture based either on a theme of the group’s choosing, or a…
Grandmont #1 resident De’Janay Jones, age 16, is not too proud to do the hard and sometimes dirty work necessary to make Detroit a bit cleaner each day. She also designs and makes clothes that have turned some heads. This summer, Monday through Wednesday from early in the morning to late afternoon, De’Janay is either…
“I couldn’t believe it!” That was Sweet Potato Sensations owner and North Rosedale Park resident Cassandra Thomas’ reaction when she found out that she was on the cover of Hour Detroit magazine. Cassandra recalled the interview with Hour editor and fellow North Rosedale Park resident Steve Wilke, and the trip downtown to get her photo…
Some people discover what they’re good at and what they love after years of searching and trying several things out. Some lucky few find it early. 19 year old Rosedale Park resident Emma Stark played just a couple of seasons of neighborhood baseball and soccer and knew that her future did not lie in either…
“Red-tail!” “I see it!” “Look! On the far tree, left of the main trunk!” The conversation is about birds and the 25 or so bird watchers, or “birders,” as they often call themselves, are excited about spotting a hard to see warbling vireo or a brilliant Baltimore oriole or a knocking red-bellied woodpecker or a…
For several years, Margaret Oldfield of Minock Park had a terrific neighbor named Tony. Before he moved in, Tony renovated the kitchen, refinished the floors, and painted. Margaret and Tony soon became good friends as well as good neighbors. After a few years Tony found that maintaining a home, working and going to law school…
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…
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…