We’re continuing our effort to support folks who look to Community Action House and Community Kitchen through the summer. Specifically, we’re looking for cash to buy the following items (bulk buying goes further!) but also welcome your gifts of #10 cans of fruit for the Community Kitchen Canned meats, especially turkey, chicken, and ham Baby […]

The In the Community page has been updated with information about an ongoing need for drivers for Good Samaritan Ministry clients. If you’re 18 or over and can help with a ride or two a week, check it out.

Tomorrow, July 28, you can satisfy your taste buds and support Lakeshore Habitat at the same time. From 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., Consumers Energy and Buffalo Wild Wings of Holland, 2899 West Shore Dr., Holland, are working together for Lakeshore Habitat. Diners present the Habitat flier (available online or at the Restore); Buffalo Wild Wings donates […]

Thursday August 19, 2010 Project Homeless Connect is a one day event where individuals who are homeless or in housing crisis can come and receive assistance from local service providers. As part of Project Homeless Connect, the Ottawa Area Housing Coalition is conducting a Point in Time count of persons experiencing homelessness. Along with many other communities […]

You’re all invited to a Summer Evening at Moran Park to support & celebrate a positive community Sunday, July 25,  from 6-9p.m. * hotdogs & chips provided * bring a salad & beverage & lawn chairs! * bring frisbees, games, balls * kids can bring sidewalk chalk & bubbles The Holland Police Department has asked […]

Park Christian Reformed Church and Good Samaritan Ministries join together to host award-winning, co-author, Dr. Brian Fikkert as he presents to the community from his book, When Helping Hurts – How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself on August 25, 2010. The book combines sound theology, solid research, foundational […]

Thursday, July 29, at 7 p.m. at the Park Theatre, 248 South River, Holland, MI. This community showing of the film, Papers the Movie: Stories of Undocumented Youth, is to provide information about challenges faced by immigrant youth — brought to the U.S. as children — as they turn 18 without legal status. This is […]

Support and celebrate a positive community! Join us on Sunday, July 25, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hotdogs and chips are provided, but you can bring a salad & beverage frisbees, games, balls, sidewalk chalk, bubbles”¦ lawn chairs & blankets The Holland Police Department has asked local churches to work together this summer to support our […]

Monday, August 2, 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., the 19th annual National Night Out party will be “Celebrating Neighborhood Spirit.”  Sponsored by the City of Holland and many local organizations and businesses, the event will include games, a pie-eating contest, bingo, dunk tank, car show, water rescue demonstration, and hot dogs for first 2,000 people. Also included […]

The Lakeshore Women for Peace and several other local organizations will host a Peace Event: Peace Poetry at the Peace Pole on Sunday, July 25. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. with a potluck supper at the Smallenberg Park (Fairbanks Avenue north of 16thStreet) pavilion; Music, singing, and poetry reading at the peace pole will […]