On Saturday, May 19th, the Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra will be special guest at the 9th Annual East Kentwood High School Jazz Dinner Dance. Come out, dance the night away and enjoy a great time with music by East Kentwood's award winning jazz ensembles and see one of Michigan's premier professional jazz bands in concert.

For more than 35 years, The Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra has been setting the pace of jazz music featuring some of the finest musicians in the area playing swinging original compositions and arrangements as well as traditional favorites.

The program is from 6-10 p.m. in the East Kentwood Freshman Campus Cafeteria. The Olive Garden Restaurant is providing dinner.

From: http://www.kentwoodps.org/

East Kentwood High School Wins North American Sports Surface of the Year Award in the K-12 Category!

"East Kentwood High School, an amazing high school field house installation featuring more than 66,000 ft2 of Robbins' sports flooring - padded polyurethane, GalaxyR and a padded polyurethane SportwoodR Ultra-Star Fusion floor."

Beginning in the fall of 2012, Calvin College will become the first undergraduate institution in west Michigan to offer a major in public health--an emerging field, which offers a wide range of career opportunities both locally and globally.

Arlene Hoogewerf, chair of Calvin's biology department, is co-directing the new public health program with Economics department chair Scott Vander Linde. Hoogewerf says that the push to offer public health programs at the undergraduate level has occurred within the last five years.