GRAND RAPIDS, MI – From beaching to biking, this edition of the Top 5 covers your entertainment options for the upcoming weekend. You can find this information every Thursday and Sunday in The Grand Rapids Press, online at MLive's event calendar, or on my Facebook page. Don't forget to check out the comments section below for even more events. The Beach Boys and The Temptations Classics like "Surfin' USA" and "Fun, Fun Fun" along with "My Girl" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" will be performed as two legendary bands – The Beach Boys and The Temptations – take the Frederik Meijer Gardens Amphitheater stage on Friday, July 31. or at the box office. This music festival on Saturday, Aug. 1, from 3-10 p.m. is presented by The Spoke Folks and Team Well House with proceeds benefiting Grand Rapids Climate Ride participants. The Climate Ride is a four-day cycling event that starts in Grand Rapids and ends in Chicago with stops in Holland, Lawton and Sawyer.
The event will be held at Spoke Folks Bicycle Coop, 221 Logan St. SW, and patrons will be entertained by nine bands with barbecue, beer and cider. Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door; An after-party is scheduled for 10 p.m. at The Pyramid Scheme. Local First Street Party: Lakeshore Local First brings another street party to West Michigan with the return of the Local First Lakeshore Street Party. This is the second year for the Lakeshore party, an addition to the Local First event hosted in downtown Grand Rapids. It will be held in Holland at Washington Square, at Washington Avenue and 18th Street, from 3-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1. Celebrate with the best of West Michigan's local music, food, beer and entertainment including New Holland Brewing Co., Vander Mill Cider and Lemonjello's Coffee. Street food vendors and a kids' activity area will also be available. Entertainment includes Grupo Super Nova, Audacious Hoops and more. Another weekend brings another county fair with the Newaygo County Fair opening its gates on Saturday, Aug. 1.
An annual tradition since 1955, the fair features livestock shows, historical exhibits, demolition derbies, wagon events, motocross, food, games and more through Aug. 8 in Fremont, 815 S. Stewart Ave. Admission is free and parking is $5. Grandstand entrance fees range from $3 to $10. Grand Rapids Children's Museum Birthday Party Celebrate the 18th birthday of the Grand Rapids Children's Museum on Friday, July 31, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a free street party packed with family entertainment. The free event takes place on Sheldon Avenue in downtown Grand Rapids with an animal themed birthday party featuring animal mask making, a bug matching game, bubble snakes, fish bean bag toss, snow-cones, animal tattoos and more. Regular admission will be charged to play inside the museum. Read full story by Todd Chance here.Skip to main content Recalls and safety alerts Sears Canada Inc. recalls Bean Bag Chairs What you should do Vinyl Bean Bag Chairs This recall involves polystyrene-filled vinyl bean bag chairs that have a single zipper on the exterior cover.
The round vinyl bean bag chairs measure 88" in diameter and were sold in purple, black, pink, royal blue, and red. A tag sewn into the bean bag chair's cover seam reads “Made By Comfort Research” and “100% Polystyrene.” The zippers on the bean bag chairs can be opened by children who can then crawl inside, become entrapped, suffocate or choke on the bean bag chair's foam beads. Neither Health Canada nor Sears Canada Inc. has received reports of consumer incidents or injuries related to the use of these bean bag chairs. Approximately 346 units of the recalled products were sold in Canada, online through Sears.ca. The recalled products were sold from March 2010 to March 2012. Manufactured in United States and China. Images (select thumbnail to enlarge - opens in a new window) Consumers should immediately take the recalled bean bag chairs away from children and check if the zippers can be opened. Consumers can contact Comfort Research for instructions to permanently disable the zipper.
Contact Comfort Research toll-free at 1-844-578-8933 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST Monday through Friday or at Comfort Research's website and click on the Product Recall link for more information. Please note that the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act prohibits recalled products from being redistributed, sold or even given away in Canada. Health Canada would like to remind Canadians to report any health or safety incidents related to the use of this product or any other consumer product or cosmetic by filling out the Consumer Product Incident Report Form.About UsGreat Coffee Starts With A Fresh Roast™ Craig A. PattersonOwner & Coffee Lover Craig started drinking coffee at age five, as required by his neighbor to have a piece of her delicious cinnamon coffee cake. From there, consumption of coffee followed over to Grandma’s house – to go with Dutch windmill cookies. As Craig grew older, by age twelve, he dropped the cream & sugar and drank coffee with his dad after Rocket football games with a Marge’s Donut Shop apple fritter.
Then he attended high school, college & graduate school where his coffee consumption grew exponentially and his tastes were refined. After several not-so-exciting jobs, he started to research opening up a coffee shop in his beloved hometown of Grand Rapids. Canvassing all over town for years, he found out to his dismay that Starbucks & Beaner’s took up the prime retail sites in Grand Rapids. After some soul searching in early 2002, Craig started to roast coffee beans at home while in the back of his mind, the idea of a coffee roasting business started to…percolate. Then in September 2007, he incorporated and purchased a brand new 5 kilo shop roaster from US Roaster Corporation – Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters was born! A diligent search for the ideal location pursued, with success found in a near abandoned warehouse on the top floor in the scenic Black Hills neighborhood of Grand Rapids. A plain looking wooden picture frame, located on a shelf in the roastery, displays the $10.00 bill from the first bag of coffee sold, to none other than, his parents…
Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters: Home of The Saturday Experience℠Drink More Coffee… In business since 2007, Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters began at the corner of Hall & Godfrey in a 100+ year old building that once housed Johnson Furniture Company. We are a micro-roaster who strives to produce both a great cup of coffee and an entertaining field trip to customers who visit our roastery. Saturday is the day that we are open to the public and encourage anyone who enjoys fresh roasted coffee to visit us for free brewed samples as well as a demonstration of the roasting process. We are open from 10:00am to 3:00pm every Saturday (except for major holidays & special events). On select Saturdays customers may sample coffee in a variety of ways: Bunn Brewed, AeroPress, Toddy Cold Brew System, Chemex Drip, Melitta Pour-Over and French Press or by pulling a shot of espresso on our Faema Espresso Machine. Saturday customers receive the special discounted rate of two pounds of any one of our custom roasted Select Single Origin coffees starting at $25.00.
Offerings include 23 Select Single Origin coffees, 24 Premium Specialty Blends, 3 Espresso Blends and a nice variety of gourmet flavored coffees. We produce many single origins and blends that are Fair Trade Organic Certified and take pride in being members of FarmLink and the Fulton Street Farmers Market. Why Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters? We are often asked why our coffee is so smooth and well balanced when compared to other coffees. Well first of all, we start with only the best specialty grade, 100% Arabica raw coffee beans found in the premier growing regions throughout the world. Here is where we have an advantage over the big commercial coffee roasters – we can locate & purchase better quality raw beans because we don’t need volume of beans they need per year. Then we gently roast our beans by hand in a 5 kilo Millennium shop roaster at lower heat to maximize the roast development time. This allows us to roast the coffee beans evenly, throughout the entire bean. The end result is a smooth, never bitter cup of coffee.
The commercial roasters work to meet productivity demands, not quality, and rush the roasting process by cooking at much higher temperatures. The higher temperatures have the effect of charring the outside of the bean while shrinking the roast development time to a minute or two. This produces a coffee with a bite or bitterness that you can taste on the first sip which leads even the most experienced coffee drinker to reach for the cream & sugar! After slow roasting our coffee, it is then air cooled for a few minutes prior to packaging. Believe it or not, many commercial roasters water cool their beans to add back in the weight lost in the roasting process! This is simply another profit driven measure since coffee is sold by weight, not volume. We invite you to visit us during The Saturday Experience to learn more about coffee, including: farming & processing techniques; coffee brokerage & importing; Fair Trade & Direct Trade; coffee grinding & storage; espresso and much more!
Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters Saturday Experience runs every Saturday from 10:00am to 3:00pm – excluding major holidays. Gift Boxes, Chocolates & Other Stuff In addition to our fresh roasted coffee and our own logo gear, we sell Premium Loose Leaf Tea, Bali’s Best Coffee Candy, Sencha Naturals Green Tea Leaf Mints, various chocolate covered goodies, coffee infused pure Michigan maple syrup, hand-framed burlap coffee bags, locally crafted coffee themed jewelry and various coffee brewing items. Custom gift boxes are available and range in price depending on items selected. While supplying many local independent coffee shops, restaurants, churches and businesses, Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters coffee can also be found in these specialty stores: Kingma’s Market and Butcher Shop, Creston Market, Grand Central Market, Robinette’s Apple Haus & Winery, Stems Flower Market, Sugar Momma’s Bakery & Café, The Granola Goddess, The Local Epicurean, Painted Farmgirl & Friends, Moon Drop Herbals, Silverberry Kitchen, D&W Fresh Market
, Little Lucy’s Cafe & Bakery, Making Thyme Kitchen North, Wealthy Street Bakery, Louis Earl Butcher, Under the Vines and Global Infusion in Grand Rapids, Central Park Market in Holland, & Zany Kitchen in Cheboygan. Delivery to businesses is free of charge on orders of 10 pounds or more within the Grand Rapids area. Order Monday through Friday before 10:00am and we will deliver your fresh roasted coffee the next business day. Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters Location We are located at 1111 Godfrey Ave SW in the south building (the corner of Hall St. & Godfrey Ave.) two blocks west of US 131. Enter off Hall Street at the back of the building and proceed up the wooden stairs to the loading dock area (Dock #4). Follow the fresh roasted coffee aroma down the hallway to the freight elevator or stairs which are on your left and go up to the top (fifth) floor, suites S-520 & S-530. We are directly across the hallway from the freight elevator or stairs. If you need assistance with the freight elevator, please call 616.308.7753 and we will gladly meet you in the lobby.