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This Saturday, May 14, the Grand Rapids letter carriers will once again take part in the nationwide Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Their goal: to collect 70,000 pounds of food, a roughly 10 percent increase from last year. Saturday, May 14, letter carriers here in West Michigan and around the country will be going door to door collecting food for local hunger-relief charities. In Grand Rapids, that

During the holidays we find ourselves wanting to tip our service providers: the mailman, the babysitter, our hairdressers, and that's been customary practice for years. But, these are different (and for some, desperate) times. We can't as frivolously throw an extra twenty some one's way because we're feeling generous. That twenty bucks can buy a lot of groceries, or school lunches, or it's being s