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Grand Rapids' Gerald R. Ford International Airport is turning 60 you're invited to the birthday party!

It's also a celebration for the kids with a bounce house and ice cream.

One last "hoorah" before the kids go back to school!

A very large crowd of hockey fans gathered Friday afternoon at Rosa Park Circle for the Grand Rapids Griffins’ Calder Cup Championship celebration! “This celebration was 67 years in the making,” the event host and one of the play by play guys for the Griffins, Larry Figurski told the crowd...

This is the weekend that BaCon: A Bacon & Beer Celebration returns. The bacon-infused celebration is Saturday at The DeltaPlex Arena & Conference Center. BaCon features all things bacon: dishes, drinks and, of course, desserts. Tickets are still available.

Returning for the second consecutive year on Nov. 8 is BaCon: A Bacon & Beer Celebration. The all-things bacon celebration is a week from Saturday at The DeltaPlex Arena & Conference Center. BaCon features bacon-themed, -infused and -inspired dishes and drinks, and tickets are still available.

BaCon: A Bacon & Beer Celebration is back for its second annual event Nov. 8 at The DeltaPlex Arena & Conference Center. BaCon features bacon-inspired dishes and drinks for the celebration of all things bacon, and tickets are currently on sale.

BaCon: A Bacon & Beer Celebration returns for its second annual event on Nov. 8 at The DeltaPlex Arena & Conference Center. BaCon features bacon-inspired dishes and drinks, with tickets currently on sale.

BaCon: A Bacon & Beer Celebration is returning for its second annual event in November at The DeltaPlex Arena & Conference Center. BaCon features bacon-inspired dishes and drinks, with tickets going on sale this morning for the Nov. 8 celebration.

The kids are back in school, it's getting darker earlier and all of us are trying to squeeze just a little more "summer" out of each evening.  We'll squeeze summer out of another "festival weekend" in West Michigan with a bang, with music, with food, with drink...

A couple days ago that new talk show "The Talk" asked an interesting question.  Would you rather be the hostess or be the guest?  Talking to some of my friends most of them are telling me they would rather be the "guest" that way they don't have to do the work or the clean up...