#thornapple river

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Winter Solstice Trail Adventures along the Thornapple. ❄️🍂 ft. my love 🤍 @iloveyou-326

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Pere Marquette E7 101 with pre-inaugural Pere Marquette consist (no dining car) posed for publicity photo on Thornapple River bridge east of Grand Rapids, August 1946.

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Randall Nyhof  --  Thornapple River Flowing Water By Alaska Michigan

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Finally got to kayak! Work is a real drag when it steals your friends away. Adulting and responsibilities are a necessary pain in the ass.

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Untitled by Joey Harrison Via Flickr: [Photo by my father, commentary by my mother] Jerry snapped this in 1949 near Ada, a small town east of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the dammed-up Thornapple River is about to join with the Grand. Ada is known by many as the home of the huge Amway Corporation (now called Alticor), a multilevel marketing company. The conservative company was founded in 1959 by Grand Rapids entrepreneurs Jay VanAndel and Richard DeVos. Jerry told me in the '40s about a couple of customers, Jay and Rich, World War II veterans who were running a flying school on the river using an old pontoon plane. He said admiringly they couldn't afford a flying field or airport fees, so they used the river. This lovely Sunday in 1949 found us on the Thornapple River -- no planes in sight! Jerry had ordered a folding plywood rowboat as a surprise for our anniversary. He had it stenciled with a sweet name referring to me. It folded in half and was carried atop our two-toned 1949 Nash coup. We loved spending lazy afternoons on the water in the sun. We would pack a lunch of sandwiches and lemonade and then while away the hours paddling into unexplored coves, perhaps dropping a fishing line here or there, (we never caught anything!) exchanging our week's accumulation of news, and frequently jumping overboard to swim and cool off. While many would have carried a 6-pack, we took a camera bag.

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Thornapple River

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In fact, there has to be a better option than moving the deicer dumping ground from one body of water to another.  The DEQ and the airport should return to the table and find an option that doesn’t involve sending an environmentally harmful chemical into the county’s waterways.

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By Cami Reister:

The board at the end of August submitted a request to the state Department of Environmental Quality to spend $15 million to funnel storm water runoff from the airport directly to the Thornapple River, bypassing a small tributary into which it now empties