What is The SOURCE? The SOURCE is a not-for-profit employee support organization designed to help employees keep their jobs, receive training to enhance their employment, and help employees move into better positions within or across companies. The SOURCE works with employees from: • American Seating Co. • Butterball Farms, Inc. • Cascade Engineering • Cascade Fresh Cleaning Co. • Clark Retirement Community  The SOURCE can help you find summer opportunities for your children. There are camps and programs in the Grand Rapids area that offer affordable fun throughout the summer months. For example, Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS), YMCA and the Grand Rapids Public Library offer a variety of activities for kids and families. These programs include recreational activities, arts and cultural events, field trips, reading incentives and more. Affordable Summer Camps are also available; these include adventurous day camps, family activities, horseback riding, sports and overnight camps. The SOURCE can also help you find daycare for the summer months. If you have any childcare needs over the summer and want to start planning, call The SOURCE at 452.5295 and let us help you! Decc Co.  Express Employment Professionals  Grand Rapids Foam Technologies • GR Spring & Stamping • Head Start for Kent County • Holland Home • Imperial CRS, Inc. • Porter Hills Retirement Communities & Services • Pridgeon & Clay • Richwood Industries • Spectrum Industries Grand Rapids 4th of July Celebration When: Thursday, July 4 beginning @ 5pm Where: Ah-Nab-Awen Park What: The celebration kicks off with a parade followed by musical performances from Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Blue Molly & more! In addition, there will be cirque-style productions by The Daredevil Circus Company. All leading up to the firework extravaganza @ 10:30pm! Grand Rapids Children’s Museum’s Birthday Block Party When: Wednesday, July 31 @ 11am-3pm Where: Grand Rapids Children’s Museum (Downtown) What: A celebration of the Children’s Museum’s Birthday with an afternoon full of Carnival Games, Prizes, and Fun! • St. Ann’s • Vi-Chem Corp. • Wolverine Coil Spring Please call us at 616.452.5295 for more information or feel free to stop by the office at any time. Our office is open 8am to 5pm Monday through Thursday and 8am to 4:30pm on Friday, but special arrangements may be made for after hour appointments to best meet your needs. This is how The SOURCE caseworker was able to help someone in a similar situation: While at a site visit, an employee approached the caseworker about transportation - getting to work was difficult. The employee was without a driver’s license and found getting rides back and forth to work to be unreliable. The employee lived 2.5 miles from work and on a shift that did not match the bus schedule. The caseworker was able to meet the employee at work the next day and loan them a bike, lock and helmet through the SOURCE bike program. The employee used the bike to get to work for 3 months while they saved up enough money to pay off their fines. Once the fines were paid, the employee was able to get a driver’s license and purchase a car. The employee then returned the bike to the SOURCE and has referred co-workers to the bike program. The SOURCE Page 2 GOVERNING BOARD OF DIRECTORS If you or someone you know are no longer in need of a bike or would be able to help repair a bike, The SOURCE would appreciate donations of gently used bikes and/or your assistance with repairs. The donations will be used for the Bike Program that we offer to the employees of our member companies. Please contact us via phone at 616-452-5295 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Thank you in advance from all of us here at The SOURCE! This month we would like to feature the employees of Butterball Farms. Butterball is heavily represented in our community! Employees volunteer at In The Image for the SHOES event every fall, providing kids with new shoes for school. They also have multiple clothes drives and support the Fore the Kids Golf Outing. The employees participate in the downtown Relay for Life. They raised over $5,000 this year for the American Cancer Association! Cancer survival rates have improved significantly over the last 40 years due to support from volunteers like Butterball employees. Well done! Employees support the 5k walk for Wedgewood too. What a great way to support a local organization and get some activity in for the wellness program! Potters House is supported through a yearly scholarship, and the employee’s staff a field day every year for the students. Employees also teach Junior Achievement classes at Potters House. Butterball supports the arts too! They presented employees with tickets to Picnic at the Pops, and memberships to the Public Museum. What an excellent employee benefit while supporting community! Other local organizations are supported through memberships and volunteering on various boards. Thank you Butterball employees for supporting a variety of organizations and programs in our community! Your participation and support make a big difference to many in our community. Mark Peters, Chairman Butterball Farms Gina Triick, Treasurer Spectrum Industries Kelley Losey, Secretary Cascade Engineering Maureen Conway Aspen Institute Corey Hendges GR Spring & Stamping Mary Hockwalt Head Start for Kent County Mark Smith Rhoades McKee Sheryl Thompson Department of Human Services CONTACT INFORMATION Randy Osmun Executive Director [email protected] Kim Kooy Office Manager/Wellness [email protected] Erika Gonzalez Case Manager [email protected] Joyce Lewis Rohrer Case Manager [email protected] The Relay For Life events are back this year and going strong in the fight to end cancer and raise awareness throughout communities. Hundreds from the community come out to show their support by either volunteering or cheering on the relay participants from the sidelines. Several employees from Butterball Farms (as shown on the left) recently volunteered at the Relay For Life of Grand Rapids event that was held downtown at Ah-Nab-Awen Park on June 14. The event raised over $100, 000 with a total of 40 teams and 330 participants. Nicely done!! For more information on an upcoming relay event near you, please visit www.relayforlife.org. Ashley Mannion-Woodward Case Manager [email protected] Denise Blair Education/Training Consultant [email protected] Jacqueline Villegas Administrative Assistant [email protected] 1409 Buchanan Ave SW Grand Rapids, MI 49507 616.452.5295 www.grsource.org