Homeschool Community Opportunities

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The West Michigan Home School Building has many wonderful resources for homeschooling families. If you want to keep abreast of all the latest home school information, events, and opportunities in West Michigan, you will definitely want to subscribe to their Home School Connections Digest. They offer a FREE e-mail newsletter called the Home School Connections Digest, which comes out at least once a week. Or for $10 per year you can receive a monthly compilation of valuable information from the Home School Building in the mail. Visit the Home School Building web site www.homeschoolbuilding.org to subscribe to these updates. Due to space, Koinonia will rarely put any information from the Home School Connections in our newsletters. We assume that you will subscribe to that information individually.

Want To See The Stars?

The James C. Veen Observatory has visitor nights! Along with the observatory telescopes, association members set up their own telescopes so visitors can view the splendors of the night sky. Visitors can tour the facility and enjoy an audio-visual presentation. Bring the family for a special evening.

Admission: $2 for adults; $1 for 17 and younger, free for children under 5

WHERE: 3308 Kissing Rock Road, Lowell

Call the Observatory at 897-7065 for weather status.

WEBSITE: www.graaa.org

Want To See MORE Stars?

The Calvin College Observatory is open to the public on clear Wednesday evenings throughout the year. All are welcome. Larger groups should contact the observatory director (Prof. Larry Molnar, 526-6341 or lmolnar@calvin.edu in advance. If in doubt about the weather, you may call the telescope dome directly at 526-6435.

During the school year, the dome opens at 7:30 pm or one half hour after sunset (whichever comes later), and remains open until 11 pm. During the summer, the dome opens one hour after sunset, and remains open until midnight.

Enter the Science Building through the door marked by the red arrow on the map on the website: www.calvin.edu/academic/phys/observatory . Then climb the stairway to the left all the way to the top.