🌱 Free Walk-In HIV Testing + A Season Of Shop Hop + Mr. Pop-Tart

Hello, people of Grand Rapids! It's me again, Miranda Fraraccio, your host of the Grand Rapids Daily.

First, today's weather:

Breezy with variable clouds. High: 45 Low: 43.

Here are the top stories in Grand Rapids today:

1. The Kent County Health Department is providing free walk-in HIV testing in observance of the 40th anniversary of World AIDS Day on Wednesday. Certified test counselors will be at the main clinic, located at 700 Fuller Ave. NE, to provide testing, answer questions, and connect residents with needed services from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. World AIDS Day is observed annually on Dec. 1 and is an opportunity for people to show support for those living with HIV, and remember those who have died. (mlive.com)
2. One person was shot in the ankle on Tuesday in Grand Rapids. The shooting occurred at around 12:15 in the afternoon, on Prince Street SE near Kalamazoo Avenue. The Grand Rapids Police Department do not yet have any information about who was responsible, but they say the victim's injury is not considered life-threatening. (WOODTV.com)
3. Uptown Grand Rapids is hosting A Season of Shop Hop again this year, running now through Dec. 24. (WOODTV.com)
4. 94-year-old Bill Post, a Grand Rapids man and the creator of Pop-Tart, reflects on the snack he created 57 years later. (WWMT-TV)
5. Grand Rapids Community College is participating in a new statewide scholarship program, The Michigan Equity, Courage, Hope and Opportunity Scholarship (MI ECHO), that offers free college tuition to essential pandemic workers who don’t qualify for other federal financial aid programs. (mlive.com)

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Today in Grand Rapids:

• Food For Thought: Preparing for the Storm - Baxter Community Center (12:00 PM)
• Hope Network Open Interviews - Hope Network (2:00 PM)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.