Grandville Avenue

  • Dominican Sisters Celebrate Grandville Avenue Heritage

    Dominican Sisters Celebrate Grandville Avenue Heritage

    December 7, 2017

    Power of the people: Celebrating the heart and soul of Grandville Avenue MICHELLE JOKISCH POLO, EDITOR OF ON THE GROUND GR | RAPID GROWTH | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2017 Para leer este articulo en español dale click aqui. Sisters Donna Jean Thelen and Sister Dorena Gonzalez sit next to Veronica Quintino-Aranda, and the Maldonado family […]

  • Sister Joan Pichette, A Boy, and a Library Card

    Sister Joan Pichette, A Boy, and a Library Card

    October 13, 2016

    Sister Joan Pichette loves reading to children and has always delighted in bringing stories to life,  during her career as an elementary school teacher and later as a librarian at Grandville Avenue Neighborhood Library. The seeds of Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities (GAAH) were planted in the mid-1990s when the Roosevelt Park Neighborhood Association and […]

  • Sister Joan Pichette and the Grandville Neighborhood Library

    Sister Joan Pichette and the Grandville Neighborhood Library

    May 14, 2014

    A Story from Sr. Joan Pichette, as told to a friend. Being Director of the Grandville Neighborhood library was the happiest time in her life, exclaims Sister Joan Pichette. In the mid-1990s, a man donated his house across from Hall school to the neighborhood association. In 1995, the association decided to turn it into a […]