City water bill refunds to start soon: 65% from April 2014 “until the water is safe to drink”
Within the last few days, Flint residents received text messages announcing the launch of the $30 million water bill refund program recently approved and funded by the state legislature and signed by Governor Snyder Feb. 26. Here is the text as it was sent on Sunday, Feb. 28, from helpforflint.com, a website of the Governor’s office. When will my credit start? The City anticipates the credits will be on bills issued within a...
Street light upgrades, zoning changes, water supply highlight CPNA meeting
by Nic Custer The Central Park Neighborhood Association discussed grant applications for lighting upgrades, mobile meetings, Riverside Tabernacle playscape improvements, Kearsley Street zoning and water distribution updates at their February meeting Norma Sain, executive director of the Court Street Village Non Profit Housing Corporation, outlined plans for grant applications and asked residents of other suggestions of improvements to...
Syracuse, New York galvanizes city-wide response to Flint’s water woes; Buffalo joins, too
By Stacie Scherman Four hundred miles away from Flint, Daren Jaime, pastor of the People’s AME Zion Church of Syracuse, New York, recently “had a vision in the middle of the night” about helping Flint residents cope with the water crisis. The next morning he reached out not just to his congregation but to the superintendent of the Syracuse City School District, who agreed to make every school in the district a drop-off site for water...
“Rebuild Flint” marchers pass by Karegnondi Pipeline, call for infrastructure, justice
By Nic Custer In the shadow of the former Buick City industrial complex and passing by pipes waiting to be installed in the Karegnondi pipeline, hundreds of diverse local and out of town activists marched a mile from the Metropolitan Baptist Church to the Flint Water Treatment Plant Feb. 19. Their aim, declared on signs and in speeches, was to demand new infrastructure and protest policies and politicians responsible for the city’s...
Coneys and Vernors in Beverly Hills: Hollywood comes through for Flint
By Jan Worth-Nelson About 200 people, half of them declaring they were from Flint, came together Sunday afternoon at Spaghettini’s in Beverly Hills, California, to raise money for Flint in the wake of its water disaster. By the end of the evening, which featured performances by country singer Ty Herndon and Flint native and jazz star DeeDee Bridgewater, more than $31,000 had been donated for flintkids.org. Contacted two days...
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