News Briefs June 19-30: Music in the Parks series begins, lead-fighting foods workshops offered
By Anne Trelfa Music in the Parks free summer concert series 2016 begins The Music In The Parks Free Summer Concert Series 2016 begins Saturday June 25. First in the series features the Flint Symphony Orchestra and the Flint Jubilee Chorale performing at 7 p.m. at Crossroads Village. Lawn seating is available free to all attending and NBC 25 will tape the performance live. The series continues at 7 p.m. July 7 at Mott Park with...
Donated checks to city “never cashed,” Mayor Weaver’s chief of staff says
By Jan Worth-Nelson Checks made out to the City of Flint as donations after the water crisis broke this year “have never been cashed,” Steve Branch, Mayor Karen Weaver’s chief of staff, told community partners in the Flint Water Recovery Group at a meeting today at City Hall. “To tell you the truth, they are sitting in the City Attorney’s office,” Branch stated. He said the donations amounted to...
Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology launches with complex stories, national interest
By Jan Worth-Nelson UPDATE: We have added late-arriving comments here from contributor Layla Meillier. Please see below. Editors and publishers nationally already are expressing interest in a new collection of essays about Flint, according to the publisher. Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology, is coming out this month from Belt Publishing, which produces an online magazine and books focused on the Rust Belt. Local writer and teacher...
News briefs June 10-11: Free Chamber Music at FIM, Concerned Pastors/MCC Water Summit
By Anne Trelfa Free Chamber Music Series continues June 10 at the FIM Fridays in June, the Flint School of Performing Art and Flint Symphony Orchestra present the 2016 Chamber Music Series. The four-concert series, sponsored by the Patricia Cumings Dort Fund and the David T. Dort Fund, began June 3 and is free and open to the public. The Chamber Music Series is held at 7 p.m. in MacArthur Hall of the Flint Institute of Music, 1025...
Hispanic/Latino group aims to help undocumented Flint residents cope with water crisis
By Stacie Scherman Among groups affected by the Flint water crisis, as some worried social service providers have pointed out, the undocumented immigrant community has been much challenged and under-represented. San Juana “Juani” Olivares, president of the Genesee County Hispanic Latino Collaborative (GCHLC), is trying to do something about that. She is working to make the so-called “U nonimmigrant visa” (U visa) available to...
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