After $2 million renovation, Greater Flint Health Coalition moves into donated downtown building
By Tom Travis The Greater Flint Health Coalition (GFHC) celebrated its newly renovated three-story headquarters in downtown Flint Monday with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The 12,000 sq. ft. facility is next to the northern end of Buckham Alley at 120 W. First St. At a cost of $2 million, the renovation took more than a year and half. The work started a month before the COVID pandemic shut-down in February, 2020. After several months...
Mobile COVID vaccination units available Thursday, Aug. 19 and 26 on Flint’s south side
Mobile COVID vaccination units will be in the Burton area and the surrounding neighborhoods of Hemphill Road and Saginaw Street on Thursday, Aug. 19 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. The vaccination units also will be in the surrounding neighborhoods of Atherton Road and Dort Highway on Thursday, Aug. 26 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Free lunches will be provided from the GCCARD Meet Up and Eat Up truck. Sponsors of the vaccination units are The...
Mobile COVID vaccination units available Saturday, Aug. 14 on Flint’s south side
Mobile COVID vaccination units sponsored by The Greater Flint Health Coalition (GFHC) in partnership with Genesee Community Health Center, Genesee County Community Action Resource Department (G.C.C.A.R.D.), and the United Way of Genesee County will be in the Lincoln Park Neighborhood and surrounding areas on Saturday, Aug. 14 from 12 a.m. to 3 p.m, according to a press release from the GFHC. Free lunches will be provided from the...
Genesee County at 52.5 percent COVID vaccination rate; Flint ranks among the lowest in state at below 35
By Tom Travis Shatarian Aliger, 35, an entrepreneur/fashion designer, said she overcame her COVID vaccination hesitancy out of concern for her family. Thursday, she got her second Moderna shot in the Flint Township office of Dr. Bobby Mukkamala. She had received her first dose July 13. “I was hesitant. I am the last one in my family to receive the vaccine,” she said. Her reluctance, she said, was due to hearing things...
Public opposition growing against proposed Ajax asphalt plant in northeast Flint
By Harold C. Ford “It literally stinks.” – Father Phil Schmitter, St. Francis Prayer Center, Aug. 11, 2021 Public opposition to a proposed asphalt plant on the northeast side of Flint was launched by a coalition of groups and individuals opposed to its construction at an Aug. 11 press conference held on the property of the St. Francis Prayer Center, 2381 Carpenter Rd., Flint. The Prayer Center property is adjacent to the proposed site...
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