In the past couple of decades, it has been realized that several moons in the solar system appear to have vast oceans of liquid water underneath icy frozen exteriors. This talk will explore several of these moons including Europa, Enceladus, Titan, and Ganymede. 6-9pm.
Get ready for four days of amazing BBQ — all for a good cause. Dave Burton, owner of World Class Bar-B-Q located at 5101 N. Saginaw Street in Flint, is firing up the grill and giving back to the community. World Class Bar-B-Q is donating all of the proceeds from the food they sell from Thursday Sept. 5 – Sunday Sept. 11 to support the soup kitchens at Catholic Charities. The workers at World Class Ba-B-Q are donating their wages and all their tips!
Don’t miss it art lovers! Friday, September 6 will be the last day of the Mott Community College Faculty Exhibition sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council. The exhibit showcases original works of art created by the Mott art faculty. The 4,000 sq. ft gallery at Greater Flint Arts Council is filled with wonderful works of art in a large variety of mediums. Admission to the gallery is free and it is open today, Thursday and Friday from 9am-5pm.
Get ready for some fun this weekend! The 12th annual Bikes on the Bricks will take place in Downtown Flint Sept. 6-Sept. 8, where thousands of motorcycles will hit the bricks on Saginaw Street. The event was founded in 2007 and has become Flint’s premier biker event, featuring a bike show, police skills competition, food and merchandise vendors, and police escorted ride.
Genesee County has a wonderful history of amazing athletes in every sport and from all walks of life. In September, football is in full swing and just in time for the season, MCM presents the Top 10 all-time football players from Greater Flint!
From August 6 thru September 4, Greater Flint residents were presented with an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Founded in 2003 with the mission to “preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world,” StoryCorps, partnered with Michigan Radio, arrived in Flint to record the hopes, thoughts and histories of our community.
Perspective in America began to shift in the ‘90s. While the ‘80s represented the self and the actualization of domestic concern, leadership in the ‘90s began to look outside the border and beyond. In 1990, NASA released the Hubble Telescope into orbit to gain an unobstructed view of the universe and its deployment has been integral to our understanding of the universe. On our planet, 1990 began a turbulent time when Iraq, under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, invaded the neighboring country of Kuwait. This led to Operation Desert Storm the next year, which ended quickly after only 100 hours of ground fighting; but it began a period of major U.S. involvement in the Middle East that would stretch far into the future. Immediately following Desert Storm, President George H. W. Bush found himself in a two-front political war at home. The 1992 Presidential election pitted incumbent Bush against Democrat Bill Clinton and upstart, Ross Perot. Clinton emerged victorious. The next year brought tragedy with the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York which killed six, and then the WACO disaster that took 76 more lives. The first half of the decade ended in more foreign policy with the creation of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
For over 40 years, Edith Campbell has dedicated her free time to helping dogs in need throughout the City of Flint. “It really started at Christmas in 1967,” she remembers. “I worked at Buick and driving to and from work, I would see dogs that looked starved. I felt I had to do something about it.” She began to tell co-workers about her plans and they began donating food and pet supplies. “I started using Christmas as an excuse – I asked the owners of the suffering animals if I could give their pets a Christmas present.”
Terry Matlock, founder of Terry Matlock School of Performing Arts, began her dance education when shewas just three years old. “Dancing was my passion,” she shares. Growing up in Flint, Matlock started teaching dance in her parent’s basement studio at age 14. “I charged 50 cents a class,” she remembers. Her very first student, Mary Blevins, is now one of her teachers and studio manager. When Matlock was 18, she rented her first commercial building for her dance school and her students’ first recital was held at Freeman Elementary School.
The eighth chancellor of the University of Michigan-Flint is an engineering educator and longtime academic administrator. Debasish Dutta served in senior administrative positions at several Big Ten institutions including Michigan, Illinois, Purdue and Rutgers, where he served as chancellor. He now lives in Flint with his wife, Fataneh Taghaboni-Dutta, Ph.D., who was a faculty member at UM-Flint for nearly 20 years. Chancellor Duttta is thrilled to return home to Michigan and seeks to make a positive contribution to the revitalization of Flint and Genesee County.
In 1970, during a large, national teachers’ strike, a few college grads saw a need for a new kind of education in Flint. They saw the need for an alternative to the private and public schools in the area, so they established The Valley School as Flint’s only independent, secular K-12 school. Since its beginning, Valley has welcomed students of all nationalities, races, religious and economic backgrounds. They strive to provide a safe place for students to learn and prepare for the next step. They are strictly a college preparatory school and it is something they do well. “Our kids attend colleges all over the United States and at home, from Mott to the University of Michigan to the Ivy League,” says Nancy Brandt, Counselor. “We are so proud of all of them.”
