Roy Marble, Trent Tucker, Glen Rice, Deanna Nolen, Charlie Bell, Mo Peterson, Mateen Cleaves, Jeff Grayer, Pam & Paula McGee, Monte Morris, Demetrius Calip, Desmon Farmer, Linnell Jones-McKenney – the list goes on and on. The number of exceptional basketball players and teams from the small city of Flint is astounding and an outlier when compared to cities of its size. Basketball and Flint go hand-in-hand and its reputation for the game is legendary. “The city’s reputation in basketball has helped us tremendously and we have players asking to come here,” says Kevin Mays, Team Market Owner of the newly formed Flint United Basketball franchise. “Basketball is a sport synonymous with Flint and we want to continue the tradition. A professional team in Flint just made perfect sense.”
The air was still. T.B.W. Stockton and his men stood quiet and ready. In just a few minutes time, the Battle for Gaines Mill would begin, throwing the field before him into chaos and his men into danger. Earlier that spring, General Stonewall Jackson harassed the Union Army throughout the Shenandoah Valley, slowly whittling away at it; while General Robert E. Lee amassed a huge number of men for a vicious assault, starting with Gaines Mill. It was up to General Fitz John Porter’s corps to stem the tide of setbacks and continue McLellan’s advance on Richmond. Stockton and his fellow union soldiers were outnumbered, but confident that they will be able to hold.
Alexis Brown has become adept at laughing off the assumptions, chuckling about the questions.
Flint Area Good News Riders #222 is a Chapter of the national organization, the Christian Motorcyclists Association (CMA). The mission of a CMA Chapter is to support the National CMA effort of “sharing and showing the love of Jesus Christ to motorcyclists,” according to Jim Flickinger, President of the Flint Chapter. Organized in 1935, the CMA is headquartered in Hatfield, AR. There are Chapters in 38 countries and 1,030 Chapters in the U.S. “The organization is nonprofit and non-denominational,” he explains. “Our goal is to save one soul at a time.”
Kind, gentle, compassionate, humble. These words have been used to describe beloved community leader, Dr. Samuel Dismond, who passed away in February at the age of 89.
Dr. Michelle Rosynsky, current YWCA Greater Flint CEO, has a dream. It started years back, when she was a member of the YWCA GF board of directors. Then, she imagined a place in Flint that would act as a hub for women to get together, support one another, learn valuable life skills and more; now, her dream is nearing reality. “We are in the process of acquiring the remaining funding needed to construct and implement the Women’s Empowerment Center at the YWCA,” says Rosynsky. “The YWCA’s mission is eliminating racism and empowering women and the new facility will help us to fulfill that mission. We have been supporting women since the YWCA Greater Flint was founded in 1908 and now, we are continuing to fulfill our mission in a new and exciting way.”
Have you ever had a nagging pain in the bottom of your foot? It plagues you in the morning and feels like a dagger stabbing you in your heel with every step you take. If this sounds familiar, you could be suffering from plantar fasciitis.
Spring is the time for flowers and plants. As soon as April begins, many of us flock to our local garden shops and nurseries, looking for a little bit of potted beauty to spice up our indoor and outdoor environments. This is all fine and fun; but if you have pets hanging around, you may want to be a little more discerning about the plants you choose to showcase. Some can be harmful if ingested by our four-legged friends, causing sickness and even death.
When there are no more balls to fetch, mice to chase or snuggles to give, when everything possible has been done to treat a beloved pet’s illness, the time comes when the only thing left to do is say goodbye. Our pets are our family. They grow up with us, comfort us when we are feeling down, rejoice with us in good times and love us unconditionally. We become their world and they become a large part of ours.
According to Dr. Prabhat Pokhrel, osteoporosis is a loss of bone mass or bone mineral density (BMD). About ten million Americans are affected by osteoporosis which in turn leads to bone fracture with minimal or even no obvious trauma. Normally, older bone tissues are replaced by new bone tissue throughout one’s life. Every ten years, a bone is replaced by a new bone. Decrease in the rate of new bone formation and/or increase in the rate of bone destruction leads to osteoporosis, which can be classified as primary or secondary.
