Aiming to bring the greater Flint community together through food, live music, and conversation, Flint Community Cookout is an organization that has facilitated Downtown cookouts on the last Saturday of each month for nearly three years. The food is donated and free for all to eat, all the work is done by volunteers, and come

Jewish Community Services (JCS) and the Flint Jewish Federation held their second annual fundraiser, From Borscht Belt to Bollywood, on June 5 at the Genesys Conference & Banquet Center in Grand Blanc. With more than 200 attendees, the event was a great success, according to JCS Executive Director, Linda Yeotis. “We raffled some great prizes,”

The grounds at Applewood were filled with visitors on June 5, as their second Bring Your Lunch & Learn program, called “Edible Fruit in the Landscape,” took place from 11-2pm. It was a beautiful spring day for the event, and guests ate from sack lunches as they wandered the renowned gardens during the prelude. At

Many of the challenges that face Flint youth are the same types of challenges that doctors Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins overcame growing up in Newark, New Jersey. Even the environments of the two cities are reportedly similar. When the three authors of the New York Times bestseller The Pact visited Flint Northwestern

Over 50 children gathered at Atwood Stadium early on the morning of May 25, 2013 for a day of football training. Members of the Flint Fury, a local semi-pro football team, hosted the camp. In the morning, they put the kids through drills that focused on fitness and coordination. The team provided hotdogs, chips and

In a mini-lecture on the Hubble Telescope held at Longway Planetarium on May 23, Dr. Rajib Ganguly, Assistant Professor of Physics and member of the Astronomy Research Group at the University of Michigan-Flint, regaled an audience of nearly 60 people with tales from afar. How far? The farthest object that Hubble has seen to date

With a very heavy heart, I attended the Fenton Relay For Life at Fenton High School on Saturday, June 8. My good friend Darlene Barnett, a longtime Fenton resident, had recently lost a long and courageous battle with cancer. I had attended her memorial just a few days earlier and the pain of losing my

On May 17, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint celebrated its 25-year anniversary at their annual Over the Moon gala. The foundation started in 1988 when the Flint Public Trust and the Flint Area Health Foundation merged to form a permanent community philanthropy endowment. Since then, CFGF has helped fund numerous projects in the city

The Flint & Genesee Chamber Golf Classic was held on June 14 at the Flushing Valley Country Club. The annual event gathers business leaders from throughout the region to foster networking and camaraderie. Thirty-six teams participated and finishing at a whopping 17 under par, the My City Magazine team took the tournament trophy, as well