Neighborhood News

It is with a great deal of sorrow that I report the passing of FNU Secretary, Sandra E. Robinson. Sandra was a great asset to the Flint Community Schools, Flint Neighborhoods United and the City of Flint. She will be greatly missed. Funeral arrangements are pending. Click here to view the obituary

The Flint Cares Communications Group will NOT meet this Thursday. Attached you will find the Flint Community Water Sites. Feel free to share with your networks. We will meet again on Thursday, September 21, 2017 from 9 until 10:30 a.m. Community Partners will also meet on Thursday, September 21st at 3:00 p.m. inside the City …

Neighborhood Associations of Michigan is holding their annual conference in Flint at the Holiday Inn Gateway Center on September 22 and 23. This is a worthwhile event that several members of FNU attended in Lansing last year. Details are available at the conference website. Cost is $99 and I’ve been led to believe that a …

I’m delighted to let you know that Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will perform a free community concert at The Whiting Auditorium on September 21 at 7:30 p.m. I’m writing to invite you to attend and to ask for your help. The CS Mott Foundation wants as many Flint residents as …

FLINT, Mich. — Lead-tainted service lines at 2,823 homes have been replaced so far in Phase 4 of the FAST Start initiative. The effort is part of the plan to replace lead-tainted pipes at 6,000 Flint homes in 2017. Crews from four area companies are replacing lead and galvanized service lines leading from the street …

FLINT-SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 – Inspired by Knoxville’s Kindness Rally in the face of a planned white supremacy rally there, and subsequent events in San Francisco and Berkeley, a Kindness Rally will be held in Willson Park on the campus of the University of Michigan-Flint Saturday, September 9 beginning at 2 p.m. The rally is also …

Glenn Wilson, President/CEO of Communities First, Inc. was selected for the upcoming Vanguard Conference in Newcastle, Australia. The Vanguard conference is a gathering of the top young urban innovators working to make change in cities. Designed to bring together professionals working across disciplines and sectors, each Vanguard class includes policymakers and politicians, architects and urban …