Champions of Excellence is similar to the Special Olympics with games and friendly competitions, each adapted to students’ individual needs. More than 100 students already have registered for the June 7 event at Holmes STEM Academy.
Known for its tall trees and wide spaces, it always has been the perfect place for wild imaginations — at least for the few who know how to find it. Long neglected, Linn Aikins is on a mission to unearth this hidden community gem.
For Inez Taylor, the Civic Park neighborhood was love at first sight. Now 81 years old, she mows her lawn and her neighbor’s and the neighbor’s across the street — simply because she cares.
Sign up for the 2019 summer camp is set for 2-4 p.m. May 25 at Joy Tabernacle Church, 2505 N. Chevrolet Avenue. The open house also will include a tour of the facilities as well as an opportunity to meet Shields in person.
Civic Park is Flint’s engine, a neighborhood that is home to many who are at the core of efforts to transform, shape and better the entire city as well as their own few blocks of it.
Residents, community partners, and volunteers came together on Dayton Street in the Civic Park Centennial Pavilion on Tuesday for the Centennial Summer Kickoff Celebration with nostalgia, hopes, and anticipation of budding changes for Civic Park.
Flintside will serve the Civic Park neighborhood with weekly storytelling, paid journalism fellowships and training for residents to tell their own stories in their own words, a community newsroom, photography and video.
At age 25, Megan Heyza is a mom, waitress and tireless community volunteer. After realizing how much repairing her own eastside front porch helped build a sense of community, she created The Porch Project just three years ago.
The Civic Park Neighborhood historic marker was rededicated after undergoing $6,000 in repairs as part of the neighborhood’s yearlong centennial celebration. The sign pays homage to Civic Park’s status since 1979 as a nationally recognized historic district and is symbolic of the neighborhood's ongoing revitalization.
Today, Jeanette Edwards is widely known as the founder and president of the Brownell-Holmes Neighborhood Association. Few realize that the block club was eight years in the making and launched in 2017 with just two people attending its first meeting.
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