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.
The opening of the Claressa Shields Community Project will be officially announced on May 14 at Joy Tabernacle Church, one of several highlights of a Civic Park Centennial Celebration summer kick off.
A new water distribution program delivered water jugs to 10 families over the weekend and has a lofty goal of delivering 40 gallons of clean water to every Flint household. The effort comes with backing from legendary artists Harry Belafonte and Paul Simon.
A summer kickoff of the Civic Park Centennial Celebration is set for 2-6 p.m. May 14 at Joy Tabernacle Church. Current and former residents of Civic Park — as well as the community at large — are invited to join the festivities, which are part of the neighborhood’s year-long effort to honor and preserve its history.
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.
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.
Forty years after first being designated a historic district and in recognition of its centennial celebration, the Civic Park neighborhood will re-dedicate its recently replaced historical marker on Thursday, March 28, 2019.
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