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Walters became known for her role in exposing the Flint water crisis. [4] In 2014, her children started to suffer from several medical issues, like rashes, hair dropping blurry vision, and enlarged kidney. [1] Walters started to lose her eyelashes. [5] She then started to make the link with water that started to change color and to flow brown.
In 1867 he married Mary McFalan, whose father Alexander was a prominent Flint lumberman and banker. The Whaleys moved to Flint, where Robert Whaley entered his father-in-law's business as a bookkeeper. In 1877 he was named a director of Citizens National Bank, and when Alexander McFalan died in 1881, Whaley succeeded him as bank president.
In July 2018, Edwards filed a $3 million defamation lawsuit against Flint mother Melissa Mays and two other activists Paul Schwartz and Yanna Lambrinidou. The lawsuit came in the wake of the Flintcomplaints.com letter, signed by over 60 Flint residents, expressing certain grievances with Edwards. On March 19, 2019, the case was dismissed by ...
In 1917, number of prominent Flint business people formed the Civic Building Association to promote the construction of new housing in the crowded city. The Association purchased 400 acres of land, hired Boston landscape architect William Pitkin to lay out a neighborhood, and retained the New York firm of Davis, McGrath & Kiessling to develop ...
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Virginia Tech researcher Amy Pruden published a study that found Legionella levels up to 1,000 times higher than normal tap water in Flint, and said finding a patient whose clinical isolates—or bacteria—matched the McLaren water sample without having been hospitalized there "suggests that same strain may have been elsewhere." [42] [208]
Niagara IceDogs vs. Flint Firebirds game at the Dort Financial Center The Flint Firebirds Locker Room. On January 13, 2015, the Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League announced they would relocate to Flint and play at Dort Federal Event Center, with OHL approval. [6] [7] That team is now known as the Flint Firebirds. [8]
The Flint Local 432 (or "the Local") is a non-profit 501(c)(3), all-ages, substance free music venue located in downtown Flint, Michigan. The Local's name is a reference to the autoworker unions located in the area. It was founded in the mid-1980s by Joel Rash, for the purpose of providing the Flint area with an all-ages venue for local and ...