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	<title>Focus on Flint</title>
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	<updated>2008-03-23T07:32:33Z</updated>
	
	<subtitle>Flint People, Places and Things</subtitle>
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	<title>Historic Manning Street houses in Flint&apos;s Cultural Center draw dozens of onlookers as move looms</title>
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	<published>2008-03-23T07:28:59Z</published>
	<updated>2008-03-23T07:32:33Z</updated>

	<summary>Recently Flint Journal writer Brenda Brissette Mata was among those touring the three houses on Mnning Street in the Flint Cultural Center. The historical Manning Street houses have been at the center of controversy since the Flint Cultural Center announced...</summary>
	
	
	
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			<name>Mary Ann Chick Whiteside</name>
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			Recently Flint Journal writer Brenda Brissette Mata was among those touring the three houses on Mnning Street in the Flint Cultural Center. The historical Manning Street houses have been at the center of controversy since the Flint Cultural Center announced...
		
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	<title>More highlights for Flint&apos;s 150th anniversary</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.636157</id>

	<published>2008-01-19T00:06:38Z</published>
	<updated>2008-01-22T00:16:11Z</updated>

	<summary> 1825 Fur trader Jacob Smith 1831 Alexis de DeTocqueville visits Flint River settlement 1839 First newspapers 1856 Henry Crapo comes to Flint 1885 Flint becomes a city 1900 First Flint-made car (buzz-car) 1901 Flint Arches on Saginaw St. 1902...</summary>
	
	
	
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			<name>The Flint Journal</name>
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			 1825 Fur trader Jacob Smith 1831 Alexis de DeTocqueville visits Flint River settlement 1839 First newspapers 1856 Henry Crapo comes to Flint 1885 Flint becomes a city 1900 First Flint-made car (buzz-car) 1901 Flint Arches on Saginaw St. 1902...
		
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<entry>
	<title>&apos;One-Fifty&apos; only scratched surface of Flint memories, milestones</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.629366</id>

	<published>2008-01-18T14:50:11Z</published>
	<updated>2008-01-18T14:57:07Z</updated>

	<summary>Published Oct. 2, 2005 There&apos;s Rosie, the street person who charmed thousands singing &quot;Won&apos;t you come home, Bill Bailey?&quot; There&apos;s the freak accident that killed the first Mrs. Mott at the Applewood estate. There&apos;s lightning-fast Herb Washington and heavenly Dale&apos;s...</summary>
	
	
	
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			<name>Jeff Johnston | Flint Journal</name>
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			Published Oct. 2, 2005 There&apos;s Rosie, the street person who charmed thousands singing &quot;Won&apos;t you come home, Bill Bailey?&quot; There&apos;s the freak accident that killed the first Mrs. Mott at the Applewood estate. There&apos;s lightning-fast Herb Washington and heavenly Dale&apos;s...
		
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<entry>
	<title>The One-Fifty, part II</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.629319</id>

	<published>2008-01-18T14:30:48Z</published>
	<updated>2008-01-18T15:38:57Z</updated>

	<summary>Published Oct. 2, 2005 Here, alphabetically by category, are all of the valid suggestions The Flint Journal received for people, places and things that readers felt were part of what people &quot;oughta know&quot; about Flint, in response to the publication...</summary>
	
	
	
		<author>
		    
			<name>Jeff Johnston | Flint Journal</name>
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			Published Oct. 2, 2005 Here, alphabetically by category, are all of the valid suggestions The Flint Journal received for people, places and things that readers felt were part of what people &quot;oughta know&quot; about Flint, in response to the publication...
		
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	<title>New Wine Anglican Mission growing via small groups</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.614794</id>

	<published>2008-01-12T00:32:29Z</published>
	<updated>2008-01-15T15:46:34Z</updated>

	<summary> On Sunday morning, New Wine Anglican Mission sets out a small sign announcing its weekly worship service in the community room of the Court Street Village nonprofit building, 727 East St., Flint. Two small groups meet regularly in homes...</summary>
	
	
	
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			<name>Mary Ann Chick Whiteside</name>
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			 On Sunday morning, New Wine Anglican Mission sets out a small sign announcing its weekly worship service in the community room of the Court Street Village nonprofit building, 727 East St., Flint. Two small groups meet regularly in homes...
		
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	<title>Flint native named envoy for kids&apos; literature</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.613809</id>

	<published>2008-01-11T17:55:40Z</published>
	<updated>2008-01-11T18:08:34Z</updated>

	<summary>There&apos;s nothing stinky or cheesy about this honor. Flint native Jon Scieszka, author of more than 25 books including &quot;The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Stupid Fairy Tales&quot; and &quot;The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,&quot; has been named...</summary>
	
	
	
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			<name>Mary Ann Chick Whiteside</name>
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			There&apos;s nothing stinky or cheesy about this honor. Flint native Jon Scieszka, author of more than 25 books including &quot;The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Stupid Fairy Tales&quot; and &quot;The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,&quot; has been named...
		
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<entry>
	<title>Trinity begins new year with new name</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.613700</id>

	<published>2008-01-11T17:18:07Z</published>
	<updated>2008-01-11T17:38:01Z</updated>

	<summary>Trinity Missionary Church begins the new year with a new name, Life Church, reflecting a fresh vision for the church, according to the pastor, the Rev. Don Embury. &quot;We have been retooling for 11 weeks,&quot; Embury said. &quot;This is our...</summary>
	
	
	
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			<name>Mary Ann Chick Whiteside</name>
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			Trinity Missionary Church begins the new year with a new name, Life Church, reflecting a fresh vision for the church, according to the pastor, the Rev. Don Embury. &quot;We have been retooling for 11 weeks,&quot; Embury said. &quot;This is our...
		
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<entry>
	<title>Little Flock Church of Flint</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2007:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.589922</id>

	<published>2007-12-31T16:29:27Z</published>
	<updated>2007-12-31T16:37:46Z</updated>

	<summary>Where we worship Church: Little Flock Church of Flint Address: 2927 Raskob St., Flint Services: 11 a.m. Sunday, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Pastor: the Rev. Richard B. Pillsbury Affiliation: autonomous Little Flock Church of Flint plans to donate a &quot;Jesus Well&quot;...</summary>
	
	
	
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			<name>Mary Ann Chick Whiteside</name>
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			Where we worship Church: Little Flock Church of Flint Address: 2927 Raskob St., Flint Services: 11 a.m. Sunday, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Pastor: the Rev. Richard B. Pillsbury Affiliation: autonomous Little Flock Church of Flint plans to donate a &quot;Jesus Well&quot;...
		
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<entry>
	<title>Tornado&apos;s &apos;Miracle Baby&apos; wows &apos;Ellen&apos;</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2007:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.470515</id>

	<published>2007-11-03T12:24:28Z</published>
	<updated>2007-11-05T19:28:28Z</updated>

	<summary>Jeana-Dee Allen / The Flint JournalTornado survivors Nichole Opperman (top center) and fiance Joe Soyring Jr. (top right), of Millington watch themselves on &quot;The Ellen DeGeneres Show&quot; Thursday at the Wood Shed Bar...</summary>
	
	
	
		<author>
		    
			<name>Joe Lawlor | Flint Journal</name>
			<uri>http://connect.mlive.com/user/jlawlor/index.html</uri>
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			Jeana-Dee Allen / The Flint JournalTornado survivors Nichole Opperman (top center) and fiance Joe Soyring Jr. (top right), of Millington watch themselves on &quot;The Ellen DeGeneres Show&quot; Thursday at the Wood Shed Bar...
		
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<entry>
	<title>Flint native uses childhood memory to help self</title>
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	<id>tag:blog.mlive.com,2007:/flintjournal/focusonflint//2669.454030</id>

	<published>2007-10-26T17:27:42Z</published>
	<updated>2007-11-05T19:29:02Z</updated>

	<summary> When she was 5 years old, Geri Taeckens went on a drive with her father through Flint. &quot;My dad and I used to go to downtown together,&quot; said the Flint native, who now lives in Sault Ste. Marie. &quot;He...</summary>
	
	
	
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			<name>Mary Ann Chick Whiteside</name>
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			 When she was 5 years old, Geri Taeckens went on a drive with her father through Flint. &quot;My dad and I used to go to downtown together,&quot; said the Flint native, who now lives in Sault Ste. Marie. &quot;He...
		
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