Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 9/1/15

This week we had David Leyton and John Potberry from the Genesee County Prosecutor’s office.  They spoke about the issues of violent crime and early release on violent felons in the prison system., as well as many other topics.  Have a safe labor day and we will see...

Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/25/15

Brooke brought us our speaker today from the Community Foundation.  There was much discussion over their “Young Professionals” group, whose age ranges from 19-49.  Our group encouraged Enosh and Nate to consider joining, seeing how they were the only ones in...

Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/18/15

I brought DeAndra McCain as our speaker today. She used to work with me over at Whaley, then was in sales at the Flint & Genesee Chamber. She recently accepted the position as the Director of the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. You can learn more about them here:...

Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/11/15

We had another great meeting.  Murphy was still accepting well deserved complements for his work on the party and gave us some preliminary numbers on how well we did. Joe accepted my invitation to be our guest speaker on short notice.  (he is after all the king of...

Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 7/21/15

Joe and Amber brought us our quest speaker today, Marquise Gray who is the new program director at the Boys and Girls Club.  Marquise is a former MSU basketball star who played 8 years overseas.  He shared his hopes to help Flint and his experiences traveling the...