Sunday, July 10, 2011

First Week in Flint

I've just finished my first week interning at The Flint Journal in Michigan. Here's some photos from this past week.

Phillis and Leo Vaillancourt, Clarkston, Mich., pass a young garden tourist during the Goodrich Garden Tour Saturday at the home of Darlene and Robert Morgan.
"It's interesting, but I'd rather be at the golf course." Said Leo, who also said his wife convinced him to go.

Cinthia Montague, 20, Candice Stewart, 19, and Sam Maxson, 20, dance in the Grand Fountain in downtown flint after performing in the Genesee Towers show Friday.

Virginia Hutchins, 65, Flint, Mich., sits in her garage waiting for police to come so she can file a burglary report for her house, which has been robbed three times since a fire forced her to vacate it. She waits in the garage as many days as she can.

Mark David Doak (right), 48, has been going to the same dock after work for five years.
"We stop here every day, converse about our troubles and try to help each other out." he said. Doak has been living in and out of hotel rooms for the past two and a half years, he said, which he finds more affordable than owning a home or renting a room. Doak said that anywhere from four to nine people come to the dock every evening to hang out, and that most of them work manual labor.
James Malone Jr. (left), 44, worked in auto assembly before being laid off in 2007. Lately he has been collecting bottles and cans for money, riding 10 or more miles a day, he said.

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