At Flatrock, it’s about belonging. “Everyone, notwithstanding their disability, deserves love, affection, and someone to care for them in a safe and nurturing home,” said Nicholas Burnett, CEO of Flatrock, Inc., a Flint-based company providing foster care for adults with mental illness and developmental and intellectual disabilities. “That’s our mission each and every day.” Burnett Continue Reading
After significant investments and improvements in recent years, Atlas Valley Golf Club is back in the swing of things. The historic club sat empty for two years before Dave Parker, an Oakland County business owner, purchased it in 2020 from the Hendrickson family, who had owned the Grand Blanc-based club for more than six decades. Continue Reading
(Featured above) Brad Bergmooser, president and CEO at Financial Plus Financial Plus Credit Union is passionate about financial wellness. “We ask ourselves every day how we can best educate our members and communities to live better financially,” said Brad Bergmooser, president and CEO at Financial Plus. In today’s 24/7 world of on-demand service and speedy Continue Reading
It’s about so much more than doughnuts. “Carriage Town Ministries didn’t save my life, but it did give me life,” said Bruce Sowles, who was homeless before the Flint shelter took him in and helped him restart his life with a job at Blueline Donuts. Blueline Donuts is a job-training initiative of Carriage Town Ministries, Continue Reading
‘General Motors,’ ‘heritage’ and ‘Flint’ are words that are often seen together in some combination. So, as GM President Mark Reuss notes, it’s appropriate that the company is moving its Heritage Center from Sterling Heights closer to Flint, into the former Customer Care & Aftersales world headquarters in Grand Blanc Township. “As General Motors transforms Continue Reading
Some of the biggest names in Flint’s and the auto industry’s history behind IMA’s formation Industrial Mutual Association. It’s a name that’s associated with some of the most iconic people and places in the Flint area’s history. And while the scale and scope of the services the IMA offers has changed since the organization was Continue Reading
What do you do when you like so many sports you can’t decide which one to play? If you’re Shane Proulx, you pick one that has elements of a bunch of them. For Proulx, that would be handball, a sport for which he has become somewhat of an evangelist. “It’s been a lot of fun Continue Reading
(Pictured above, from l-r: Matt Landaal, Robert Landaal, Mark Landaal and Jay Landaal) You might say “generations” is a common theme at Burton-based Landaal Packaging Systems. On the one hand, the 63-year-old company is now under its third generation of family leadership. And in a completely different sense, much of the cardboard that it turns Continue Reading
Even though Jeff Clark grew up watching his dad and stepmom operate what would become Steel Transportation Services (STS) from their Grand Blanc home, he never gave much thought to joining the family trucking business — even while he was attending the University of Michigan-Flint. “It wasn’t a very big company at that time,” said Continue Reading
Jane Worthing laughingly recalls the proclamation she made shortly after joining the fledgling Genesee Packaging Inc. in 1979 as a receptionist answering telephones. “I told my mom, ‘If you think I’m going to work here the rest of my life, you are crazy.’ And yet, here I am,” said Worthing, president, CEO and sole owner Continue Reading
