FLINT, MI – Freddie Fisher danced her way into the North Flint Food Market on Wednesday afternoon.

One of the first of approximately 900 member-owners that are part of the food cooperative, she had waited for the day the store would open its doors for the community.

“I’m soaking it in,” Fisher said, hugging others as they walked through the doors to applauding staff members. “It’s been like 11 years… I’m praying that we stay together and continue to shop because we all got to eat.”

The market is the brainchild of Rev. Reginald Flynn, co-founder and executive director of the North Flint Reinvestment Corporation.

“For a decade, we wandered in the wilderness, hoping for what many communities take for granted – access to healthy food, job, career” he told a crowd of more than 100 gathered

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