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- 1 2 City of Flint, "Historic Districts", "Berston Field House Archived May 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine ", July 25, 2010
- ↑ Longley, Kristin, "The Flint Journal", August 25, 2009, "McCree North health center in Flint slated to close", July 25, 2010
- ↑ Hayes, Patrick, "The Flint Journal", July 13, 2009, "Interviews: Mateen Cleaves and Morris Peterson talk about Flint, helping the community and politics", July 25, 2009
- ↑ Woodyard, Eric, "The Flint Journal", August 7, 2009, "Flint native Dion Savage making a name for himself as a boxer in Las Vegas", July 25, 2009