Grand Blanc senior, Alicia Woollcott, a middle linebacker takes a break during practice with her varsity football team on Tuesday evening, Aug. 22, 2017. Alicia is the first female middle linebacker for the Grand Blanc Bobcats, she also does powerlifting, water polo and competitive cheerleading.  ”I used to watch football with my dad when I was younger and he has three daughters no boys,” said Alicia. “I was cheering on the sideline in seventh grade and I hated it and I told him I would much rather be out there with them so the next year, and I have been playing football since then.”

The Fenton varsity football team takes the field for practice on Tuesday evening, Aug. 8, 2017 at the Fenton High School football stadium.

The Flint High School Jaguars take a water break during practice on the North campus practice facility on Tuesday evening, Aug. 8, 2017.  This will be the teams first year playing together after Flint Northwestern and Flint Southwestern merged their athletics program.

Quinaries Holden, 13, loses his balance while walking through a boat as his cousins, Dre’Sean Holden, 12, left, and Jeremiah Holden, 11, right, put fishing poles in the back of a truck on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 9.They use bottled water for most things still, including brushing their teeth.”It is going to be kind of hard for us to trust the city telling us the water is safe now. I don’t think I would cook with it,” said Darrell Holden, Dre’Sean’s father, before taking him and his nephews to Lake Fenton to go fishing.

Estelle Holley, 67, points to a sign on her home on the 1100 block of East Marengo for water drop off deliveries on Wednesday, Aug. 9. She gets four cases of water delivered weekly on Tuesdays. She was given a note with her last delivery that water drop-offs are ending on Friday, Aug. 11, along with the closure of the Second and Third ward water PODs.”If I got to go pick it up, I am getting as much as they want to put in the car, cause I ain’t trying to do that often enough,” Holley said.She has been living in her home since 1975 and does not trust city officials that the water is now safe to use.”It’s not, when you take the filter off, and you run the water, those chemicals that they got in there that they are claiming is good for the pipes is milky white, I am not drinking it. I don’t care, I’m too old. I’ve had too much exposure to lead, carbon monoxide and all that through my lifetime. I am not going to jeopardize my health because today it is okay, six months from now, oops, we made a mistake, nah. Then you have a lot of bacteria build up and you got chlorine, uh-uh, I ain’t drinking it, that’s too many chemicals, I am too old,” she said.

Keyon Middlebrooks, 8, kisses his niece, Tailor Blake, 1, as he holds her in the driveway as her sisters, Zy’leah Reynolds, 9 and Morgan Reynolds, 4, stand next to cases of water next to their home on the 2900 block of Eaton Place in Flint on Wednesday, Aug. 9.”I ain’t drinking the water here, I’m straight, I can make Kool-Aid with the bottled water, so no,” said Jeanette Handley, 25, who lives in the home with two other adults and the four kids. “It is pretty much a trust thing, you don’t know, you can’t tell, you never could tell. I never saw the brown come out of my faucet. I have seen it come from out of the fire hydrant when they open it, but I haven’t seen it in the tub or anything like that myself.”So, it is kind of hard to say, ‘Okay, well yeah, I can drink it now because it is starting to whiten up.’ It’s never looked dark to me.”She has been living in this home for six months and gets cases of water from many different PODs, normally, 15 cases, once a week.

Calvin Sims, 62, sits with his mother, Charleen Sims, 84, on their porch on the 150 block of Pasadena Avenue in Flint on Wednesday evening, Aug. 9.Charleen has lived in her home since 1972 and has not been drinking the water for years, long before the city declared the water unsafe. Calvin picks up water from the Second Ward at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church on DuPont street once a week to get six cases of water.”They said the water was safe before to drink. No, it can’t be. They are still changing pipes; they still have old pipes still in the ground. How can it be safe to drink? If it is coming through the same lines, I don’t trust it,” Calvin said.

Children wave to their families as they walk the track to kick off the 60th annual CANUSA Games during the opening ceremony on Friday afternoon, Aug. 11, 2017 at Northwestern High School’s Guy V. Houston Stadium in Flint.

Julietta Chevalier, of Flint Township, owner of Cradle Yoga, does a yoga pose with the assistance of Susan Oakman, of Flint, at Flint’s sixth annual Drop Fest in Buckham Alley on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 an open air electronic music festival and street art fair.

Produce on display at the Genesee County Fair on Tuesday evening, Aug. 22, 2017 in Mt. Morris at the E.A. Cummings Center.

Drivers compete in the Screw Figure 8 Derby Contest at the Genesee County Fair on Tuesday evening, Aug. 22, 2017 in Mt. Morris at the E.A. Cummings Center. Todd Kerr, 48, of Lyons, won the first race in car number 523.

Trevor Gross, 7, of Hemlock and Adyson Mose, 5, of St. Charles, play with tractors in the mud as people watch the  showmanship sweepstakes, Jr. livestock competition at the Saginaw County Fair on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 in Chesaning.

Brayden Mesh, 12, of Oakley, holds his mini senior buck, Vince, at the Saginaw County Fair on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 in Chesaning. “I have been showing for three years and love the experience,” said Mesh. “I am nervous and excited to show today. My rabbit is loving, well sometimes, and loves to eat grass.”

Abigail Lehman, 8, of Elsie, washes her red and white holstein named Night Star at the Saginaw County Fair on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 in Chesaning. “All of the fair is fun, showing and taking car of the animals,” said Lehman. “I love on a dairy farm and have been showing for four years.”

Abagail Vanhaaren, 11, combs Nicholaus Bleisner, 11, with a rabbit brush at the Saginaw County Fair on Thursday morning, Aug. 3, 2017 in Chesaning. “She does this all the time,” said Bleisner before showing his thrianta rabbit.

Judge Geoffrey L. Neithercut says the county clerk’s “math was off” in counting recall petition signatures against Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, and that disproving only one signature may be needed to call the whole election off at the Genesee County Circuit Court on Thursday, Aug. 24, in Flint.

Rochester Hills Clerk, Tina Barton explains how to use new voting equipment during a press conference introducing the counting machines on Wednesday morning, Aug. 2, 2017 in the Rochester Hills Clerk’s Office in City Hall. Voters from 63 communities in 11 Michigan counties heading to the booths on August 8th will notice new ballot counting machines replacing ten-year-old equipment with new optical-scan voting systems.

Ann Russell stands in the stairs to her basement on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. The June 23 flooding in Bay County resulted in water filling her finished basement and resulting in over $86,000 in damage. She lives near the Tebo-Erickson drain ditch on the 1800 block of East Coggins Road in Fraser Township. Residents complain the drain ditch has not been maintained and argue it is the cause for damage to their homes.