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There was a post, earlier in the week, about this sign. I promised to update people on the meaning
Mystery solved: Man behind strange 'Blueberry Billboard' in Flint comes forward, explains meaning
FLINT, MI Its not about drugs or schools or children or global warming. In fact, its not even about blueberries.
The infamous billboard on I-69 billboard in Flint that reads Im Concerned About The Blueberries is simple, according to the man who finally came forward to identify himself as the person who commissioned the sign.
This is a stunt. It was something I decided to put up to grab peoples attention so they could start thinking about blueberries, he said.
But now you need to make the transition to know what the heck Im talking about. Blueberries are the concerns and the hurdles and the struggles that all of us deal with in a day.
The man is Flint entrepreneur and business owner Phil Shaltz. Tom Carroll is the vice president of CBS Outdoor the owner of the billboard. He was able to confirm that Shaltz is the man behind the billboard and that it went up on Oct. 7, 2013.
Shaltz is the president and CEO of Shaltz Automation, a managing partner for a number of downtown Flint restaurants, founder of the nonprofit Flint Diaper Bank, and he sits on the Hurley Board of Managers, among other things.
There will be people who see this billboard and see this story, that are so disappointed that this is what its about, Shaltz said.
Some people want it to be about racism or drugs or the school system, but its all about something very simple and very human that touches all of us.
http://www.mlive.com/business/mid-michigan/index.ssf/2013/10/mystery_solved_owner_of_the_st.html#incart_river_default
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Siwsan
(26,268 posts)It's right down the road from me, and I found out about it on DU!
randome
(34,845 posts)And probably making up their own interpretations of what it meant.
Kudos to Mr. Shaltz!
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)...that Mr. Phil Shaltz may be many things, but a master of metaphor he is not.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)thanks for your concern