Edith Coates stands on a strip of land between I-75 and the Mill Creek and zips up her ... goal of connecting city teens with nature, and each other. “In canoe club, we’re working on canoe ...

Kids would go rafting in it, or take a canoe "as far as we could ... North of the park, hidden by trees and brush, Mill Creek trickled by, blanketed with algae and buzzing with mosquitoes.