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2025 Walk to End Alzheimer's - Jacksonville, FL📅Sunday, November 9, 2025
📍Location: UNF J.B. Coxwell Amphitheater-1 UNF Drive Jacksonville, FL 32224
⏰Registration 1:00 PM - Ceremony 2:00 PM
📝2025 Walk to End Alzheimer's - Jacksonville, FL
Alzheimer’s disease is not a normal part of aging – it is a progressive brain disease that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior.
EWU - Henry Smith on the show to talk about community involvement and how the community can play a bit part in empowering the community.
Henry Smith begins his nineteenth year at Edward Waters College and his first in his new role as Special Assistant to the Athletic Director and Director of Gameday Operations. He previously served Sports Information Director until August 2018. During his tenure at EWC, he has served in several additional roles in the athletic department including the areas of marketing and operations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to community.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Viewpoints to Shawnie feeling blessed and highly favored on this
Sunday morning. We are empowering our community. We are a
part of a movement for Alzheimer's and I have two
brothers who are embedded in the community, ready to face
Alzheimer's because of their mother. So today I have Reese
Dickerson and Mark Dickerson here from Jacksonville, but have traveled
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the whole world in music. But these men are here
to talk about their love, their mother and their why gentlemen,
if you would just tell us each the community about yourself. Reese,
if you would go first, and then Mark.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, hey, good morning everybody. I'm Ree Dickerson. I'm so
glad to be here. I am a singer songwriter. As
Shawnie said, I'm the native of Jacksonville and am completely
sold out and bought into this fight against Alzheimer's. Division
share to you, it's about our mother and our love
for our mother. But it goes a little bit deeper,
and that a little further th net for us, we
want to help people heal, not only find a cure,
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but after we have a cure, there are people who
are left in the wings and who need help meet therapy.
So we want to, you know, create a space where
we can not only find a cure, but help people heal.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
My name is Mark Dickerson. I am the younger brother
of the two, and I am the son, the proud
son of the doctor Zelma Dickerson, who is the reason
why we do what we do. I am just like Maurice.
We're natives of Jacksonville, born and raised here, and just
a few years ago we were given the gift of
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this horrific disease, Alzheimer's, and we're walking through this with
our beautiful mother. Tough, tough, tough situation. But you know what,
Shaani's conversations like this, it's moments like this, it's spaces
like this that help get the word out and create
awareness that one day, hopefully, carefully, one day, in faith, one.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Day, we will see a cure for this foriic disease.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So thank you for having us pleasure.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You all have involved me into this fight, and I
find it that it's a blessing for me as well. Mom.
He's a blessing to me, and I understand your fight.
This is about a parent community. I'm talking to Reese
and Mark Dickerson. They're here to highlight Alzheimer's but tell
you about their fight. And then we want to invite
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you out to the event that will be happening in November.
But first, Reese, if you would talk to us and
tell us what have you done to get acclimated with Alzheimer's.
You've wrapped your entire body around this because of Mom.
Tell the community what you've done so far.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
One of the things that we've done we had my
brother and I make sure that we stay connected and
become a family. So one of the things that we've done.
We start out you're making reference to the euro part
of where we had a ARP coming and we did
an event where we had Mom actually come out and
admit to the world. I think it was a year
end or year and a half into our diagnosis that
we were able to put on this show where she
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talked about Alzheimer's disease and talked about, you know, her
battle with it. And then we've had radio interviews with
you with my mother and got a chance to have
the public here her. I am now an official Alzheim's
Association educator. I've just been certified with the Alzheimer's Association
and just really really involved and do a lot of
studying and a lot of research because, like I said,
not only do we want to find a cue, I
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want to go back again after we find this cure.
I want to go back and be her. Talk to
our community, black and brown people who suffer and who
have walked through this, but they're still something from They
find themselves in situations that they've never thought they'd be
and had to care for mom when she was always
a strong one, when dad or uncle or auntie, you know,
we always the cornerstone of the family. Now they're dealing
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with her the aftermath, and nobody had talked to So
I just kind of dived headlong end and I said, hey, listen,
let's go, let's make this happen. Let's be a part
of this, and let's help in the stigma around the
conversation of Alzheimer's, and let's editate the people that look
like US African Americans. The Spanish community always the last
to know and we're typically ten years behind the eight ball.
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So I want to get ahead of this and I
want to educate people who get it most in.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Dy Shawnee speaking to two brothers who love their mother
but love their community the same and want to empower Mark.
I understand that with this diagnosis it wasn't easy for
the family. Talk to us about your fight and how
you had to come to terms with everything as baby brother, Shawnee.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Thank you once again for just this platform. And you're right,
it has not been easy. It has not been easy.
I'll just say this just in case people are listening
and this kind of speaks to them. Maybe they see,
you know, maybe seeing some things in their loved one
or even in themselves and are sure, but I want
to share this as a light to some people. A
few years ago, we noticed that my mother, we would
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go to her job and we would see that her
desk was just dishoveled, and that just was not like her.
Then we noticed that she would start kind of repeating herself.
That was not like her. Then we noticed that she
would drive and get lost, and that was not like her.
So we found an amazing program that's here at Mayo
Clinic here in Jacksonville where they do brain studies, and
we got her signed up for it, and sure enough,
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with the right studies with the right information, we had
to lose the fear of having her involved with the study,
and we found out that sure enough, she was diagnosed
with Alzheimer's dementia. And you're right, it is a horrible
disease that doesn't just affect the patient, but it infects
and affects the entire family. So our whole family has
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since then been walking through the different phases of grief, right, acceptance, anger, denial, bargaining,
all of those different stages, and we've not moved those
stages linearly. We can be in one stage one day
and the opposite end of the spectrum in different stage
the next day, and then we vastly back and forth.
But it's been tough. The thing that has been helpful
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to us Seannie has been the people that know her,
that knew her, that knew who Zelma Dickerson was. They
keep us reminded of the person that she was, the
impact that she made on the community, and our job
is just give her the best flight possible and to
remember her legacy. She loves music. Marie was talking about
the event we did a couple of years ago. It
was an event where we used music to help her
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tell her story, and so many people after that have
jumped on and said, hey, you know what, me too,
this has happening with my family. So we found tremendous support.
The fight goes on, the battle goes on. But again,
it's platforms like this, Shannie, that help us tell the
story of Delma Dickerson, that keeps her alive and the
hearts and mind the people that she impacted, and gives
a sense of hope for a cure for such a
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horrific disease.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Mean Dy, Shawnee speaking to Reese and Mark Dickerson. We're
here to talk to you about Alzheimer's dementia and the community,
knowing what to do next, knowing how to decipher what
is next.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I understand you are a pastor in the community, and
I know prayer works, but this disease is a big, big,
big unknown area. And while we pray, what can we
do as a community to help the family, help people
our community members who are going through this. What can
people do to energize or help to get to that conclusion,
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get to.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
That cure again, great question. So you're right right, We've
been talking and I still believe Sony. You know me
that that prayer answers a lot of things right, and
sometimes the truth is in prayer, things just don't go away.
Some things we are left to deal with even after
we pray. So what can we do? I mean, there's
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so many resources out here for black and brown people,
all people, but there's so many resources for the black
and brown community because little do we know, this is
what we used to say about our grandparents where they
were just see now or grandma is just crazy, or
grand dad is just forgetting this is that. But now
with medical advances, we have language to put to this.
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So there's so many organizations out there where we can
lean in as a community and find the help. You
have the Alzheimer's Association, which reason is going to come
back and talk about. You have elder source that offers care,
you know through Medicaid and Medicare for families that are suffering.
There are all kinds of support groups out there.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
There are legal aids.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
This is another part that people don't really lean into
is when our parents and our loved ones go through
these stages lots of times in the black and brown community,
we've not done the work ahead of time to secure
their futures. And so now as the disease progresses, now
we have to figure out what do we do with
their belongings and if they are not cognizant enough to
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speak on that, they're lawyers out there who can help
us navigate through things like that. So the community, we
can google and we can look and we can see
what those things that are out there for help. Last
thing say is again something that has been so helpful
for us has been Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic has a
neuroscience department that is specifically focused on brain health brain science,
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and some of the top doctors in the world are
right here in our city. And there are studies that
we can get involved with for free. And these studies
do tests that will cost us hundreds of thousands of
dollars that most citizens cannot afford. And Mayo Clinic offers
those things that we can take advantage of. So there's
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so many things we can do. Find a support group,
can plug into, reach out to Donna Lee of the
Alzheimer's Association, reach out to Elder Source, reach out to
Mayo Clinic. Find these support groups.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
And dive in.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Don't be afraid, dive in, and let's get our loved
ones the help.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That they need, and Reese help us understand the stats
when it comes to all time.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We have seven million Americans who are dealing with Alzheimer's now,
over five hundred and eighty thousand of those people live
here in Florida. Over one hundred thousand lives here in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville has such a large population of people living with
disease and their caregivers. Here's a sad part. We would
go out and do what we call our community connects
to our Community Impact Aid, and we would go to
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there's a nursing home in the Riverside area, and we
would go there and we would specifically go to the
dementia ward and they roll those patients in, they wheel in,
some would be in their beds, some of their wheelchairs.
And these people would sit and I asked one of
the nurses, I said, well, how many of the families
come back and see them? She said, they don't. So
that's another thing we're seeing where it becomes too much
for them. That's why I'm so glad marked the support
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groups and resources that are available, because a lot of
these people get dropped off and nobody cares enough to
go talk to them, and they are still human. They
are still there while they have this disease, while they're affected,
while they seem to be not their present state of mind,
they are still people and they need that outlet instead
of just putting them in a room and allowing them
to die, which is pipped what.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Happened community Shawnee speaking to the Fears Twosome Reese and
Mark Dickerson. They are here to empower our community because
they are living this life understanding Alzheimer's disease is not
a normal part of aging. Their mother has been diagnosed
and they are in the fight. We have the Alzheimer's
twenty twenty five walked and Alzheimer's Walk coming up Sunday,
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November the ninth at the un F JB. Coxwell infil Theater.
And I understand you all have a team that might
beat everyone.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah? I team called Team's Elmer. So all of our
posts and whatnot and efforts to raise not only awareness
but funds to help put towards the research to this disease.
We've got teams Elbow. Our plan is to have a
seventy five to one hundred people out there walking just
specifically in the port of Team Zelmer. I've had several
friends reach out to me her both friends from high
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school who her mother just passed a month ago adopt
friend of mine. He his wife are now caring for
their ailien mother. So people are coming together. But our
plan is to go out and be a part of
this walk in all Teimer's. It's the world's largest event
to raise awareness and we are so glad to be
part of it. We want to leave the charge. We
want to be out there. Our mother was a community leader,
shoes a civically, she was a trailblazer and everything she did,
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so it's kind of natural that market I take the
same thing. We want to be at the forefront. We
want to have the biggest team out there, and my
heart is to be the local voice in our community.
While we have people in support systems available through the
City of Jack and Golle and Senior Care, we want
to start something different where people can come into space
to make feel for your talk. So yeah, I'd love
to have as many people as possible to come out Sunday,
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the Rimber ninth at the U and f jav consuble Amphitheater.
Registrations that one of the walk starts at two and
it's going to be a big ceremony. They're expecting about
twenty five hundred and three thousand people, so yeah, it's going.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
To be big community.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Johnny speaking to Reese and Mark Dickerson, they're also artists,
and I hope that you will be singing to open
that event, Reese, because our side just driving across the
Matthews Bridge and I've heard you sing the national Anthem,
so I know that you'll be doing some type of
singing for all timers. Will you be doing anything.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
For this eason?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The reader The director reached out to me and said, hey, listen, Ree,
since you you're going all in, we want to make
you coordinated with this event. And yet I've been asked
to good National Anthithtopa do the National Anthem participants as well,
So I'm so excited about that. I'm always glad to
do that. I'm always got to be a part of
those kind of events, and this year I'm also those
are vettings they parade. Yeah, I will be singing the
National Anthibition at the walk.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Active in the community.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
The brothers are here, Reese and Mark Dickison empowering our community,
but empowering their household and family. Mama Zelma is not well,
but she's still here with us, so we're going to
fight and make sure she understands that there is a
plethora of people in this community that love her.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
If you would, it is Sunday morning, you would just
give us a short prayer or a word.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Absolutely that, y'a, I'll be happy to scripture tells us
in Moments twenty eight, which is one of the most
controversial but still one of the most grounding and calming scriptures,
and it says that for we know that all things
work together for the good of those who love the
Lord and who are the called according to his purpose.
So even situations like this are working together. So Father,
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I pray for every voice every year that's listening to
our voices, that you would bring calm, that you would
bring strength, that you would bring hope, and that you
would help us find a cure to this disease so
that your people can go free. And we say this
and we pray is the name that is above every
other name, that is the name of Jesus, a.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Man, a man. It's still we consider it done.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, Community, just pouring into you this morning. We're on
a fight. This is a call to action. We are
fighting Alzheimer's dementia. As life progresses, we all get older.
Alzheimer's has no color and no name. We have to
take care of ourselves rally with ourmmunity. But we have
to talk about it, and we have to talk about
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it with our family and or our providers. But it's
best to just talk about it instead of ignoring the
fact that you may not remember something or someone get help,
right Fellows.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, absolutely, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you so
much for having us. And I'll say this, if you'd
like more information about Alzheimer's disease, if you see things
happening in your family, with your relatives, know it's a
favorite other website alz dot org, slash and Jackson's Little
Walk that's going to give you information about the upcoming walk,
that's going to give you resources and places you can go,
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like the Alzheimer's Hotline. Wait and call and make those
phone calls at one thirty two o'clock in the morning. Hey,
I'm standing here and I can't take any more day.
Are there to get a live person twenty four hours
a day, so make sure you do that. Come out
of every night, be a part of this meet community
because their people out there ready to rally around you
and your family as well and to help you walk
this process.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Powerful brothers, thank you so much for empowering me today.
Thank you for showing me the strength from the day
I seen you all at the Jacksonville NAACP Image Awards.
So I want to thank you all for not stopping
and using your voice and music and just your platform
and allowing me to engage with you all. So thank
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you for your efforts, thank you for empowering this community,
and thank you for your song in strength.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
We appreciate your moss listen so much and.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We're back with community viewpoints.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Shawnee feeling blessed and highly favorite on this Sunday morning.
We are empowering the community. I wanted to do a
post interview with this gentleman because he's been embedded in
the community. We had the Unity Fest at EWU and
I have the honor of speaking to Henry Smith. Henry
Smith has been with ew for a long time. Good morning, Henry, How.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
My friend? How's things going with you?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You know I'm blessed and highly favorite that I could
talk to key members of the community who are still
doing the work. So, Henry, if you would just share
who you are with the community, just to bring them
abreast as to the reason why have you on the
show today.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I'm Edam Waters. I'm the Assistant Athletic Director for Events, Operation
and Community Relations and have been there now for twenty
nine years developing events, developing partnerships with community organizations as
well as the different corporations within Jacksonville, and as well
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as billing friend base and fan base for the institution.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Me Andy Shawnee speaking to Henry Smith, a pillar of
strength in the community. Henry, we were at the Unity
Football Fest, which was the inaugural and e Wu was
the host of that and you said that you are
creating partnerships like that. That was a great event where
you know it was about Union. Talk to us about
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that event because I saw you out and about and everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You know, what was that partnership.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Like that partnership was a great partnership. It brought together
the two elements that pushed the institution itself, and that
is the Ame Church and other churches and other denominations
came together as unity amongst the religious community, and with
that being said, we was able to bring in such
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a great institution like Virginia Union which is a Baptist
affiliation and Eva Waters is an African American Episcopal affiliation.
So the two schools carry a large history of HBCU
history as well as a well based religious audience within itself.
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They were able to bring along different turgion and who
have never had the opportunity to come to Evil Waters,
but had this opportunity with the unity classic brought them
all out. So we was able to have a new
audience that didn't have the opportunity to come visit Evil
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Waters before. So it brought along a lot of new
individuals who were wanting to see what ever Water was
about these days because some of them hadn't seen Evil
Water since it was Eviwaters College. So by now becoming
a university, they had a chance to see the new
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Evi Waters. We were on the rise. We were doing
some great things. We're doing things within the community and
we're doing things for the community. So were working in
partnership with different organizations and were working in partnership that
also with the educational community as well as the civic
groups as well as folks with the Divine Nine and
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other organizations that we're open arms to. We're developing great
community partnerships with With that being said, Unity Fest brought
out just what it was supposed to do, unify the community,
unify the student body, and unify the city of Jacksonville at.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Large community Shawnee.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Speaking to Henry Smith from e WU and Henry and
I have been in this community empowering the community. Henry,
what are the different events that are coming up so
that the community can rally behind e WU, because I
know attending the football games, attending the different events there
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helps e WU monetarily.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I'm glad you Ax. November first, we will have our
annual homecoming Shawnee, and this year we'll schedule to have
some great things with our homecoming. For instance, Dion Founder's
Sun is coming to be a part of homecoming on Friday,
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October the thirty first. He would be part of our
distinguished podcast series and that'll be in our Adam Jakins
Sports and Community Complex. In addition to that, we will
love for the community to come out and be participants
and fans for our annual homecoming parade which starts at
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eight am on Meryle Avenue and come down King's Road.
That's Saturday, No Women the first and then our homecoming game.
We're going to be going up against Central State that's
out of Ohio and Shanna. You wouldn't believe this, but
the head coach, the athletic director, and the assistant coach
at Central State are all three natives of Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Our homecoming is going to be graded.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
One of the reasons why I wanted to speak with you, Henry.
Anything else that the community can be.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Aware of within our academic foundation and that at Waters,
we Shanee still have for those who like to obtain
their bachelor's degree on the accelerate program. We still have
the program called the Client Program that means anyone who
has maybe fifty to sixty hours of credits, they can
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come and be a part of an eighteen month course
and be able to obtain their bachelor's degree within that timeline.
At Waters, it is unique for the working class and
it is unique for someone who's probably occupied with being
a stay home mom. In addition to that, we also
have a master's degree program now that is online or
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you can come to the institution. The online base seems
to be one of the very best online courses for
master programs that folks can take and be a part of.
By that, we are now able to excel in many
different ways to assist those who want to receive higher
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education as a baccalaory degree or as a master's degree
at the Waters.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Community Shawnee speaking to Henry Smith from e WU, Henry,
I understand that you know, the community can also help.
I spoke to a young lady that attended e WU
and she said something about a closet where we can
give give.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah, the given clauset is the closet that we have
that during the year, we have kids that come from
certain backgrounds that are unfortunately don't have the items that
they need to be able to be within the workforce
or be able to attend church or things of that nature.
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So we are producing and have produced a closet for
the students. And we asked that anyone who has extra
clothes that they are no longer wearing, a clothes that
they want to discard, just bring them to us and
get give us a call and we'll be glad to
distribute those clothing to the individuals who were in need
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of them.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Community call to action to help the young generation who
are going to college, going to university. We can help
by donating items to EWU so that they can look
and feel as adults when they go out to the
workforce or when they go to church on Sunday. Henry,
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you know, it's always a pleasure to speak with you
because it seems as if e WU has celebrated one
hundred and fifty years of being the African American university
in our city. I had the pleasure of introducing doctor
Faison at our Sisters Strut as you all were a
part of that, and I wanted to just thank you
all for just being a part of our events, which
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is one of the reasons why I wanted to counteract
and speak with you to see how you know, the
community can rally behind EWU and help.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Also, if there's any small businesses or large businesses that
have room for internship, we'll be glad to send our
students over to learn to be apprentice, to be journeys
through their businesses so that the young up and coming
career path can have some substance to it, because when
they go into the workforce. They need to have that background,
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saying that they was able to work with someone who
gave them a chance to build their resume.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Community, let's rally behind EWU to help us help the
students who are our future. Henry, is there anything else
that you'd like to share with the community.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Yes, if there's anyone out there who would love to
be a sponsor for our athletic programs or academic scholarships,
please give us a call. We're in need of the
community being a full partner, not just as as a
social partner, but as a given partner, and we would
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give back as well.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Community.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's a call to action to help our community, help
our university, and help our students as well as the faculty. Henry,
it was a pleasure speaking with you today. We are
here to assist and I'll definitely go through my closet
to get some dresses and I extend this to my
Eastern Star sisters out there. Let's look and clean out
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our closet for the fall season and help EWU with
their giving closet as well as help them in any
way we can, and of course be there for homecoming
starting October thirty first. Henry it's a pleasure speaking with.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You definitely, and we definitely appreciate you, Seannie, from being
with us all these years, and we look forward to
seeing you again. And let's let the community know we
at Ewu still love you and we still want to
be the beacon on King's Road.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Amen, welcome to community viewpoints and Shannie feeling blessed and
highly favored on this Sunday morning, empowering the community, getting
our community out in about last quarter, lots going on
in du Vaal to energize our city. So today I
have Marquisha. She is here from Dinner on Bloc.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Thank you so much for having me. I'm super excited again.
My name is Markisha Fuller and I am one of
the co hosts for Dinia Blanc Jacksonville and we're super excited.
We are premiering our sixth edition here in the River
city and it will be on October twenty fifth. They'll
probably be about seven hundred of us dining under the
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stars at a secret location once again. Dinner on Block
is a Parisian picnic that originated in eighty eight and
it's very much a community based, unified event where guests
will show up to a disclosed address and they are
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greeted by one of our volunteers, and then they are
led to the secret low never knowing where they're going.
And then when I get there, they're just greeted with
a lot of drama on flair and entertainment. And we
have DJ whiz Kid this year that we'll be making
a cameo appearance, and so we're super excited to have
him join us. And then we all dine together as
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a community should break bread together, and then we all
celebrating party together, and then we vanish, leaving no trace behind,
never to return to the same place twice.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Sounds like fun, right, well, it sounds like you have
to be spontaneous community. Shani speaking to in Wakkisha. She
is here to talk to us about an event coming
to the city. Understanding this month, we are just putting
awareness on global awareness. Everybody enjoys dinner on Blanc. Now,
Jacksonville is one of many cities that enjoy this spontaneous
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event where you don't know where you're going. You just
got to be ready in your white Marquisha. What's the
angle for dinner on Blanc?
Speaker 6 (29:01):
So the event just started with a very small group
of friends. They realized that we may have our friends
that we take along and attend many events with, but
there are also so many friends out there that we
haven't met yet. So it is this pop up event
amongst friends new and old, and it really just began
to allow people the opportunity to step outside of their
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norm to engage in their local or extended community, to
maybe conversate or even just laugh with individuals that may
be a little bit different, but still just as important.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
As they are.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
So that is what makes a great community. We're all different,
but we're all the same, right because we're all here
celebrating unity, laughter and funds for the Evening of Dinion
Blanc community.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Shawnee speaking to Marquisha, she is here from Ladina en Blanc, Jacksonville.
That will be happening in the city creating the Bowl City.
Another opportunity to get it out and experience something spontaneous,
but something that is growing globally all around the world.
Everybody is getting ready for their version of Lo Dinna
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on Blanc in their city, but understanding that it is
something that one should experience.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
It absolutely community.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You can always check out how you can attend this event.
On our website and of course, enjoy another event of
vibration in our city. Get out, enjoy and see what
Lo Dinna on Blanc is all about. Now I see spontaneity,
but I also see fashion. I see, you know, a
pitch of mystery. How can the community get involved?
Speaker 6 (30:40):
We are still looking for Day of volunteers and so
if anyone is interested in being one of our Day
of Volunteers, they definitely can reach out to us through
our email. It's Jacksonville at Dinner in Blanc dot com.
Remember dinner is spelt like diner with one in. We
would love to have Day of Volunteer again. This event
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happens all over the world, but I must say that
it would be absolutely impossible without our volunteers, and so
we're super grateful. We also would like to thank iHeartRadio
for being our exclusive media partner this year. And then
we have built more wines out of built more estates
out of Asheville, North Carolina, who is our exclusive wine
and champagne partner. So who's super grateful.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
For the partnerships.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
And you know again, I'm just grateful for you, you know,
allowing me to have just a brief moment to just
share this amazing experience with the community.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Be ready to enjoy a night under the stars out
in a beautiful public space.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
But you won't know until day off.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Absolutely, they will never know where they're going. It's always
an element of surprise, but we can assure you when
you get there, you will create lifelong memories.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Undy reconnect with the finer things in life, reconnect with
vibrant people, reconnect with a city that is moving in
a vibrant place. Ladina en Blanc Jacksonville will be in
due Vau October the twenty fifth. Check the details on
our website. Thank you for listening to community viewpoints. Have
a blessed day.
Welcome to community.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Viewpoints to Shawnie feeling blessed and highly favored on this
Sunday morning. We are empowering our community. We are a
part of a movement for Alzheimer's and I have two
brothers who are embedded in the community, ready to face
Alzheimer's because of their mother. So today I have Reese
Dickerson and Mark Dickerson here from Jacksonville, but have traveled
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the whole world in music. But these men are here
to talk about their love, their mother and their why gentlemen,
if you would just tell us each the community about yourself. Reese,
if you would go first, and then Mark.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, hey, good morning everybody. I'm Ree Dickerson. I'm so
glad to be here. I am a singer songwriter. As
Shawnie said, I'm the native of Jacksonville and am completely
sold out and bought into this fight against Alzheimer's. Division
share to you, it's about our mother and our love
for our mother. But it goes a little bit deeper,
and that a little further th net for us, we
want to help people heal, not only find a cure,
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but after we have a cure, there are people who
are left in the wings and who need help meet therapy.
So we want to, you know, create a space where
we can not only find a cure, but help people heal.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
My name is Mark Dickerson. I am the younger brother
of the two, and I am the son, the proud
son of the doctor Zelma Dickerson, who is the reason
why we do what we do. I am just like Maurice.
We're natives of Jacksonville, born and raised here, and just
a few years ago we were given the gift of
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this horrific disease, Alzheimer's, and we're walking through this with
our beautiful mother. Tough, tough, tough situation. But you know what,
Shaani's conversations like this, it's moments like this, it's spaces
like this that help get the word out and create
awareness that one day, hopefully, carefully, one day, in faith, one.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Day, we will see a cure for this foriic disease.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So thank you for having us pleasure.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You all have involved me into this fight, and I
find it that it's a blessing for me as well. Mom.
He's a blessing to me, and I understand your fight.
This is about a parent community. I'm talking to Reese
and Mark Dickerson. They're here to highlight Alzheimer's but tell
you about their fight. And then we want to invite
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you out to the event that will be happening in November.
But first, Reese, if you would talk to us and
tell us what have you done to get acclimated with Alzheimer's.
You've wrapped your entire body around this because of Mom.
Tell the community what you've done so far.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
One of the things that we've done we had my
brother and I make sure that we stay connected and
become a family. So one of the things that we've done.
We start out you're making reference to the euro part
of where we had a ARP coming and we did
an event where we had Mom actually come out and
admit to the world. I think it was a year
end or year and a half into our diagnosis that
we were able to put on this show where she
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talked about Alzheimer's disease and talked about, you know, her
battle with it. And then we've had radio interviews with
you with my mother and got a chance to have
the public here her. I am now an official Alzheim's
Association educator. I've just been certified with the Alzheimer's Association
and just really really involved and do a lot of
studying and a lot of research because, like I said,
not only do we want to find a cue, I
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want to go back again after we find this cure.
I want to go back and be her. Talk to
our community, black and brown people who suffer and who
have walked through this, but they're still something from They
find themselves in situations that they've never thought they'd be
and had to care for mom when she was always
a strong one, when dad or uncle or auntie, you know,
we always the cornerstone of the family. Now they're dealing
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with her the aftermath, and nobody had talked to So
I just kind of dived headlong end and I said, hey, listen,
let's go, let's make this happen. Let's be a part
of this, and let's help in the stigma around the
conversation of Alzheimer's, and let's editate the people that look
like US African Americans. The Spanish community always the last
to know and we're typically ten years behind the eight ball.
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So I want to get ahead of this and I
want to educate people who get it most in.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Dy Shawnee speaking to two brothers who love their mother
but love their community the same and want to empower Mark.
I understand that with this diagnosis it wasn't easy for
the family. Talk to us about your fight and how
you had to come to terms with everything as baby brother, Shawnee.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Thank you once again for just this platform. And you're right,
it has not been easy. It has not been easy.
I'll just say this just in case people are listening
and this kind of speaks to them. Maybe they see,
you know, maybe seeing some things in their loved one
or even in themselves and are sure, but I want
to share this as a light to some people. A
few years ago, we noticed that my mother, we would
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go to her job and we would see that her
desk was just dishoveled, and that just was not like her.
Then we noticed that she would start kind of repeating herself.
That was not like her. Then we noticed that she
would drive and get lost, and that was not like her.
So we found an amazing program that's here at Mayo
Clinic here in Jacksonville where they do brain studies, and
we got her signed up for it, and sure enough,
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with the right studies with the right information, we had
to lose the fear of having her involved with the study,
and we found out that sure enough, she was diagnosed
with Alzheimer's dementia. And you're right, it is a horrible
disease that doesn't just affect the patient, but it infects
and affects the entire family. So our whole family has
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since then been walking through the different phases of grief, right, acceptance, anger, denial, bargaining,
all of those different stages, and we've not moved those
stages linearly. We can be in one stage one day
and the opposite end of the spectrum in different stage
the next day, and then we vastly back and forth.
But it's been tough. The thing that has been helpful
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to us Seannie has been the people that know her,
that knew her, that knew who Zelma Dickerson was. They
keep us reminded of the person that she was, the
impact that she made on the community, and our job
is just give her the best flight possible and to
remember her legacy. She loves music. Marie was talking about
the event we did a couple of years ago. It
was an event where we used music to help her
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tell her story, and so many people after that have
jumped on and said, hey, you know what, me too,
this has happening with my family. So we found tremendous support.
The fight goes on, the battle goes on. But again,
it's platforms like this, Shannie, that help us tell the
story of Delma Dickerson, that keeps her alive and the
hearts and mind the people that she impacted, and gives
a sense of hope for a cure for such a
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horrific disease.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Mean Dy, Shawnee speaking to Reese and Mark Dickerson. We're
here to talk to you about Alzheimer's dementia and the community,
knowing what to do next, knowing how to decipher what
is next.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I understand you are a pastor in the community, and
I know prayer works, but this disease is a big, big,
big unknown area. And while we pray, what can we
do as a community to help the family, help people
our community members who are going through this. What can
people do to energize or help to get to that conclusion,
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get to.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
That cure again, great question. So you're right right, We've
been talking and I still believe Sony. You know me
that that prayer answers a lot of things right, and
sometimes the truth is in prayer, things just don't go away.
Some things we are left to deal with even after
we pray. So what can we do? I mean, there's
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so many resources out here for black and brown people,
all people, but there's so many resources for the black
and brown community because little do we know, this is
what we used to say about our grandparents where they
were just see now or grandma is just crazy, or
grand dad is just forgetting this is that. But now
with medical advances, we have language to put to this.
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So there's so many organizations out there where we can
lean in as a community and find the help. You
have the Alzheimer's Association, which reason is going to come
back and talk about. You have elder source that offers care,
you know through Medicaid and Medicare for families that are suffering.
There are all kinds of support groups out there.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
There are legal aids.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
This is another part that people don't really lean into
is when our parents and our loved ones go through
these stages lots of times in the black and brown community,
we've not done the work ahead of time to secure
their futures. And so now as the disease progresses, now
we have to figure out what do we do with
their belongings and if they are not cognizant enough to
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speak on that, they're lawyers out there who can help
us navigate through things like that. So the community, we
can google and we can look and we can see
what those things that are out there for help. Last
thing say is again something that has been so helpful
for us has been Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic has a
neuroscience department that is specifically focused on brain health brain science,
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and some of the top doctors in the world are
right here in our city. And there are studies that
we can get involved with for free. And these studies
do tests that will cost us hundreds of thousands of
dollars that most citizens cannot afford. And Mayo Clinic offers
those things that we can take advantage of. So there's
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so many things we can do. Find a support group,
can plug into, reach out to Donna Lee of the
Alzheimer's Association, reach out to Elder Source, reach out to
Mayo Clinic. Find these support groups.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
And dive in.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Don't be afraid, dive in, and let's get our loved
ones the help.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That they need, and Reese help us understand the stats
when it comes to all time.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We have seven million Americans who are dealing with Alzheimer's now,
over five hundred and eighty thousand of those people live
here in Florida. Over one hundred thousand lives here in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville has such a large population of people living with
disease and their caregivers. Here's a sad part. We would
go out and do what we call our community connects
to our Community Impact Aid, and we would go to
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there's a nursing home in the Riverside area, and we
would go there and we would specifically go to the
dementia ward and they roll those patients in, they wheel in,
some would be in their beds, some of their wheelchairs.
And these people would sit and I asked one of
the nurses, I said, well, how many of the families
come back and see them? She said, they don't. So
that's another thing we're seeing where it becomes too much
for them. That's why I'm so glad marked the support
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groups and resources that are available, because a lot of
these people get dropped off and nobody cares enough to
go talk to them, and they are still human. They
are still there while they have this disease, while they're affected,
while they seem to be not their present state of mind,
they are still people and they need that outlet instead
of just putting them in a room and allowing them
to die, which is pipped what.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Happened community Shawnee speaking to the Fears Twosome Reese and
Mark Dickerson. They are here to empower our community because
they are living this life understanding Alzheimer's disease is not
a normal part of aging. Their mother has been diagnosed
and they are in the fight. We have the Alzheimer's
twenty twenty five walked and Alzheimer's Walk coming up Sunday,
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November the ninth at the un F JB. Coxwell infil Theater.
And I understand you all have a team that might
beat everyone.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah? I team called Team's Elmer. So all of our
posts and whatnot and efforts to raise not only awareness
but funds to help put towards the research to this disease.
We've got teams Elbow. Our plan is to have a
seventy five to one hundred people out there walking just
specifically in the port of Team Zelmer. I've had several
friends reach out to me her both friends from high
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school who her mother just passed a month ago adopt
friend of mine. He his wife are now caring for
their ailien mother. So people are coming together. But our
plan is to go out and be a part of
this walk in all Teimer's. It's the world's largest event
to raise awareness and we are so glad to be
part of it. We want to leave the charge. We
want to be out there. Our mother was a community leader,
shoes a civically, she was a trailblazer and everything she did,
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so it's kind of natural that market I take the
same thing. We want to be at the forefront. We
want to have the biggest team out there, and my
heart is to be the local voice in our community.
While we have people in support systems available through the
City of Jack and Golle and Senior Care, we want
to start something different where people can come into space
to make feel for your talk. So yeah, I'd love
to have as many people as possible to come out Sunday,
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the Rimber ninth at the U and f jav consuble Amphitheater.
Registrations that one of the walk starts at two and
it's going to be a big ceremony. They're expecting about
twenty five hundred and three thousand people, so yeah, it's going.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
To be big community.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Johnny speaking to Reese and Mark Dickerson, they're also artists,
and I hope that you will be singing to open
that event, Reese, because our side just driving across the
Matthews Bridge and I've heard you sing the national Anthem,
so I know that you'll be doing some type of
singing for all timers. Will you be doing anything.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
For this eason?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The reader The director reached out to me and said, hey, listen, Ree,
since you you're going all in, we want to make
you coordinated with this event. And yet I've been asked
to good National Anthithtopa do the National Anthem participants as well,
So I'm so excited about that. I'm always glad to
do that. I'm always got to be a part of
those kind of events, and this year I'm also those
are vettings they parade. Yeah, I will be singing the
National Anthibition at the walk.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Active in the community.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
The brothers are here, Reese and Mark Dickison empowering our community,
but empowering their household and family. Mama Zelma is not well,
but she's still here with us, so we're going to
fight and make sure she understands that there is a
plethora of people in this community that love her.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
If you would, it is Sunday morning, you would just
give us a short prayer or a word.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Absolutely that, y'a, I'll be happy to scripture tells us
in Moments twenty eight, which is one of the most
controversial but still one of the most grounding and calming scriptures,
and it says that for we know that all things
work together for the good of those who love the
Lord and who are the called according to his purpose.
So even situations like this are working together. So Father,
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I pray for every voice every year that's listening to
our voices, that you would bring calm, that you would
bring strength, that you would bring hope, and that you
would help us find a cure to this disease so
that your people can go free. And we say this
and we pray is the name that is above every
other name, that is the name of Jesus, a.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Man, a man. It's still we consider it done.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, Community, just pouring into you this morning. We're on
a fight. This is a call to action. We are
fighting Alzheimer's dementia. As life progresses, we all get older.
Alzheimer's has no color and no name. We have to
take care of ourselves rally with ourmmunity. But we have
to talk about it, and we have to talk about
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it with our family and or our providers. But it's
best to just talk about it instead of ignoring the
fact that you may not remember something or someone get help,
right Fellows.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, absolutely, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you so
much for having us. And I'll say this, if you'd
like more information about Alzheimer's disease, if you see things
happening in your family, with your relatives, know it's a
favorite other website alz dot org, slash and Jackson's Little
Walk that's going to give you information about the upcoming walk,
that's going to give you resources and places you can go,
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like the Alzheimer's Hotline. Wait and call and make those
phone calls at one thirty two o'clock in the morning. Hey,
I'm standing here and I can't take any more day.
Are there to get a live person twenty four hours
a day, so make sure you do that. Come out
of every night, be a part of this meet community
because their people out there ready to rally around you
and your family as well and to help you walk
this process.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Powerful brothers, thank you so much for empowering me today.
Thank you for showing me the strength from the day
I seen you all at the Jacksonville NAACP Image Awards.
So I want to thank you all for not stopping
and using your voice and music and just your platform
and allowing me to engage with you all. So thank
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you for your efforts, thank you for empowering this community,
and thank you for your song in strength.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
We appreciate your moss listen so much and.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We're back with community viewpoints.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Shawnee feeling blessed and highly favorite on this Sunday morning.
We are empowering the community. I wanted to do a
post interview with this gentleman because he's been embedded in
the community. We had the Unity Fest at EWU and
I have the honor of speaking to Henry Smith. Henry
Smith has been with ew for a long time. Good morning, Henry, How.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
My friend? How's things going with you?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You know I'm blessed and highly favorite that I could
talk to key members of the community who are still
doing the work. So, Henry, if you would just share
who you are with the community, just to bring them
abreast as to the reason why have you on the
show today.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I'm Edam Waters. I'm the Assistant Athletic Director for Events, Operation
and Community Relations and have been there now for twenty
nine years developing events, developing partnerships with community organizations as
well as the different corporations within Jacksonville, and as well
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as billing friend base and fan base for the institution.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Me Andy Shawnee speaking to Henry Smith, a pillar of
strength in the community. Henry, we were at the Unity
Football Fest, which was the inaugural and e Wu was
the host of that and you said that you are
creating partnerships like that. That was a great event where
you know it was about Union. Talk to us about
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that event because I saw you out and about and everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You know, what was that partnership.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Like that partnership was a great partnership. It brought together
the two elements that pushed the institution itself, and that
is the Ame Church and other churches and other denominations
came together as unity amongst the religious community, and with
that being said, we was able to bring in such
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a great institution like Virginia Union which is a Baptist
affiliation and Eva Waters is an African American Episcopal affiliation.
So the two schools carry a large history of HBCU
history as well as a well based religious audience within itself.
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They were able to bring along different turgion and who
have never had the opportunity to come to Evil Waters,
but had this opportunity with the unity classic brought them
all out. So we was able to have a new
audience that didn't have the opportunity to come visit Evil
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Waters before. So it brought along a lot of new
individuals who were wanting to see what ever Water was
about these days because some of them hadn't seen Evil
Water since it was Eviwaters College. So by now becoming
a university, they had a chance to see the new
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Evi Waters. We were on the rise. We were doing
some great things. We're doing things within the community and
we're doing things for the community. So were working in
partnership with different organizations and were working in partnership that
also with the educational community as well as the civic
groups as well as folks with the Divine Nine and
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other organizations that we're open arms to. We're developing great
community partnerships with With that being said, Unity Fest brought
out just what it was supposed to do, unify the community,
unify the student body, and unify the city of Jacksonville at.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Large community Shawnee.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Speaking to Henry Smith from e WU and Henry and
I have been in this community empowering the community. Henry,
what are the different events that are coming up so
that the community can rally behind e WU, because I
know attending the football games, attending the different events there
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helps e WU monetarily.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I'm glad you Ax. November first, we will have our
annual homecoming Shawnee, and this year we'll schedule to have
some great things with our homecoming. For instance, Dion Founder's
Sun is coming to be a part of homecoming on Friday,
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October the thirty first. He would be part of our
distinguished podcast series and that'll be in our Adam Jakins
Sports and Community Complex. In addition to that, we will
love for the community to come out and be participants
and fans for our annual homecoming parade which starts at
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eight am on Meryle Avenue and come down King's Road.
That's Saturday, No Women the first and then our homecoming game.
We're going to be going up against Central State that's
out of Ohio and Shanna. You wouldn't believe this, but
the head coach, the athletic director, and the assistant coach
at Central State are all three natives of Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Our homecoming is going to be graded.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
One of the reasons why I wanted to speak with you, Henry.
Anything else that the community can be.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Aware of within our academic foundation and that at Waters,
we Shanee still have for those who like to obtain
their bachelor's degree on the accelerate program. We still have
the program called the Client Program that means anyone who
has maybe fifty to sixty hours of credits, they can
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come and be a part of an eighteen month course
and be able to obtain their bachelor's degree within that timeline.
At Waters, it is unique for the working class and
it is unique for someone who's probably occupied with being
a stay home mom. In addition to that, we also
have a master's degree program now that is online or
(22:42):
you can come to the institution. The online base seems
to be one of the very best online courses for
master programs that folks can take and be a part of.
By that, we are now able to excel in many
different ways to assist those who want to receive higher
(23:02):
education as a baccalaory degree or as a master's degree
at the Waters.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Community Shawnee speaking to Henry Smith from e WU, Henry,
I understand that you know, the community can also help.
I spoke to a young lady that attended e WU
and she said something about a closet where we can
give give.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah, the given clauset is the closet that we have
that during the year, we have kids that come from
certain backgrounds that are unfortunately don't have the items that
they need to be able to be within the workforce
or be able to attend church or things of that nature.
(23:45):
So we are producing and have produced a closet for
the students. And we asked that anyone who has extra
clothes that they are no longer wearing, a clothes that
they want to discard, just bring them to us and
get give us a call and we'll be glad to
distribute those clothing to the individuals who were in need
(24:06):
of them.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Community call to action to help the young generation who
are going to college, going to university. We can help
by donating items to EWU so that they can look
and feel as adults when they go out to the
workforce or when they go to church on Sunday. Henry,
(24:27):
you know, it's always a pleasure to speak with you
because it seems as if e WU has celebrated one
hundred and fifty years of being the African American university
in our city. I had the pleasure of introducing doctor
Faison at our Sisters Strut as you all were a
part of that, and I wanted to just thank you
all for just being a part of our events, which
(24:51):
is one of the reasons why I wanted to counteract
and speak with you to see how you know, the
community can rally behind EWU and help.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Also, if there's any small businesses or large businesses that
have room for internship, we'll be glad to send our
students over to learn to be apprentice, to be journeys
through their businesses so that the young up and coming
career path can have some substance to it, because when
they go into the workforce. They need to have that background,
(25:23):
saying that they was able to work with someone who
gave them a chance to build their resume.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Community, let's rally behind EWU to help us help the
students who are our future. Henry, is there anything else
that you'd like to share with the community.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Yes, if there's anyone out there who would love to
be a sponsor for our athletic programs or academic scholarships,
please give us a call. We're in need of the
community being a full partner, not just as as a
social partner, but as a given partner, and we would
(25:59):
give back as well.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Community.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's a call to action to help our community, help
our university, and help our students as well as the faculty. Henry,
it was a pleasure speaking with you today. We are
here to assist and I'll definitely go through my closet
to get some dresses and I extend this to my
Eastern Star sisters out there. Let's look and clean out
(26:21):
our closet for the fall season and help EWU with
their giving closet as well as help them in any
way we can, and of course be there for homecoming
starting October thirty first. Henry it's a pleasure speaking with.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You definitely, and we definitely appreciate you, Seannie, from being
with us all these years, and we look forward to
seeing you again. And let's let the community know we
at Ewu still love you and we still want to
be the beacon on King's Road.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Amen, welcome to community viewpoints and Shannie feeling blessed and
highly favored on this Sunday morning, empowering the community, getting
our community out in about last quarter, lots going on
in du Vaal to energize our city. So today I
have Marquisha. She is here from Dinner on Bloc.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Thank you so much for having me. I'm super excited again.
My name is Markisha Fuller and I am one of
the co hosts for Dinia Blanc Jacksonville and we're super excited.
We are premiering our sixth edition here in the River
city and it will be on October twenty fifth. They'll
probably be about seven hundred of us dining under the
(27:35):
stars at a secret location once again. Dinner on Block
is a Parisian picnic that originated in eighty eight and
it's very much a community based, unified event where guests
will show up to a disclosed address and they are
(27:55):
greeted by one of our volunteers, and then they are
led to the secret low never knowing where they're going.
And then when I get there, they're just greeted with
a lot of drama on flair and entertainment. And we
have DJ whiz Kid this year that we'll be making
a cameo appearance, and so we're super excited to have
him join us. And then we all dine together as
(28:17):
a community should break bread together, and then we all
celebrating party together, and then we vanish, leaving no trace behind,
never to return to the same place twice.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Sounds like fun, right, well, it sounds like you have
to be spontaneous community. Shani speaking to in Wakkisha. She
is here to talk to us about an event coming
to the city. Understanding this month, we are just putting
awareness on global awareness. Everybody enjoys dinner on Blanc. Now,
Jacksonville is one of many cities that enjoy this spontaneous
(28:53):
event where you don't know where you're going. You just
got to be ready in your white Marquisha. What's the
angle for dinner on Blanc?
Speaker 6 (29:01):
So the event just started with a very small group
of friends. They realized that we may have our friends
that we take along and attend many events with, but
there are also so many friends out there that we
haven't met yet. So it is this pop up event
amongst friends new and old, and it really just began
to allow people the opportunity to step outside of their
(29:25):
norm to engage in their local or extended community, to
maybe conversate or even just laugh with individuals that may
be a little bit different, but still just as important.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
As they are.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
So that is what makes a great community. We're all different,
but we're all the same, right because we're all here
celebrating unity, laughter and funds for the Evening of Dinion
Blanc community.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Shawnee speaking to Marquisha, she is here from Ladina en Blanc, Jacksonville.
That will be happening in the city creating the Bowl City.
Another opportunity to get it out and experience something spontaneous,
but something that is growing globally all around the world.
Everybody is getting ready for their version of Lo Dinna
(30:11):
on Blanc in their city, but understanding that it is
something that one should experience.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
It absolutely community.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You can always check out how you can attend this event.
On our website and of course, enjoy another event of
vibration in our city. Get out, enjoy and see what
Lo Dinna on Blanc is all about. Now I see spontaneity,
but I also see fashion. I see, you know, a
pitch of mystery. How can the community get involved?
Speaker 6 (30:40):
We are still looking for Day of volunteers and so
if anyone is interested in being one of our Day
of Volunteers, they definitely can reach out to us through
our email. It's Jacksonville at Dinner in Blanc dot com.
Remember dinner is spelt like diner with one in. We
would love to have Day of Volunteer again. This event
(31:02):
happens all over the world, but I must say that
it would be absolutely impossible without our volunteers, and so
we're super grateful. We also would like to thank iHeartRadio
for being our exclusive media partner this year. And then
we have built more wines out of built more estates
out of Asheville, North Carolina, who is our exclusive wine
and champagne partner. So who's super grateful.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
For the partnerships.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
And you know again, I'm just grateful for you, you know,
allowing me to have just a brief moment to just
share this amazing experience with the community.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Be ready to enjoy a night under the stars out
in a beautiful public space.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
But you won't know until day off.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Absolutely, they will never know where they're going. It's always
an element of surprise, but we can assure you when
you get there, you will create lifelong memories.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Undy reconnect with the finer things in life, reconnect with
vibrant people, reconnect with a city that is moving in
a vibrant place. Ladina en Blanc Jacksonville will be in
due Vau October the twenty fifth. Check the details on
our website. Thank you for listening to community viewpoints. Have
a blessed day.
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