November 5, 2025 • 26 mins
The philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts, The Sandals Foundation, has activated its Relief Mission with one hundred percent (100%) of every dollar going directly to the organization’s emergency response efforts. Working hand-in-hand with on-the-ground officials across Jamaica to help those most in need. Make a donation at www.sandalsfoundation.org and select ‘Relief Mission’. No donation is too small. Every contribution makes a meaningful difference and helps families and communities recover.Created in 2009, The Sandals Foundation, a 501(c)-(3) non-profit organization, is dedicated to positively impacting the lives and communities across the Caribbean, under three key pillars, the environment, community, and education.General:
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- Created in 2009, The Sandals Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International.
- The Sandals Foundation, a 501(c)-(3) non-profit organization, is dedicated to positively impacting the lives and communities across the Caribbean, under three key pillars, the environment, community, and education.
- Donations make a true impact - helping families rebuild, restore hope across the Caribbean, and strengthen local communities.
- 100% of every dollar donated goes directly to funding relief, recovery, and development programs.
- The Sandals Foundation is providing immediate relief and long-term support to communities in Jamaica and the Caribbean that are directly impacted by Hurricane Melissa.
- To ensure a clear and effective response across all regions, the Sandals Foundation has activated its relief mission protocols and is working closely with local governments, partners, and team members to assess conditions and mobilize resources safely and efficiently.
- Please know that no donation is too small. Every contribution makes a meaningful difference and helps families and communities recover. Here’s how you can help:
- Go to www.sandalsfoundation.org
- Click the Donate button (top right corner)
- Choose your currency and amount
- From the drop-down menu, select Relief Mission
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to community viewpoints. As Shawnee feeling blessed and highly
favored on this Sunday morning. We are pouring into global communities.
We are pouring into a community that we all love
and have visited once before, and this is my homeland
of Jamaica. Today I have Heidi Clark. She's the executive
director of the Sandals Foundation. Heidi, good morning, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Shawnie. It's great to speak to you again.
We're doing okay here, Heidi.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
If you would just tell the people that's listening your
position and just a little bit about you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Sure so. I'm the executive director of the Sanders Foundation.
I have been seventeen years now working with the company,
and we do everything here in the Caribbean, from environment
to education to community programs to try and improve lives
of our fellow Caribbean nationals. And of course now in
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time of disaster, we try and help as much as
possible with disaster relief community.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
As you understand and know, a Hurricane Melissa devastated the Caribbean,
one of the islands being Jamaica, and today we are
here to help to uplift, to empower and to rebuild.
So Heidi, I know the disaster has taken a toll
on the certain part of Jamaica where you are. Tell
the community what Sandals community was affected by the disaster
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and what.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Area most of the storm would have affected the south
coast of Jamaica on the westerly side. So thankfully in
Kingston and Altorius and other regions, we are still operating
and doing fine and able to assist those other areas.
But those areas were certainly hit very hard. I mean,
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it was a Cat five hurricane, so between the winds
and the flooding, there is quite a bit of devastation
in those parts of the island and they really need help.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Speaking to Heidi Clark, executive director of the Sandals Foundation,
this is a nonprofit foundation understanding giving you will also
so get a Heidi, how can the world, the community
empower you at this time?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What can we do to help?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So we work very strategically on the ground and with
our partners, and we execute first relief efforts, so that's
everything from water, food, hot meals, protection, making sure people
are in shelters and safe and drive. That's our first priority,
and then we move into long term recovery. So the
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way to help with that is really to donate financial
assistance is the greatest thing. If people can give a dollar,
five dollars, whatever it is, that goes directly, every cent
of it that goes to the Salids Foundation because Salids
resorts funds our governance, so all the money goes directly
into relief. First into first relief efforts, and then our
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major focus is always on health. So there are our
hospitals they're functioning able to serve people, and our schools
so we're able to help our children get back to normal.
So I would say visit Silencefoundation dot org. We keep
you updated with what we're doing. You can make a
donation right there to the disaster relief. And you know,
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we're eternally grateful for all the love for Jamaica because
we are strong, resilient people and we will come back,
but it is it's going to be a long road
for some of those communities that were hardest.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hits comunity, as you've seen on the TV, as you've
heard about Hurricane Melissa devastating the Caribbean. Today, we're talking
to Heidi Clark, executive director of the Sandals Foundation. They
are a nonprofit sector in Jamaica where they help immediately
and create relief missions. And we're closely with the local
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government partners and teams across Jamaica. So if you can
help these people, if you can help the paradise that
is there that has been devastated, please do go to
our website. All the information is on our website, how
you can donate, how you can help with in kind donations. Nothing,
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as Heidi said, is too small. Now, Heidi, I know
that you said, seventeen years doing this and these are
the things that happen natural disasters, and we've picked up
before where we had a natural disaster. We will pick
up again our country of Jamaica. I understand the city
is resilient, the government is resilient, and you, Heidi, I
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hear it in your voice, a little tired, but you're
still here helping and providing a way. Just give the
community something else that they can see that you are
still diligent, still resilient in this and you just want
to create a better Jamaica so that people can come
to the island of Paradise again.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know, I think it's really fantastic is coming together people.
So the fact that we are working alongside government. That
we are working alongside other foundations and nonprofits and boots
on the ground has really fantastic and I think that
that will enable us to recover even quicker. So we
are eternally grateful to the people who love Jamaica and
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who want to help us make a difference, and to
know that you know, we are making sure that every
dollar is impacting somebody's life and changing things for a
better outcome, and that we are very focused on our
assessments and our strategy as to how we approach this.
It's not haphazard, and as I said, every dollar that
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comes in helping to make that different. So, as I said,
we encourage you to keep you know, keep abreast of
what we're doing at Salncefoundation dot org. Donate and then
please know that Jamaica has many parts to it and
that we are open for business and as soon as
our airport's open, we have other hotels across the town
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and tourism keeps us going. So as I said, we're
resilient and we will recover, and we will help all
those communities to learn need.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Community donations make a true impact, helping families rebuild, restore hope,
across the Caribbean and strengthen local communities. Today we have
Heidi Clark, the executive director from Sandals Foundation, pouring into us,
asking us for help and asking us to be resilient,
get back to our homeland of Jamaica, because it is
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an island of paradise where thousands and I think millions
of people have visited this island. So we want to
get our resources back. We want to get Sandals back
to where it should be so that everybody could come
back and go back and visit Jamaica and have a
great time. Because that's all I see people posts is
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Jamaica is a place to be. So pour into this island,
help this island, restore this island.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
CAIDI.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I know that you are there and the people on
the ground worked diligently through the storm, and I thank
you as a Jamaican for taking care the visitors that
were there and for taking care of the island itself.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Thank you for being resilient, Heidi.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Thank you, Shawnie, thank you so much, and thank you
for this awareness. It goes a long way. We are
internally grateful and we will be ready to welcome people
to our shores again. Very soon, and we thank you,
thank you for caring so much.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Heidi. This is the land of my birth.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, it's a beautiful land and we're going to be
back and up and functioning very soon.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
That is the prayer.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh, we are grateful for that. Thank you, Shawnee, much appreciated.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yes, ma'am, and you take care of yourself and take
care of the people of the island of Jamaica. Are strong,
resilient people, and we don't stop until God say so.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Bless you, indeed, bless you, Thank you so much. As
I told my daughter last night, we're very strong people.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So we will.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We will overcome no matter how hard it is for
a little while.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
All right, So we pray for blessings for people who
are traveling in and out of the island of Jamaica,
in and out of the Caribbean. This is devastating. Hurricane
Melissa was a force that had Category five. I don't
know how one can recover, but we will help to recover. Heidi,
thank you so much for calling in today to community viewpoints.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Have a blessed day and be blessed.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Thank you so very much. It's such a pleasure being
on with you again. Shanny, and you take care of yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yes, ma'am, you take care as well. Be safe.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Thank you, God Bless, God bless. Very difficult. Trust me.
I have to keep telling my team this is hard work,
and that's what recovery work is. You take your time,
you go and cry in the bathroom, you cry, We
hug each other, but we got to keep going.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It's going to be all right, as we know, as
we know, as we know, we will stand steadfast and understand.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
We did it, we came through.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Indeed, be safe.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I understand the aftermath is what's worse. So take your time,
be safe.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
We will for sure. Thank you so much, so appreciated.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And of course you know, rebuilding is something that is
all about life.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We have to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Indeed, I think sometimes a disaster comes to clear to
make things better.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Sometimes I agree, let's see what happens. But we are
we are ready to rock and roll and take good
care of our people. So thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Community.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Be sure to check out our community calendar page. You
can definitely find out all the information about the Sandals Foundation,
providing immediate relief and long term support to the communities
in Jamaica. Welcome to community, 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
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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 Reye Dickerson and Mark Dickerson here
from Jacksonville, but have traveled the whole world in music.
But these men are here to talk about their love,
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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 5 (10:09):
Well, Hey, good morning everybody. I'm Reece Dickerson. I'm so
glad to be here. I am a songwriter. As Shauny said,
I'm native of Jacksonville and am completely sold out and
bought into this fight against Alzheimer's decease. You share with
you it's about our mother and our love for our mother.
But it goes a little bit deeper, and I have
a little further than that. For us, we want to
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help people heal, not only find a cure, 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 create a space where we can not
only find a cure, but help people heal.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Thank you for having me. Good morning everybody. 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, were natives
of Jacksonville, born and raised here, and just a few
years ago we were given the gift of this horrific disease, Alzheimer's,
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and we're walking through this with our beautiful mother. Tough,
tough situation, but you know what, Shanni is 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 5 (11:25):
Day, we will see a cure for this, for really disease.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
So thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's my pleasure 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
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want to invite 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 all time ras. You've wrapped your
entire body around this because of Mom. Tell the community
what you've done so far.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
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 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 in
or year and a half into her diagnosis that we
were able to put on this show where she talked
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about Alzheimer's disease and talked about her battle with it.
And since then we've had radio interviews with you with
my mother and got a chance to have the public
hear her. I am now an official Alzheim's Association educator.
I've just been certified with the Alzheim'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 want to
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go back in 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 there's 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 stronger, when
dad or uncle or auntie, you know, were always the
cornerstone of the family. Now they're dealing with the hurt,
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the aftermath that 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 end the stigma around the
conversation of Alzheimer's, and let's edit people that look like US.
African Americans, the Hispanic community are always the last to
know and were typically tenued behind the eight ball. So
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I want to get ahead of this and I want
to educate people who need it most.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Immundy 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.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Brother, shann 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 light to some people. A few
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years ago, we noticed that my mother, we would 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
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we got her signed up for it, and sure enough,
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
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and affects the entire family. So our whole family has
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.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Day, and then we vastly back and forth.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
But it's been tough. The thing that has been helpful
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 fight possible and to
remember her legacy. She loves music. Marie was talking about
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the event we did a couple of years ago. It
was an event where we used music to help her
tell her and so many people after that have jumped
on and said, hey, you know what, me too, this
is happening with my family. So we found tremendous support.
The fight goes on, the battle goes on. But again,
it's platforms like this, Shaannie, that help us tell the
story of Delma Dickerson, that keeps her alive in the
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hearts and minds the people that she impacted, and gives
a sense of hope for a cure for such a
horrific disease.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Community 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 3 (16:26):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
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 that cure?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
All be in great question. So you're right right, We've
been taught and I still believe, Shani, you know me
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
so many resources out here for black and brown people,
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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 our grandma is just crazy, grand
dad is just forgetting this is that. But now with
medical advances, we have language to put to this. So
there's so many organizations out there where we can lean
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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. There
are legal aids. This is another part that people don't
really lean into is when our parents and our loved
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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 speak on that, they're lawyers out
there who can help us navigate through things like that.
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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 I'll 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, and some of the top
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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
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advantage of. So there's so many things we can do.
Find of support group to plug into, reach out to
Dominante of the Alzheimer's Association, reach out to elder Source,
reach out to Mayo Clinic. Find these support groups and
dive in. Don't be afraid, dive in, and let's get
our loved ones the help that they need.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And Reese help us understand the stats when it comes
to Alzheimer's.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
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, and we would go to there's
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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 pas they will and some
would be their bid some of their wheelchairs, and these
people would sit and I ask one of the nurses,
I said, well, how many of the families come back.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And see them?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
She said, they don't. So that's another thing we're seeing
what it becomes too much for them. That's why I'm
so glad mark the support 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
non their present state of mind, they are still people
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and they need that outlet instead of just putting them
in a room and allowing them to die, which is
typically what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Immunity Shawnee speaking to the fears Toosome Reece 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
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five walked and Alzheimer's Walk coming up Sunday, November the
ninth at the un S JB. Hawxwell Afo Theater. And
I understand you all have a team that might beat everyone.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah? Our team is called Team Zelma. So all of
our posts and whatnot and efforts to raise not only
awareness but funds to help put towards the research and
this disease. We've got teams elm Our plan is to
have a seventy five to one hundred people out there
walking just specifically in the port of Team Zelma. I've
had several friends reach out to me, both friends from
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high school who her mother just passed a month ago
with a doctor 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 walking 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, she was a civic leader, she was a
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trail blazer and everything she did, so it's kind of
naturally the 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
Bill and Senior Care, we want to start something different
where people can come into space to make feel for
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your talk. So yeah, I'd love to have as many
people as possible to come out of Sunday Thembeber ninth
at the U and f jav consuble Amphitheater. Registrations at
one of the walk starts at two and it's going
to be a big Therebory. They're expecting about twenty five
hundred and three thousand people, so yeah, it's going to
be big community.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Shahnni speaking to Reese and Mark Dickerson. They're also artists,
and I hope that you will be singing to open
that event, Reeese, because I've an outside 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 for.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
This is the region? 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 have been asked to do the National anthatopic
in the National Lanthem maticipants as well, So I'm so
excited about that. I'm always glad to do that. I've
always got to be a part of those kind of
events and the share I'm also doing the Vet Things
Day Parade. Yeah, I will be saying.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They actually at this year at the welcome Active in
the community, the Brothers are here recent 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
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love her.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
If you would, it is Sunday morning, you would just
give us a short prayer or a.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Word, absolutely that I'll be happy to. Scripture tells us
in roments A 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.
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So Father, 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,
that your people can go free. And we say this
and we pray as in the name that is above
every other name, that is the name of Jesus.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
An a minute, it's still considered it done.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
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 our community, but we
have to talk about it, and we have to talk
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about 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 fellas.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
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, you it's a
favorite other website alsre dot org, slash and Jackson's Little
wa that's going to give you information about the upcoming walk,
that's going to give you resources and places you can
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go 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
on a river night, be part of this walk, meet
community because dear people out there ready to rally around
you and your family as well and to help you
walk this process.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
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 (25:53):
We appreciate you, my sister, so much.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Community.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Be sure to check out our community calendar page. We've
also teamed up with K nine for Warriors and First
Coast News for the tenth annual Veterans Day Telethon on
November thirteenth, starting at six am through the eight pm hour,
benefiting K nine for Warriors, the nation's largest provider for
trained service docks to the military veterans living with PTSD,
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traumatic brain injury and military sexual trauma. Thank you for
listening to community viewpoints. Have a blessed day,
Welcome to community viewpoints. As Shawnee feeling blessed and highly
favored on this Sunday morning. We are pouring into global communities.
We are pouring into a community that we all love
and have visited once before, and this is my homeland
of Jamaica. Today I have Heidi Clark. She's the executive
director of the Sandals Foundation. Heidi, good morning, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Shawnie. It's great to speak to you again.
We're doing okay here, Heidi.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
If you would just tell the people that's listening your
position and just a little bit about you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Sure so. I'm the executive director of the Sanders Foundation.
I have been seventeen years now working with the company,
and we do everything here in the Caribbean, from environment
to education to community programs to try and improve lives
of our fellow Caribbean nationals. And of course now in
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time of disaster, we try and help as much as
possible with disaster relief community.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
As you understand and know, a Hurricane Melissa devastated the Caribbean,
one of the islands being Jamaica, and today we are
here to help to uplift, to empower and to rebuild.
So Heidi, I know the disaster has taken a toll
on the certain part of Jamaica where you are. Tell
the community what Sandals community was affected by the disaster
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and what.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Area most of the storm would have affected the south
coast of Jamaica on the westerly side. So thankfully in
Kingston and Altorius and other regions, we are still operating
and doing fine and able to assist those other areas.
But those areas were certainly hit very hard. I mean,
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it was a Cat five hurricane, so between the winds
and the flooding, there is quite a bit of devastation
in those parts of the island and they really need help.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Speaking to Heidi Clark, executive director of the Sandals Foundation,
this is a nonprofit foundation understanding giving you will also
so get a Heidi, how can the world, the community
empower you at this time?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What can we do to help?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So we work very strategically on the ground and with
our partners, and we execute first relief efforts, so that's
everything from water, food, hot meals, protection, making sure people
are in shelters and safe and drive. That's our first priority,
and then we move into long term recovery. So the
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way to help with that is really to donate financial
assistance is the greatest thing. If people can give a dollar,
five dollars, whatever it is, that goes directly, every cent
of it that goes to the Salids Foundation because Salids
resorts funds our governance, so all the money goes directly
into relief. First into first relief efforts, and then our
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major focus is always on health. So there are our
hospitals they're functioning able to serve people, and our schools
so we're able to help our children get back to normal.
So I would say visit Silencefoundation dot org. We keep
you updated with what we're doing. You can make a
donation right there to the disaster relief. And you know,
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we're eternally grateful for all the love for Jamaica because
we are strong, resilient people and we will come back,
but it is it's going to be a long road
for some of those communities that were hardest.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hits comunity, as you've seen on the TV, as you've
heard about Hurricane Melissa devastating the Caribbean. Today, we're talking
to Heidi Clark, executive director of the Sandals Foundation. They
are a nonprofit sector in Jamaica where they help immediately
and create relief missions. And we're closely with the local
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government partners and teams across Jamaica. So if you can
help these people, if you can help the paradise that
is there that has been devastated, please do go to
our website. All the information is on our website, how
you can donate, how you can help with in kind donations. Nothing,
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as Heidi said, is too small. Now, Heidi, I know
that you said, seventeen years doing this and these are
the things that happen natural disasters, and we've picked up
before where we had a natural disaster. We will pick
up again our country of Jamaica. I understand the city
is resilient, the government is resilient, and you, Heidi, I
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hear it in your voice, a little tired, but you're
still here helping and providing a way. Just give the
community something else that they can see that you are
still diligent, still resilient in this and you just want
to create a better Jamaica so that people can come
to the island of Paradise again.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know, I think it's really fantastic is coming together people.
So the fact that we are working alongside government. That
we are working alongside other foundations and nonprofits and boots
on the ground has really fantastic and I think that
that will enable us to recover even quicker. So we
are eternally grateful to the people who love Jamaica and
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who want to help us make a difference, and to
know that you know, we are making sure that every
dollar is impacting somebody's life and changing things for a
better outcome, and that we are very focused on our
assessments and our strategy as to how we approach this.
It's not haphazard, and as I said, every dollar that
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comes in helping to make that different. So, as I said,
we encourage you to keep you know, keep abreast of
what we're doing at Salncefoundation dot org. Donate and then
please know that Jamaica has many parts to it and
that we are open for business and as soon as
our airport's open, we have other hotels across the town
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and tourism keeps us going. So as I said, we're
resilient and we will recover, and we will help all
those communities to learn need.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Community donations make a true impact, helping families rebuild, restore hope,
across the Caribbean and strengthen local communities. Today we have
Heidi Clark, the executive director from Sandals Foundation, pouring into us,
asking us for help and asking us to be resilient,
get back to our homeland of Jamaica, because it is
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an island of paradise where thousands and I think millions
of people have visited this island. So we want to
get our resources back. We want to get Sandals back
to where it should be so that everybody could come
back and go back and visit Jamaica and have a
great time. Because that's all I see people posts is
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Jamaica is a place to be. So pour into this island,
help this island, restore this island.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
CAIDI.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I know that you are there and the people on
the ground worked diligently through the storm, and I thank
you as a Jamaican for taking care the visitors that
were there and for taking care of the island itself.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Thank you for being resilient, Heidi.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Thank you, Shawnie, thank you so much, and thank you
for this awareness. It goes a long way. We are
internally grateful and we will be ready to welcome people
to our shores again. Very soon, and we thank you,
thank you for caring so much.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Heidi. This is the land of my birth.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, it's a beautiful land and we're going to be
back and up and functioning very soon.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
That is the prayer.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh, we are grateful for that. Thank you, Shawnee, much appreciated.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yes, ma'am, and you take care of yourself and take
care of the people of the island of Jamaica. Are strong,
resilient people, and we don't stop until God say so.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Bless you, indeed, bless you, Thank you so much. As
I told my daughter last night, we're very strong people.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So we will.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We will overcome no matter how hard it is for
a little while.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
All right, So we pray for blessings for people who
are traveling in and out of the island of Jamaica,
in and out of the Caribbean. This is devastating. Hurricane
Melissa was a force that had Category five. I don't
know how one can recover, but we will help to recover. Heidi,
thank you so much for calling in today to community viewpoints.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Have a blessed day and be blessed.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Thank you so very much. It's such a pleasure being
on with you again. Shanny, and you take care of yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yes, ma'am, you take care as well. Be safe.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Thank you, God Bless, God bless. Very difficult. Trust me.
I have to keep telling my team this is hard work,
and that's what recovery work is. You take your time,
you go and cry in the bathroom, you cry, We
hug each other, but we got to keep going.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It's going to be all right, as we know, as
we know, as we know, we will stand steadfast and understand.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
We did it, we came through.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Indeed, be safe.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I understand the aftermath is what's worse. So take your time,
be safe.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
We will for sure. Thank you so much, so appreciated.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And of course you know, rebuilding is something that is
all about life.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We have to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Indeed, I think sometimes a disaster comes to clear to
make things better.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Sometimes I agree, let's see what happens. But we are
we are ready to rock and roll and take good
care of our people. So thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Community.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Be sure to check out our community calendar page. You
can definitely find out all the information about the Sandals Foundation,
providing immediate relief and long term support to the communities
in Jamaica. Welcome to community, 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
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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 Reye Dickerson and Mark Dickerson here
from Jacksonville, but have traveled the whole world in music.
But these men are here to talk about their love,
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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 5 (10:09):
Well, Hey, good morning everybody. I'm Reece Dickerson. I'm so
glad to be here. I am a songwriter. As Shauny said,
I'm native of Jacksonville and am completely sold out and
bought into this fight against Alzheimer's decease. You share with
you it's about our mother and our love for our mother.
But it goes a little bit deeper, and I have
a little further than that. For us, we want to
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help people heal, not only find a cure, 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 create a space where we can not
only find a cure, but help people heal.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Thank you for having me. Good morning everybody. 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, were natives
of Jacksonville, born and raised here, and just a few
years ago we were given the gift of this horrific disease, Alzheimer's,
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and we're walking through this with our beautiful mother. Tough,
tough situation, but you know what, Shanni is 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 5 (11:25):
Day, we will see a cure for this, for really disease.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
So thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's my pleasure 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
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want to invite 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 all time ras. You've wrapped your
entire body around this because of Mom. Tell the community
what you've done so far.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
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 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 in
or year and a half into her diagnosis that we
were able to put on this show where she talked
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about Alzheimer's disease and talked about her battle with it.
And since then we've had radio interviews with you with
my mother and got a chance to have the public
hear her. I am now an official Alzheim's Association educator.
I've just been certified with the Alzheim'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 want to
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go back in 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 there's 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 stronger, when
dad or uncle or auntie, you know, were always the
cornerstone of the family. Now they're dealing with the hurt,
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the aftermath that 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 end the stigma around the
conversation of Alzheimer's, and let's edit people that look like US.
African Americans, the Hispanic community are always the last to
know and were typically tenued behind the eight ball. So
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I want to get ahead of this and I want
to educate people who need it most.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Immundy 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.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Brother, shann 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 light to some people. A few
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years ago, we noticed that my mother, we would 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
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we got her signed up for it, and sure enough,
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
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and affects the entire family. So our whole family has
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.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Day, and then we vastly back and forth.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
But it's been tough. The thing that has been helpful
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 fight possible and to
remember her legacy. She loves music. Marie was talking about
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the event we did a couple of years ago. It
was an event where we used music to help her
tell her and so many people after that have jumped
on and said, hey, you know what, me too, this
is happening with my family. So we found tremendous support.
The fight goes on, the battle goes on. But again,
it's platforms like this, Shaannie, that help us tell the
story of Delma Dickerson, that keeps her alive in the
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hearts and minds the people that she impacted, and gives
a sense of hope for a cure for such a
horrific disease.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Community 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 3 (16:26):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
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 that cure?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
All be in great question. So you're right right, We've
been taught and I still believe, Shani, you know me
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
so many resources out here for black and brown people,
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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 our grandma is just crazy, grand
dad is just forgetting this is that. But now with
medical advances, we have language to put to this. So
there's so many organizations out there where we can lean
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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. There
are legal aids. This is another part that people don't
really lean into is when our parents and our loved
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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 speak on that, they're lawyers out
there who can help us navigate through things like that.
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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 I'll 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, and some of the top
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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
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advantage of. So there's so many things we can do.
Find of support group to plug into, reach out to
Dominante of the Alzheimer's Association, reach out to elder Source,
reach out to Mayo Clinic. Find these support groups and
dive in. Don't be afraid, dive in, and let's get
our loved ones the help that they need.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And Reese help us understand the stats when it comes
to Alzheimer's.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
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, and we would go to there's
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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 pas they will and some
would be their bid some of their wheelchairs, and these
people would sit and I ask one of the nurses,
I said, well, how many of the families come back.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And see them?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
She said, they don't. So that's another thing we're seeing
what it becomes too much for them. That's why I'm
so glad mark the support 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
non their present state of mind, they are still people
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and they need that outlet instead of just putting them
in a room and allowing them to die, which is
typically what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Immunity Shawnee speaking to the fears Toosome Reece 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
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five walked and Alzheimer's Walk coming up Sunday, November the
ninth at the un S JB. Hawxwell Afo Theater. And
I understand you all have a team that might beat everyone.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah? Our team is called Team Zelma. So all of
our posts and whatnot and efforts to raise not only
awareness but funds to help put towards the research and
this disease. We've got teams elm Our plan is to
have a seventy five to one hundred people out there
walking just specifically in the port of Team Zelma. I've
had several friends reach out to me, both friends from
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high school who her mother just passed a month ago
with a doctor 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 walking 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, she was a civic leader, she was a
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trail blazer and everything she did, so it's kind of
naturally the 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
Bill and Senior Care, we want to start something different
where people can come into space to make feel for
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your talk. So yeah, I'd love to have as many
people as possible to come out of Sunday Thembeber ninth
at the U and f jav consuble Amphitheater. Registrations at
one of the walk starts at two and it's going
to be a big Therebory. They're expecting about twenty five
hundred and three thousand people, so yeah, it's going to
be big community.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Shahnni speaking to Reese and Mark Dickerson. They're also artists,
and I hope that you will be singing to open
that event, Reeese, because I've an outside 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 for.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
This is the region? 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 have been asked to do the National anthatopic
in the National Lanthem maticipants as well, So I'm so
excited about that. I'm always glad to do that. I've
always got to be a part of those kind of
events and the share I'm also doing the Vet Things
Day Parade. Yeah, I will be saying.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They actually at this year at the welcome Active in
the community, the Brothers are here recent 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
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love her.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
If you would, it is Sunday morning, you would just
give us a short prayer or a.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Word, absolutely that I'll be happy to. Scripture tells us
in roments A 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.
(23:46):
So Father, 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,
that your people can go free. And we say this
and we pray as in the name that is above
every other name, that is the name of Jesus.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
An a minute, it's still considered it done.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
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 our community, but we
have to talk about it, and we have to talk
(24:33):
about 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 fellas.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
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, you it's a
favorite other website alsre dot org, slash and Jackson's Little
wa that's going to give you information about the upcoming walk,
that's going to give you resources and places you can
(25:05):
go 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
on a river night, be part of this walk, meet
community because dear people out there ready to rally around
you and your family as well and to help you
walk this process.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
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
(25:46):
you for your efforts, thank you for empowering this community,
and thank you for your song in strength.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
We appreciate you, my sister, so much.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Community.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Be sure to check out our community calendar page. We've
also teamed up with K nine for Warriors and First
Coast News for the tenth annual Veterans Day Telethon on
November thirteenth, starting at six am through the eight pm hour,
benefiting K nine for Warriors, the nation's largest provider for
trained service docks to the military veterans living with PTSD,
(26:16):
traumatic brain injury and military sexual trauma. Thank you for
listening to community viewpoints. Have a blessed day,
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