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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to community viewpoints. Is Jeannie feeling blessed and highly
favored on this Sunday morning. We are about to empower
a nation, moving forwards to generations because we're empowering children.
So today I have Nicole Wolfe. She's a co chair
for the Saint Jude Spanish Street Fiesta. Nicole, how are
you today?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Good morning, I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thank you, you know Nicole.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
When I got this, I was like, I'm always excited
when we're helping Saint Jude, always excited when it's close
to home, Excited to talk to people who are as
excited as I am. So before we get into our message,
just tell the community just a little something about Nicole
wolf So.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I am relatively new to the Saint Augustine and Jacksonville area,
but as I like to say to everybody that I meet,
I got here as quickly as I could. This is
a beautiful community. And we were looking, my husband and
I for a police to give as much as we
wanted out of a community. We wanted to find a
community that aligned with our values and sort of gave
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us the feeling of you know, what can we do
to give back to the community and actually what's exciting
is that we both found ways to do that in
connections with the community, and this happens to be one
of them.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
And what do you do in real life?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So we actually own a photography business, real estate and
architectural photography business was called Photo Architectural and we're based
right here in Saint Augustine, Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's a blessing to be able to use your craft
and bless others. So community. Shawnee speaking to Nicole Wolfe.
She's the co chair for the Saint Jude Spanish Street
Fiesta happening on October the seventeenth. Nicole, please share with
us a little bit about Saint Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, the great news about Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
is that since opening more than sixty two years ago,
it has changed the way the world treads childhood cancer
and other life threatening diseases. No family ever pays for
Saint Jude for the care of their childildren. Every child
that's treated there, thousands more have been saved worldwide through
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Saint Jude's discoveries. So there's no bill that ever gets
sent to a family. They are able to eat and
fly and have full treatment for their children without offer
paying one cent. It's a miracle, really, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Definitely is a mission like no other. I was looking
at the website that you shared with me and all
the beautiful pictures and the mission statement. You know, there's
so many charitable opportunities to choose from, and the reason
why we're here today's community is to feel for people
to help and support Saint Jude. So why should people
support Saint Jude? Because I think a lot of people
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want to donate money that they know it's going to
go to a great cause.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The reason why Saint Jude is so special is that
the word research is the most important part of what
Saint Jude is really standing for. And that's that with
saying Jude, all of the information, all of the research
that happens with Saint Jude's Children's Hospital is that it's
shared across the world. So not only do we have
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the information shared from doctor to doctor within the system
where what the child is being cared for, but it's
shared across the world all of the research that's been done.
So while it's important to give to charities right here
in our backyard, this charity truly does help the children
right here in our backyard, because unfortunately, I don't personally
know somebody in Jacksonville that's cured childhood cancer. I don't
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know somebody in Jacksonville that specializes in brain cancer for children.
But I could tell you that across the world that
information is being shared and children are being cared for,
and the information is being shared, and we're learning more
and more every day, getting closer every single day to
a cure so that no child dies in the Dawn
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of Light.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Men by Shawnie speaking to Nicole Wolf. She is the
co chair for the Saint Jude Spanish Street Fiesta, and
Nicole being co chair is pretty special event. Talk to
us and tell us about the Spanish Street Fiesta happening Thursday,
October seventeenth at the Fountain of Youth in Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, we're super excited because this event is so fun.
So we do have a gala that happens every year.
It's been happening for the last ten years in Saint Augustine, Florida,
and so we have a generous community here in Saint Augustine,
and we have been blessed to have the Miracle on
the Bayfront that happens every year, and over the last
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ten years we have raised, in combination with Mira Columbe
our kind of parent gala, almost two million dollars right
here in St. Augustina in just a ten year period.
So three years ago, that event at the White Realm
Mira Columba Dayfront was so successful that it's been selling
out every year. And what we decided was, you know what,
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people in Saint Augustine want to give more. People in
the Jacksonville area just want to give more. And we're
not going to stop because we're sold out every year.
What we're going to do is we're going to add
another event and we'll do it at the fall opportunity
so people can sort of get out and enjoy this
beautiful time of year. And the Fountain of Youth is
an absolutely incredible space. It's outdoors, it's the event itself
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is a Spanish street c yesa style, so it's beautiful.
There's a free peacocks roaming around because that's the Fountain
of Youth. It's street style, so there's interactive activities. There's
food truck and fun tarot card readings and a psychic
and photos and then live band and wonderful food and
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cocktails and dancing, and it's a great, great night.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It sounds so exciting with so many people who are
on the mission to help Saint Jude creating meaningful events
so that you can partake. Now, Nicole, I know that
there's sponsorship information, but there's also something really unique on
the website, Give to Live.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Talk to us about that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So the night of the event is a beautiful night.
We actually kick off the event with just really fun activities,
and then we've moved into really helping the guests who
already sort of know a little bit about Saint You
just understand just how impactful that night could be and
what that night could really do to contribute to saving
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children's lives. We have multiple opportunities to give. One of
them is by buying the tickets online, right going to
our website and buying the tickets. And then the second
opportunity is there's a silent auction, and so we'll have
ways to bid on those silent auction items online as
well as in person. Then we have a moment called
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give to Live, and that moment Give to Live is
incredible because it's an opportunity for people to say, you
know what, not to receive anything back, but just the
idea that we're here tonight with the same mission in mind.
We will raise our paddle and say yes to giving
to support this idea of no child dying in the
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dawn of life. And so there's a moment that night
that we can come together and give just a monetary
donation to support this mission. And then of course the
night doesn't end until many many people get on the
dance floor and really enjoy that space and that time
and have just a blast together.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And also I found something really interesting on the website community.
If you're just tuning in Shawnie speaking to Nicole Wolf,
co chair for amazing event happening in Saint Augustine. It's
the Saint Jude Spanish Street Fiesta. But as we are celebrating,
there is something groundbreaking of where it is actually being held.
So the grounds of the Fountain of Youth is where
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Pedro Menendez landed when he founded Saint Augustine, the first
settlement in the New World. So you are honoring the
local heritage of Saint Augustine as well as ensuring that
no child dies or no child is left behind. Nicole
This has been amazing only because I think we all
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you and I share a passion of helping people, helping
those that need assistance, and of course being in our
community is what we're all about. So I want to
thank you for being a part of community viewpoints today
helping us understand why you want to be a part
of this drive. Nicole, do you have any personal ties
to the Saint Jude Drive.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Over the period of time that I have given service
to Saint Jude and really support of the mission, I've
had very close family members go through and fight cancer,
and so for me, it touches my heart that something
so powerful like giving to Saint Jude could go so
far and really save children's lives. I mean, the people
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that have been close to me that have fought cancer
were adults, and I just can't imagine having a child
go through that. To have Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
be there and say you know what, I know what
you're going through, and we've seen this before.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
We've got it. We've got you.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You're not paying a cent, we have got you, and
we will take care of it from here. It's amazing
to be a part of It's.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A phenomenal feeling and only you community can understand that
feeling by supporting, supporting the local things happening here. In supporting,
as Nicole said, this is all around the world that
you'll be helping the next generation, our future, the children.
So Nicole, thank you so much for your time today.
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I appreciate speaking with you and understanding your drive and
what you do for a community and why you're a
part of this. We both know that we want a
better tomorrow for all the children, so thank you for
your time.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Anything else.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Thank you on behalf of my co chair, Nicole Lindser myself.
We are grateful that this community loves to support children
like we do, and for Saint Jude, there's no better
cause as far as we're concerned. So we look forward
to you all going to the website and getting your
tickets today and joining us, and we look forward to
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having support from you throughout the years. This is going
to be an event that will last and we'll have
it year after year and grow it so that we
can make a huge impact on saving children's lives. Thank
you so much, Shaannie.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Community.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You can find out more on our community website. It
has all the information you can just click the link.
You could support by purchasing a ticket and or donating
to give to Live a lot of information on the website.
Nicole has done a phenomenal job of leader. It just
gives you a spirit of giving and it gives you
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a fall sense, but it also helps us understand Saint Augustine,
Welcome to community viewpoints and Shawnee feeling blessed and highly
favored on this Sunday warning. We are empowering a community,
empowering a people. So today on the line, I have
Diallo is here as a community advocate, also introducing his
nonprofit and talking about the strength of just Gardening.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
So today, Diallo, how are you?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Thank you Seanna for having me Today. We're going to
get ready for Volunteer Sunday that we have every Sunday
from eleven to one out here at thirty six those
seven remote sending drive and we want to come out
and learn a little big get your hands thirty maybe
take something home.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Would you come on out and you know, d'ello, that's
one of the reasons why I was so excited for
this interview because there's a lot going on in the
world and you have always been one to always think
forward and know things that are happening in society and community.
So talk to us about your nonprofit, because what we're
talking about today is the Black Vegan Fest fundraiser for
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Urban Geoponic. Talk to us about that movement and why
you are delivering this message today.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
So we started. I used to do something twice a
year called some of the the Mores, which is bringing
together a conscious minded people on economic security, things that
we can do nationally as well as internationally to create
economic security for our community. And out of that was
going Urban Joe Pins. You know, we thought we started
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small with urban agriculture, that landscape and back then twenty thirteen,
you know, we started out out east with the Morris
east Side Farm where we would have classes.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
That thing.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Back then we would have voluntier Saturdays and having that nonprofit.
It was never about, you know, trying to make money
or even chase grants. We recently just started getting grants.
Are just trying to kind of expand on what we do.
And so the need to empower our people, the need
to educate our people takes presidents on a lot of
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things that we're talking about creating generational wealth. We're talking
about having ownership and control. If we're talking about having
younger people understanding how to properly eat, have a proper mind, state,
a proper document into you know, coming into adulthood. So
you know, we do a lot of things too now,
but we used to do on the Saturdays. We would
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do something to called Santkova Saturdays where where we had
the hood of Vermont Crease around Park. We've done Malcolm
X's Festival. We took over the Market Garbage Festival. So
we've done a lot of things to try to keep
the culture alive as well as just a sense of family,
economic empowerment, ownership and of throwny.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If you're just tuning in Shawnnie speaking to Diallo, a
community advocate in the city. Now, I know you've seen
him on TV, him and his wife, and we've had
him on the show before. But a message is being
delivered today about the Black Vegan Fest, the first Black
Vegan Fest that's coming to Jacksonville. And with this movement,
because I call it a movement, because there's a lot
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going on in societ and the economy. With this movement,
he's ready to teach us how we can help ourselves
so Diello, if you would, I know this is a
call for us to do more than ever talk to.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Us about that calling.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So understanding that men are the first people to die
because of Cardiovascar's disease, and that's based on our non
healthy eating habits and lack of exercise. It's important for
men who are the basically the backbone of families and
society labor forces, to have a better understanding of how
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to eat, have better options. And these options can taste
just as well as any meat or any other seafood
type of options. So this like being a fast, will
take place on our properties five acres. We're on the
waterfront property on the north side, right on Reboff seeing it.
That's a whole other thing amongst this self. We're not
utilizing the city or state for anything. And this is
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is all funded through Urban Jeoponics and our three sponsors
that we do have. They were brave enough to come
along with us and help put this together. And so
when you come here, we should have about thirty vendors.
We should have about five or six food vendors. We
have celebrity chefs who'll be doing cooking demonstrations, will have
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Internet sensation, blue pills, use of l These people tend
to speak on things that are normally not in the
alternative into our culture, so we always have to bring
an intellectual aspect. And we're also going to have a
children's corner where they can paint, put together by Suzanne
Pickett and her organization, so everything is a family affair.
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We'll have tar Reek Miami from News to Jacks and Friends,
It's Friends performing, Maul Jones of the Lyricist Live, We'll
be performing, so we're going to have real fun. I
have D Day, Bernard be be doing holding it down
for us so and a super vegan friend, David E.
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Manu will be hosting the force. So it's importing that
we come together and I want people to understand you
don't have to be black, you don't have to build
vegan to come out and enjoy this. You could be
anything and who you are. Come out and enjoy the music,
enjoy the conversation, enjoy the space, the landscape, enjoy the
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pharmacy project and just come on out.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Thank you so much, Diello.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
This is amazing because you know community, if you're seeking
family fund education on how to become vegan, if you're
interested in just trying to figure out how to grow
your own food.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
This is for everyone.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I'm looking at your website and it is absolutely amazing.
I love the flyer, I love all the information. Please
share with the community how they can get connected. I
understand that you are fielding for for sponsors, vendors, and
for volunteers number two late.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
They can always go to www like vegan Fes dot org.
We have room for mini vendors. Do you still want
to sponsors? You can come and sponsor and come on
be a part of and definitely volunteers.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
And I understand you're going to have lectures, demonstrations.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I heard you have some celebrity.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Chefs, and I know that the entertainment is going to
be phenomenal. So community, if you're looking for something to do,
something new, something vibrant, and something that will enlighten your
mindset on what's coming, the first vegan Fest is coming.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
The date if you will d'ello.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
October twenty sixth, our Saturday, October twenty sixth, starting at
eleven am, and we'll be going to six pm and
we will start sharp. We will be on time and
we will end on time. And in between time, we're
going to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And have fun and that's what it's all about in life. Community.
Thank you so much for checking in today and d'ello.
When we started.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The interview, you said that every Sunday the community can
come out and get nurturing and information.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Please share that again.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, it's called volunteer Sundays at our farm, the Pharmacy Project.
You could just come on out thirty six o seven
Revolt Seeing Drive right across the street from Revolt High
School which was forming it on as Reboult Middle It's
to talk like since attends to be opened. We open
the gates at eleven and we go from eleven to
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once nice two hours, get in, get.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Out, and do you offer this to students who like
me to do community projects. Is this something that the
schools can consider as community hours.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Absolutely yeah, because it's also throughout nonprofits. So if they
need community hours, even people who you know who are
outside of school, the community hours will help you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Dallo, Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for always
sharing and always being one step forward of what's going
on in the community and why we need to tap
into our own resources to ensure that we have longevity
in the community. So thank you for always being on
point with every event and every highlight and every movement.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Thank you for having me on your platform.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And we're back with community viewpoints to Shawnee feeling blessed
and highly favorite on this Sunday morning, we are empowering
our community today.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I have a Kevin Dunbar on the line.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He has a plethora of accolades, so I'm going to
allow him to tell you about the Kevin Dunbar and
what he has planned for the community in Duval County. Kevin,
how are you today?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'm excited that we have community partners who want to
provide entertainment for our young adults. But first let's talk
about you. Introduce yourself to the community. I know you
are from Jacksonville.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Correct, absolutely born and raised from the Montcreek area. Went
through rains. I ended up graduating from Wolston and I
went to college at FAMU and I studied journalism and
broadcast journalism, so I had an extensive background in just
news radio and I got into TV and acting as
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I left college and did all of that kind of
you know, traveling and kind of representing Douval outside of Duval,
and I just kind of missed home, and actually I
had a son, so that brought me back to Jacksonville
to do my professional career, and I did a little
radio and TV with the news station I worked at
count for. I worked over at the competition and that
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was cool. But I ended up getting a job after
school running a program, and I fell in love with
teaching and just being around young kids, so I went
ahead and applied to be a met A specialists, which
I thought was just you know, doing media related things
for schools in the school district. But lo and behold,
it was actually being a librarian. So now I'm one
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of the well, I am the only black male librarian
in the city, and it's probably like five or six
of us in the state. So I'm a librarian right
here in Duvall County and that's just my primary occupation.
But like you said, I got a pleasor of things.
I'm still dibbling and doubling into entertainment with regards to
podcasts and doing different productions, but my love is still
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for kids. So that's how I created my nonprofit to
kind of help kids, you know, get their skills in
various areas. That's what I'm gonna talk about indiview.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Just tuning in Shawnee speaking to Kevin Dunbar.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
He's here to enlighten us and engage us with one
of many things happening in the city. Please understand, Duval
County Jacksonville has people who are innovators. They will think
of an event and they're white. Is amazing. Today we
have Kevin, his wife is He loves the kids. So
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today we are talking about an upcoming event. Is this
your annual event, Kevin?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Actually, I do this event quarterly. Basically, I have a
within the nonprofit. We've got a smaller organization. It's called
JAMS Youth Events. So basically we do events for the
young people that kind of merge and infuse the music,
the culture, and it's really celebrating what they do in
school and it encourages the teachers that stay strong to
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keep doing what they do, as well as rewards the
parents for you know, their part and their role as
their whole child. So this event is based on the
incentivising of how they do in on their testing and
so you know they're coming back to school, so as
soon as they get back to test them. And so
this particular event coming in October, the first quarter event
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that we're kind of celebrating those how they did on
this first test, but we do it again for the
second quarter, third quarter, and then we have a great
end of the year bash as well. This particular one
is unique because we do we're kind of merging skating,
so we're doing the science and you know, kind of
just talking about the advantages of just knowing how to
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read and celebrate literacy because literacy is involved in math
and in science, so we kind of put it all
together and you know, with the events, we just merge
all of that and it's celebration, it's an incentive, and
it's just a great time for everybody to come on
out and just have to get time.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Wendy Kevin Dunbar here providing another avenue of excitement, entertainment,
and of course for families. I see here that it
is for K eight kids and families, so it's for
all the way through K eight or talk to us
and tell us who is this for. Is it for
everyone or do you have a specific area of kids
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that you are empowering.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
This event is a community event. It's a family event,
and it's geared towards the children and families pre K
through eighth grade. We just don't want it to kind
of be like a teen party. So we like to
for the little younger ones to be able to come
out and hang out with their friends as well, because
you know, most times kids can't have a party with
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their kids, their cousins from across the you know, from
across town. So we just give him an opportunity for
the whole family to come out and have something positive
to do. But it's you know, but everyone's welcome. If
you're a team, you come out with your mom and dad,
your little sister, your little brother. We're just encouraging great
community engagement. And so yeah, no one's really turned away.
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We just have to specify that it's kindergarten to eight
so the young people know that they really have something
to do, and so people kind of know what we're targeting,
especially elementary and the middle school grades excellent.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You know, I think sometimes we forgive about the little kids,
but community Kevin Dunbar is here. He's all about empowering
with a unique blend of lessons in life, literacy, and
technology skills, hoping to empower our youth. Kevin, I know
that this is near and dear to your heart and
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just empowering your community. Being from Jacksonville, what's your mission
statement or how are you moving forward in the years
to come to build this so that you can empower
more than just K through eight, but the entire community.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Well, what we're doing we know that, you know, knowledge
is power. So with our nonprofit, like you said, building
their life skills like respect, you know, just getting back
to you know, just being respectful, accountability holding, just getting
responsible for your actions, being punctual, just the pursuit of
accellence and the pursuit of education because you know, again,
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knowledge is power, and I'm just trying to get a
love of learning and stilled in the young people from
those early ages. And kind of like I said, either
ward the parents as well as the chiefments was easy
as we give we recognize the parent of the quarter
or at each event we recognize some of the teachers
who are put above and beyond. And then with regard
to literacy, I mean it's just foundational skills. So we
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play little literacy games, have all kinds of academic games
out there for them to do. And you know, with
the organization. So with me having an extensive background in
journalism and broadcasting, I want to give back in that area.
So we kind of focus on technology skills. So I'm
teaching the kids computer skills. We get the cameras and
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all the audio engineering how to DJ So our organization basically,
says WMP three, were basically at a junior news station,
a junior production company where all the kids are creating
content for kids and it's by kids. So with that,
the whole community is benefiting because what our niche is
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we kind of do those news stories. We kind of
interview nonprofits. We basically try to help those who are
trying to help the community. We give them an outlet
and a platform to tell what they do, and we
kind of just service the nonprofits as a nonprofit. So
everybody wins, just from the kids all the way up
to the professionals in the city. And it's a great
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time and you can expect to hear a lot of
work that we're doing. I've been doing this for a while.
I got different variations of events, but again, this skating
one is just that involves so many different entities. Like
I said, science, technology, which is great. I got some
great guests, who's going to be joining us, and so
I got to just follow us on Instagram and Facebook
and find out where we're at, who's going to be coming.
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And it's just again one of the many things that
we do and love to do for Jacksonville community.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Kevin Dunbarro motivating the youth in our community here with
us today to invite you out so that you could
be a part of his movement of empowering the young
adults and being a community advocate for the youth. Kevin,
is there anything else that you would like to share?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Well, I just wanted to let everybody know that we
need love, you know, as a city, and that I
do believe with all my heart that the children are
our futures. So I believe that if any and everyone
would just raise their level of love and spend some
time with the young people, because they're definitely watching and
the things that we as adult do is kind of
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guiding them to their future. So the more positivity we
instill and the more positivity we put on display, I
think we can see a return on our investment through
just the mindsets and the actions that the young people,
you know, kind of put out there. So I'm just
encouraging everybody to join me and just you know, have look,
take a look in the mirror and just say, what
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could I do to be a better person? And what
images am I putting out? What activities and behaviors am
I just playing for not only just my kids or
you know, your kids that's directly, but your life. When
people look at your life, what are you doing to
make the world better? And that's pretty much like I said,
that's why we do our organization. We want to create
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content that you know, displays some of the success stories
and some of the you know, trials and tribulations and
how people overcome you know, adversity. So, like I said,
I'm in entertainment people. Some people know me as because
of Daville. That's me, Kevin Dunbarm actually a teacher. Some
people don't even know I'm a teacher. But that's my
give back. You know, I want to be one of
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the biggest entertainers ever to live, but I feel like
I can make a big impact as a teacher and
with events like this, So I just encourage everybody to
just find the greatness in them and put it on display,
especially in front of the young people.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Well, I'm so glad that this show could be something
that helps the young people because we too interview nonprofits
to ensure that we empower the community. So I'm hoping
that the kids that you are empowering look at this
as a staple or as another way of empowering. Being
that you are to a media company, are you not, Kevin, Yes,
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I have.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
My own business at Dunbar Media, like I said we would.
You know, that's more of a professional like covering events
with the cameras and just real media coverage. But the
nonprofit Strict Beast focuses on kids getting these skills and
doing a service for the community so that they, you know,
just learned early the importance of giving back. So yes,
I am entertainment, i am a company, and i am
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a nonprofit of all of that, and I've got some
great people that are helping me out. I'm not by myself.
So again, just check us out on Instagram, check us
out on Facebook, and uh, you know, Dunbar Media and
w n P three and you'll you'll you'll be in
tune the greatness that we are, in the excellence that
we are attempting every day.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
If they want to get more information on you. Is
there a website.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
The website is developing now, I would go ahead and
get at my phone number. That's cool either Facebook just
you know, we have to Facebook and Instagram. We just
kind of just go with Dwnbar media on that. My
phone number if you want to know, it is nine
or four to two eight for eight one seven. That's
a direct contact need text or call again two two
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eight for eight one seven. And I'm feeling calls all
day about where a need is and what people are
suggesting and thinking that would either add to what we
got going on and or collaborate. I'm always collaborating. So
that's the number to make it happen because I'm a real,
live player. That's the w MP three meetings. Like real
players in the game of life. We absolutely want to
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be winners and not winners only, we want to be champions.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Well, thank you so much for being a part of
community viewpoints today understanding you're bringing excellence to the community
and empowering our youth.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
So thank you, Kevin, and.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Thank you for the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Shouting community Shawnie speaking to Kevin Dunbar and the community
empowering our youth for his Jam skate party happening Monday,
October the fourteenth, from ten am to one pm. This
is a fundraising opportunity for their after school enrichment program.
Thank you for listening to community viewpoints. Have a blessed day.
Welcome to community viewpoints. Is Jeannie feeling blessed and highly
favored on this Sunday morning. We are about to empower
a nation, moving forwards to generations because we're empowering children.
So today I have Nicole Wolfe. She's a co chair
for the Saint Jude Spanish Street Fiesta. Nicole, how are
you today?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Good morning, I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thank you, you know Nicole.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
When I got this, I was like, I'm always excited
when we're helping Saint Jude, always excited when it's close
to home, Excited to talk to people who are as
excited as I am. So before we get into our message,
just tell the community just a little something about Nicole
wolf So.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I am relatively new to the Saint Augustine and Jacksonville area,
but as I like to say to everybody that I meet,
I got here as quickly as I could. This is
a beautiful community. And we were looking, my husband and
I for a police to give as much as we
wanted out of a community. We wanted to find a
community that aligned with our values and sort of gave
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us the feeling of you know, what can we do
to give back to the community and actually what's exciting
is that we both found ways to do that in
connections with the community, and this happens to be one
of them.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
And what do you do in real life?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So we actually own a photography business, real estate and
architectural photography business was called Photo Architectural and we're based
right here in Saint Augustine, Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's a blessing to be able to use your craft
and bless others. So community. Shawnee speaking to Nicole Wolfe.
She's the co chair for the Saint Jude Spanish Street
Fiesta happening on October the seventeenth. Nicole, please share with
us a little bit about Saint Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, the great news about Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
is that since opening more than sixty two years ago,
it has changed the way the world treads childhood cancer
and other life threatening diseases. No family ever pays for
Saint Jude for the care of their childildren. Every child
that's treated there, thousands more have been saved worldwide through
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Saint Jude's discoveries. So there's no bill that ever gets
sent to a family. They are able to eat and
fly and have full treatment for their children without offer
paying one cent. It's a miracle, really, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Definitely is a mission like no other. I was looking
at the website that you shared with me and all
the beautiful pictures and the mission statement. You know, there's
so many charitable opportunities to choose from, and the reason
why we're here today's community is to feel for people
to help and support Saint Jude. So why should people
support Saint Jude? Because I think a lot of people
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want to donate money that they know it's going to
go to a great cause.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The reason why Saint Jude is so special is that
the word research is the most important part of what
Saint Jude is really standing for. And that's that with
saying Jude, all of the information, all of the research
that happens with Saint Jude's Children's Hospital is that it's
shared across the world. So not only do we have
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the information shared from doctor to doctor within the system
where what the child is being cared for, but it's
shared across the world all of the research that's been done.
So while it's important to give to charities right here
in our backyard, this charity truly does help the children
right here in our backyard, because unfortunately, I don't personally
know somebody in Jacksonville that's cured childhood cancer. I don't
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know somebody in Jacksonville that specializes in brain cancer for children.
But I could tell you that across the world that
information is being shared and children are being cared for,
and the information is being shared, and we're learning more
and more every day, getting closer every single day to
a cure so that no child dies in the Dawn
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of Light.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Men by Shawnie speaking to Nicole Wolf. She is the
co chair for the Saint Jude Spanish Street Fiesta, and
Nicole being co chair is pretty special event. Talk to
us and tell us about the Spanish Street Fiesta happening Thursday,
October seventeenth at the Fountain of Youth in Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, we're super excited because this event is so fun.
So we do have a gala that happens every year.
It's been happening for the last ten years in Saint Augustine, Florida,
and so we have a generous community here in Saint Augustine,
and we have been blessed to have the Miracle on
the Bayfront that happens every year, and over the last
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ten years we have raised, in combination with Mira Columbe
our kind of parent gala, almost two million dollars right
here in St. Augustina in just a ten year period.
So three years ago, that event at the White Realm
Mira Columba Dayfront was so successful that it's been selling
out every year. And what we decided was, you know what,
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people in Saint Augustine want to give more. People in
the Jacksonville area just want to give more. And we're
not going to stop because we're sold out every year.
What we're going to do is we're going to add
another event and we'll do it at the fall opportunity
so people can sort of get out and enjoy this
beautiful time of year. And the Fountain of Youth is
an absolutely incredible space. It's outdoors, it's the event itself
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is a Spanish street c yesa style, so it's beautiful.
There's a free peacocks roaming around because that's the Fountain
of Youth. It's street style, so there's interactive activities. There's
food truck and fun tarot card readings and a psychic
and photos and then live band and wonderful food and
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cocktails and dancing, and it's a great, great night.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It sounds so exciting with so many people who are
on the mission to help Saint Jude creating meaningful events
so that you can partake. Now, Nicole, I know that
there's sponsorship information, but there's also something really unique on
the website, Give to Live.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Talk to us about that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So the night of the event is a beautiful night.
We actually kick off the event with just really fun activities,
and then we've moved into really helping the guests who
already sort of know a little bit about Saint You
just understand just how impactful that night could be and
what that night could really do to contribute to saving
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children's lives. We have multiple opportunities to give. One of
them is by buying the tickets online, right going to
our website and buying the tickets. And then the second
opportunity is there's a silent auction, and so we'll have
ways to bid on those silent auction items online as
well as in person. Then we have a moment called
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give to Live, and that moment Give to Live is
incredible because it's an opportunity for people to say, you
know what, not to receive anything back, but just the
idea that we're here tonight with the same mission in mind.
We will raise our paddle and say yes to giving
to support this idea of no child dying in the
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dawn of life. And so there's a moment that night
that we can come together and give just a monetary
donation to support this mission. And then of course the
night doesn't end until many many people get on the
dance floor and really enjoy that space and that time
and have just a blast together.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And also I found something really interesting on the website community.
If you're just tuning in Shawnie speaking to Nicole Wolf,
co chair for amazing event happening in Saint Augustine. It's
the Saint Jude Spanish Street Fiesta. But as we are celebrating,
there is something groundbreaking of where it is actually being held.
So the grounds of the Fountain of Youth is where
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Pedro Menendez landed when he founded Saint Augustine, the first
settlement in the New World. So you are honoring the
local heritage of Saint Augustine as well as ensuring that
no child dies or no child is left behind. Nicole
This has been amazing only because I think we all
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you and I share a passion of helping people, helping
those that need assistance, and of course being in our
community is what we're all about. So I want to
thank you for being a part of community viewpoints today
helping us understand why you want to be a part
of this drive. Nicole, do you have any personal ties
to the Saint Jude Drive.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Over the period of time that I have given service
to Saint Jude and really support of the mission, I've
had very close family members go through and fight cancer,
and so for me, it touches my heart that something
so powerful like giving to Saint Jude could go so
far and really save children's lives. I mean, the people
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that have been close to me that have fought cancer
were adults, and I just can't imagine having a child
go through that. To have Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
be there and say you know what, I know what
you're going through, and we've seen this before.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
We've got it. We've got you.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You're not paying a cent, we have got you, and
we will take care of it from here. It's amazing
to be a part of It's.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A phenomenal feeling and only you community can understand that
feeling by supporting, supporting the local things happening here. In supporting,
as Nicole said, this is all around the world that
you'll be helping the next generation, our future, the children.
So Nicole, thank you so much for your time today.
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I appreciate speaking with you and understanding your drive and
what you do for a community and why you're a
part of this. We both know that we want a
better tomorrow for all the children, so thank you for
your time.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Anything else.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Thank you on behalf of my co chair, Nicole Lindser myself.
We are grateful that this community loves to support children
like we do, and for Saint Jude, there's no better
cause as far as we're concerned. So we look forward
to you all going to the website and getting your
tickets today and joining us, and we look forward to
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having support from you throughout the years. This is going
to be an event that will last and we'll have
it year after year and grow it so that we
can make a huge impact on saving children's lives. Thank
you so much, Shaannie.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Community.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You can find out more on our community website. It
has all the information you can just click the link.
You could support by purchasing a ticket and or donating
to give to Live a lot of information on the website.
Nicole has done a phenomenal job of leader. It just
gives you a spirit of giving and it gives you
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a fall sense, but it also helps us understand Saint Augustine,
Welcome to community viewpoints and Shawnee feeling blessed and highly
favored on this Sunday warning. We are empowering a community,
empowering a people. So today on the line, I have
Diallo is here as a community advocate, also introducing his
nonprofit and talking about the strength of just Gardening.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
So today, Diallo, how are you?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Thank you Seanna for having me Today. We're going to
get ready for Volunteer Sunday that we have every Sunday
from eleven to one out here at thirty six those
seven remote sending drive and we want to come out
and learn a little big get your hands thirty maybe
take something home.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Would you come on out and you know, d'ello, that's
one of the reasons why I was so excited for
this interview because there's a lot going on in the
world and you have always been one to always think
forward and know things that are happening in society and community.
So talk to us about your nonprofit, because what we're
talking about today is the Black Vegan Fest fundraiser for
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Urban Geoponic. Talk to us about that movement and why
you are delivering this message today.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
So we started. I used to do something twice a
year called some of the the Mores, which is bringing
together a conscious minded people on economic security, things that
we can do nationally as well as internationally to create
economic security for our community. And out of that was
going Urban Joe Pins. You know, we thought we started
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small with urban agriculture, that landscape and back then twenty thirteen,
you know, we started out out east with the Morris
east Side Farm where we would have classes.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
That thing.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Back then we would have voluntier Saturdays and having that nonprofit.
It was never about, you know, trying to make money
or even chase grants. We recently just started getting grants.
Are just trying to kind of expand on what we do.
And so the need to empower our people, the need
to educate our people takes presidents on a lot of
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things that we're talking about creating generational wealth. We're talking
about having ownership and control. If we're talking about having
younger people understanding how to properly eat, have a proper mind, state,
a proper document into you know, coming into adulthood. So
you know, we do a lot of things too now,
but we used to do on the Saturdays. We would
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do something to called Santkova Saturdays where where we had
the hood of Vermont Crease around Park. We've done Malcolm
X's Festival. We took over the Market Garbage Festival. So
we've done a lot of things to try to keep
the culture alive as well as just a sense of family,
economic empowerment, ownership and of throwny.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If you're just tuning in Shawnnie speaking to Diallo, a
community advocate in the city. Now, I know you've seen
him on TV, him and his wife, and we've had
him on the show before. But a message is being
delivered today about the Black Vegan Fest, the first Black
Vegan Fest that's coming to Jacksonville. And with this movement,
because I call it a movement, because there's a lot
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going on in societ and the economy. With this movement,
he's ready to teach us how we can help ourselves
so Diello, if you would, I know this is a
call for us to do more than ever talk to.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Us about that calling.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So understanding that men are the first people to die
because of Cardiovascar's disease, and that's based on our non
healthy eating habits and lack of exercise. It's important for
men who are the basically the backbone of families and
society labor forces, to have a better understanding of how
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to eat, have better options. And these options can taste
just as well as any meat or any other seafood
type of options. So this like being a fast, will
take place on our properties five acres. We're on the
waterfront property on the north side, right on Reboff seeing it.
That's a whole other thing amongst this self. We're not
utilizing the city or state for anything. And this is
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is all funded through Urban Jeoponics and our three sponsors
that we do have. They were brave enough to come
along with us and help put this together. And so
when you come here, we should have about thirty vendors.
We should have about five or six food vendors. We
have celebrity chefs who'll be doing cooking demonstrations, will have
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Internet sensation, blue pills, use of l These people tend
to speak on things that are normally not in the
alternative into our culture, so we always have to bring
an intellectual aspect. And we're also going to have a
children's corner where they can paint, put together by Suzanne
Pickett and her organization, so everything is a family affair.
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We'll have tar Reek Miami from News to Jacks and Friends,
It's Friends performing, Maul Jones of the Lyricist Live, We'll
be performing, so we're going to have real fun. I
have D Day, Bernard be be doing holding it down
for us so and a super vegan friend, David E.
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Manu will be hosting the force. So it's importing that
we come together and I want people to understand you
don't have to be black, you don't have to build
vegan to come out and enjoy this. You could be
anything and who you are. Come out and enjoy the music,
enjoy the conversation, enjoy the space, the landscape, enjoy the
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pharmacy project and just come on out.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Thank you so much, Diello.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
This is amazing because you know community, if you're seeking
family fund education on how to become vegan, if you're
interested in just trying to figure out how to grow
your own food.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
This is for everyone.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I'm looking at your website and it is absolutely amazing.
I love the flyer, I love all the information. Please
share with the community how they can get connected. I
understand that you are fielding for for sponsors, vendors, and
for volunteers number two late.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
They can always go to www like vegan Fes dot org.
We have room for mini vendors. Do you still want
to sponsors? You can come and sponsor and come on
be a part of and definitely volunteers.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
And I understand you're going to have lectures, demonstrations.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I heard you have some celebrity.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Chefs, and I know that the entertainment is going to
be phenomenal. So community, if you're looking for something to do,
something new, something vibrant, and something that will enlighten your
mindset on what's coming, the first vegan Fest is coming.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
The date if you will d'ello.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
October twenty sixth, our Saturday, October twenty sixth, starting at
eleven am, and we'll be going to six pm and
we will start sharp. We will be on time and
we will end on time. And in between time, we're
going to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And have fun and that's what it's all about in life. Community.
Thank you so much for checking in today and d'ello.
When we started.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The interview, you said that every Sunday the community can
come out and get nurturing and information.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Please share that again.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, it's called volunteer Sundays at our farm, the Pharmacy Project.
You could just come on out thirty six o seven
Revolt Seeing Drive right across the street from Revolt High
School which was forming it on as Reboult Middle It's
to talk like since attends to be opened. We open
the gates at eleven and we go from eleven to
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once nice two hours, get in, get.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Out, and do you offer this to students who like
me to do community projects. Is this something that the
schools can consider as community hours.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Absolutely yeah, because it's also throughout nonprofits. So if they
need community hours, even people who you know who are
outside of school, the community hours will help you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Dallo, Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for always
sharing and always being one step forward of what's going
on in the community and why we need to tap
into our own resources to ensure that we have longevity
in the community. So thank you for always being on
point with every event and every highlight and every movement.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Thank you for having me on your platform.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And we're back with community viewpoints to Shawnee feeling blessed
and highly favorite on this Sunday morning, we are empowering
our community today.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I have a Kevin Dunbar on the line.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He has a plethora of accolades, so I'm going to
allow him to tell you about the Kevin Dunbar and
what he has planned for the community in Duval County. Kevin,
how are you today?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'm excited that we have community partners who want to
provide entertainment for our young adults. But first let's talk
about you. Introduce yourself to the community. I know you
are from Jacksonville.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Correct, absolutely born and raised from the Montcreek area. Went
through rains. I ended up graduating from Wolston and I
went to college at FAMU and I studied journalism and
broadcast journalism, so I had an extensive background in just
news radio and I got into TV and acting as
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I left college and did all of that kind of
you know, traveling and kind of representing Douval outside of Duval,
and I just kind of missed home, and actually I
had a son, so that brought me back to Jacksonville
to do my professional career, and I did a little
radio and TV with the news station I worked at
count for. I worked over at the competition and that
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was cool. But I ended up getting a job after
school running a program, and I fell in love with
teaching and just being around young kids, so I went
ahead and applied to be a met A specialists, which
I thought was just you know, doing media related things
for schools in the school district. But lo and behold,
it was actually being a librarian. So now I'm one
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of the well, I am the only black male librarian
in the city, and it's probably like five or six
of us in the state. So I'm a librarian right
here in Duvall County and that's just my primary occupation.
But like you said, I got a pleasor of things.
I'm still dibbling and doubling into entertainment with regards to
podcasts and doing different productions, but my love is still
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for kids. So that's how I created my nonprofit to
kind of help kids, you know, get their skills in
various areas. That's what I'm gonna talk about indiview.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Just tuning in Shawnee speaking to Kevin Dunbar.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
He's here to enlighten us and engage us with one
of many things happening in the city. Please understand, Duval
County Jacksonville has people who are innovators. They will think
of an event and they're white. Is amazing. Today we
have Kevin, his wife is He loves the kids. So
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today we are talking about an upcoming event. Is this
your annual event, Kevin?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Actually, I do this event quarterly. Basically, I have a
within the nonprofit. We've got a smaller organization. It's called
JAMS Youth Events. So basically we do events for the
young people that kind of merge and infuse the music,
the culture, and it's really celebrating what they do in
school and it encourages the teachers that stay strong to
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keep doing what they do, as well as rewards the
parents for you know, their part and their role as
their whole child. So this event is based on the
incentivising of how they do in on their testing and
so you know they're coming back to school, so as
soon as they get back to test them. And so
this particular event coming in October, the first quarter event
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that we're kind of celebrating those how they did on
this first test, but we do it again for the
second quarter, third quarter, and then we have a great
end of the year bash as well. This particular one
is unique because we do we're kind of merging skating,
so we're doing the science and you know, kind of
just talking about the advantages of just knowing how to
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read and celebrate literacy because literacy is involved in math
and in science, so we kind of put it all
together and you know, with the events, we just merge
all of that and it's celebration, it's an incentive, and
it's just a great time for everybody to come on
out and just have to get time.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Wendy Kevin Dunbar here providing another avenue of excitement, entertainment,
and of course for families. I see here that it
is for K eight kids and families, so it's for
all the way through K eight or talk to us
and tell us who is this for. Is it for
everyone or do you have a specific area of kids
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that you are empowering.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
This event is a community event. It's a family event,
and it's geared towards the children and families pre K
through eighth grade. We just don't want it to kind
of be like a teen party. So we like to
for the little younger ones to be able to come
out and hang out with their friends as well, because
you know, most times kids can't have a party with
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their kids, their cousins from across the you know, from
across town. So we just give him an opportunity for
the whole family to come out and have something positive
to do. But it's you know, but everyone's welcome. If
you're a team, you come out with your mom and dad,
your little sister, your little brother. We're just encouraging great
community engagement. And so yeah, no one's really turned away.
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We just have to specify that it's kindergarten to eight
so the young people know that they really have something
to do, and so people kind of know what we're targeting,
especially elementary and the middle school grades excellent.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You know, I think sometimes we forgive about the little kids,
but community Kevin Dunbar is here. He's all about empowering
with a unique blend of lessons in life, literacy, and
technology skills, hoping to empower our youth. Kevin, I know
that this is near and dear to your heart and
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just empowering your community. Being from Jacksonville, what's your mission
statement or how are you moving forward in the years
to come to build this so that you can empower
more than just K through eight, but the entire community.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Well, what we're doing we know that, you know, knowledge
is power. So with our nonprofit, like you said, building
their life skills like respect, you know, just getting back
to you know, just being respectful, accountability holding, just getting
responsible for your actions, being punctual, just the pursuit of
accellence and the pursuit of education because you know, again,
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knowledge is power, and I'm just trying to get a
love of learning and stilled in the young people from
those early ages. And kind of like I said, either
ward the parents as well as the chiefments was easy
as we give we recognize the parent of the quarter
or at each event we recognize some of the teachers
who are put above and beyond. And then with regard
to literacy, I mean it's just foundational skills. So we
(26:12):
play little literacy games, have all kinds of academic games
out there for them to do. And you know, with
the organization. So with me having an extensive background in
journalism and broadcasting, I want to give back in that area.
So we kind of focus on technology skills. So I'm
teaching the kids computer skills. We get the cameras and
(26:33):
all the audio engineering how to DJ So our organization basically,
says WMP three, were basically at a junior news station,
a junior production company where all the kids are creating
content for kids and it's by kids. So with that,
the whole community is benefiting because what our niche is
(26:55):
we kind of do those news stories. We kind of
interview nonprofits. We basically try to help those who are
trying to help the community. We give them an outlet
and a platform to tell what they do, and we
kind of just service the nonprofits as a nonprofit. So
everybody wins, just from the kids all the way up
to the professionals in the city. And it's a great
(27:17):
time and you can expect to hear a lot of
work that we're doing. I've been doing this for a while.
I got different variations of events, but again, this skating
one is just that involves so many different entities. Like
I said, science, technology, which is great. I got some
great guests, who's going to be joining us, and so
I got to just follow us on Instagram and Facebook
and find out where we're at, who's going to be coming.
(27:39):
And it's just again one of the many things that
we do and love to do for Jacksonville community.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Kevin Dunbarro motivating the youth in our community here with
us today to invite you out so that you could
be a part of his movement of empowering the young
adults and being a community advocate for the youth. Kevin,
is there anything else that you would like to share?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Well, I just wanted to let everybody know that we
need love, you know, as a city, and that I
do believe with all my heart that the children are
our futures. So I believe that if any and everyone
would just raise their level of love and spend some
time with the young people, because they're definitely watching and
the things that we as adult do is kind of
(28:24):
guiding them to their future. So the more positivity we
instill and the more positivity we put on display, I
think we can see a return on our investment through
just the mindsets and the actions that the young people,
you know, kind of put out there. So I'm just
encouraging everybody to join me and just you know, have look,
take a look in the mirror and just say, what
(28:46):
could I do to be a better person? And what
images am I putting out? What activities and behaviors am
I just playing for not only just my kids or
you know, your kids that's directly, but your life. When
people look at your life, what are you doing to
make the world better? And that's pretty much like I said,
that's why we do our organization. We want to create
(29:08):
content that you know, displays some of the success stories
and some of the you know, trials and tribulations and
how people overcome you know, adversity. So, like I said,
I'm in entertainment people. Some people know me as because
of Daville. That's me, Kevin Dunbarm actually a teacher. Some
people don't even know I'm a teacher. But that's my
give back. You know, I want to be one of
(29:29):
the biggest entertainers ever to live, but I feel like
I can make a big impact as a teacher and
with events like this, So I just encourage everybody to
just find the greatness in them and put it on display,
especially in front of the young people.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Well, I'm so glad that this show could be something
that helps the young people because we too interview nonprofits
to ensure that we empower the community. So I'm hoping
that the kids that you are empowering look at this
as a staple or as another way of empowering. Being
that you are to a media company, are you not, Kevin, Yes,
(30:06):
I have.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
My own business at Dunbar Media, like I said we would.
You know, that's more of a professional like covering events
with the cameras and just real media coverage. But the
nonprofit Strict Beast focuses on kids getting these skills and
doing a service for the community so that they, you know,
just learned early the importance of giving back. So yes,
I am entertainment, i am a company, and i am
(30:29):
a nonprofit of all of that, and I've got some
great people that are helping me out. I'm not by myself.
So again, just check us out on Instagram, check us
out on Facebook, and uh, you know, Dunbar Media and
w n P three and you'll you'll you'll be in
tune the greatness that we are, in the excellence that
we are attempting every day.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
If they want to get more information on you. Is
there a website.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
The website is developing now, I would go ahead and
get at my phone number. That's cool either Facebook just
you know, we have to Facebook and Instagram. We just
kind of just go with Dwnbar media on that. My
phone number if you want to know, it is nine
or four to two eight for eight one seven. That's
a direct contact need text or call again two two
(31:15):
eight for eight one seven. And I'm feeling calls all
day about where a need is and what people are
suggesting and thinking that would either add to what we
got going on and or collaborate. I'm always collaborating. So
that's the number to make it happen because I'm a real,
live player. That's the w MP three meetings. Like real
players in the game of life. We absolutely want to
(31:36):
be winners and not winners only, we want to be champions.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Well, thank you so much for being a part of
community viewpoints today understanding you're bringing excellence to the community
and empowering our youth.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
So thank you, Kevin, and.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Thank you for the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Shouting community Shawnie speaking to Kevin Dunbar and the community
empowering our youth for his Jam skate party happening Monday,
October the fourteenth, from ten am to one pm. This
is a fundraising opportunity for their after school enrichment program.
Thank you for listening to community viewpoints. Have a blessed day.
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