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Welcome to our monthly Community Coalition meeting. My name is Tracy Parsons. I facilitate these meetings each month. So this is our Arcus August Community Coalition meeting.

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Yay! S1:

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Let's give her another round of applause.

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Always all kind of stuff happening at the community Coalition meeting. Alright, so we're going to start off with our law enforcement leadership updates. So you guys want to come on up please. Let's give them a round of applause as they're coming up.

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Uh, it's nice to see so many faces I recognize. So I'll start off with a quick introduction of myself and kind of, uh, why I'm here. And speaking on behalf of the Urbana Police Department with Chief Boone. Uh, my name is Matthew McKinney. I'm a lieutenant for our services division. Uh, my role at Urbana PD currently is, um, I'm in charge of our training, some of our hiring, our professional staff, and a host of other things that don't really involve patrol or CID and most importantly, a lot of our community engagement and outreach efforts. And to anyone hoping that because Chief Boon's not talking and I am that data is not going to get mentioned. I'm going to have to break some bad news to you, but we're going to talk about data. Um, so the reason chief wanted me to to speak today to everyone and really highlight one of the things that's happening at Urbana Police Department that we're really excited about, and that is our community engagement and Violence prevention office. It's on the, uh, closing stretch of this project where we're going to be opening soon. We're excited about that. So I'm going to highlight some of the details about not only The office, but our team and kind of what our hope for this, this process and as we move forward is. So the location is at 1717 South Philo Road in Urbana at Sweet 16. It's an important location, and the reason I say that is, again, we use data to really inform a lot of our decision making. It's a huge part of what the police department has been doing since Chief Boon arrived, is really trying to direct our our goals and efforts with data backed intention, and so that's why we wound up there. It's really one of the areas that's smack dab in an area that's most affected by gun violence and has the most opportunity for for growth, and we feel like we can really play a solid role in providing resources and support in that. In that process and the Urbana ahead initiative or Road Ahead initiative and the city's plan for Philo Road really is, um, kind of another key factor in why we chose this location. Um, as Mayor Williams has talked about plenty of times, that that is one of the areas where he really hopes to see our city kind of, um, expand and grow. And so we're hopeful that our, our location there is because it's backed in that and the feedback we received from many residents and businesses around that area was really open and inviting, and they were really hopeful that we would come in there and help and be a part of of that growth. And so we're excited for that as well. Um, the College of Business recently did a did a presentation to the city of Urbana, um, for one of their classes, about a lot of the opportunity there and kind of one of the resounding, um, things that they brought up in their study when they were going door to door and business to business, was that, uh, overarching theme of of the need for some sort of resources and support from law enforcement down that way. And so, uh, as we as we open and expand this location, the goal is to really provide a meeting space, um, at times for continued growth with our partnerships and really expand our partnerships for programming to really make an impact for, for that area and the city of Urbana as a whole. Uh, at that building, we will have the dedicated office for our community engagement Sergeant, which is Antoine Funches. I'm sure some of you have met him, and we're excited to have him working out of that space with him will be a community engagement officer. Um, and then also, we'll have our crisis response team, uh, working out of that location and, uh, a community liaison, community engagement liaison, as well as our clergy patrol, which will also have a workspace there. So about that team. Uh, like I said, Antoine Funches is our community engagement sergeant. Um, anyone that doesn't know Antoine Funches, he started out as a police officer with Champaign. He worked as an SRO. He left policing for a while because originally his his passion revolved around social work. And he worked for Rosecrans as a clinician. Um, he came back to Urbana PD as a clinician, as a part of our behavioral health detective team with our crisis response, and then really decided that he felt like he could make a better impact as an officer. And so then transitioned back to a police officer with Urbana, where he led our behavioral health detective position and team, um, for some time before getting promoted. So I'm excited about him in that role, and he will be kind of the face of that, that building, um, again at that place too soon we will be putting a community engagement officer into that position. Um, as well as we are in the process of of hiring a community engagement liaison who will be focused on a lot of the kind of consistent issues we've been hoping to make an impact on, which are gun violence and upward mobility. And, um, you know, everything that we've all talked about numerous times at these meetings. Uh, and then our crisis response team with our clinician through Rosecrans. Uh, Jess Wetzel, who recently started with us and is doing an outstanding job as well. And our clergy patrol with UPD chaplain Josh Cisneros and um and the other members of the Clergy Patrol.

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So our our aim and our goal about being being at this location and our community engagement efforts largely. Um, we have a team that brings together people from multiple disciplines within the Urbana Police Department, both sworn and non sworn. Um, and the goal is to have partnerships with external organizations and kind of create meaningful and lasting impact, both in that Silo Road area, but Urbana and Champaign County as a whole. Um, we've talked about it a lot at the Urbana Police Department, and I think you'll continue to hear it, but it community policing and, um, really focusing on resources and connecting people to support is is a foundational pillar for our organization. It has been for a really long time chief. Chief Boone, when he arrived, noticed it, recognized it, but also pointed out the fact that we could do a better job sharing that with people and really making those partnerships more efficient. And that's really where we're at now, and I'm excited to see it, to continue to grow. Um, so again, there's a there's a whole host of different education, lived experience, professional expertise that we're really excited to have working in that space, um, both internally within UPD, but within, uh, with our partners that we've already been working with and the people that we expect to continue to work with or expand to. Uh, the overarching goal of this building, specifically in our community engagement team, I'm sure many of you heard chief talk about the pie, uh, pie model of policing prevention intervention. Uh, and then enforcement. Last, um, the goal of this building, the goal of this team is those first two prongs. Um, and End. This building will be used for that. We we have a unique ability as police officers to respond first, get calls, see people at their most vulnerable points when resources are the most needed. A lot of times, and it's invaluable for us to have great partnerships with all of you guys. But we have to be able to connect those dots, and that's the goal of this space, and this team is to be able to connect people to resources, um, and have enforcement be the last part of it that the Urbana Police Department is dealing with in a different way. But it's a holistic approach that we're really trying to to do here. Uh, yeah. So I appreciate everyone's time. It's a pleasure seeing all of you. If you have any questions afterwards, feel free to ask me more. But look forward to talking to you.

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All right. Good afternoon. Just a couple of quick updates here from campus. Um, so it's August, and that means two things. Hopefully the road construction that's all over campus is wrapping up and the students are coming back. Um, so we're excited to welcome everybody back. Welcome week. It's going to start Monday, August 17th. Um, we are going to start seeing some of the people come back to the area. Uh, but early arrival move in for our students is going to be the 16th through the 18th. New students come in on the 19th and 20th and returning students on the 21st. Um, classes start on the 24th, so that's coming up pretty quickly. Expect kind of in our area. Um, more traffic, more pedestrians, probably. Most of us don't want to handle it, but probably more e-scooters. Um, so we will be handling a lot of those interactions that we see on the roadway pretty frequently. Um, another quick update. Uh, so the Illinois football team is starting, uh, it's going to be a Thursday night game, September 3rd. And we have been working with some media partners and some of our partners at the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics to enhance some of the traffic around the area. That has been a problem the last couple of years, where we understand that we have had some pretty rough seasons, but now that the stadium is pretty full, we're bringing in a lot of people. We kind of restructured what we're doing with the traffic plans. So expect if you are a regular attender for things for the first couple of games to seem a little weird, um, and if you're just here to enjoy the game 1 or 2 times, we're going to have some special directions on how to get to the places you need to get to to kind of enhance our experience for our campus guests that are that are coming in. Um, lastly, we have our entry level police officer application, uh, out and live. And you can find that at jobs. Illinois. Edu. It's open now through September 2nd. We're going to have multiple openings. Then we're looking to fill some positions. Uh, we'll have a fitness test, a written exam and oral boards. And we're anticipating higher dates in November. So if you've got great people to refer to us, please point them in our direction. Thanks.

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All right. Again, I'm Deputy Chief Greg Van Zandt with Champaign PD. Uh, and typically, we will provide you with a recap of what's happened over the past month. But today I'm going to do something a little bit different. Uh, and talk about, uh, talk about yesterday, um, some events that, uh, I'm sure some of you, uh, are very aware of. Um, past 24 hours has been, uh, a powerful reminder of what our profession demands, uh, and how your Champaign police rise to meet the standards and the needs of, uh, of this community. Community every day. Um, in the middle of yesterday's storm, in the middle of the tornado and the deluge. Uh, Champaign police responded to the 1900 block of North Prospect at about 340, uh, in the afternoon. That's out in front of Lowe's. Uh, we found a vehicle that, uh, crashed into a retention pond, um, and was sinking. Uh, the video is incredible. Um, as they arrived on scene, my officers quickly entered the water. We had we had a new guy that went in there with their vests on advisedly, but they they went in there. They went swimming in there with a, um, some bystanders that they rescued this, uh, this person from a sinking, uh, sinking vehicle, uh, brought her back to shore. Uh, everybody got out safely. And it was if you were out at all during that time, you know, it was it it was raining cats and dogs and you couldn't see anything in front of you, much less going into some, you know, nasty retention pond. Um, but they, uh, they were managed to get her safely to shore. She was transported to the hospital just out of precaution. Um, and, uh, like I said, I saw the video. It was. It was incredible. I went home just, you know, beaming with pride. For what? What? It was those guys, those men and women did. And we look forward to celebrating. Um, the officers, the community members that assisted with this save, uh, in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, again, this is eight hours later. Same same day. Uh, at 11:26 p.m. Champaign police were called to the scene of a shooting in the 1100 block of North Third Street. This is a this was a tragedy that resulted in the death of a child. A very a very small child. Uh, we had a 911 call that, uh, indicated that a child had been injured by an apparent accidental gunshot. Officers arrived on scene. They worked feverishly, did everything they could to try and save this, uh, this baby. And, um, ultimately, uh, the child's wounds were too severe, and he later succumbed to his injuries. Um, I'm a little tired because I was out there until about three in the morning. Uh, checking in with my officers, checking in with with everybody who responded there. Um, and it was it was heavy. It's it's exactly. It's as heavy as you think it was going to be. And you saw veteran officers that were all kinds of tore up. And it tears me up to think about it right now. Um.

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As we go through this, uh, we're obviously still investigating. Uh, our prayers go out to the to the family of this, uh, of this young child. Uh, you know, friends, everybody who was who, who knew this little guy, uh, is going to be affected. Um, we're thankful for the partnership with Equity Engagement who responded out there? Um, to our partners at Urbana PD who assisted at the hospital to, uh, the coroner's office, everybody who was involved, uh, our, our, um, fire and EMS staff who, you know, did everything that they could as well. It was it. It was really awe inspiring to see the the professionalism and the composure, trying to deal with something so, so terrible. Um, these are just a couple of moments out of over 100, 120 different calls for service that we've, that we handled yesterday. And it runs again. You know, something as cool as a water rescue, which I've never seen in 25 years to something is terrible. Um, as losing that, uh, that child which unfortunately we see we, we see too much of around here. Um, I didn't want to say again. I'm proud of what I saw out of my officers. Their composure, uh, their selflessness, the way that they were taking care of each other and taking care of everybody else who responded. Um, because we. This is not when I first started. People understand that you're going to be hurting the people in this room who are all dealing with other aspects of, of, victims and other. Other folks that are impacted by, uh, by violence in this community. You all see it on, on, uh, at different stages, uh, downstream here. But you're aware of what? Uh, what kind of toll that can have. So it's really it was all inspiring to see how our agency is, is trying to work through that and handle that. And again, I just wanted to share a brief snapshot into, you know what what it is Champaign police is having to deal with. And thank you all for your partnership.

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So let's give our law enforcement leadership another round of applause.

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So the really interesting part about our law enforcement leadership just helps us. That's why I really love this coalition meeting, that each month we're able to come together to talk about how we address some of our community's most difficult challenges and issues and things that just happen in the daily. Uh, of of a community, of a society. And so when you think about, you know, all of us that were aware and involved with the death of the four year old last night have been deeply impacted by that all day today. And, uh, it really is. I don't know how many of you have had a chance to see, but Chief Boone, uh, a couple of Sundays ago wrote a real strong op ed. We've been talking the last couple of months about where these guns are coming from. And how do we address that as a community? How do we put some really intentional work around identifying, identifying. Looking at Martel, he's been saying that to us for since we started this work. And so, um, we're going to be a lot more intentional about these guns and, uh, where they're coming from, how they're getting here, and what we can do to address that part of this, this work. Um. So, uh. Yeah. Dante.

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Um, so did we not have any shootings for the month of July? I didn't hear anybody bring that information.

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Um, yeah, we've had a couple of shooting incidents, but, um, it was, uh, the last few weeks have been better. Um, so. All right, um, so I wanted to do something a little different for today's meeting. Um, and we have usually at some of the meetings, we have enough of an opportunity to do something we call information sharing. So the rest of the meeting, we're going to focus on information sharing, uh, of events and activities and things that are going on in our community that you guys are doing every day as as Greg just said to us daily, we're doing phenomenal work in our community, working to address these tough, tough social and economic issues. So we're going to bring Patricia Atkinson up to talk about our event. We've been talking about our Lucas I'm sorry, Lupus Foundation fundraising event awareness event that's taking place on August 22nd. She thought I was going to forget today. She was mouthing it to me. So Patricia Atkinson from the Lupus Foundation. Let's give her a round of applause.

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Hello, everyone. Welcome. Thank you for allowing me to come and share this event again. This is my last time so you won't have to see me anymore after today. But then is on August the 22nd at Crystal Lake Park and it's at 10 a.m. we are going to be having a lot of other information out there at that time. We are going to be taking donations, we are going to be walking, we are going to be giving information, we are going to be getting information. So we are wanting to invite all of you out there. You don't necessarily have to walk. As you see on the screen. This young lady, Helen Heath, is the one that inspired this walk here in Champaign-Urbana. She died from lupus complications at the age of 35, in 2021. And that's why we formed a team called I Am Helen Strong 3521. We have walked and been lupus supporters since 2018, in Chicago, Illinois, for the first time. Because of the dedication of the people in this room, they allowed us to walk here in Champaign County. This is the first walk that the Lupus Foundation of America is sponsored here in Champaign-Urbana. And it's because of all of you. So I'm inviting you to come out. The walk will start at 10:00. I mean, the event will start at ten. Registration at ten. The walk will start at 11:00. There will be parking off of Park Street. The two parking spaces, the main parking space going into the park, and then the other parking space going where the where the lake house is. And then also there will be street parking because I was just asked to share that information. So I'm making sure I share that information. And then if the weather permits, there will be parking in the overflow on Broadway. So we're going to open it up. Originally, we were just allowing sponsorships to come in and put up tents, but I think it's important to share information. So we're allowing people or agencies who are willing to make at least a 25 or $50 donation to come in and set up a table for the six, 4 to 6ft and bring a couple of chairs and put it underneath the pavilion and hand out, but not sell information, but hand out information. Okay. Update, we have raised $4,207.

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We are going into this walk with $4,207, and it's because of all of you we're able to do that, but we want to get up to 5000 before we actually before actual walk day. So we need more donations. Sponsorships for the t shirts deadline has been met, so we're no longer able to put anybody's decals on the on the sponsorship t shirts, but please come in if you don't walk. And if you can't walk, you don't have to walk. If you don't want and can't afford to donate, you don't have to donate. Just come out and support. We need numbers. So please. Thank you so much. If you have any additional information, we have this QR code. Please take a picture of it. Scan it right now, but I have it in the back of the room as well. I also have these cards that have the QR code direct donation link. If you have any questions, please. Yes. I'm selling.

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Will you be selling any? Will you be selling any of the t shirts?

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We we're not selling t shirts. We're giving. T shirts for donations. You can get a if you give us a donation, then you can get a walk t shirt with a sponsorship walk t shirt.

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Any amount.

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You know what. Probably. But we want $25. We'll we'll take we'll take your money. But I mean but we want $25 at least $25. Okay.

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Alright. Let's give Patricia Ryan applause.

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So the Community Coalition, along with the National Council of Negro Women, have come on as sponsors of this event. Please, please hit the QR code to make a donation, a contribution to this very worthwhile, uh, endeavor. Um, the last meeting, I asked how many folks knew someone who was impacted by lupus, and over half the room raised a hand to raise their hand to say that they have. So I want you to donate. I want the Community Coalition to reach our $8,000 goal that we set for this event. We're a little bit over four grand at this point. There is no reason. Absolutely none. I'm looking at all y'all. Everyone of you in the eye. Because you can make now. Patricia said at least $25, right? So I want a contribution and donation from each one of you. And please, please, please hear, hear that. And do that so we can raise money to learn about, educate our community on on lupus and the devastating impact that it has on people all over. So thank you for that. Come on, give me a round of applause. Come on, come on.

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This is a small thing we can do. Alright, so Donna's going to come up now and talk about our conference. It's taking place next month, our fourth annual. We went live with registration yesterday. Okay I'll stop talking so I don't.

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It just occurred to me when I get up every month. Tracy always says, Donna, and some of you may not know me. My name is Donna Tanner. Harold. I'm a licensed clinical professional counselor. I retired from Parkland College as a counselor. And before I say anything about the conference, I just want to, you know, that really is it with all of us about that child that really, really hit me. And we should not accept that these things are just normal and expected in a community. And I just want to thank each one of you for coming today and for the things that you do. I know some of you know, don't know exactly what you do, but your presence here today tells me that you're invested in people, and you're invested in shaping and making our communities stronger and better and healthier for all of us. So thank you for that. Um, our conference is the fourth annual one. It's Saturday, September the 26th at parkland from 9 to 4. The QR code is real small, but we're going to make it larger, I think. And we do have flyers, and if you want one, you can take one. Or you can contact Michael Washington and he can send you a flyer so that you can share with other people. And I don't want it so much to tell you about the day, because I've done that in the past. We have speakers and a keynote speaker. Our keynote speakers name is George Moore. He's from Waukegan, and he has an organization called Lock Up to Legacy, and he was incarcerated himself, and during the time he was incarcerated, he really thought a lot about his life and what he wanted to do and focus on. After he was released, and he decided to start this organization to help people get reestablished when they entered reenter the community. And he's had it for about ten years now, and I think he will really enjoy his perspective. The last three sessions, I mean, the last three years, we've had clinicians, which have been great women and all professionals, and he's professional and dynamic in a different way. He brings a perspective that they weren't able to, and I think you'll enjoy it. So we are ready to register. So we need you to go online and register in a moment. Kelvin's going to show you how to do it. If you don't have the QR code, let's say you're sitting in your car and you're in your office and people are saying, oh, I want to go to that conference, how do I register? She's going to show you how to do that. But before she does, I want to tell you just a couple of more things. Um, we don't have a theme each year, but each year we would like for a sense of care to come through that. We think about you coming, and we want you to feel like you've really been cared for as you attend our our sessions during the day. They're all free and really, really good sessions. On if you want me to go over I will, but I don't think that's necessary. Know that if you've come before, you know that they're going to be great. And this year do the due to the generosity of a really, really generous donor, we've got some really, really special door prizes. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but you will be excited and you have to come. And, you know, we give away a lot of stuff. We give away tote bags and t shirts, and there will be vendors there from the community with all their resources, probably about 20 of them. And if you want to showcase your organization, we still have room for that. J.R. Lill is our coordinator for the vendors, and it's on the same website. You can go to register your organization on that page. And since we have a couple of minutes before counting again comes. Does anybody have any questions for me? Because we usually Tracy's waving me on and I feel like we have a little bit more time today. If anybody has any questions or comments for me. Aha.

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So is this going to be the last one? Because they have been great and I hope we can continue.

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Um, well we're committed to five and we'll see after that. And I appreciate that because it's a it's a lot of work and a lot of people put in a lot of time. Michael Washington is, uh, I think he's your assistant. Is that right? Well, he works in the Office of Equity Engagement. He's just wonderful. He does so much. Um, so answer to your question is next year and hopefully beyond. I think I'm committed for one more year. Then we'll see.

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Any other questions? S7:

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It's open. Great question. Yes, because every year people say this is just for black people. No, it's not just for black people. It's for anybody that's interested in learning about some of the struggles that black people have, which are kind of unique due to racism, discrimination, isolation, lots of things that have happened throughout history. There are some unique challenges, but it's open to anybody that wants to come. So I want to plug again this wonderful door prizes. You're going to be excited. Not everybody because everybody's not going to win one. But for those who win one, you're going to be excited. So I'm going to turn it over to Kellen now. And she's going to show you if you don't go through the QR code, um, how to register. Okay. Thank you. Oh, oh oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I have a list. And I forgot one thing. Um, that that really did shake me up, and it should shake us up in a good way, you know? But then my final thought is that or my final message is we are offering CEUs if you're a licensed provider. And this year we're not. It's really, really simple. When you register, you can say, I want to get the Sears eight for $25. If your license like I am, that's a bargain because you have to do it to get your license renewed and you pay right there. So we don't take any payment at the conference. It's really quick. It's really easy to list your your ID license number and then you pay for it. Now I truly am turning it over to Kellan. Thank you so much. And please, please register.

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All right.

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So this is just the main coalition website. Um, and if you start at initiatives and you go down to race relations subcommittee.

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If you scroll down to almost the very bottom, you've got the flyer for the Black Mental Health and Wellness conference. And then underneath that you have the link to register and then the link to register if you're a vendor.

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Easy, right? Okay. Saturday, September 26th.

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Alright, so I have found through the years that not only is this a great conference for each one of you, but it's is also great for your colleagues at work. For the people that work for your organizations. For folks that are dealing with young people. Elder care. All of us are always dealing with some type of personal grief. And all of those things are just wonderful subjects and topics that we cover. Um, at the conference. Betsy, can we give Mandy the mic? Stand up. Mandy. So, uh, Mandy coordinates our yes summer job program each year. Uh, the last couple of summers, what we've done for our 14 and 15 and younger students since it's hard to find employment for them is, uh. Last year, we did a mural in Central High School. That's phenomenal. This year, we did a mural in Centennial High School that is even might be better than last year. but. But Friday night, 530.

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What are we doing? S11:

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The work the students have done is phenomenal. The sculpture will be there for the next couple of years for sure. You're adding something really quick.

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It's called infinite possibilities and that's important. So yes. Thank you.

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All right.

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All right. So we're going to bring Emily up from Cranford to talk about the kickoff. We've got an unbelievable partnership with the most phenomenal performing arts center in the region is housed here at Krannert Center. So Emily's going to talk about the opening of the season.

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All right. Thank you for that, Tracy.

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And, um, I just wanted to say thank you. It's so I love looking at this room. Um, this is such a rich community, and I really I'm grateful to be in this space. I'm grateful to the city for holding this space for so many years, where people can come together and just meet each other and make these connections that are so important for all the work that we're doing. So thank you all for that. Um, yes. So the center for the Performing Arts, we're based at the University of Illinois on the Urbana part of the campus. Um, a quick show of hands. Has anyone not been to Krannert Center before? In this room. You are welcome. Please come. I'm going to tell you a few reasons why that should happen. Um, so we are starting our season on, um, Thursday, September 3rd, a day when there might be a sporting event happening in our town. Um, which, uh, we planned this day before the football schedule came out, so. It's all right. We can all play together in this town. So our opening night party, it's a free event at the center. All of the music that's happening is in our lobby space or out in the amphitheater. Uh, this is one of the ways that we really work to try to make spaces where it's just easy to come. We do have many, many ticketed events throughout the year as well. But today I just wanted to share with you some of these free lobby events that I would encourage you all to both just come for yourself to experience some great music or other performing arts, but also for the people you work with, for the organizations that you're a part of, for the young people you're with, it's they're often just an easy way to come. Connect. Listen to some music. You can come and go on your own schedule. So just think about that as a resource because we really are that too. That's part of our mission is to be a community space. So, um, we have a theme of celebrating community in the large sense, um, for our opening night party. And you'll see here is a band from Chicago Funk Odyssey. They draw on Bollywood, bhangra and many other music traditions, and they were founded many years ago with this idea of having a kind of multicultural expression and learning how to learn from each other through the music they play. Um, the other artists that are part of opening night include Anti Ballast, which is an Afrobeat band. Doctor native Guatemalan band that combines reggae, cumbia and pre-Hispanic music. Um, as well as our very own DJ Silkie, who's going to wrap up the evening in the lobby. Um, and I will thank you for that. Uh, for segueing. Um, if you come a little bit early. So at 430 are the punk marching band that's based in Chicago is coming down Mukha Pazza, and they're going to lead a community procession that'll start in the main quad on campus, and then walk over to Krannert Center. Uh, we will also be accompanied by some very giant puppets from Chicago that are coming down for the evening. Um, and we're encouraging people, if you want to come and rep your organization with a t shirt or anything else that kind of tells who you are and just be part of that. Um, you're very welcome. That's that's going to happen. And then at five, Mukha Potts is actually going to perform a set in our amphitheater. Um, the evening for the opening night party goes from five till ten at Krannert Center. Well, like I said, we're going to have this sequence of bands all night long, so it's going to just be a really easy way. We'll have food there, food trucks, um, our bar will be open and we have non-alcoholic beverages as well. So please come out for that and enjoy. Um, and then um, if you can go to the next slide, I wanted to also point out another September free event. Um, this is a collaboration that we're doing with a number of campus units to celebrate Latin and Caribbean cultures. And this is a band called Cultura Pesa, and they're based in Puerto Rico, and they are coming to perform in a in our lobby at stage five at 7 p.m. on that Wednesday. So that's another opportunity just to come out and experience something new and share it as a community, um, a community Event. Um, lastly, I did want to just point out, for those who might be interested, that our general season ticket on sale is tomorrow at 10 a.m.. Starting there.

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Any questions from anyone? S8:

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Thank you so much.

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Mayor Williams, if you want to do me a favor and come up here, please.

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Sorry for putting you on the spot, but, you know.

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It's all good. Yes, indeed.

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So this morning, we had the really privilege of your first state of Urbana. Yes. Just a phenomenal, uh, presentation of work that you and your team have taken on since you've been in a year and a half now, is that right?

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You're in three months.

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So why don't you do the highlights for the coalition audience about today and what you shared this morning?

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Yeah, no. So first off, I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you for coming and supporting. I will encourage everybody to go out on YouTube, on the city's YouTube page or my Facebook page to look at the full, um, um, address. But today was the 2026 state of the city address. Um, I'll just touch on some of the things that we discussed through July 29th of this year. Uh, reported violent and property crimes was down 18% compared to this same time last year. Um, property.

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Property crime having been decreased by 28%. And violent crimes again, a full 8% decline. That that was tremendous. Um, tremendous work by our police department and collaboration with community. Um, and we're just showing what collaboration and teamwork can actually do. Um, having let me see here another shout out to the to police department, having recorded 90 firearms recovered, 90 firearms connected to 63 incidents within the community. That's another thing worth clapping for as we continue to move forward. Um, between our US congresswoman, uh, Nikki Burzynski, our state senator Paul Ferrucci, who is no longer in the room, um, but we have a collective of five under little under, um, little over $500,000 that will go directly to infrastructure redevelopment, construction and things of that nature within the city of Urbana. That's something that is worth clapping for.

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Um, since my administration took office, we have 44 new hires, 26 promotions, seven executive appointments, including my city administrator, Mr. Darius White, who is here with me again. That's something that's worth clapping for. 5353 new homes have been built over the last year. We purchased the pickerel property, which is a significant portion of land on Cunningham Avenue that will allow for us to have leverage for new development, new business opportunities right in the heart of the city of Urbana since taking office.

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Along with our Community Engagement and Violence Prevention Center right in the heart of Philo Road, we have $50,000 going to existing businesses on the road in the Philo Road corridor. That will help not only the beautification of the current and existing businesses that are there, but it's going to, in return, allow and attract for new business owners, new development, new opportunities to come to the Philo Road corridor. That's something that is also worth clapping for. And I'll I'll wrap up here. I'll wrap up. We'll give you and give you one more good one.

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You're getting.

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Ready. Five. listen. Five of the blighted apartment complexes that we've seen in the Philo Road corridor on Water Street. Silver. All of those areas, five of those apartment complexes are now under new leadership being redeveloped. Reconstruction for affordable housing that the community can be proud of with another four on the way, that's something else worth clapping for. So we're putting in the work. Thank you all.

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It really was a powerful address, so I wanted to get him up here to share just some of those wonderful, wonderful highlights. All right. Christine's going to come up and have some conversation around.

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We're in overdose awareness month.

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Overdose awareness month? Uh, well, the 31st is actually, Mhm. Um, overdose awareness is where we, um, recognize it on the 31st. So I just love what he just said about the Filo Road. Um, we are down there a lot. We have been a lot with, um, prevention and harm reduction supplies and Narcan and on water and silver and, um, just happy to hear that that's being renovated and it's going to become, you know, beautiful down there because it was so bad. It was it was really bad for a while. Um, I work with Real Addiction and Recovery. I work under the saw two grant with the state of Illinois. I'm a person in recovery. Um, I just got my CPRS, which is my certified peer recovery support specialist certification.

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Um. Who knew? Right. So I do community outreach, and I partner with Public Health because they have a two, uh, person harm reduction team. So together we make three, right? And our job really is to do some street outreach. We go where the numbers are. Um, in some of the neighborhoods where there's lots of barriers, there's lots of gun violence. Um, and what we do is we, um, hand out this Narcan, and we have these kits, too, but we don't bother people or, you know, we don't knock on doors. We're not trying to do any of that. We just sit it quietly outside of their door. Um, and then they can take it if they don't want it. There's a number on the packaging that says, just give us a call. We'll come pick it up for you. But the response to that has been tremendous. We've been doing that for two years almost. And now when we show up, because we circle back around, we ain't going to just leave you, you know, like we just dump and run. People come out and talk to us, you know, and they're like, thank you so much for coming out. You know, thank you so much. And they'll tell us a personal story. I think anyone who's been touched by an overdose, who knows somebody, a family member, somebody that they know who's overdosed, reversed or fatal. Right. I think we've all maybe had some something in our life that that involved an overdose. Um, we are still in a opiate overdose crisis. We are dealing with fentanyl out here. Um, the numbers are down in Champaign, thank goodness. We. I think we had 60 fatales last year. And this year, um, it was 45. So we'll take the 15 and keep going down with it. You know, we like track reversals as well. So we like to celebrate those. You know we have a lot of reversals. They don't get reported as much obviously as The Fatales. So um I'm going to leave some Narcan and I'm, um, I'm running out of hands. Okay.

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So this is what Narcan looks like. So this is what you see now. You know, the pink box and, um, there's two doses of four milligram Narcan in here. I also do Narcan training. I do substance use education and stigma reduction. So if you're interested in that, I will gladly come to your organization, and I will go ahead and train people and, you know, give them information about how to how to use correct wording. You know, when we're talking with people in the community, especially people in recovery, you're still in active use. So Narcan is just confusing. Narcan is the name of the manufacturer, right? So the pharmaceutical companies decided they wanted to come back and probably just recoup some loss. Right. And naloxone is the actual ingredient that reverses an opiate overdose. So the state of Illinois said to Narcan, we need you to bring your prices down, right. Because they're too expensive. If you went to the pharmacy to buy this. It'd be $65. That's crazy. We give it out for free. Right. Um, so they gave them about a year, and. And Narcan, didn't. They didn't move. They didn't move. So now the state is going to do this because you're going to start seeing this. It's coming. It's rolling out. It's called paddocks and its generic form of naloxone. Right. That's it. That's the difference. That's all there is. It looks just the same, but the packaging is different. It's, you know, purple and white, but it's just as effective. Um, it's still it still reverses opioid overdoses. All the things apply that you've learned or know about, um, naloxone. So I'm going to leave those back there too. Um, and then there's some I'm going to leave some papers to that. There's a QR code if you want to know more about, um, the paddocks. Um, but I encourage everybody to, to carry it. I've reversed three this year just on the fly. Um, so you just never, ever know, right? It could. It could happen in an instant. So keep it with you. Put it in your first day kit. Give it to your family, your neighbours. Like, you know, it's it's definitely something everybody should have. So thank you. So thank you for your time.

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I want us to give her a tremendous round of applause and just. Thank you.

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She. She is the champion for this cause and this issue. We have so much more to learn about opioids and its impact. We've the last couple of years had some bad heroin out on the streets, and Christine has just been the champion. And so I won't give her one more round of applause for this work she's doing.

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Alright, so I'm, uh, I think many of you that have been around for a little while knows that, uh, because the unbelievable support of the Champaign County Mental Health Board, uh, in partnership with Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club, we have something that we call summer initiatives. And so we get $100,000, $107,000 from the Champaign County Mental Health Board to do specialty projects each summer. So each summer we have probably 10 to 12 community individuals or organizations that are doing just unbelievable work, uh, working with our youth, working in our community, working to address special needs. A couple of years ago, I got a chance to meet Jeannette Jersey, and we have one of the premier entities in our community here doing work all across the country. That's what she said. So we now have that's what she said. Teen version. So Jeanette's going to come up and talk about that work this summer that she's doing through, uh, her organization. Let's give her a round of applause.

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Thank you. I brought one of my summer interns, so let's hear it for Rihanna. Samu.

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And I would not be standing here today if it weren't for the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in 1992. I was a freshman in the theater department because my mother sat on an airplane next to a gentleman from Bloomington, Illinois, who said to her who they were in conversation about their daughter looking for theater programs. Have you heard of Krannert? It is the Juilliard of the Midwest, and that is why I'm here today. So for those who don't know, I am the national director of an organization called the She Said Project, which started in 2013, in Champaign-Urbana with what was intended to be a one night event called That's What She Said that features real women from the community sharing personal stories live on stage. Well, that mission has grown and we've had 12 performances, if that's what she said here in Champaign-Urbana. But we continue to grow into more and more communities. And in 2018, we launched our teen version called That's What Teens Say, which is a three day curriculum. We bring together 10 to 15 teen girls from across Champaign-Urbana, Monticello, Mahomet, Rantoul. We've had girls come down from Chicago to do our program, and they go through three days with adult mentors, doing confidence building exercises, public speaking, coaching. They write a personal story, and at the end of the weekend, they stand on a stage and read their story out loud in front of a live audience, where they get to practice their public speaking and their newfound confidence. And this program has been just an absolute amazing journey for me and my team. I love working with the teen girls, so to date in the she said world, there have been 54. That's what she said. Productions in six states, over 500 women stories have been shared on our stage. Over 150 episodes of our podcast, which we invite women back to talk more about the story behind the story. Over 300 teens have gone through our Teen Weekend program, and every single show partners with a local nonprofit or is a fundraiser for a nonprofit. And we've generated over $200,000 in in charitable giving through. That's what she said.

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So because of our partnership with the coalition and the mental Health Board and the city of Champaign and the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club, five years ago we launched our summer intern program. And so I pulled up my slides from the last time I stood here to update them for you today. And in 2023, when I presented right here, I was going through my numbers and we had six interns that summer, and it was amazing. And I'm just so excited to share that. We just concluded a few days ago a six week program with 14 teen interns who went through a six week curriculum where they learned our tenants of experience that they're going to need for the real world, where they got courses in resourcefulness, experience, accountability, and leadership. They worked on work, real work projects. They went on field trips, they got amazing guest speakers and worked on volunteer community service projects. And these interns get paid a stipend for participation over the summer. And they also get a letter of recommendation that they can use on college and job applications. So, um, I just wanted to share with you some of the things our teens got to enjoy. Most of our sessions were led by Maddie Garbus, who wasn't able to join us today, but she is a U of I MSW candidate, um, in social work, and she works for the Rock counseling group. So she taught a lot of, uh, she spoke a lot on the importance of mental health. Um, but our guest speakers included women like Barb Smith and Shauna Clayborn, and they got some career coaching on resumes and LinkedIn. We had a career day panel where they learned about careers in healthcare and education and the trades. They got their professional headshots taken and they went on some pretty awesome field trips. They got a tour of the Champaign library. They got a tour of Wcia Studios, where they got to be the Weather Girls and be in the studio during a live news broadcast. And the teens who were available that day wrote and recorded their own podcast in the W-c-i-a podcast studio. Um, one of my favorite field trips that we've done for years running now is the U of I Community Credit Union, welcomes our girls for a lunch and learn. They hear from the CEO and the staff of the credit union how a banking operation works. They learn about banking accounts and personal finance. Um, I can tell you I have witnessed girls open their first bank account because of this program. At our recent celebration, I heard the girls talking about, oh, I'm going to put 20% aside and I'm going to take 10% and spend it, and I'm going to invest my 20%. They were having these conversations and I was thrilled, thrilled to hear it.

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Oops. I just want to share some quick images of our volunteer shifts and our class time, and our panel discussions and our field trips to the credit union and WCI. And of course, we had to end our summer with a celebration. So we took our interns to park to our fun new indoor miniature golf place. And they they saved the realm. So that's great. All right. So I brought Rihanna, and she's going to share a little bit about her experience. She is an alumni of both our three day that's what Teens Day program and our 2026 summer internship program. Rihanna, the mic is yours.

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Good evening everyone. My name is Rihanna and thank you so much for having me here today. I just wanted to say being a part of this program has been one of the best experiences I've had. When I first joined, I didn't really have. I didn't really expect a lot of things to happen or anything, but it ended up being the best experience I've had because we did so much community services, community work, and helping out with clothes for the children, and it just made me realize that there's so much we can do for the community, even if we can, just for little things we can obviously do for them. And it just helped me grow as a person, because knowing when I came here or in the program, I was kind of nervous and kind of scared to start talking to everyone and communicating better and also like, you know, just putting myself out there. but doing it for the past few years, few years, I realized that we can always, you know, put in the work little by little and continue with our, you know, our life and like just showing an act of kindness. And I feel like in this society a lot of people need that and. Yeah.

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Thank you. Go ahead. Okay. So you got so excited. She got off script.

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Program also helped me become more responsible and more confident. I learned how to work with others, communicate better, and step outside of my comfort zone. I met amazing people who encouraged me and gained skills that I'll use in school, future jobs, and throughout my life, I also realized that leadership isn't about being in charge. It's about showing up, helping others, being dependable, and making a positive impact wherever you are. I'm thankful to everyone who made this opportunity possible. Your support, encouragement, and belief in young people like me truly make a difference. Because of this experience, I feel more confident in myself. Thank you again for allowing me to be part of this program and inviting me to share my experience today.

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And just so you know what's coming next. We have our next three day, that's what teens day program the first weekend in November. Um. Thank at. Thanks to our partnership with the Champaign Park District. Uh, you can sponsor a teen. We have all kinds of sponsorships, but you can just sponsor a single teen. Um, so we can offer more scholarships for teens to participate. If you know any teens who could benefit from this experience, we would love you to nominate them to participate. So that's what you can learn all about the program and all of the nomination forms are there. I just want to shout out and say thank you so much to the Community Coalition, the mental health Board, and everyone who makes our programs possible. Thank you.

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All right, let's give a little better round of applause than that.

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And, Jeanette, just thank you for the work you're doing to support women's voice and women's lens. I think I'm saying that right. Okay, so, um, I've got one more piece today, by the way. Also, Bridget, will you raise your hand and, Jeanette, will you turn around and see Bridget? Uh, you guys should meet to talk about our project that we have going. And I've talked with both of you about. All right, uh, Jill, you're going to come up with Illinois, so to talk about the block Party, and I think Stovall is here if you're going to come up. Is that ice back there? Come on up here, my brother.

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So I'll talk and then you can hit the video and then. Welcome back.

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Good. The mic goes up.

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Good afternoon everybody. How's everybody feeling? We'll be short and sweet. Um, Illinois Soul at 101.1 FM or Illinois soul.org. If you're listening to us, you know, what we do is amplify black voices wherever we go. So if you're listening to us, you're going to hear that if you see us at any of our signature events, we are amplifying black voices. But what we really love, love, love is amplifying local black voices. So this month, August 18th, on our sister station w L TV, we are launching the first ever Illinois Soul Block Party. So I'm going to let the teaser Do the talking from here. All right. Technical difficulties. So? Illinois. So. Block party. What it consists of is three hours back to back of local, um, documentaries that have been produced locally and feature local stories. So the first one at 8:00 is going to be the evolution of the barber. And so ash will be talking about that. The second show that comes on at 9:00 is the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club. Documenting for the club for life will be happening, and then we'll wrap it all up at 10:00 with Candy foster, a musical witness. So all three of those documentaries are locally focused and based and produced, so please support those. Always support Illinois Soul and hope you can tune in.

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So let's.

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So Jill let's give our the mic. He's got a little handicap today. So we gave him a seat. So the evolution of the barber tell us what that entails.

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Of all, my name is Ashraf Knox. Um, I'm a native of Champaign-Urbana. I went to unit four and, um, district 116. Um, so born and raised. So the documentary. I'm also the owner of Beer Culture Barbershop and Gallery, which serves as a barbershop and an art gallery, um, at Lincoln Square. Um, so I'm a documentary buff. Um, love documentaries and as a barber, something that I've been passionate about forever. Um, due to Rose and Taylor, I had an uncle who was a barber. So I got a chance to spend time, um, over the years at Rose and Taylor with my uncle, Leroy Knox. Um, Lum Rose and Joe Taylor. Um, actually, Joe Taylor is the last living original barber from Rose and Taylor, and he's actually in the documentary. Um, and so I've also worked in unit four and 116. For over 20 years, so worked with kids. Um. And so I jumped left. The district just jumped full force into barbering, had been doing it part time for a number of years and just had a true passion. And so I just wanted to show, um, where barbering started, based on my experiences at Roseland Tailor and where it has, um, gone and what's it what what it's become. Um, there's no ceiling on it. We have a lot of kids in unit four and 116. We're trying to find themselves, um, and colleges and for everybody. And so I just wanted to show how the art of barbering has evolved and the opportunities, um, that it has giving myself and other barbers. This particular documentary is based, um, here in Atlanta. We flew out to Atlanta and interviewed a lot of reputable barbers, um, who make well over six figures who have invented, different products in the industry and has just continued to take the industry to a whole nother level. And so I just wanted to do this to provide, um, exposure and just motivation and inspiration, um, to our, our kids and just, um, even adults locally and just show them that not only can they do something that they're passionate about, but also as a barber, I've been able to step behind from behind the chair and follow my dreams, even outside of barbering, um, while within barbering. So, um, that's pretty pretty much a synopsis of the documentary.

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All right. So how long is it? How long is the documentary?

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This particular documentary is, um, 39 minutes long. Um, it's considered a short documentary, and we have a total of five barbers or six barbers, including, um, Joe Taylor, um, and myself. And so, we just go to different shops and, you know, just talk about what's going on in the industry.

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When you first released it. Then you do it in the movie theater.

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We first did it at Savoy 16. Um, did so well, we sold out the first screening and so we did it again. Um, then we also, um, screened it at a hair show in Atlanta, Georgia, um, as well. And it was very well received. It actually, um, has received an award. I can't, I can't think of, of right off my head the award. Um, but we submitted it to film festivals. So it did receive an award. And we've just completed our, our second documentary. And locally, uh, Poncho Moore and Emmanuel Lynch, who are both local, um, and students of unit four as well, um, when they were in school, they were editors and producers and directors along with myself.

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All right. So this is August 18th. Jill. Alright. So let's.

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Alright, so Joe is here, I think, um, in the spring we released the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club history documentary. Tell us about that. So the, uh, documentary we did is called From the Club for life. It's the history of the Boys Club. So 1968, the world was a lot different. Nation was a lot different, state was a lot different, and our neighborhood was a lot different. So what we wanted to do was just capture a the essence of what was happening in 1968 and why the club opened. You know, Donna got her background in social work in our neighborhood because all the crazy boys that were running around back then, um, people like myself, Martell Miller, who's one of the stars of the documentary, uh, my older brother, uh, Donna's family, Keith Edmonds and Byron Clark, just to name a few, are in the documentary. And what we want to do is, as I said, show what was going on in 68. But the other thing and people who work in non-profit work probably get this. The biggest issue I've always had is that people look at the finished product. When you come out of non profit when you're 18 years old, and I would have never wanted anybody to judge me at 18 to today, where I'm at now in my 60s. And I think that was the essence of what we were trying to do, is show the real finished product, where we've got the county treasurer who used to play in the bone ditch with me and in the viaduct, as Don is laughing right now. But it's not where you start, but it's where you finish. And a lot of us finish in areas that a lot of people didn't give us a chance. So that was really the biggest reason why we wanted to tell the story. So kids today, with some of the same challenges that they have, they can see that we were able to overcome it, the Applause.

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So how long is your documentary? Our documentary is 45 minutes. Um, got a lot of pictures from back in the day. It actually took eight years to put this together. So imagine spending eight years of your life to get 45 minutes on the screen. You know, but what it does is it shows you the passion that a lot of people have for the organization and what the organization has done for countless kids. So that was the big thing for me. It also got me an opportunity to go back in the Wayback machine, look at some old haircuts and clothes and styles and things of that nature. But it was a well, it was well worth it. Alright, let's give Joe and Asra a round of applause. August 18th. Will. They are unbelievable. Unbelievable documentaries done here. And then the final one is on the legend. Blues legend Candy foster, who's still playing today at I think he's 87 or 88 years old and just phenomenal musician. The hardest working man in show business is what he told me his name is. Alright, so, um, phenomenal meeting. Thank you for being here. Thank you for what you do. Uh, next month we're going to be kind of kicking off welcoming week and doing some really intentional work around our, uh, welcoming work community, our immigrant communities. And we've got a phenomenal program next month. Um, thanks for coming to the Community Coalition for August. And, uh, thank you. Peace and love for all that you do.