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Green & Gold Gazette A Publication of the Green & Gold Foundation and

the Roosevelt Recreation and Social Club News

July, 2015 Quarterly Newsletter Summer Issue

Inside this issue:

News & Upcoming Events Page 1

Other News Page 2

Programs and Services Page 3

From the President’s Desk Page 4

Community Support Page 4

Community Events/Services Page 5

Board of Directors Page 6

Financial Statement Page 7

Places of Worship Page 8

Current Events

Summer Enrichment, Arts, & Recreation Program

Finishing Up another Great

Summer !!!

June 15th

– July 24th

, 2015

The S.E.A.R. Program is supported by the Green & Gold Foundation, Inc. and these Partners & Community Members:

Mountain Lake Community Service ** Rev. Willie Huntley * Florida’s Natural Growers * Lake Wales Family Literacy Coalition * Publix Supermarket Charities * Lake Wales Charter and Polk County

Public Schools * POPS ** Career Source Polk ** AAUW Cassandra Denmark Robin & Jean Gibson Jarrett Gordon Ford Greater Grace Outreach Ministries Greater St. Thomas Holiness Church Clinton Horne Albert Hawkins Terrye Howell Nathan Minton Dr. Sharron Myers-Joseph Narvell Peterson

LIVING MEMORIES

A Stop at the Intersection of Memory

Lane, Lincoln Avenue

Friends keep history of Lake Wales

community alive

MICHAEL WILSON | NEWS CHIEF

Lifelong friends, from left, Albert Hawkins, 76,

Jerome Mack, 81, and Clinton Horne, 79, stand

along Lincoln Avenue in Lake Wales. The friends

have fond memories of growing up in the

neighborhood. (continued on Page 2)

Quarterly Newsletter Summer Issue July, 2015

Featured Board of Directors

LIVING MEMORIES (cont.)

By Suzie Schottelkotte, NEWS CHIEF Published:

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

LAKE WALES | In its heyday, Lincoln Avenue in

northwest Lake Wales pulsed with commerce. Shoppers

crowded its stores, teenagers sipped milk shakes at its

soda fountains and on Saturday nights, the street came

alive with music.

"Lincoln Avenue was a total mosaic of people,

and there were so many things to do," said Lake Wales

native Albert Hawkins Jr.

For lifelong friends Clinton Horne, Jerome

Mack and Hawkins, now into their 70s and beyond,

recalling that long-ago time in their Lake Wales

neighborhood sparked an avalanche of memories.

It was the 1950s, a time of malt shops and

poodle skirts, of Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Lincoln Avenue, a stub of a street through the

heart of the city's predominantly black community,

teemed with activity, and neighborhood pride soared

each time the powerhouse Roosevelt High School

football team took to the gridiron.

It also was a time of racial segregation, but that

posed little problem for those in the northwest Lake

Wales neighborhood, Horne, 79, said.

"Everyone was content in their own

neighborhoods back then," he said. "There was no

unrest. We were a close-knit community, and even when

we crossed racial lines, there was harmony."

Along Lincoln Avenue, which was the

neighborhood's only paved roadway, places like Ellis

Drug Store, Ozella's Pie Shop and Lee's Men's Shop

thrived.

"As teenagers, we hung out at the patio café

next to Parker's Grocery," said Hawkins, 76. "There

were always people out on the street back then,

everywhere you looked. It's sad to look down this street

now and think of how it used to be."

Most of those buildings are gone down, victims

of time and neglect.

"It was such a different time then," Horne said.

"This street was lined with buildings, without much

space between them. I can't tell you how many families

made their living from the businesses along Lincoln

Avenue."

They worked, and they worshipped.

"Churches were a key to this community," said

Mack, 81. "They were its soul. I actually counted them

once. There were 32, just in this community."

And then there was Saturday.

"That was the party night," Mack said.

"It was a spillover from the Friday night football

games," Horne said.

On the gridiron, Mack and Horne donned the

green and gold of nearby Roosevelt High School, where

the city's black students attended school. During

halftime, Hawkins took to the same field with his

trombone.

And when the last play ended, the celebration

shifted to Lincoln Avenue.

"We'd go to Ellis Drug Store and get ice cream

and milk shakes," Hawkins said, "and we'd meet girls. I

played my share of pool on Lincoln Avenue, too."

"Yeah," Horne laughed, "sometimes we'd

migrate to the bars and get thrown out."

Come spring, the community's focus turned to

May Day.

"The May Day festival was a huge celebration,"

Hawkins said. "We had the Maypole dance, but it was

more than just that. Each school had its own festival,

with carnival rides and food and games.

Amid the good times and parties simmered an

underlying obligation among the youth of the Lincoln

Avenue neighborhood.

"People in that community would make

sacrifices for their children to go to school and get a

good education," Hawkins said. "We took advantage of

opportunities and were motivated by people who told us

to be something and to do something. It was part of our

culture."

Among Roosevelt's 30 graduates in the class of

1956, 18 graduated from college and eight went on to

receive master's degrees, including Hawkins and Horne.

Mack, a retired school administrator in Polk County,

also stands among those in the class of 1951 who hold

advanced degrees.

Horne served 30 years as the manager of

internal auditing at New York University before

returning to Lake Wales in 1994.

Hawkins, who spent 36 years teaching and in

school administration in New Jersey, said he never

doubted he would go to college.

"My dad knew that if I had a degree, I wouldn't

have to pick fruit," he said. "It was never a question."

In their retirement, the three friends have

actively pursued efforts to revitalize the community

where they grew up, but the challenges have been

daunting.

"When the older people started dying out, the

younger people weren't staying here to keep the property

up," Horne said. "They didn't see a reason to stay, and

the property started to deteriorate. A lot of the buildings

got to the point where the city was condemning them."

"They used to have everything you could think

of on this street," Hawkins said. "It would be nice to see

that again someday."

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Programs and Services

Partnerships AARP

Area Churches

(Feeding program

& prayer services)

Career Source Polk

(Training, staffing,

& employment)

Habitat for Humanity

Juvenile Justice

(Youth Counseling)

Lake Wales Chamber of

Commerce

Lake Wales Fire Department

(Fire Drills & training)

Lake Wales Medical Center

(Health Fairs)

Lake Wales Police Department

(Relay Station &

Communications)

LIHEAP (Low Income

Home Energy

Assistance Program)

Mountain Lake Community

Service

Polk County Sheriff Office

Safe Link

Veteran's Affairs

(Counseling)

Student Enrichment After School &

Summer Program

Apprenticeship

(Vocational training)

Bok Academy

Tech Sessions

Computer

Literacy Program

(Basic & Intermediate)

Family Literacy

(GED Program)

GED Referral

Lake Wales

Charter Schools

(Various programs)

Polk County School Board

(Summer Feeding Program =>

18 and under, including

computer walk-ins)

Polk State College

YMCA

(Outreach)

Youth Mentoring & Leadership

(Role models)

Tutoring

(A Quantum Leap,

Unlimited Potential)

Big Brother/Big Sister

POPS (Teen age holistic)

Intake / Referral Access Florida/Dept. of Children

& Families (Emergency

Assistance, Food Stamps,

Medicaid,

Medicare)

Florida Unemployment

(Applications and

recertification)

Individual Counseling

(Divorce/Separation; Housing;

Legal/Social; Parenting/Family

Conflicts; Unemployment,

Employment & Jobs;

Accidents, Medical Assistance,

etc.; Taxes, Insurance, Utilities)

Lake Wales Care Center

(Referrals to/from)

Lake Wales Literacy Coalition

Career Source Polk (Training,

employment & staffing)

Social Services (Various)

Workshops & Meetings

(Various)

Public Services &

Other Programs

Computer: Daily Public Usage

Elderly Fitness/Exercise &

Nutrition Program

Transition Support: Food Pantry,

Utilities Support, Scholarships

Leadership Lake Wales and

Other Scholarships

Meetings (community members/

organizations)

Rentals (community members/

organizations)

Voting Precinct-Supervisor of

Election

Book Deposit &

Check-out location

Committees & Resident Agencies

J.A. Wiltshire Foundation

Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee

NAACP

Roosevelt Alumni

Roosevelt Recreation

Unity In Community


Community Support

Green & Gold Foundation Extends its Thanks to Our Generous Benefactors

From the President’s Desk

We NEED your support to help the less fortunate and impoverished members of Our community!

Please help us by becoming a member, renewing your membership, or donating for a specific program and/or public service at the B Street Community Center (ie: Summer Enrichment, Arts & Recreation; Transition Support: Food Pantry, Utilities Support, Scholarships).

Respectfully, Terrye Y. Howell Green & Gold Foundation, Inc.

AAUW

Allen Temple AME Church

CLM Learning Solutions

Florida’s Natural Growers *

Jahna Foundation, Inc.

Lake Wales Family Literacy Coalition *

Publix Supermarket Charities *

Lake Wales Charter Schools

Lake Wales Democratic Club

Mountain Lake Community Service *

Unity In Community

J. A. Wiltshire Foundation, Inc.

Lake Wales Charter and Polk County Public Schools *

POPS *

Career Source Polk *

Jarrett Gordon Ford

Greater Grace Outreach Ministries

Greater St. Thomas Holiness Church

2015 Corporate / Business Contributions / Memberships

Geraldine Anderson-Toombs Rosemary Baker Moses Battles Derrick Burch Eunice Burch Geraldine Burch Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Cashel* C. Deming Cowles LaToya Davis-Craig Cassandra Denmark, ESQ Donna Dunson Eugene & Jannell Fultz Robin & Jean Gibson Albert Hawkins,Jr. * Dorothy Hawkins Clinton Horne * Evelyn Horne

Gladys Howell Terrye Y. Howell Nancy Hoyt Rev. Willie Huntley* Rebecca Isles Jesse Jackson Estella Johnson Gloria Johnson Dr. Sharron Myers-Joseph Evelyn Levine Jerome Mack Calvin Marion E. Ronnie McKnight Sylvia McRae Claudine Milligan Nathan Minton Vanessa Morgan Damien Moses Ethel Iles

Mussington Jennifer Nanek Paul & Alfredia Parker Narvell Peterson Ernestine Burton-Randolph Erma H. Reese Cassandra Richards Eddye J. Rivers Donzel Roberson Ralph Roberts Greg Scurry David Smith Steve Sorensen Luther Tucker Kathelia Turner Ted Wilson Debra S. Wright

2015 Individual Membership / Contributions

*=Special thanks for Significant contribution

G&G Member: $25

G&G Business Member: $50

B Street Patron: $100

B Street Angel: $250

Heart of Green: $500

Heart of Gold: $1,000


Community Events/Services

Ongoing at B Street Community Service Center

Community Baptist Church Service

Every Sunday 9:00 - 11:00 AM Lake Wales Democratic Club 2nd Tuesday 7:00 - 8:00 PM Dr. Joseph A. Wiltshire Committee Meeting Monthly on the 1st Friday 6:00 - 8:00 PM Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee Meeting Monthly on the 2nd Monday 6:00 - 7:00 PM Narvell Peterson, President (863) 528-2534

Exercise Class (Seniors Fitness Class)

Monday through Friday 8:00 - 9:00 AM

Kathelia Turner, Director (863) 679-8091

Free Breakfast Courtesy of Community

Baptist Church

Every 1st & 3rd Saturday 9:00 AM - 11 AM

Full Miracle Baptist Church Service

Every Sunday 12:00 - 2:00 PM

Juvenile Counseling

Scheduled with individual counselors

NAACP Meeting

Monthly on Monday after the 1st Sunday

David Smith, President (863) 528-8055

Unity in Community

Monthly on the 1st Thursday

Howard Kay, President (863) 632-1635

Around Town

Career Source Polk (formerly Polk Works)

@ the Lake Wales Public Library

290 Cypress Gardens Lane, (863) 508-1100

Monthly on the 1st Tuesday, 9 AM - 3PM

Lake Wales Free Clinic

210 Dr. J. A. Wiltshire Ave. East

(863) 676-1222

Free health screenings for the uninsured or eligible.

Patient Sign-in 4:30-5:30pm

Mondays & Thursdays

Lake Wales Public Library

290 Cypress Gardens Lane

(863) 676-4004

Hours of Operation:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 9 AM - 6:30 PM

Wednesday, Friday 9 AM - 5:30 PM

Saturday 9 AM - 3:00 PM

Lake Wales City Commission Meetings

Lake Wales Municipal Building

201 W. Central Ave.., (863) 678-4182

1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 6:00 PM

Broadcast Live on Comcast Channel 6

Meals on Wheels

Lake Wales Care Center

140 E. Park Ave.

(863) 676-6678

Polk State College Lake Wales Art Center

1099 State Road 60 East, (863) 676-8426

Monday - Friday 9 AM - 5 PM

Veterans’ Hospital Mobile Outreach Clinic

Lake Wales Municipal Building

201 W. Central Ave.

2nd & 4th Tuesdays 10 AM - 2 PM


Green & Gold Foundation Board of Directors Roosevelt Recreation & Social Club Directors

Terrye Howell G=President

R=Executive VP

Albert Hawkins, Jr. G=Past President

R=President

Jerome Mack G=Past President

R=VP Development

Dr. Sharron Myers-Joseph G=VP- Programs R=Vice President

Narvell Peterson G=VP-Operations

Janice Snell G=Secretary

Alice Sanders G=Treasurer

Dorothy L. Hawkins R=Treasurer

C. Deming Cowles, Esq. G=Director

Cassandra L. Denmark, Esq. G=Director

Evelyn Lewis G=Director

Bishop Roscoe Williams G=Director

Howard Kay, Esq. G=Advisory Board

Alice Manley, ARNP R=Secretary

Juanita Mack R=Director

Evelyn F. Horne R=Asst. Treasurer

Frank Peterson R=Director

Mission Statement We, the members of the Roosevelt Recreation & Social Club, and the Green & Gold Foundation, Inc. will collectively dedicate our time, expertise, effort and resources to educate, motivate, inspire, and prepare our youth and community for a higher standard of success, pride, self-esteem and independence. We will succeed in these endeavors through financial assistance, building character and self-esteem, role modeling, education programs, moral principles, and cleaning, beautifying and building our community.

G = Green & Gold R = Roosevelt Recreation

Ella Williams R=Director

Jesse Jackson G=Advisory Board

Rev. Ralph Roberts G=Director

Sally S. Cashel G=Advisory Board

Clint Horne G=Executive VP R=Past President

*** Not pictured here: Cassandra Richards, G=Director


FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

GREEN & GOLD FOUNDATION BALANCE SHEET

as of June 30, 2015

CURRENT ASSETS

Cash & Cash Equivalents $17,986.89

Accounts & Other Receivables $4,082.61

Property, Plant & Equipment $430,983.87

Other Current Assets $1,392.35

Investments & Other Assets $20,153.64

TOTAL ASSETS $474,599.36

LIABILITIES

Current Liabilities $953.56

Long Term Liabilities $9,700.00

TOTAL LIABILITIES $10,653.56

CAPITAL

Common Stock

Paid-In-Capital

Retained Earnings $450,923.80

Net Income (Loss) $13,022.00

TOTAL CAPITAL $463,945.80

TOTAL CAPITAL & LIABILITIES $474,599.36

INCOME STATEMENT

as of June 30, 2015

REVENUE Revenue-Sales $4,095.72

Contributions/Grants $25,641.76

Membership Dues, Etc. $1,232.50

Program Service Revenue

Other Income $115.32

TOTAL REVENUE $31,085.30

EXPENSES

Fundraising Expenses $287.11

Scholarships/Support/Programs $427.24

Professional Services $7,896.85

Insurance & Other Fees $1,782.54

Salaries/Wages/Other Fees $2,519.79

Advertising, Promotions & Publications $0.00

Supplies, Maintenance Expenses $4,026.98

Telephone Expenses $880.38

Other Expenses $181.16

TOTAL EXPENSES $18,002.05

NET INCOME (Profit/(Loss)) $13,083.25


Allen Temple AME Church 241 C Street 676-6416 Bible Church of God of Lake Wales 49 Seaboard Avenue 676-0433 Church of God by Faith 640 Burns Avenue 678-1880 Church of God by Grace 1630 Lewis Griffin Road 676-0386 Community Baptist Church 230 B Street 676-0266 Faith Temple Holiness Church of God in Christ 303 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. 678-9300 First Born Church of the Living God 405 Washington Ave. 676-9723 First Institutional Missionary Baptist Church 205 D Street 676-2112 Full Gospel Miracle Church Rev. Willie Huntley 230 B Street 863 258-6444

Greater Saint Thomas Holiness Church

Bishop Roscoe Williams 2256 Friedlander Road

676-2155

Higher Praise Ministries 126 Wetmore Street

(863) 419-5285

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses

1750 South 11th Street 679-7953

Lake Wales Church of Christ 463 North Buck Moore Road

676-4114

Mount Calvary CME Church 400 Washington Ave.

679-7700

Mount Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church

12 B Street 676-1384

New Shiloh Missionary

Baptist Church 343 D Street

676-3617

Seventh Day Adventist Church 233 Burns Avenue

676-3500

Where can I worship?

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Green & Gold Foundation, Inc.

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or Green & Gold Foundation, Inc.

230 B Street Lake Wales, FL 33853

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