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  • Joe Williams places his hand on his great-grandson Charlie Porter, 4, one day while hanging out together on his porch in Naples. "The Bible say if you want to be loved, first you got to show love," Williams said. "And when you show love, you gain love."
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 14-19, 2010 - Haitian National Palace..Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Residents from the Gordon River Apartments in Naples receive free groceries to from a mobile pantry on Thursday evening. The Coller County Hunger and Homeless Coalition, partnered with Meals of Hope, St. Matthew's House, Collier Harvest, Capital Grille and the Harry Chapin Food Bank offered a hot meal to the Gordon River Park Apartment community and handed out about 50 pounds of groceries to families through a mobile pantry. The organizations are working to offer these free services to different low income communities each week in Collier County. Researchers at the University of Florida were retained by NCEF to update a child well-being study done in 2005 to see where the nonprofit organization has made inroads to improve the health and quality of childrens lives. The 53-page status report on child well-being was completed this past week, just as this years wine festival is set for Jan. 28-30. The reports findings will be studied in detail over the next few months to decide what makes the most sense for future endeavors, especially with multi-year strategic initiatives. For certain, a hunger initiative is on the horizon, according to John Scot Mueller, a trustee and vice chairman of the grant committee. Lexey Swall/Staff  James Klynn has brainstorming session during a Wednesday night get together at his house in Northeast Naples.
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  • Ruth Pierre, 10, right, and others from the Gordon River Apartments, wait in line to receive a box of groceries to from a mobile pantry on Thursday evening. The Coller County Hunger and Homeless Coalition, partnered with Meals of Hope, St. Matthew's House, Collier Harvest, Capital Grille and the Harry Chapin Food Bank offered a hot meal to the Gordon River Park Apartment community and handed out about 50 pounds of groceries to families through a mobile pantry. The organizations are working to offer these free services to different low income communities each week in Collier County. Researchers at the University of Florida were retained by NCEF to update a child well-being study done in 2005 to see where the nonprofit organization has made inroads to improve the health and quality of childrens lives. The 53-page status report on child well-being was completed this past week, just as this years wine festival is set for Jan. 28-30. The reports findings will be studied in detail over the next few months to decide what makes the most sense for future endeavors, especially with multi-year strategic initiatives. For certain, a hunger initiative is on the horizon, according to John Scot Mueller, a trustee and vice chairman of the grant committee. Lexey Swall/Staff  James Klynn has brainstorming session during a Wednesday night get together at his house in Northeast Naples.
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  • Christine Jones, 4, waves to the ice cream man, Larry Ozturk, as he drives in to her community at the Gordon River Apartments. "This area has changed so much in the past couple years," said Ozturk who drives through River Park every day and has watched generations grow up and move out of the area.
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  • Rose Tavernier, 9, plays cops and robbers near her home at the Gordon River Apartments. The area is prime real estate based on it's location near the water. Residents of the property often deal with rumors of evictions and raised rents as ownership changes hands.
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  • Tyquasia Morgan, 18, right, sits on the porch with Rev. Joe Williams, a regular evening occurrence. Morgan lives with her grandma and great grandma who have been neighbors with Williams since 1963. Morgan, like many in the neighborhood, calls Williams granddad.
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  • Brothers Eric Porter, 3, right, and Keylijah Williams, 5, center, get a drink after dinner in the home they share with their great-grandfather Joe Williams. The boys and their other brother have lived with Williams and their grandparents, Shirley Williams and Charlie Byrd, since their mom was killed in Lehigh Acres in October 2008. "They're lovable kids," said Williams. "I look at them and feel sorry because of their mother - she loved her kids." The three boys were in the house when their mom and her friend were shot.
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  • Joe Williams, center, talks privately to a girl who grew up in the neighborhood on a recent afternoon in front of his River Park East home. Williams is approached daily by people in the community asking for advice. Should I fight a foreclosure? What major should I choose? Should I terminate this unwanted pregnancy?
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  • Rev. Joe Williams, 73, watches over the neighborhood from his porch, a daily activity, with his great-grandsons Eric Porter, 3, left, and Charlie Porter, 4. The boys, and their older brother, have lived with Williams since 2008 when they witnessed their mother get shot and killed by her friend's ex-boyfriend. Williams has lived in his home since 1963 and raised several of his grandchildren. He jokes that he sits on the porch with the phone in his hand so he can call the cops if anyone starts "aggravatin'" him.
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  • Eric Porter, 3, is being raised by his grand parents and great-grandfather in River Park. His mother, Shaniqua Williams, 22, was shot and killed in front him and his siblings in 2008. Eric, the youngest, doesn't speak his mother or the incident.
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  • Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church.Members clasp hands during a final song and prayer at Macedonia on Third Ave. N. in Naples. This church started in 1929 near where Crayton Cove is now, a part of town formerly called Ditch Bank. By the 50s, Naples black families left Ditch Bank to make way for development by the Cove, moving to River Park. The churchs current home at 1006 Third Ave. N. opened in 1954, after the Watkins family, owners of the Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, donated land.
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  • Rev. Warren Adkins, background, who has been a member of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church for 58 years and its pastor for 36, sings The Lords Prayer over Kamora Johnson, 15, as she is held by members of the church, Alma Williams, left, and Barbara Denson during a Sunday service. Macedonia is Naples' oldest black church and is located in River Park. The church is central to many in the community and offers several youth programs for area kids.
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  • A lot of peoples forget where they come from and that is one thing that you never should do, said Rev. Warren Adkins, pastor of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church. We never should forget where we come from, because you may have to go back that route again. In the lifetime of this church, race relations have shifted from forced segregation to legally mandated integration  and now the Sunday bulletin includes a quote from the countrys first black president.
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  • A member of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church prays for her community during worship service in Naples. Macedonia started serving the black community in Naples in 1929.
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  • Earline Avant, second, from left, daughter of Annie Mae Perry, is held up by her family as she looks in to the casket of her mother during Perry's funeral. "She's the best earthly friend I ever had," said Avant about Mother Perry when she addressed the crowd of more than 500 people. Mother Perry died at the age of 98. Her funeral lasted three and a half hours.
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  • The ninth of twelve children, Nick Chandler grew up in the River Park Apartments in world of poverty, abuse and drugs. At 17, he went to prison for the first time. He ended up in prison seven times, serving for a total of 22 years. Now in his late 40's, Chandler is trying to turn his life around and wrote a book about his experiences, though he's the first to admit that it's been a struggle. "I started doing coke when I was 16. I went to selling ... and I seen the fast money and I got hooked on that and the coke, and then I had to support my habit. Things just went like that until I wasted 22 years of my life."
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  • A young woman is detained in the back of a Naples Police car after authorities raided a home for drugs in River Park East. When you have young peoples trying different stuff, like drugs, you have to have an understanding person dealing with (them), Pastor Joe Williams says. If theyre going to be abused by the church theyll say Well, I might as well and stay out doing the same thing Im doing. ... You got to know how to deal with people and most important, show them love. Love is great. Love is powerful. Love can stop death.
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  • "Mother" Annie Mae Perry, then 96, leads more than 200 people in a processional to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tree in River Park East. Mother Perry, as she is affectionately known by the community, was a matriarch of River Park. A midwife for 25 years, she delivered 514 babies. I felt just like they was mine, she said. Felt just like my children. Mother Perry was a leader by example for the community, working to make sure her children had an education in an age of segregation. She was a founding member of the Naples NAACP.
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  • Jose Vega, 9, from left, Jonathan Perez, 7, and Vega’s brother, Michael Rodriguez, 6, hang on the fence surrounding the George Washington Carver Apartments in River Park — one of several low-income complexes in the area. A proposed sale of the apartments is a recurring issue, raising questions about the longevity of subsidized housing contracts. Such a sale could change the face of the community and displace hundreds of families.
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  • "Mother" Perry is greeted by family during her 98th birthday party as her daughter Pearline Dixon, left, sits nearby in case she needs anything. Mother Perry is the head of five generations of her family.  A midwife for 25 years, she delivered 514 babies. I felt just like they was mine, she said, contralto voice deepening with her smile. Felt just like my children.
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  • Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Tarps and tents cover the hillside neighborhood La Vallee de Bourdon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in July 2010, seven months after the devastating earthquake.   Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Saut d'Eau, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 14-19, 2010  Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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  • Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July 2010 was no exception. Following the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit the country in January 2010, the prayers were many.
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