It's into it. I was texting her yesterday.
It was a big night. Saturday night.
I mean, my mind was blown.
I was teary eyed.
You guys know him on the board of LLS,
Leukemia, Lymphoma society.
Because my brother is a survivor now,
a two time survivor.
It came back last year. He's in remission.
Well, there's a campaign that
adults have done for years.
Well, couple years ago they said we should
get students involved in raising money.
It's called student visionaries.
OK, I am seated.
Saturday Night, 32 student.
Teams there was crumble cookie hello.
One of the sponsors.
Nice. So amazing.
That was Meredith Woodman and Nancy bulb.
Big fans of the show.
They said to tell you hi love.
There are board members.
The CEO of the organization
and look how much we raised.
Ohh 2,000,000 comma 60 wow.
And those were beautiful
students from Greater Atlanta.
Christian and a beautiful mom back there.
That's where Jim went to school.
So I made sure to take a photo with them.
But these are.
Students from area schools everywhere,
the leading team.
Pace Academy raised.
$303,000 that is.
Remember when I did it, you guys,
when I did, I raised 115 and I was thrilled.
And it was it's a lot of work. These kids,
these parents that were behind them,
they were talking about picking up the phone,
calling Chick-fil-A.
We need what calling these big
companies like, I'm so impressive.
I want to thank everybody who always stops
at events and says they love care and I
on the show, and we just, it was enemy.
I was pinching myself.
I got home. I woke up Jim.
He was asleep. I was like, wake up.
We raised 2.1 million.
That's incredible. Yes. Good on you.
Not me.
Thank you, kids.
No, that's.
I know how hard
that is. And yeah, I just.
That's very smart.
Maybe they should run the country.
No, I'm telling you. Just when you know,
maybe might charge of other things.
Exactly. If you might, you know,
be thinking, are we gonna be OK when
we get old with this generation?
We're gonna be fine people.
OK. Good. I promise you.
So. Yes. Alright,
now you've got some all good stories.
I do. OK. So we February still
February. What is it? February 20.
Well, let me leave 727.
OK, so we have a few more days left to
enjoy and learn about black history.
Although we hope that you'll be
learning with us all year long,
but we are highlighting someone today
who sadly passed away recently.
But we wanted to make sure that
you knew about him if he didn't.
He's allana's first black reporter.
His name is Mr. Lorenzo Lowe Jelks,
and he was hired by another
station in the market in 1967.
He was there for nearly ten years.
He has two masters degree.
A doctorate.
Whoa. He changed the landscape
of race relations in Atlanta.
He was inducted into the
Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame,
and other dignitaries around
our state and the world really
have been paying him homage.
These last couple days.
I saw on Twitter people,
you know, mentioning Mr.
Vita Moore along with him and how
they both really drastically changed
the landscape here for the better.
So thank you, Mr.
Jelks, and what an inspiration,
yes, inspiration to.
All of us, but especially,
you know, I'm sure African American
journalists that were like,
I mean, they paved the way.
He paved the way.
And especially, you know,
here in Atlanta, here in the South,
making sure that there was representation
for the communities that, you know,
that Atlanta broadcast you.
Right. Hey, that's fine.
But let's go find out what's
going on in my own backyard.
I encourage you to Google him because
if you read his full obituary,
there's just lots of things
to learn in there. Excellent.
Alright and next story is brought
to us by a viewer. Ohh yay.
We love when we get a viewer.
Miss Betty Harris wanted us to know
about her mother, Miss Lucille,
who also sadly passed away recently.
But what a life Miss Lucille led.
There she is from Covington.
She's a great grandmother.
She lived life to the Max.
You can see all these cute
pictures here of her.
If you go to scottward.com you
can watch her memorial service,
but her daughter was just saying
it was the most love filled service
she has ever seen in her 70s.
Seven years.
It's worth noting that Miss
Lucille went to a taping of
jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.
That was one of her most women. Yes
that she went to Hollywood and got to
do that. But just a life well lived
and so we wanted to honor her today.
Thank you Kara.
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