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Gadsden County Community Post Hurricane Michael

Trees down at Crossroad Academy in Quincy, Florida
Jade Jacobs
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WFSU

In the wake of Hurricane Michael, one Gadsden County town is banding together. 

Residents in Quincy, Florida are helping to supply food, water and a dose of love in the midst of a natural disaster. “We have served a lot of families who are in the same bracket of losses,” says Pearlean James.

Jade Jacobs is a fourth year broadcast journalism student at Florida A&M University. Before interning at WFSU, Jade worked at Antioch Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church as a media intern in Dallas, Texas. She has also served as a live shot reporter on FAMU TV News 20, a writer for the FAMUAN and Journey Magazine and a radio personality on WANM 90.5 The Flava Station's Saturday Morning Show. After graduation, she plans to continue to work in the journalism field as a news reporter. She enjoys shopping, inspirational quotes and traveling.