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FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Heart Hustle Health and Wellness Fest & 5k in Fort Myers brought a focus on heart health and physical wellness to the community Saturday. Heart Hustle at Clemente Park was hosted by Increase the Peach Fitness Studio and Sozo Wellness Center, both Black-owned local businesses. Also in attendance were members […]

Dr. Shadreka McIntosh grew up in the Dunbar community in Fort Myers. The fourth-generation resident went to Fort Myers High School before getting a master of science in integrative medicine from George Washington University, and a doctor of pharmacy degree from Florida A&M University. She’s spent the past five years as a pharmacist at the […]

A loan program is filling a longtime gap in a Fort Myers community, giving the go-ahead for a pharmacy in the area. The woman making it happen is no stranger to the area. Not one, not two, not three, but four generations later, Pharmacist Shandreka McIntosh’s family still calls Dunbar home. “I actually grew up […]

Shadreka McIntosh, a fourth-generation Fort Myers resident, will be achieving her goal of bringing a pharmacy to the communities known as Dunbar. McIntosh, 41 and a Fort Myers High School graduate, has spent the past five years as a pharmacist at the Veterans Affairs clinic in Cape Coral. Her path to opening a Fort Myers pharmacy […]

Shadreka McIntosh grew up in the Dunbar community. She attended Franklin Park Elementary School. As a fourth-generation native of this neighborhood, her first memories are trips with grandma to pharmacies miles away from home. She later became Dr. Shadreka McIntosh, a pharmacist who’s now making sure that people who live where she grew up won’t […]