More than 500 Overtown families joined Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, Miami City Commission chair Keon Hardemon and the Overtown Neighborhood Enhancement Team (NET) at the yhird annual Thanksgiving Turkey Giveaway. Sponsored by Brightline, Overtown residents received a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
Regalado, Hardemon and NET joined forces with Brightline, DIBIA Dream, Miami Worldcenter, Top Value and the Richard Hallman Foundation to plan and host this year’s event, successfully providing Thanksgiving meals, including turkeys and fresh produce, to local families who pre-registered with the Overtown NET office. Care Resource also was on hand to conduct HIV/AIDS testing.
“The City of Miami is proud to be part of this important initiative that helps those most in need during this special holiday season,” Mayor Regalado said.
“I applaud Brightline for helping us make this event happen yet again. Together, we continue making a difference in the City of Miami,” he added.
“We are happy to have the support of our community partner, Brightline, in helping our communities have decent meals,” Hardemon said.
“Brightline is committed to continuing its stewardship in the community and investing in our future neighborhood,” said Jose Gonzalez, senior vice president of Florida East Coast Industries. “For the second year in a row, we are partnering with Mayor Regalado and Chairman Hardemon on the turkey giveaway. This is just one of the many ways we are giving back in Historic Overtown.”
Brightline will redefine what it means to travel by train in America with express inter-city passenger rail service arriving 2017, providing an important transportation alternative to connect Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, with future service to Orlando. Brightline is the only privately owned, operated and maintained passenger rail system in the United States.
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