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Fall brings so many wonderful events with Halloween in the mix to make it an exciting time of year. Coming up soon, Paws4You’s Howl-O-Ween returns on Saturday October 19, with a new location and time, 6 – 10 p.m., at Palmetto Bay Park. Now in its 14th year, Howl-O-Ween is the premiere dog friendly Halloween event that attracts more than 2,500 attendees and their dogs. It is a great opportunity for companies to showcase their businesses to a wide audience here in South Florida and to do so talk to Carol Caridad, Paws4u Rescue’s Founder and CEO.
For more information, visit www.paws4u.org.
Yet another Halloween party that is always spectacular is produced by the GFWC Coral Gables Woman’s Club at their historic clubhouse at 1001 East Ponce de Leon Blvd. in Coral Gables, on Friday, October 25, 2024. This year there is a theme, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and you can expect décor to match. Party goers are invited to come in any costume but please plan on dressing for the night. Events Chairs Carmen Suarez and Rita Tennyson are planning games, contests, dancing, for a laughter-filled, crazy-good time. Tickets are $30 per person. Concession food and drinks will be sold at a separate cost… just like the movies!
For more information and tickets, visit gfwccoralgableswomansclub.org. Proceeds will benefit the club’s free children’s dental clinic that provides currently provides a healthy smile to 500 patients or more annually.
For more information on the event or the dental clinic, visit www.gfwccoralgableswomansclub.org.
Earlier that same Friday, October 25, Voices for Children’s Annual “Be A Voice” Luncheon will be held at the Loew Hotel Coral Gables from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. VFC CEO Kadie Black invites everyone to come dressed as their favorite superhero, but for those who cannot, capes will be available. This is a truly entertaining affair you won’t want to miss. Voices for Children fund the Guardian Ad Litem program and offer hope for the abused, abandoned and neglected youth in our county’s foster care system. They provide advocacy as well as essential needs and great experiences like mission trips.
For tickets, visit www.beavoice.org.
October galas and fundraisers benefit multiple charities. A Safe Haven for Newborns’ Founder and CEO, Nick Silverio, recently announced the arrival of the 410th infant saved from possible abandonment and death. Nick looks forward to sharing that and more at the gala to be held on October 19, 2024, at the Intercontinental Hotel Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza.
For more information, contact asafehavenfornewborns.com.
In other recent non-profit news, the Pink Ladies Fishing Cure-nament, founded by Carolyn Stash, has worked tirelessly to achieve an event October 3-5, 2024, to benefit the fight against cancer earlier this month. She has even purchased a 30-foot console and out cancer survivor and female veterans at no cost. October is breast cancer awareness month; so, this was an amazing way for anglers to show their support. For more information on the organization, visit www.pinkladiesbreastcancerfoundation.org.
The Ladies Empowerment Action Program (LEAP) has recently relocated its Dragonfly Thrift Boutique from Hialeah to a beautiful location at 5815 SW 68 Street in South Miami. For those unfamiliar with LEAP, it is an amazing program that helps women coming out of jail and prison in so many ways including employment and work experience and, of course, the thrift store provides a great opportunity. Designer items are frequently found there as are so many upscale items donated by generous donors. The new location provides free parking and also houses the LEAP’s new reentry program center. LEAP’s passionate and hard-working Executive Director, Mahlia Lindquist, is a former lawyer and prosecutor who started with LEAP as a volunteer and got hooked.
For more information on how you can help or learn more about their many services, go to www.Dragonflythrift.org.
In yet another item of import, on September 17, The Miami Shoe Museum launched with a party where toasting out of a glass slipper proved a challenge with laughs for guests. One of only a handful of shoe museums in the world, the Miami Shoe Museum has found a home in South Florida thanks to its founder Luis Valenzuela. Luis, an outstanding creative artist, collector and educator who orchestrated the affair, started his shoe collection with one shoe gifted to him years ago and the rest is history. Among the many guests enjoying the affair were Lynn Bauer, Dr. Hal Wanless, and Sue and John Medina.
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