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Fall for most football fans starts with the first games of the college season. While the University of Miami fans will be traveling to Gainesville to play the Florida Gators on August 31, the Orange Bowl Classic on September 1 will attract lots of out-of-state fans to South Florida for their matchup between #3 North Carolina Central and #6 Alabama State. That game is a historic match up with, for the first time ever, two teams coming from outside Florida. This top-10 matchup at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens signifies a new era for the OBC setting the stage for a potential preview of the Celebration Bowl, highlighting a championship-level competition between the (SWAC) Southwestern Athletic Conference and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference MEAC. On July 30, OBC Executive Director Kendra Bulluck was a guest on my show, Gloria’s Gab LIVE, to promote the annual event and the many events leading up to the game including a pickleball tournament, 5 K Run, a luncheon and more to round out a great Labor Day weekend.
Gables Rotarians’ monthly bingo games at the Veterans Hospital have returned to the delight of the veterans at the facility. Rotarians were finally given the okay to return after the halt due to Covid and the subsequent caution after most everything had returned to normal. For the Rotary volunteers, sharing time with these veterans is rewarding and fun. From helping disabled vets play the game to providing snacks and prizes (gift certificates for the canteen), Gables Rotarians there for the first day back were Sally Baumgartner, Yoli Woodbridge, Robert Bedell, Jennifer Kila and Christine Constant. Veterans were so happy to have this fun event return and are looking forward to this fun day on the third Saturday of every month.
Speaking of Coral Gables Rotary, the July 27 meeting was especially packed with interesting people and information. The guest speaker, one of many great ones this club manages to attract, was Deputy Supervisor Miami Dade County Elections Department, Roberto A. Rodriquez. This was a timely and most informative meeting with lots of Q & A about absentee ballots, procedures and more. At that same meeting the club installed Robert Bedell as a new member. Robert, a retired firefighter, is a hometown boy who played Rugby for Gulliver and then in college and beyond. Robert promises to be an exciting new member for the club.
Rotary President Jim Skinner, who presided over that July 27 meeting, introduced some very impressive guests: wife/ former Judge Maria Korvick, as well as his daughter, Julia Palzer, and granddaughter, Luciana, visiting from Nebraska. As an interesting aside, Julia is an attorney and a member of the Omaha Rotary’s night club and is running for the Nebraska Legislature, a unicameral, non-partisan body of 49 senators for District 9 (MIDTOWN). This is the only state with a unicameral legislature and Julia is running for the most important district that is home to the largest employer in Nebraska as well as the largest provider of health care in Nebraska.
In other news, several organizations are collecting backpacks and school supplies for the needy. When you are shopping and see some deals, pick up whatever you can and donate to your church and favorite service organization such as local Rotary and the General Federation of Women’s Club. You may also drop off items at Community Newspapers. The Gables Rotarians, for instance, are collecting for Amber’s Room while Chamber South and South Miami Rotarians were collecting for Be Strong.
Until next time, share your time and talents, count your blessings and make a difference.
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