Vol. 43, No. 82 OCTOBER 13, 2025 More than CALLE OCHO, KIWANIS CLUB of LITTLE HAVANA: 50 YEARS IMPACTING YOUTH BY LESLIE PANTIN Mile in Coral Gables, artists sell their works. Miss Carnaval Miami winners get We are celebrating scholarships and have become...
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Vol. 43, No. 82 OCTOBER 13, 2025 More than CALLE OCHO, KIWANIS CLUB of LITTLE HAVANA: 50 YEARS IMPACTING YOUTH BY LESLIE PANTIN Mile in Coral Gables, artists sell their works. Miss Carnaval Miami winners get We are celebrating scholarships and have become dentists, this month the 50th lawyers, judges, and news anchors. year of the Kiwanis Calle Ocho was conceived in the early Club of Little Havana, years of the club. The goal was to bring to- of which, at 26 years gether the different communities in our of age, I had the dis- county. At a lunch in the then-popular Red tinction of being the Coach restaurant on Biscayne Boulevard, charter president. ideas were considered: a concert? But in Our club is well what language? A bicycle race down Calle known worldwide for Ocho? But that might cause too heated the Calle Ocho Festi- competition. However, it got us to SW 8th val, the biggest her- Street. Club member and future president itage event in the U.S. We have six Willy Bermello, who atte
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