The 18th annual American Red Cross Sara Hopkins Woodruff Spectrum Award for Women took place on February 3rd 2011 at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami.
The Swanee and paul DiMare Youth award went to Cristina L. Hernandez, who founded and is president of the Operation Smile Club.
Currently a junior at palmer Trinity School in Palmetto, Cristina was one of 42 students selected worldwide to attend the summer 2010 "Mission Training Worshop" at the University of Denver.
Operation Smile is an international charity that provides life-changing reconstructive surgeries to poor and needy children in the United States and in more than 50 countries around the world who are born with cleft lips, cleft palates and facial deformities.
A civic and cultural leader one minute and a prominent produce farmers the next, Paul DiMare isn’t scared to call out the nation’s economic problems he sees.
“I have not seen one thing positive in any trade agreement that I’ve seen,” he said. “When they sold it to Congress and to the American people, every trade representative always sold it on the basis of free trade is beneficial to the United States.”
Yet the agreements, Mr. DiMare argued, have only led to a loss of American jobs and prosperity.
And there’s only more to come.
At one point, 50,000 acres in Southern Miami-Dade were dedicated to tomato cultivation. Today, there are only 2,500.
But the Boston native said he’s relied on hard work and prudence to survive, which he said he learned from his Sicilian-born, immigrant grandparents and from his father, who started out selling produce out of push carts in Boston, to survive the unpredictable ups and downs of the farming business.
Mr. DiMare was interviewed in his Florida City offices by Miami Today Staff Writer Zachary S. Fagenson.
A civic and cultural leader one minute and a prominent produce farmers the next, Paul DiMare isn’t scared to call out the nation’s economic problems he sees.
“I have not seen one thing positive in any trade agreement that I’ve seen,” he said. “When they sold it to Congress and to the American people, every trade representative always sold it on the basis of free trade is beneficial to the United States.”
Yet the agreements, Mr. DiMare argued, have only led to a loss of American jobs and prosperity.
And there’s only more to come.
At one point, 50,000 acres in Southern Miami-Dade were dedicated to tomato cultivation. Today, there are only 2,500.
But the Boston native said he’s relied on hard work and prudence to survive, which he said he learned from his Sicilian-born, immigrant grandparents and from his father, who started out selling produce out of push carts in Boston, to survive the unpredictable ups and downs of the farming business.
Mr. DiMare was interviewed in his Florida City offices by Miami Today Staff Writer Zachary S. Fagenson.
A civic and cultural leader one minute and a prominent produce farmers the next, Paul DiMare isn’t scared to call out the nation’s economic problems he sees.
“I have not seen one thing positive in any trade agreement that I’ve seen,” he said. “When they sold it to Congress and to the American people, every trade representative always sold it on the basis of free trade is beneficial to the United States.”
Yet the agreements, Mr. DiMare argued, have only led to a loss of American jobs and prosperity.
And there’s only more to come.
At one point, 50,000 acres in Southern Miami-Dade were dedicated to tomato cultivation. Today, there are only 2,500.
But the Boston native said he’s relied on hard work and prudence to survive, which he said he learned from his Sicilian-born, immigrant grandparents and from his father, who started out selling produce out of push carts in Boston, to survive the unpredictable ups and downs of the farming business.
Mr. DiMare was interviewed in his Florida City offices by Miami Today Staff Writer Zachary S. Fagenson.
