Obituary: Ginette Marie-Jose Lillo

Featured By Linda Trischitta, Editor Wednesday, October 30, 2024

    Award-winning artist and teacher Ginette Marie-Jose Lillo died Oct. 7 while in hospice care in Fort Lauderdale. She was 91.      A longtime instructor at Mary Collins Community Center in Miami Lakes, she also gave...

20th Annual Corey for St. Jude Golf Tournament raises money for child cancer research

Sports By Linda Trischitta, Editor Friday, January 19, 2024

     For the 20th year, The Graham Companies sponsored the Corey for St. Jude Golf Tournament at the Miami Lakes Golf Club.

     The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino was the title sponsor of the event on Oct. 30.

     Contributions to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. totaled $60,000 so far, with $10,400 more pledged to come from tournament players.

     Over two decades,  The Graham Companies has raised more than $912,000 for the hospital. 

     The tournament is named for Corey Sticco, had cancer when he was a child and survived surgeries on his brain and other treatments. 

     Other sponsors include: Gold Sponsors Atlas Metal; Down Stream Designs, Inc.; Smokey Bones; Harrell’s and Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits

     Also, Tito’s Handmade Vodka; Coca-Cola; Bacardi; Molson-Coors; Jaegermeister; Diageo; Kurvball Whiskey; Shorty’s BBQ; Sazerac Company and Gus Machado Ford.

      Additional sponsors were Syngenta; AB Inbev; Owen’s Mixers; Q Mixers; Plymouth Beef; Allen Brothers; DAL Business Systems; Wescoturf, Inc.; 1941 Provisions; New Belgium Brewing; Pernod-Ricard; The Mark Wine Group; Heaven Hill Distillery; Miller Family Wine Company; Jackson Family Wines.

      Brown-Forman; Proximo Spirits; E&J Gallo; Maestro Dobel; Liquid Death; Lagunitas; Beam-Suntory; Republic National Distributing Company; Breakthru Beverage Group; Boston Beer Co.; Backyard by Bayer; Brown & Brown Insurance: BASF; Golf Turf Applications, Inc; Greenzkeeper Wholesale Supply; Turftech Solutions Inc. and ENVU rounded out the sponsor group.