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South Beach Wine & Food Festival® marks its 20th anniversary
This year, the South Beach Wine and Food Festival
® celebrates its 20th anniversary on the sands of South Beach. But did you know before the Festival blossomed into the world-renowned event it is today, it got its start five years earlier at FIU s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management on the Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC)?
The roots of SOBEWFF
® started in 1997 when late FIU hospitality professor Patrick Chip Cassidy brought founder Harvey Chaplin and Mel Dick of Southern Wine & Spirits and Marvin Shanken of Wine Spectator Magazine in to sponsor the one-day wine and food festival called the Florida Extravaganza.
Minister McEntee announces appointment of Chief State Pathologist
The Minister for Justice Helen McEntee TD has today announced the appointment of Dr. Linda Mulligan as the Chief State Pathologist following an open competition run by the Public Appointments Service.
Making the announcement, the Minister said: Dr. Mulligan is an accomplished and highly professional Consultant Forensic Pathologist with over 18 years’ experience, both nationally and internationally, in Forensic Pathology, Histopathology and Clinical Medicine. She has been filling the position as interim Chief State Pathologist since 2019. I am very pleased that a person of Dr. Mulligan’s calibre has been appointed to such an important senior public health position. The Office of the State Pathologist plays a vital role in our criminal justice system through the investigation of suspicious deaths.