{"id":33384,"date":"2025-11-04T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33384\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:09:08","slug":"for-over-30-years-curleys-house-has-been-a-beacon-of-light-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33384\/","title":{"rendered":"For over 30 years, Curley\u2019s House has \u2018been a beacon of light\u2019 in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM<\/p>\n<p>Curley\u2019s House has \u2018been a beacon of light\u2019 in Miami for 3 decades <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Pamela Johnson said she was grateful for Curley\u2019s House, a nonprofit organization based in Miami\u2019s Liberty City neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson, a great-grandmother and retired school cafeteria worker, said <a href=\"https:\/\/curleyshousefoodbank.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/curleyshousefoodbank.com\/about-us\/\">the nonprofit\u2019s food bank<\/a> does a great service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cA lot of these people would not eat &#8230; We thank God for Curley\u2019s,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cCurley\u2019s makes a great impact in our neighborhood. We pray that it keeps going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For 16 years, Elba Salcedo, a wheelchair user, said she has been visiting the nonprofit organization every Tuesday to get food assistance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey help me and many others,\u201d Elba said in Spanish. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lavern Spicer, the executive director and founder of Curley\u2019s House, said treating their customers with kindness is a priority. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are not just feeding the body, we are feeding the soul, feeding the spirit,\u201d Spicer said. \u201cWe are providing hope where there is no hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The nonprofit aims to feed 5,000 customers every month. George Willard said he needs their help even when he receives federal food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have been a beacon of light in our community for over 30 years,\u201d Spicer said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For more information about how to help this and other nonprofit organizations, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/miami.fcsuite.com\/erp\/donate\/create\/fund?funit_id=3700\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/miami.fcsuite.com\/erp\/donate\/create\/fund?funit_id=3700\">The Miami Foundation\u2019s Local 10 Fund page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More on Day of Giving <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Calvin Hughes\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1e42b25-58dc-410e-84.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Calvin Hughes<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Eight-time Emmy Award-winning newscaster Calvin Hughes anchors WPLG-Local 10\u2019s 4, 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.   <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mayte Padron\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/ff163d72-f807-4d1c-9f44-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Mayte Padron<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Mayte Padron Cordones is an Emmy-award winning journalist and the director of WPLG\u2019s Community Relations Department, overseeing the station\u2019s outreach initiatives to benefit and strengthen the South Florida community. She joined the station in 2001. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM Updated:\u00a0November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM Curley\u2019s House has \u2018been a beacon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-33384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}