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Sizzle Southwest Florida “Paying it Forward” Scholarship Program

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,

Published December 3, 2018 at 1:06 PM EST

Sizzle Southwest Florida is currently hosting its “restaurant week” across Marco Island, Naples, Fort Myers and Cape Coral. More than 50 of the participating restaurants across Southwest Florida will compile special menus at reduced prices until Dec. 12.

Sizzle Southwest Florida will be “paying it forward” as part of the proceeds of all meals sold during “restaurant week” will go to a scholarship program for a student at FGCU’s School of Resort and Hospitality Management. We’re joined by Rafael Feliciano, co-founder of the Food Idea Group Inc., and Randall Upchurch, the director of the School of Resort and Hospitality Management.

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Julie Glenn

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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Mike Kiniry

Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.

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