How Engineering Students Are Changing Lives for Disabled Veterans | Tara Newell

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So I want to have you know Tara explain a little bit about Project Serve. So welcome Tara our executive director to a day in Miami Coral Gable.

Thank you.

With with a really cool nickname that we'll get to later on. Oh, [laughter] but that's only for but she only shared that in confidence.

She said the end. Maybe we'll get her to say.

Okay. But I was just, you know, that's a family insight

welcome. Welcome.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

Terra, talk to talk to me about serve. What does project serve stand for?

Project serve stands for students engineering for resilience of veterans and emergency responders. It is it is a name that we feel really represents our mission and what we do which is is continuing the legacy of serving. And we are a nonprofit organization. Okay. That ends up pair what we do is we pair veterans and emergency responders who are living with injuries or disabling conditions with university STEM uh engineering students in STEM fields. And what they do is they they co-design adaptive and assistive technologies and devices for these individuals who are living with with with disabilities and have challenges to their everyday life. So, it's a win-win because at the end of the academic year, usually the projects are one academic year.

The students graduate with capstone uh credit, you know, they get graduation credit for this capstone project and then the veteran or the responder gets a device that truly does improve their quality of life.

So, basically, I teach them and then keep it.

It is basically they are designing together. Mhm.

They're designing a the either a technology, a device or something that is going to improve their quality of life and they are learning empathy at the same time

and they're getting graduation credit. So we are they're getting the students are getting realworld hands-on experience that they can take with them to their the next the next course in their life whether it's going to be industry you know an internship and then the veteran is getting hope they're getting um independence and you know there's really no downside.

Okay so let me understand a little better. So you tie this in with a student with with a veteran.

Yes. So we have student teams usually they range around two to seven that's like five five students per team and the veteran will guide the design. So you know they they are in contact all the time they have they tell the the student teams their challenge let's say you know they have an issue with u mobility and then the student will talk to them. They listen first. That's the most important thing because we don't know what to do. the students don't know what to do unless they listen to the the individual.

Yeah.

Do do you guys do we do you guys pick the students or students that want to join? How how does that work?

So we have right now we have 27 partner universities.

Okay. That's that was my next question. Right.

Right. We have 27 partner universities across the nation.

Okay.

And you know sometimes we have approached uh universities and they sometimes they approach us. They hear about our program. They say wow we really want to be a part of this. We want to offer our students these kinds of projects. So what happens is we have an online application process and the veterans or responders will apply online with their challenge. They give us a description if it's something that we can help with. We then pair them up with the appropriate university team, the team that we think pairs up best with them. And that depends on the specialty, you know, the engineering. Um, you know, what what area of engineering they're in, whether it's mechanical or biomed or electrical

specification.

Yeah. Sometimes it's interdisciplinary. Also, the area we like to try to get the veteran as close to the the student teams as possible because a lot of times there's fittings and things that need to happen and so it really does make the the the uh process easier. and this passion and drive that you have because I'm seeing here all these little awards that you've gotten. Where does all that come from? Give everybody a little background on your your your your involvement with military because I mean that's important for them to know.

So the the involvement it comes it's easy that comes from being a a former military spouse of 25 over 25 years and like I was telling Mandy before earlier this once you're involved in that community and you see

it's another world.

Yeah. You see the dedication, you see the resilience of the and I know that that word is used all the time, but it really is appropriate. These individuals are resilient and they sacrifice and you know when when you live that every day for years and years and years, it just doesn't leave you and you become entrenched in that community and you want to help. So

throughout the my military career as a spouse, I end up volunteering. the last uh volunteer, the last assignment we had was here at Southcom and I ended up working there and helping form uh something called Team Southcom which is a service member family readiness group designed to support military members and their families you know when typically it's for deployment uh units but correct

coming here is often like being deployed for a lot of our

our young service members and they need the support they needed the support so

I didn't know what Southcom was until last year like I mentioned before Uh, we did the pig rolls there for the military.

Sure. Sure.

It was um

I mean they had their own community, their own living quarters.

It's an important one.

It was it was it was cool and and I knew exactly like these people are getting ready to be deployed into like the [ __ ] right? Like the worst of the worst.

So it's huge that that that you guys are doing this.

And if I can tell you one four children, my my uh my oldest son is currently serving in the Air Force. So

Oh, that's awesome.

So you have extreme military clearance. We we we we we need to thank all these guys for their service and especially him and and and obviously you know anything that we can do for our veterans. I mean 100%. I mean there for me that's that's that's the max of the max. And we were just chatting a little while ago which I did not know that Florida

you told me that Florida has one of the highest levels of veterans in Florida.

Yes.

Correct. Yes.

And especially I I I I didn't know that. And we have a great you know veterans hospital here. Um, so you have a lot of those people involved or how how can people out there say how how can I like when we finish this podcast where can people go like like say I want to get involved in that? Is it is it through the university? Do they call you know project serve and then you guys coordinated with the universities and can you give us a little bit of the what universities are you partnering with here now in Florida more or less?

Sure. Sure. So, in Florida, we are partnering right now with two universities, University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic University. Okay. So, um I'd love to get my alma mater in there. FIU. Me, too.

Yes. I'm just going to say when when they watch it have contact.

Let's see. Let's see. Let's see when they see the podcast. They may want to be involved.

Talk to the president. She's friend of mine.

Yes. And University of Miami. Uh and I actually have was just put in contact with uh somebody over at Florida State. So, we are going I just I really want to get my It's a little bit selfish because I'm a a native born and raised in Miami and I want my community involved in something so spectacular and so Yeah. and so life-changing for both sides.

Yeah, it is. It is. It is. It's

What's the average age? I'm just curious of these veterans that are involved in this.

Oh gosh, you're asking the average age. It ranges. It really does. I mean, our veteran uh population is has gone down a bit. ask

but um you know so we have I would say they're midlife usually uh yeah um typically but we have so many different um you know the demographic it really does range

are they jumping at these opportunities are they hesitant or

they are absolutely I I they're so excited they are jumping at the opportunities on again on both sides the students are and the veterans and the responders are because they are they want help. A lot of times these things that that they they have a challenge with,

it's just something that they're very unique issues. So that's why you have to listen and they it's something that they just can't get on the market or it's not quite right for them and they need something specific for their their daily routine. So when they come to us oftentimes they say, "Wow, I mean I have hope now. I I really feel like this is an opportunity to get something that is tailor made for my unique challenge.

It's engineering.

It is.

It's engineering. So, think about it. So, it's it's it's maybe like the fact of of a veteran, you know,

showing you his skills,

right? And not only that, but to her point, it's like saying, I don't know, I'm going to come up with something. Oh, it'd be easier for us, I don't know, to have this accessibility. And nothing's come out with that. So then for them to join forces with maybe a engineering student and saying could we make this happen am I correct?

Oh absolutely and then the students let me tell you they they have such a different perspective because they know that what they're designing is not it's not you know for nothing about to say against industry partners but it's not for them that's that is guided by them. It is not it's not going to go on a shelf.

Yeah.

Somebody's waiting for this and somebody's waiting for it. That's, you know, it's so funny to say. That's my next question. Has it enter I know that nobody's looking for that, but if it's something that came out great that can help other veterans, would would you not think that some of these things maybe be picked up by by

Manny's taking the dollar? No, but

Manny's Manny's my kind of guy. I get that.

It's not that. I'm just thinking, you know, [laughter] because then that sense whatever we say, we can go ahead and give X amount of, you know, to give back to serve to continue that whole that whole thing.

Yes. And we and you know our main mission is is first to serve the veterans and to help help those individuals who who don't%

but yes there is that opportunity that something can come about that is look look you know what Siri was originally designed for individuals with disabilities and now it's mainstream uh automatic doors that we walk through every day that we take advant we take for granted in the grocery store originally designed for individuals this so there's always the potential

yeah um we had talked a little off camera how getting first responders, police officers, firefighters more involved and and it's it's not just solely veteran involvement, right?

It's not.

Explain a little bit on that on what you would like to see in the future and kind of get people more involved. So again, project serve, we want to serve those who have served our country and our communities and that includes emergency responders. And um I think that a lot of times, you know, and nothing to say about um you know, serving our veterans and it is our the focus is we know it's in our name, but emergency responders serve just as just as as much as our veterans do. And a lot of times they don't get that kind of recognition or that kind of response of of hey, let's help.

So yes, they can absolutely go to our website, they can fill out the online application and they they can uh apply for something to be designed specifically for them if they they need the assistance. And I want to mention it doesn't matter

if they received their injury in the line of service. If they didn't, we will still help. So we could have a veteran that who who develops

a roof put developed MS later on in life. If you need help, we're going to help you.

Wow. That's even by the way. You know, this is coming to to mind right now. Um we they should part should be have like a little, you know, 10 by 10 little area and all the pig roast.

You know what I'm saying? And all the different pig roast that that KO host with all the firefighters and the police uh associations.

Definitely going to happen. You guys should you guys should have some presence there because I you know again this is one of the biggest reasons we wanted to bring you on here is because we really you know believe in this and we really say wow this is something we need a little to shed more light on.

Yes.

You know I mean a lot of these organizations

um are out there that you know and I think every organization anybody that takes the time to to to really put forth on a nonprofit is it's it's special itself. Trust me I know. So at the end of the day, I love the fact of really, you know, getting these things across so people can understand them. But there's sometimes that we need to be in places to, you know, so people can say, "Oh, I I didn't know about Surf."

Well, that's the thing. That's what has really just boggled my mind is that I I've only been with the organization for about nine months now. I started in May and I could not believe that, you know, no, nobody here knew about us and every it's just once they hear they're on board, you know, but but that's the that's what our goal is right now is, you know, we did the rebrand rebrand of changing the name and we want to build on that momentum and let people know that we exist and what we do because once they hear the stories, it's it's pretty much how can I help?

Yeah, I think knowledge is power when it comes to that. I know it's been nine months, but is there any like personal stories or any individuals that you know personally that like you would like to share their story on?

I I don't know them personally, but but I do we have so many so many veterans and and um individuals who have their their stories are amazing. But we have right now uh we have a team in um Virginia at Old Dominion University working on a device for a former a US Army veteran and she had a partial she has a partial spinal cord injury uh that has really caused her some issues with mobility. And all she wants to do, she was actually lucky lucky enough to to have a child through sorghy and she all she wants to do is be able to interact

more easily with with her child. So the team at Old Dominion is developing an assistive like an adaptive stroller attachment for her wheelchair so that she can have those mommy daughter play dates and things and that I mean that's just something that is an every

No, no. I mean, who who doesn't? I mean, you say those things, it just your heart goes like this. And are and are they close to coming up with something there already or?

Yes, they have a they have a a design model. It's on our website actually. I think you can you can see it. If it's not on our website right now and I have to check, I do have a deck that I can I can share and it it you could see the design model and how they you know they plotted out and they're in the building phase now. So,

how important is the growth in Florida for the growth of Project Serve? I think it's it's paramount because again we mentioned how many veterans there are here.

Is it the biggest surplus of veterans in the country?

It's not the largest. It's one of the largest in the country.

The largest Oh gosh. You're now you're it's going to be here. Here are our largest. It's going to be it's going to be Texas, California, Virginia, uh Florida. Those are those are in it's in the top.

Um like I said, it's like 1.45 million veterans in the state. And then we have all of the installations, you know, we have McDill and Egglund, all and we have the draw here, the climate. People want to retire here. And then the huge innovation and tech boom that has happened.

Do you have to be an engineer to help all these veterans as a student or is it kind of like technology only or

Well, let me I'm so glad you brought that up.

Like a culinary guy like me like [laughter]

Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, can we cook and stuff?

Why not? You can cook for them.

There's veterans that were in the mess halls and stuff. We're always accepting volunteers as mentors, coaches, if you have that kind of, you know, design.

Yeah, we uh volunteering. We'll we accept volunteers, you know, if particularly around our national design competition, which I haven't talked about. I know I'll get to,

but yeah, there are all kinds of ways to to volunteer and to help out, but you know, knowledge is power. Like you said, we we we have to get the word out there.

So, we want FIU, right? We want them on the board. How do we pitch to them? What's the pitch? I've actually had a couple of conversations with FIU. Um, but it was around the holidays and

they had engineering school over there, by the way.

I used to I used to work at FIU.

Oh,

I I I left FIU reluctantly to come to Project Serve.

Wow. So, okay. So, there's there's there's a good there's

like you over there.

They [laughter] do like me. They do like about Terra. I hope they like No, I hope they like me. They're great. FIU is great. The the It is. It's a great school and it is spectacular.

They help the underserved communities and and you know it's a minority majority school. It's it's amazing the the stories the success stories that come at FFIU. I'm very proud to be an

Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. So we need to get their workforce in.

Yes. Me too.

We're building pipelines here.

We're building workforce development.

Tara, what what what's what's the funding like for you guys? Are you guys are you guys um just uh is it online donations? Are you guys getting any type of of local government, state government, federal government funding?

We have no federal funding. So we are yeah we solely are on contributions from you know universities. Yeah. Or private donations, foundations. We apply for a lot of grants. Okay.

But you know it's it's it's challenging the trust is challenging. So you can go to our website. We have a a donation page, a link. Uh we have a form if you don't want to use, you know, the online technology

that you Yep. If you're old school, you could do it that way. But we're always looking for sponsorships, particularly when it comes to our national design competition. And we do we have a title sponsor that I can't talk about right now because it's but it's so I'm so excited.

The National Design Competition model, what is it? So the national design competition like I said uh um project serve was uh started in 2009. We're only in our third year of the national design competition. So just we're it's we're very

elaborate for people who don't know what that is.

So that is the same tech it's the same premise where you're taking a design challenge and you're you're designing you know a device or a technology. But in this situation, we have one design challenge where, you know, typically we can cover 50 capstone projects a year, individual projects. This one, it's one design challenge and we invite

many teams to come and participate and they're they're competing for the top design.

I like that.

This year,

the same model,

same concept,

same concept. This year, we are designing the teams are designing a warming sleeve for residual limbs. And we're really excited because we're working with um team USA parasiding team.

Wow.

So each team has their own individual parathlete mentor.

And I mean we're talking these are award-winning national they don't compete at the Olympic level because bobsled and skeleton are not Olympic Olympically observed uh competitions yet but it will be soon. But they are top-notch athletes and they are thrilled and excited to be working with these students because you imagine a residual limb is uh the if it's a if it if there's extreme cold temperatures you can lose all mobility it becomes so painful. So having a warming sleeve that is easy to use and it's it's

on and off.

Yeah. And it works that it shaves so much time off of you know competition.

That's awesome. That's awesome.

That's amazing. So yeah, we look for sponsorships there.

The um what you just told us that you you wanted to elaborate on something else. What was that the one you wanted to talk about?

That was the national design competition.

The national design competition and that's when again

so this year it is being hosted by Virginia Tech. They're one of our our larger university partners. And it is April, we just moved the dates, April 25th and 26th.

And is is that you know is there judges and stuff like that?

Yes, we have veteran judges. We have um academic you know faculty judges so there are all kinds we have a panel of judges we have adviserss and mentors and uh this year every team will be present in person you know testing there's IRB testing involved it's it's a

I'm going to have to take a trip to Virginia because I I got to be there to see who these winners are and then we got to see how we can just get those winners we get those winners [laughter] out there because I'm sure there's going to be so many other people out there that say wow I would have love that. You know how many people may know other people that need that heating device, right?

And then the fact of, you know, I think it's

even great that these engineers get not only the recognition, the credit. I mean, sort of like, you know, I don't want to say it's like sort of like a little shark tank. It is a legacy,

you know, but at the end of the day, you know, there's a lot of people out there that would say, "Wow, I would love to bring that person in and see if we can get that starting to sell to other, you know, veterans or other first responders that need that." And especially

to serve as an ambassador with serve.

And it is. Yes, I do get too many. I hear you loud and clear. And it is though the number one re uh the the the driving factor for the the students really is about helping these individuals. I've spoken to them, you know, directly and they're just

they say this is knowing that we're helping somebody in situation like this keeps us in the lab so much so much longer. It just when I want to go and sleep or I want to go on spring break keeps them there because they know somebody's waiting for it. waiting for um I want to

move on to your story a little bit. You were a military wife

and you said you had four children.

They all went to the military.

No, just one. [laughter]

Oh, okay. I was going to say

we never we never pushed them to do anything like that, you know, because it is a sacrifice. It's a commitment.

And our our our oldest son said, "No, you know, I want to do this. I want I want

First born.

Is he currently in the in the service right now?

He's currently in the service. He's stationed in DC. And his father was in what branch?

The Air Force.

Air guys. Air Force is smart, right? [laughter]

Everybody rags on each branch.

They they we do get ragged on quite a bit.

It's like their own thing between them.

I guess it's the less like physically like respected, right?

They're more like the brainiacs, right?

You know, I every [laughter]

Marines are jarheads, right?

I say nothing. I love the Marines and I love the

drunk, right? OH MY GOSH. WHO'S SAYING THAT?

SOCIAL MEDIA [ __ ]

BUT WHO SAYS THAT?

You know, you know I'm right.

I don't know what social media deals.

A little bit like softer, but they're smarter, right? Is that a deal?

I don't I've never heard that.

It's all fell in love.

All of them. All of them.

She knows what I'm talking about.

For me, they all need to be saluted.

They do. All of them. We all believe. They all serve a purpose.

You partners, you bust ball.

You got hate him now. I said he's the one that said that. I don't know about those Davy. I think Navy every every every branch is their own entity and we all respect and support all

we do and we I we all bleed purple at the end of the day when we put all those forces together and and we know we being air force yes but we were stationed mostly with um at Navy bases and and Navy installations. So

uh yeah we were we were all over the place.

And the other kids what they do?

Uh one is in business. He's got a he's got a a major a masters in marketing actually.

Awesome.

Yeah. And then the other one is a student at FIU right now. He's studying finance. He's 62 three in finance.

Okay.

And my daughter, our daughter is uh she's also an FIU student and uh she's just she's first year so she's figuring it out.

She did. Good job, mom.

She's figuring it out.

It's the first time. So let's see what we do. A little party here, little party there, but we're figuring it out. Me and Manny, we're in the high school stage now. So, we're still doing drop offs.

Oh my gosh.

We're not.

You'll get there. It's

No, no. Well, no. I'm not going to be driving. Mine Mine's already leaving. Mine going to Mine starts college in the fall.

Oh, congratulations.

There's a whole new set of pressures, but congratulations.

Yes. No, I'm I'm I'm happy. I'm I'm happy to start that that new chapter with

And yours and yours starts driving.

Our boys are in high school. Yeah. Yeah. Good luck. He's a couple months away from driving and then

Yeah. Mine's a freshman in high school. So, and my daughter graduates

older and my daughter My daughter's younger.

Yeah.

But we're not there yet, though. Look, you see all the lines that I have here? It it takes good lines. They are, but let me tell you everyone.

I know. And listen, trust me, [laughter] we

everybody's in the same thing. Tara, tell me then be before we go, which is very important. How can all of our viewers if they say I I want to get involved?

Some some and again I want to go back to this again. Maybe some viewers of ours are students

that are at FIU or at some other universities that say I would love for our universities to be involved in this.

It could could we ask them listen take this to to your school or ask to your

or university officials listening

or get involved?

Yes.

Uh go to our website. You can you can

which we're going to go ahead and post there too by

you can email me directly. I I will answer. Um, we would love to be part we we're trying to expand our our university partnerships. So, we would love to have you on as a partner. If you're a student and you are not if if you're an engineering student and you want to bring it to the your university, go talk to your to your I don't know if you get to the dean, but go talk to your your faculty.

Um, you know, there's going to be different levels. I mean, I don't know them right now. Don't don't provost or this or they're not getting the pro

department chair. Department chair, our producer back there. Thank you, Justin. Thank you, Justin.

Go go go go and talk to them and tell them about us. Tell if you know of a veteran or an responder who needs help or needs assistance. We can't help everyone. There needs to be a design element or challenge, but even if we can't, we will direct you to other resources and organizations that may be able to help. So, uh, and if you're if if you want to support, you want to fund, you want to help sponsor the competition, go to our website, email me. I will we'll we'll get back to you. And also I think important also Kiko is to tell a lot of those people out there that have host events like what we do with

we got to

No but other people that do other events I I if they would love to incorporate serve you know project serve to come and and give out you know uh brochures and stuff like that of a project serve I think it's very important once I mean I once this even takes off I know this is going to be this is going to be huge. You got our commitment of of of helping with this

girls for sure.

I'm going I'm so excited about that. All about that. All about that, man. We're going to definitely uh

I I'll work on the FIU thing. So, I got connections. S boy, [laughter]

NO PRESSURE. NO PRESSURE. THEY'RE REALLY good people and they'll be loving that they're winning.

They are great people.

They are. They are.

Shout out to FIU. Shout out to our new president over there at FIU. She's doing a fantastic, spectacular job.

Yes. I want her to be president of the United States.

So, you know.

Okay. So, are you ready for the toughest question of the day?

Well, no, but I can I have a Can I say a I want I want to your

shout out to well my son who's serving. Thank you for

Anthony Orizole. Anthony, thank you my brother. Thank you. Kill some bad guys.

Thank you for your service. Had

to say that.

Yes. Thank you. And I want to also give a shout out to um Coral Gable's Mayor Vince Lago because yes,

he was the first one that said, "Yeah, I want to listen. Let me listen and hear what this is about." Once he heard, he said, "This is fantastic.

I love Vince. He's no nonsense. I love

He scares me a little bit, but he's my brother. so supportive of veterans

and also shout out to your great brother as well.

Yes, Tony,

you know, so shout out to Tony. Great guy. I mean, all all you guys are just fantastic people.

Thank you. Thank you.

A good family. Good family. Good family. But Tara still has not mentioned her nickname, but that's besides the point. [laughter]

What about your other kids? Let's give you mention your other kids on course. John Norman, I love you, you're doing great things. Uh Tom, stay strong.

Touchdown Tommy.

Touchdown. Yeah. And Cara, my baby girl. You know

Cara, Cara is 18.

Oh, my baby girl, too.

She's a firecracker in that.

She look like mom.

Does she look like I don't think she does, but she she's she's beautiful.

That's handsome.

Sure.

Yes, of course.

Okay. All right. [laughter] All right. We don't want any guys saying, "Oh, I can I'm going to go see over there in FIU."

We love it. We love it. Okay. So, I got a tough question for you. Go ahead, Gigo. You're a Miami girl.

Yes.

And you had a cool nickname.

I

You don't have to say it. We'll ask the question first.

Okay.

Teran New, let me have your top three restaurants that you like to dine in. Starting with number three first and why.

Oh my god. Gosh, this is tough. And do you know why this is tough? Because I have not been back here for long enough to have

Okay. Well, what did you remember there? But there's

no getting off this question. This is the one question. It doesn't it could be just your goto when you're here

when I'm here. My goto

starting with number three

with number starting with number three. Well, they're not here anymore. So, I will talk.

That's fine. Let's talk.

I think it's was called Mosaica or Mosa. It was on It was across the street from Delhi Lane in South Miami and and he left.

Okay.

It was Italian. Oh my gosh. I've never had

It was in the corner.

Yes.

Yes. Yeah. No, that they they've always had challenges there with the different restaurants. I don't know why. It's a South Miami issue. We We've been through this. I I thought it was mosaic or

wasn't it Italian in sushi?

No, no, just Italian. And it was

one area was Italian sushi.

Just Italian and it was fantastic.

Italian sushi because one section one section was Italian, the other section was sushi.

Oh [ __ ] Okay. Okay. All right. Number two. But that doesn't count. Find it, Ben. Find it. If not, scratch it. Number two.

Number two

for tarot.

You know, I I'm always at Flanigans.

There you go.

I am always at

more Flanigans. more flan

because those are

What do you like at Flanigan?

It's consistent. It's consistent.

Consistently. What? [laughter]

Consistently. Consistent.

What do you like at Flat?

Uh I Well, I like I like that it's laid-back, the atmosphere, and I I love to get that grilled chicken sandwich with

There you go.

Yeah, that was that's my chicken sandwich.

Hey, shout out to Flanigans.

Flanigans. They're always on the list.

All right. And your number one

my number one spot, which is new. I just discovered. Don't kill me. And I I'm not going to You're going to have to help me with the name because it's that But it's on Los Olas, right in

No, not on Los. It's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. Where's that? No, scratch that. The one in Miami Beach. The the the uh the little the avenue. What is it called?

Lincoln Road. Lincoln. Espanola Way. Is that it? I don't know. Where all the restaurants?

Yeah.

Okay, that's it.

Lincoln and Espanola Way. Not Lincoln. Not Lincoln. Espanola. This is how long it's been for me. But there's an Italian restaurant. Is it um It's not Osteria or or

It could be Osteria, but it closed.

No, no, no. It's Gosh, I'm going to be in so much trouble right now.

I have no name for your name.

Listen to me. I'm going to get the name for you. But that the pizza that they make there.

Oh, wait. Now you Now you got me already. A pizza.

You got me a pizza. I'm a pizza lover. Let me know. You got to tell me. You don't remember the name? I have to scratch this.

I'm going No,

we're going to find it. I'm going to find it and I'm going to get it for you. I promise you. It's all the red and white checkered tablecloths right there sitting outside.

That's That's maybe one of 145 different restaurants.

I know, Manny. I know. I was

Listen, I was not prepared for this.

That's why we always like to get you off with that one.

I am back. Yes, I've been for a few years.

We're going to take some sponsorship.

We're going to We're going to have to go do another pod with Serve just so so Tara can give us our new three restaurants. Okay. Real quick, let everybody know how they can reach you and do what they got to do.

Yes, you can go to our website, please. Go to www.projectserve.org. Um you can also find us at info@prosserve.org. You can email me directly terracererve.org and um you know that's how you can reach us and we'll be happy to to talk and

you can reach me too on my on my social media handles because we're going to be doing the pig roll.

Yep.

And you're going to be involved and hopefully we get you for you and do all that good stuff. Well, once again to all of our, you know, de Miami family, um, if you guys have anybody out there that are veterans, our first responders and stuff like that, what an awesome, spectacular project, take a look into it. Um, you know, we have to support, we have to keep on helping our own. So, go in. We're going to have the the the website and everything else for you to click on there. Help out.

Thank you, Tara, to the prettiest military wife ever.

Thank you, Project Serve.

Thank you so much for all your efforts, guys. Look for her.

Project serve, baby. Thank you so much.