The Miami Lakes Education Advisory Board honored 22 students and an outstanding educator during its annual Awards of Excellence ceremony, held April 30 at the Roberto Alonso Community Center.       The Graham Companies also presented three Miami Lakes Future Leaders Scholarships to high school seniors.      “Today we’re here to give back, to give back to the educators in our...

          Pedro Fiallo has a lot of loves: baseball, helping the community and most of all, Zenaida Fiallo, his bride of more than 60 years.       Fiallo, 81, is a very active volunteer. It’s a nearly life-long habit of serving children and his fellow elders and veterans.       Fiallo wears several hats. As a non-stop networker, if he can make a connection for a...

     The Mantrap band inspired their audience to dance and sing during their Main Street Live! show on April 17.      The performance, near the circle, was enjoyed by restaurant patrons, shoppers and strollers in the downtown neighborhood.       The show was part of a series of free monthly concerts that the Main Street Merchants, The Graham Companies and the town’s Cultural...

     The Graham Companies has entered into an agreement with the Town of Miami Lakes that would require the developers to donate the Par 3 golf course to the public for a passive park within the next decade.       The golf course has five lakes on 33 acres. The parcel is shaped like an upside down F.       It is west of the Palmetto Expressway and Northwest 77th Avenue, between Miami Lakes...

     Juan Fernandez-Barquin wants to make sure homeowners don’t become victims of deed thieves.       “Property fraud is ... a scheme where the fraudsters will file a forged deed,” said Fernandez-Barquin, the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller of Miami-Dade County.       The criminal will file fake documents that will list a new property owner, either an...