Miami Lakes Economic Development Committee’s next After Hours Business Networking Mixer is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, at Dr. Limon Ceviche Bar, 7341 Miami Lakes Drive, in the Cypress Village Shopping Center. Interested attendees can stop by after work and meeting between 30 to 60 professionals in just several hours. Members include business professionals and executives, business owners, investors,...

  Winn-Dixie officially reopened its recently remodeled store in Miami Lakes. The company remodeled the store in response to customers who asked for an improved shopping experience. As part of the grand opening ceremony and to officially reintroduce the community to the new and improved store, a ribbon cutting took place at 7:45 a.m. on Thursday, March 22 at the store located at 15450 N.W. 77 Court in the Royal Oaks Plaza in Miami...

  For Anand Pitre and his wife Priya, learning math was not about memorizing different equations, but rather understanding the concept to make life easier for the student and their teachers. Fifteen years ago, Mathnasium was created by Larry Martinek in Los Angeles. Martinek wanted to teach his son better math, but thought the concept of memorizing each step was too complicated. He came up with a certain curriculum, and the rest is...

  Miami Lakes Cultural Affairs Committee hosted a luncheon on Saturday, March 3, in honor of Women’s History Month. Miami Lakes resident and former Town Councilmember Mary Collins was the luncheon’s keynote speaker. The event was held at the Robert Alonso Community Center, 16500 N.W. 87 Avenue. Collins, born July 5, 1932 in New York City, graduated from Stella Maris Academy and attended Dade Community College,, She married...

  Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid and Councilmembers Luis Collazo, Tim Daubert, Marilyn Ruano and Nelson Rodriguez, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony of Ana G. Mendez University on February 27. The school is the first bilingual university in the Town of Miami Lakes. “Ana G. Mendez is more than a university in our Town,” said Cid. “They were with us going door-to-door during our Hurricane Irma relief efforts. We stood...