Atemi-Ryu JuJitsu has been serving the Miami Lakes community since the early 1980s. Owner and Grand Master Philip “Doc” Chenique was a Miami Lakes resident for 12 to 15 years. Chenique first discovered his love of martial arts before he was even a teenager. At just 7-years-old, he was already training judo at a local YMCA in New York. He began practicing jujitsu six years later. His first job at 18 was folding cardboard...

  Founded by Bernie Pomeranc nearly 50 years ago, Bene Casa’s vision is to provide products that enrich people’s lives and meet the cultural needs of the Hispanic community. The company, now based in Miami Lakes, is a multi-national enterprise dealing in the design, development and distribution of consumer household goods, including kitchen electrics and culinary tools and gadgets. Bene Casa products are designed with the...

  Scott Garvis, owner and CEO of Dale Carnegie Training Southeast Florida, will be the guest speaker at the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce’s next membership luncheon on Wednesday, March 15, at Don Shula’s Hotel on Main Street. The organization’s monthly gathering opens for networking at 11:30 a.m. followed by the luncheon at noon. Deadline to reserve a table is March 9 at noon. To reserve, call Marta Diaz at...

  The Tropical Letter Carrier Holding Corporation has opened up temporary facilities in Miami Lakes Business Park West at 14361 Commerce Way. The corporation was first incorporated in the 1950s by labor union members of the United States Postal Service. The National Association of Letter Carriers, or NALC, represents nearly 300,000 working and retired city letter carriers nationwide. In South Florida, Branch 1071 represents 5,000 of...

  Darryl Forges, a reporter for NBC 6, visited Miami Lakes Educational Center’s (MLEC) newsroom on January 25, and discussed journalism, work ethic and the 24-hour news cycle with students who run the school newspaper, The Harbinger. Forges’s news reel, a compilation of his latest work, ranging from crime scene coverage to a ‘punny’ segment of Zoo Miami’s yearly Zoo Doo event was testament to the...