About 50 entrepreneurs attended a Small Business Boot Camp held at Miami Lakes Town Hall on Sept. 22.      Most of the business owners said they employ fewer than five people and took time out from running their firms to learn from bankers, officials from Miami-Dade County, Florida International University and other experts about how to grow and get financing.     “The EDC was working on it...

    St. Thomas University President David A. Armstrong told the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce that he wants the Miami Gardens school to “become the premier Catholic university in the south.”     During his five-year tenure, Armstrong has doubled enrollment and increased fundraising; started the football team and built several new buildings, fields, three residence halls and even opened a pub on...

     Students in grades K-12 in Miami-Dade and Broward County schools are invited to submit their art to the annual Orange Bowl Creative Art Contest.      This year’s theme is “Courage Creates Champions.”      Student work should include visual representations of South Florida, college football, the contest theme and OBIE, the Orange Bowl mascot.      Every...

    Miami Lakes AutoMall won unanimous site plan approval from the town council to expand and renovate a showroom.      Two buildings will be demolished during construction.       “We have two buildings in the middle of our property…what we’re doing is actually replacing the two-and-a half buildings with three nice, beautiful showrooms,” Miami Lakes AutoMall Partner...

    When new businesses open in town, elected officials, Miami Lakes Economic Development Committee members and the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce will welcome them with a ribbon cutting ceremony.        It was Sharkey’s Cuts for Kids’ turn on Aug. 14. The salon at 6762 Main St. caters to the youngest clientele in town, with a colorful atmosphere; special seats shaped like cars to ease little ones...