The Elderly Affairs Committee and volunteers provided lunch and Girl Scout cookies to more than 150 seniors in Miami Lakes on March 31. The pandemic era tradition is the Traveling Bingo Drive-thru, the 35th one. They are meant to take the place of weekly lunches once enjoyed by elders in town that were postponed because of COVID-19.
Of those 150 seniors who received lunch from Trattoria Pampered Chef Italian Restaurant that day, 41 were...

When Bruce Hannan was making plans for a major change in his life, he chose Miami Lakes as the place to create those new memories. For the past year or so, Hannan, 52, director of security at The Bear’s Club in Jupiter, has enjoyed jaunts south to play golf in town with Rhonda Strenges, 56, his girlfriend of six years. “We have a lot in common, and golf is one of them,” Hannan said. After Hannan decided to propose...

Vaccinations Miami Lakes -- Royal Oaks Park, 16500 NW 87th Ave., walk-up site on April 15, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.; April 16, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; April 18, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Florida Division of Emergency Management will offer Johnson & Johnson vaccines, up to 400 shots per day. For questions call 305-364-6100. Check with these government, retail and hospital sites about the availability of vaccines and...

Meet Pete! He is a 4.5-year-old Terrier mix who was a puppy when he was found roaming the Redland area in southwest Miami-Dade County. The Garcia family in Miami Lakes gave him a home. “He was the perfect fit,” said Michelle Rojas Garcia. “He’s been with us ever since.”
Pete shares the family’s household in the Loch Lomond East community with Rojas Garcia’s husband, Alexander Garcia, and...

Call it pandemic fashion, the colorful face coverings we wear to protect ourselves, our families, friends and neighbors from the COVID-19 virus.

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Elsa Reus photographed Annette Price. Other photos by Linda Trischitta, The Miami Laker.