JetStream Federal Credit Union Accounting Specialist Orlando Guerra and Assistant Vice President Maribel Alvarez, E-Commerce, Member Care Center, met the community at the annual Spring Festival at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church and School on March 1.  They provided finance tips and shared information about JetStream’s Community Financial Literacy Campaign. The program is free for businesses, schools and non-profit...

Young golfers enrolled with First Tee Miami took over the Miami Lakes Golf Club to help fill divots. They ran behind a golf cart to fetch green sand with small trowels and fill holes on the course.       “It’s an egg hunt, but a really hard egg hunt,” one of the boys on the golf course exclaimed working to fill the divots. It was only the first part of the day for 80 First Tee students on April 2....

First Tee Miami  June 10 to Aug. 9  Ages 7 to 16      All abilities welcome to learn and hone skills at First Tee Miami’s summer golf camp. Weekdays 8:45 a.m. - 3 p.m., no camp July 4th and 5th. $395 per week, $275 per week for Miami Lakes residents with proof of residency or children of first responders. Campers get a T-shirt, hat and bag tag and should bring their own lunch. Register for First Tee...

The MIA Flag Football team representing Miami Lakes won the 16U age division title at the Youth Flag Football World Championships held in January at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando. The team went 6-1 in seven games during the tournament and faced squads from Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Canada and Mexico.       From left in the back row: Michael...

 Miami Lakes K-8 Center’s Model United Nations team attended the Foundations for Leadership Miami Dade Model UN competition held March 9 at Miami Dade College North Campus.       “For the first time in the history of the school’s law program, they took home the Secretary General’s Award for highest performing school at the conference of over 250 students from around South Florida,”...