More than 70 children participated in the Miami Dolphins’ Spring Break Camp at Royal Oaks Park, where they engaged in a series on interactive drills designed to help improve their agility, throwing and catching. Dolphins’ defensive lineman Davon Godchaux signed autographs and helped conduct the camp for kids, who play flag football for the Optimist Club of Miami Lakes. According to the Dolphins’ website, the Junior...

  The Town of Miami Lakes is inviting residents to join in an evening of art and culture as the works of students in the Town’s adult painting class will be showcased from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, at Town Hall, 6601 Main Street. Works by talented artist Ginette Lillo, the painting class instructor, will also be displayed. Lillo studied at the Arts Applique and the Academy of Paul Collin in France. She continued her art...

  Miami Lakes Neighborhood Improvement Committee will host its inaugural Home Decor and Improvement Expo on Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Mary Collins Community Center, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue. The event will offer an opportunity for residents to learn how to fix up their homes. Home improvement and interior decor related businesses and organizations are invited to exhibit, distribute literature, and provide information to...

  Neat Streets Miami awarded the Town of Miami Lakes a Street Tree Matching Grant on March 2 in the amount of $18,500 to assist in funding the West Lakes Reforestation Project Phase II. The project benefits the West Lakes residential community and is consistent with the beautification Master Plan and Miami-Dade County Street Tree Master Plan Mission to enhance the county’s tree canopy to a minimum of 30 percent coverage by 2020....

  The Mater Lakes Academy (MLA) Thespian Society will be presenting its final show of the school year, “Peter Pan,” on April 26-28 at the Lehman Theater at Miami-Dade College (MDC). This will be the Thespian Society’s fourth performance in partnership with MDC since “Annie” in May 2017. This timeless tale will feature beautiful music and hilarious comedy. For the first time in the MLA thespian’s...