Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee, in partnership with Mount Sinai Medical Center, will present their fourth health workshop from 11 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, February 13, in Town Hall Council Chambers, 6601 Main Street. The workshop topic is “Abdominal Wall Hernias: Types, Symptoms, and Treatments,” and will be open, free of charge, to all that wish to attend. The presenter will be Dr. Jennifer Davies, physician of...

  Located in the iconic “White House” building at 15165 N.W. 77 Avenue, in Suite 2009 lies a computer solutions company unlike any other. Southeast Computer Solutions (SCS) was founded 30 years ago by president and chief executive officer, Sonia Ferrera.  Born from Cuban descent, Ferrera lived in Fairview, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania until she turned 15. Since then, she has lived in Miami and is currently...

  Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee is hosting the 4th annual Family Health and Fitness Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 10, in the Mary Collins Community Center, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue, as a featured event during Super Saturday at the Park. The fair is sponsored in part by Mount Sinai Medical Center, Florida Pace Centers, Chen Senior Medical Center, Specialty Smiles, and CarePlus Health Plans. Last year’s event...

  Miami Lakes Educational Center’s (MLEC) student newspaper, The Harbinger, has come up with a campus-wide hashtag, #HOMLEC, or Humans of Miami Lakes Educational Center.  Inspired by Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton, students have to find someone they’ve never met or talked to before and try to find out a personal detail about their subject’s life that others may not know about. Themes can range from issues...

  It’s official. Miami Lakes residents living in the county’s special taxing districts for security guard gates and lakes maintenance overwhelmingly approved a mail-in ballot election to transfer responsibility for the various districts to the town to maintain them under the town’s standards.  The January 24 special election reported that an estimated 82 percent of the residents living in six special taxing...