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...

  Celebrations did not end at the holiday season at Dade Christian School. Homecoming, a significant part of the school’s traditions, will be commemorated starting Monday, January 29. Although the school’s first graduating class was in 1967, Homecoming traditions didn’t start until the mid 70s.  Students enjoy a whole week of dressing-down with a daily change in theme. This year, students will be able to dress up...

  Prior to the holiday break, the students of Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Mission Club held a holiday party to prepare special stocking stuffers for children of families in need at Christmas. The annual event held at Pace was sponsored by Stephen Pelzer, a class of 2012 Pace alumnus and his family. It was 15 years ago when Pelzer, at just 8 years old, was filling Christmas food baskets with his family and realized...