Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee offers free field trips for senior residents 55 years and above. The next field trip is scheduled for Tuesday, February 7, to Zoo Miami.Zoo Miami, formerly known as Miami MetroZoo, is a zoological garden that is the largest and oldest zoological garden in Florida. It is also the only tropical zoo in the continental United States.Zoo Miami houses over 3,000 animals, and features over 100 exhibits. For...

The Main Street Players have scheduled auditions for Marjorie Prime, a thought provoking science-fiction play by Jordan Harrison, that was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. The play is a tale of aging, loss of memory, and the technology that eases both pains. Marjorie, 85, is feisty and physically fit but battling memory loss. She lives with her quick-witted daughter who faces her own crisis and her daughter’s easy-going...

Main Street Playhouse, located at 6766 Main Street, is one of the longest running community theater groups in South Florida. The Playhouse opens their 2017 season with their first professional production, Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez. This comedic and charming play deals with the immigration experience in East Los Angeles in 1987. It takes place in a tiny sewing factory in the sweltering summer, and centers on five Mexican...

The Miami Lakes public library branch is offering general mediation classes every Friday from 11 a.m. to noon. On January 27, the library will present a special guest speaker, meditation specialist, Patrician Calhoun, to lead a presentation called “Stress RX,” a guide to reducing stress. Calhoun has had a lifelong interest in health and spent 20 years as a nurse practitioner in South Florida. “My presentation is about...

Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee will continue its Seniors Games Series with the 11th annual version beginning with a softball game starting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, February 1, at Miami Lakes Optimist Park, 6411 N.W. 162 Street.Future games in the series include:Canasta Tournament on February 17;Track & Field events on April 1 (registration required);Bridge Tournament on June 5; andBasketball Game on August 26.Senior Games...