Bill and Barbara Baker are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary on November 30, 2016. Bill, a retired firefighter, and Barbara, affectionately known as “Chicken” have been Miami Lakes residents for 32 years in the Lake Hilda area. The couple have two sons and a daughter, Bill, Allan, and Pamala, and four grandchildren, Christina, Travis, Kayla and Katie. 

Over the span of thirty-plus years, the Town of Miami Lakes and the former Miami Lakes Civic Association have saluted veterans with the longest running parade in all of Miami-Dade County. This year, the Miami Lakes Veterans Committee will host the 37th annual Veterans Day Parade on Sunday, November 6.Gunny Jack Parsons has been selected as the Grand Marshal for the parade. Parsons enlisted in the Marine Corps April 1965 in Camden, New Jersey,...

Leslie W. Langbein, Esq., a noted Labor and Employment Law attorney whose office is in Miami Lakes, will be the guest speaker at the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce’s general membership luncheon scheduled for Wednesday, November 9, in the Grand Ballroom of Shula’s Hotel on Main Street.Her presentation will focus on “Hot Topics in Labor Law.”Networking begins at 11:30 a.m. with lunch to follow at noon. Admission is $30...

With over 200 responses to a Town survey, Miami Lakes Youth Activities Task Force announced the first few dates and titles for the 9th annual “Movies in the Park” series.The free movie events will take place at Miami Lakes Picnic Park West, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue, and kicks off at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 18, with Disney’s “Finding Dory.”The series will continue on selected Friday evenings through March 2017,...

Miami Lakes Veterans Committee is asking residents to assist in “Operation: Care and Comfort” to complete its mission to send care packages overseas to U.S. troops. Donations such as non-perishable foods, snacks, and treats, personal hygiene accessories and toiletries, batteries, socks, hand towels, notebooks and pens can be dropped off at the first floor reception desk at Town Hall, 6601 Main Street,Items donated by November 11...