In partnership with PEAR and YMCA, the Town of Miami Lakes will be offering Winter Camp for two consecutive weeks beginning the week of December 21. Winter Camp with PEAR with take place at the newly opened Youth Center at Miami Lakes East Park, 6073 Miami Lakes Drive East, and the YMCA will host its Winter Camp at the Roberto Alonso Community Center, 16500 N.W. 87 Avenue. The camps will run Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.,...

  Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School (OLL) participated in its first Give Miami Day fundraising campaign, with hopes to raise some much needed funds for playground improvements. Thanks to the school community as well as church parishioners, the school raised $15,756 with 174 gifts in less than 24 hours. “Through the generosity of our school family and parishioners, we will be able to remodel our children’s playground and...

  Students and teachers from Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Mission Club helped change lives this Thanksgiving season by volunteering at the Feeding South Florida food bank on November 17. Ten Pace students and Pace religion teachers Dr. David Masters and Nelson Bonet sorted 7,498 pounds of food at Feeding South Florida’s food bank in Pembroke Park. The nearly four tons of food will be used to create 6,248 meals to feed...

  Harry and Susana Elden of northwest Miami announced the engagement of their daughter, Dominique M. Elden, to Andrew J. “A.J.” Atchison, son of Irv and Sarah Atchison, formerly of Oakwood, Ohio, and now residing in North Port, Florida. The bride-elect is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received her B.A. She then attained her J.D. from the Florida State University College of Law and is current employed as a...

  Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS), in partnership with Healthy Schools, LLC and the Department of Health in Miami-Dade, will be administering flu immunizations or flu mist, a nasal spray vaccine, free of charge to students with parental consent at every participating school. The immunizations will be offered until Monday, December 18 from 7:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For school specific times contact your child’s school.