Rain didn’t keep 200 cyclists from riding in the 2024 Miami Lakes Culinary Bike Tour to taste, drink and ride five miles through three shopping centers.       Music on one of two brightly-lighted party bikes and Miami Dade Police officers led the pack of bicycles. One group of friends accessorized their wheels with Christmas lights, others played music or like LMG Mane salon, rode as a team...

    Students from the Bethany Academy of Arts and their Principal Daisy Suita visited The Miami Laker newspaper on Sept. 18 to learn about journalism.     The journalists, ages 11 - 15, are launching their own newspaper in October to be called The Bear Facts, after the school mascot. The private K-12 school is at 7801 NW 178th St. in Palm Springs North.     Reporter Alexandra Herrera and Editor Linda...

    The Hope Miami Lakes United Methodist Church is hosting its 26th Annual Pumpkin Patch, a fundraiser for its missions and community outreach.      Kids can frolic among the displays from Oct. 5th – 31st at the property, at the corner of Northwest 67th Avenue and Miami Lakes Drive.      The autumn tradition offers entertainment for families and opportunities to take keepsake photos. It...

   The Miami Lakes Athletic Club will hold special events in October to raise money for the Women’s Breast & Heart Initiative and to raise awareness and remind women to get annual mammograms.      Club employees will wear pink T-shirts during the month.       There will be pink T-shirts, hair ties, bandanas and other accessories for sale.      A series of classes...

Oct. 2 National Coffee with a Cop Day Vicky Bakery 13925 NW 67th Ave., 8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m. Free. Oct. 4 to Oct. 13 Riley Elton McCarthy’s “Ragweeds” at the Main Street Players. Catch six performances of this one act drama about a cryptozoologist (a person who studies mythical animals) and a doomsday prepper in Point Pleasant, West Virginia meet on the hunt for a mythic beast and wonder about their contribution to...