Officials unveiled new playground equipment at Park #11 in the Lake Patricia neighborhood of Miami Lakes on March 16. It is one of 100 parks in town. Shown at the green space at Lake Candlewood Court and Lake Geneva Road are from left: Mayor Manny Cid; Michele Arguelles; Ruben Arguelles, chair of the Neighborhood Services District Advisory Board for Lakes and Councilman Ray Garcia. In front are the Aruguelles’...

    Miami-Dade County Public Schools offers a Parent Academy, with free weekly Zoom calls and archived videos in English, Spanish and Creole on many topics related to child-rearing.     Upcoming topics offered in English at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. are: --April 11 Transition to Middle School --April 18 Fathers in Education --April 25 Grandparenting --May 2 Mental Health Awareness --May 9 Dual...

    In the Town of Miami Lakes, Reneé Wilson is the grants and governmental affairs manager who acquires funding for important projects in town.  Some improvements are invisible, such as drainage systems buried underground to ease flooding (a $775,248 FEMA grant for the West Lakes neighborhood).       Others are enjoyed by Freebee riders (FDOT grants of $203,500 for Tesla cars and $515,190 to expand...

    The First Tee Miami youth golf program has found a new home at Miami Lakes Golf Club.      “The Graham family is excited to welcome First Tee,” said Stuart Wyllie, president and chief executive officer of The Graham Companies. “We have a longstanding relationship with the DeLucca family, going back to the opening of the golf course in 1962.”      First Tee lost its...

Grace De La Torre, whose flower business Garden in a Pot was on Main Street in Miami Lakes for more than a decade, died on March 15. The cause was metastatic lung cancer, her daughter Jessica De La Torre said. Grace De La Torre was 62. Born in Cuba, she lived in Miami Lakes for 32 years before moving to Pembroke Pines. “They told us she was treatable but not curable,” De La Torre, 31, of Miami Shores said of the diagnosis...