Pace High School’s Fine Arts Academies for Visual & Performing Arts and classes for dance, drama, music, and art brought Tinseltown to South Florida with “A Hollywood Christmas” on December 9 inside the Spartan Center. Pace students from each of these four subjects performed in the Pace Fine Arts department’s annual Christmas production for Pace family, friends, and alumni.The show was presented as a classic...

Mother of Our Redeemer students put on an Advent show in December called “A Musical Christmas.” Families and visitors were entertained by dancing, singing, and acting and all had a wonderful Christmas celebration to celebrate Christ’s birth. Eighth graders began the show with a re-enactment of the nativity in which they acted and moved through the different scenes of the story to the song, “Breath of...

Miami Lakes native Matthew J. Fernandez received a Bachelor of Arts in Ministry Studies, Cum Laude, from The Baptist College of Florida in Graceville, Florida. BCF president Thomas A. Kinchen conferred degrees on 49 graduates during commencement services held on December 9.Fernandez is the son of Otto and Lourdes Fernandez of Miami Lakes. The new college graduate is a former member of Riverside Baptist Church in Miami. Following...

The Miami-Dade County Public School Board unanimously approved three items proposed by Board member Perla Tabares Hantman at a December regular monthly meeting.The items proposed opportunities to collaborate with community entities that can deliver free, high quality and engaging youth programs to students during out-of-school periods; a request for authorization of the Superintendent to encourage all of Miami-Dade’s public schools to...

Pace High School is collecting new, unwrapped toys for its annual Christmas toy drive in conjunction with NBC 6 and Telemundo 51’s Caravan of Joy.For the tenth straight year, Pace will be sending busloads of toys and choir singers to the NBC 6/Telejmundo 51 studios for Caravan of Joy when the toy drive concludes on December 16.This year, Pace dancers will be traveling as well to perform along with the Spartans in Harmony choir on live...