Pace High Mission Club volunteers with Feeding South Florida Food Bank

Education By Rene D. Basulto, Special to The Miami Laker Tuesday, December 1, 2015

  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...

Free flu mist for school kids

Education Tuesday, December 1, 2015

  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. 
  Hundreds of South Florida teens, representing seven local Key Clubs sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Greater Miami Lakes, gathered at Miami Lakes Town Hall on Saturday, November 7, in the culmination of a weeks-long food drive to feed the homeless.   The teens – from Key Clubs at Miami Lakes Educational Center, Barbara Goleman High, Hialeah Miami Lakes High, American High, Mater Lakes Academy, Jose Marti Mast Academy, and...

Dec. 11 deadline for Main St. banner art entries

Education Thursday, November 19, 2015

  The Graham Companies in partnership with the Main Street Merchants is inviting Miami Lakes children, as well as students from area schools, to participate in the 3rd Annual Main Street Banner art contest where up to 26 winners’ artwork will be showcased along Main Street’s light pole banners. This year’s theme is “I Can Make A Difference.” Artwork should interpret how one person can make a difference...

MLK-8 Center collects more than 300 costumes

Education Thursday, November 19, 2015

 

Miami Lakes K-8 Center’s students, faculty and staff collected and delivered over 300 costumes that were used by the children at the various Miami-Dade County community center branches. The students smiled while wearing their costumes on the Friday before Halloween delighting in doing something good for others. 
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