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...

  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...

 

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. 

  For nearly 30 years, Monsignor Edward Pace High School has been collecting food in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving for its Tons of Love food drive. Everyone in the Pace family, including students, parents, teachers, and staff, is asked to donate non-perishable and canned food items. Those donations will be delivered to the needy in South Florida. The tradition was started by Sister Carol Jean Willie in the 1980’s and is now...

 

Miami Lakes Middle School, 6425 Miami Lakeway North, is accepting applications for the school’s unique Legal Studies Magnet Program for the 2016-2017 school year. The applications for the program will be accepted until January 15, 2016. Parents can apply online or by mail. For more information visit the school website at www.mlms.dadeschools.net or visit www.yourchoicemiami.org/magnet-applications.