Postcards

Featured By Linda Trischitta, Editor Thursday, September 4, 2025

   The Cabrera sisters took another tour around Europe last summer, during a 29-day, 2,500 mile road trip with their parents Annette and Jesus Cabrera of Miami Lakes.     It was the fourth vacation in France for Lauren...
The St. Thomas University’s women's cross country team capped off a memorable 2017 season, finishing runner-up at the Sun Conference Championships at Ave Maria University. The Bobcats placed five runners in the top 10 to lead STU to the runner up finish. Sarah Bomkamo (19:13.0), a First-Team All-Conference performer and a two-time Sun Conference Player of the Week selection, was the highest placing Bobcat with a fifth place finish....
The Miami Dade College Lady Sharks Volleyball team defeated the College of Southern Idaho to win back-to-back NJCAA Volleyball National Championships. The Lady Sharks shut out CSI 3-0 (25-13, 25-21, and 25-18). The Lady Sharks won states and nationals two years in a row (2016 and 2017), and their tenth national title. Players Camila Hernandez, Sun Wenting, and Massiel Matos were named to the 2017 NJCAA Volleyball National All-Tournament team....

Pace students collect over a ton and a half of food during annual food drive

Education By Raquel Edmundson, Special to The Miami Laker Saturday, December 2, 2017

The Pace High School community continued its annual tradition of collecting food for its annual Tons of Love food drive. Beginning in October, Pace students, parents, teachers, staff, alumni, and friends began to gather non-perishable and canned food items to benefit the needy in South Florida. Similar to past years, the collected tally equalled over a ton-and-a-half of food.  On November 17, the Pace student body celebrated the...
  Despite the Panther’s 3-1 lost to Charlotte in the semifinals in the 2017 Conference USA tournament, Florida International University men’s soccer player Paul Marie and Marvin Hezel were named to the All-Tournament team. Marie scored the lone goal for FIU in the 12th minute against Charlotte, when he took a soft touch from junior Santiago Pantino, and beat goalkeeper Elliot Panic to make the score 1-0. It was his seventh...
Mater Academy’s STEM students recently took home first place in the second annual Miami Heat STEM Challenge Day, which took place at the American Airlines Arena. The students’ winning project was building a robot which can dribble a basketball the most times in one minute. The Lionbots rose to the challenge and out dueled a host of middle schools from Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
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