Miami Lakes Councilmember Nelson Rodriguez recently completed the FBI Citizens Academy program and demonstrated a commitment to the FBI mission.Rodriguez, a Coral Gables firefighter, was honored for his achievement at the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation Division on June 1.“I’m truly thankful to the men and women of the FBI Miami Division,” Rodriguez said. “A great experience, gained some...

Haydee Sera, a past president of the Miami Lakes Bar Association, was recently recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 attorney by the Hispanic National Bar Association.Sera, an associate at the law firm of Weiss, Serota, and Bierman, was honored during the annual Corporate Counsel Conference at the InterContinental Miami.The three-day program included hundreds of attorneys, judges and law students and featured Continuing Legal Education panels on...

Behind glass at the newly opened Frosty’s Nitrogen Yogurt and Ice Cream Lab are two mannequins clad in white lab coats with clipboards in hand, positioned facing the 8,000 pound liquid nitrogen steel tank that chills yogurt and milk down to an icy 321 degrees to create nitrogen ice cream. The giant tank was lowered gingerly into the shop through a hole cut in the ceiling, but it seems that was the most difficult part of getting...

A Miami-Dade County resolution will give a helping hand to a critically injured police officer who’s still recovering from his injuries after a motorcycle accident last month. Commissioner Barbara Jordan’s resolution, unanimously approved by colleagues, allows county employees to donate accrued annual and holiday leave time, up to a cap of $50,000, to Miami-Dade Police Major Rick Carter, who doctors had to amputate one of his...

When Miami Lakes resident Ellica Quintero, age 11, served as Mayor for the Day, she was given an opportunity to propose a new Town event.The Youth Activities Task Force adopted her proposal and the Town’s first official Ice Cream Social event to celebrate National Ice Cream Month will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 15, at Miami Lakes Picnic Park West, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue.Quintero, a straight A student at Our Lady of...