Miami Lakes recently designated N.W. 164 Street as Breanna Vergara Way to honor the 11-year-old Town resident and avid dancer who fell unexpectedly to sudden cardiac arrest during a dance class on December 9, 2014.The family later learned that Vergara passed from Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, a condition where an extra electrical connection exists between the upper and lower chambers of the heart, which can be easily detected with an...

Palm Springs Elementary student Ariana Amador won the 8th annual Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) District 13 “Every Drop Counts” poster contest last month, as she was among the 1,671 students from 96 elementary schools who participated in the contest.The contest is part of WASD’s Water-Use Efficiency Plan’s commitment to educate youth on the importance of water conservation and protecting this valuable...

Miami Lakes resident Kathryn Sotolongo is embarking on a year-long endeavor with the organization Mercy Ships, which travels along the coast of Africa to provide free medical aid. Sotolongo will attend training in Texas for a month before moving on to an HIV camp in Africa for two weeks and finally board the ship while it’s docked in Benin, Africa for 10 months. Sotolongo, a graduate of the University of Miami for Electronic Media...

The students at Miami Lakes K-8 Center, pictured with principal Carlos Salcedo (center) PTSA president Erika Nuñez (right) and Suzanne Choopani (left), participated in the Little Snowy Community School Project which raised funds for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. The school made a check to St. Jude’s for $500 from sales made off the book. Over 250 books were sold in two weeks. Miami Lakes K-8 teacher Suzanne Choopani...

Perla Tabares Hantman, chairman of the Miami-Dade County School Board, joins students at M.A. Milam K-8 Center who participated in the celebration of the 20th of May, Cuban Independent Day. On that date, Cuba ceased being a colony of Spain and joined the community of free democratic republics in the Western Hemisphere. Hantman has sponsored a celebration of the historic day for the past 13 years at Milam K-8, currently under the leadership of...