The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding registration for its Summer basketball league on consecutive Saturdays, April 16, 23 and 30, at Miami Lakes Optimist Park. The registrations starts at 9:30 a.m. and ends at noon. Participants for girls, ages 7 to 12 and boys, ages 7-18,  must bring a copy  of their birth certificates and get fitted for their uniforms. Registration cost is $150. The regular season starts at 6...

  Pace High School will hold its 2016 Spartan Golf Classic on April 22 at the Country Club of Miami. Attendees will enjoy a day of golf, food, drinks, prizes, a silent auction and more. Proceeds from the event will go towards the Spartans-4-Spartans program aiding students with special financial hardships. The day starts at 10:30 a.m. with registration, followed b a lunch catered by Outback Steakhouse. The day continues with the Golf...

  Journalism students at Miami Lakes Educational Center recently won a Skype call with Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer-prize winning author and opinion columnist for the New York Times, through his email newsletter contest. Kristof was raised in Yamhill, Oregon; a place that he describes as “in the middle of nowhere.” Through this middle of nowhere, however, he found his calling: Journalism. “My journalism career began by...

  In a year highlighted by awards and accolades for its students and teacher, Pace High School’s Drama Club and Academy for Visual & Performing Arts Theatre Program theatre looks to end on a high note with its 2016 spring musical production of Chicago with a string of performances for middle school students and the open public on April 20, 21, and 22.  Over 500 middle school students from Our Lady of the Lakes, Immaculate...

  The Northpointe YMCA located at 7351 N.W. 186 Street, is hosting the annual Healthy Kids Day on April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event, a YMCA national initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of families across the country, includes free interactive activities, sports clinics, health screenings, family fitness fun, nutrition education, water safety and the opportunity to sign up for summer camps and programs. The first HKD...