Grace Urbina performed a random act of kindness with 100 post-it notes and marker. She wrote messages like “you’re better than a triple scoop ice cream with sprinkles,” “your hair looks great” and “you’re special just the way you are” on the notes and posted them all around her school. Her reasoning? To brighten her classmates’ day. “Insecurity starts in middle...

  Miami Lakes Veterans Committee is inviting residents to join in the annual Tree Planting Ceremony taking place at 6 p.m. on Arbor Day, Friday, April 29, at Picnic Park West, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue. The annual celebration of Miami Lakes’ trees is free and open to the public. Activities are suitable for all ages including the tree planting, information and educational materials for residents, and tree care demonstrations by the...

  Cristina Pla-Guzman, the lead teacher for Pace High School’s Academy for Visual & Performing Arts Theatre Program, has been named a winner of the 2016 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards. Pla-Guzman is one of only 14 teachers across the United States chosen to receive the award, which entails a $10,000 grant for each teacher. Awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington...

  Pace High School’s Academy of Visual & Performing Arts - Theatre Program continued nine straight years of success at the 2016 Florida State Thespian Festival in Orlando from March 16 to March 19 with the program’s first ever Critics Choice (Best in State) award. Senior Leslie Castiblano made school history with her Critics Choice award in Costume Design for her designs for the play The Elephant Man. Castiblanco became...

 

Mater Academy senior Jairo Gomez with his art work exhibited at the "Dreams and Illumination" exhibition at Miami International Airport before boarding his flight to Spain for spring break. Other Mater senior students in the exhibition include Melissa Fernandez and Michael Erazo.