The Council of Garden Club Presidents of Dade County, Inc. presented two awards to the Miami Lakes Garden Club on May 15.      The club received an award for the best program during a meeting when participants learned to make wreaths from succulent plants.      It was also recognized for its Arbor Day planting of a live oak tree in memory of a past Miami Lakes Garden Club president, the late Dorothy...

The Lower East Side neighborhood of Miami Lakes has the Miami Lakes Research & Industrial Park within it.      Developed by The Graham Companies in the 1970s, a cluster of warehouses hold a variety of manufacturing business on the west side of Northwest 60th Avenue, at the north end.      Belzona distributes repair compounds and industrial coatings for the oil and gas; steel; marine and other...

 Not so long ago, Arrison Perez was a front desk attendant at what then was called Shula’s Athletic Club in Miami Lakes.           He’s now a starting pitcher in professional baseball.  The 24-year-old Perez made his first pro start on May 31 for the Washington Wild Things. He pitched five shutout innings, but his team wound up falling 6-4 to the Florence Y’alls. Perez, a...

Miami Lakes AutoMall donated $1,000 on June 3 to the Optimist Park baseball program and also held a test drive to raise an additional $500.

Shown from left: Jim Hamilton, treasurer for The Optimist Club; Danny de Varona, president of the baseball program; Lazaro Veliz, general manager of Miami Lakes Chevrolet and Fred Senra, partner at Miami Lakes AutoMall. Photo: Fred Senra.

  The town council surprised Miami Lakes AutoMall Partner Fred Senra on June 6, when they voted to co-designate Northwest 59th Avenue “Fred Senra Way.”        The avenue borders his business.       Friends including  Miami-Dade County Commissioner Senator Rene Garcia praised Senra for his philanthropy and for building a civic-minded family.     It was Senra’s...