Three Miami Lakes Educational Center journalism students were selected to participate in the 2015 Peace Sullivan/ James Ansin High School Journalism and New Media workshop at the University of Miami in July. The program accepted applications from across South Florida and of the hundreds of applicants, only 20 were selected. The highly selective program is fully-funded by generous donors and the University of Miami (UM) to be offered...

  Intensity Dancers’ Studio, located at 15507 Bull Run Road in Miami Lakes, participated in Kids Artistic Revue (KAR) in Panama City in late June as the final competition for the season. The group competed against studios from around the nation and earned top results in several categories. Chloe Pineiro won the title of “Miss Dance America” and Katie Camero and Kandis Terry were first and second runners-up,...

  Hoping to improve the basketball program for boys and girls players, the Miami Lakes Optimist Club has found a man who coached in the NBA, college and in high school, willing to lend helping hand. Oronde Taliaferro, who coached NBA Superstar Blake Griffin when he was an assistant at Oklahoma, has volunteered his time to teach Optimist Club coaches and players the basic fundamentals of the game, skills development and overall knowledge...

  It seems like yesterday, but 43 years have come and gone and it still amazes me as a teacher how the Montessori Silence Game impacts the spirit of a child. How they begin to focus on the hidden forces of the spirit within them, and how it helps children develop a higher level of self-control, calmness, and adds to the normalization within a Montessori classroom. Maria Montessori wrote in her book The Secret of Childhood, “One...

  New Testament Baptist Church (NTBC), located at 6601 N.W. 167 Street, has been in the area of Miami Lakes for over 61 years proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The church is celebrating the first annual “Concert of Prayer” starting at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 22, at Wooten Field, the football field at NTBC. The Concert of Prayer is meant to unite church, school and community families in prayer. The event’s...