Orlando Hernandez is a four-time World Series champion, and a past MVP of the American League Championship Series. And he’s still winning titles.     “El Duque,” as he was known during his days as a star pitcher for the New York Yankees, is now the club champion at Miami Lakes Golf Club. He shot rounds of 75 and 81 to finish at 12-over par 156 and win the championship flight by four...

     Students from American Senior High School won three categories at The Education Fund’s annual Taste of Education contest.       On Feb. 28 at the Hialeah Park clubhouse, aspiring chefs from 23 culinary programs in Miami-Dade County public schools competed for cash prizes.      Shown in the first photo is Mea Williams, 15, of Miami Gardens, a member of American...

    In the Town of Miami Lakes, Reneé Wilson is the grants and governmental affairs manager who acquires funding for important projects in town.  Some improvements are invisible, such as drainage systems buried underground to ease flooding (a $775,248 FEMA grant for the West Lakes neighborhood).       Others are enjoyed by Freebee riders (FDOT grants of $203,500 for Tesla cars and $515,190 to expand...

    The First Tee Miami youth golf program has found a new home at Miami Lakes Golf Club.      “The Graham family is excited to welcome First Tee,” said Stuart Wyllie, president and chief executive officer of The Graham Companies. “We have a longstanding relationship with the DeLucca family, going back to the opening of the golf course in 1962.”      First Tee lost its...

Grace De La Torre, whose flower business Garden in a Pot was on Main Street in Miami Lakes for more than a decade, died on March 15. The cause was metastatic lung cancer, her daughter Jessica De La Torre said. Grace De La Torre was 62. Born in Cuba, she lived in Miami Lakes for 32 years before moving to Pembroke Pines. “They told us she was treatable but not curable,” De La Torre, 31, of Miami Shores said of the diagnosis...