Town Foundation awards $18,605 in grants for education, community

Featured By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Wednesday, November 13, 2024

    The Miami Lakes Town Foundation has awarded $18,605 in 12 grants to local schools and a non-profit to support education and foster community.       The money comes from the annual Miami Lakes Food & Wine...
  Miami Lakes area churches have scheduled a variety of special service events for Easter. Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church, located at 6600 Miami Lakeway North, is celebrating Easter and Holy Week.  On Thursday, April 2, a bilingual mass of the Last Supper is scheduled at 8 p.m. Good Friday, April 3, will have Traditional Stations of the Cross in English at 10 a.m. and again at 11 a.m. in Spanish. A Devotional Service to the...
    Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has been honored by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation having been chosen as a recipient of the 2015 Best Communities for Music Education Designation.  This designation is given to school districts in the nation that have excelled in providing school-based music education programs to young people in the community. The NAMM Foundation’s mission is...

In Memoriam: Charles Sonny Metzcus

Religious Tuesday, March 31, 2015

  Charles Sonny Metzcus, a longtime Miami Lakes resident who was a teacher and athletic trainer at Hialeah Miami Lakes High School for many years, died on March 14 following an illness. He was 82. Metzcus’ daughter, Monique Quenneville, said her father knew he was ill before he died. Metzcus and his wife of 47 years, Mary Rose, have been Miami Lakes residents since 1974. As a teacher and athletic trainer, his hard work and...

 

All graduating high school seniors, class of 2015, who attended Miami Lakes K-8 Center are invited to an alumni reunion on Thursday, April 30 from 2:45 to 5:30 in Miami Lakes K-8 Center’s cafeteria. There will be food, refreshments and entertainment in celebration of the alumni. To RSVP email Sharon Zajac at sharon.zajac@hotmail.com or Bianca Larsh at bmlarsh@bellsouth.net by April 3. 

Seed, time and harvest at Montessori Children's House of Miami Lakes

Religious By Paul Thibodeau, Special to The Miami Laker Tuesday, March 31, 2015

  Can prosperity be obtained through knowledge? The Bible says in Isaiah 33:6 “And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation, the fear of the Lord is his treasure.” The philosophies of Maria Montessori and Jean Piaget regarding education are similar in that they both value motor and verbal skills, and the children manipulate a variety of hands-on lessons and activities with the united...
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