Registration for Miami Lakes Optimist Fall baseball season is scheduled for 9 a.m. on consecutive Saturdays, August 9, 16, and 23, at Miami Lakes Optimist Park. Kids can also registrater online at www. miamilakesoptimist.org.  Players must bring copies of their birth certificates and be fitted for their uniforms. Before the start of the regular season in September, players will tryout for teams and subsequently be drafted. For...

  Streetside Manifesto, the youth band of New Testament Baptist Church in northwest Miami-Dade, and known in the local community as a cover worship band, are led by worship directors Stefanie Metellus and Jessica Barrera (authors of the songs “Til You” and “Holy You Are”). The band is comprised of a variety of musicians and vocalists that lead worship in two different services held each week at New Testament...

  Miami Lakes based non-profit Respect Life Ministry Pregnancy Help Center, recently celebrated its first business anniversary and will soon host its second annual luncheon fundraiser on Saturday, September 27. The fundraiser is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. and will be held in the Howard Johnson Plaza Miami Airport at 7707 N.W. 103 Street in Hialeah Gardens. All proceeds from the event benefit North Dade Pregnancy Center. A door prize for a...

  Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee, Youth Activities Task Force, and Cultural Affairs Committee recently hosted the Art Collaborative at Town Hall. More than 40 creative entries made the competition steep. First, second and third place winners were awarded in five categories. The winners, beginning with first place from left to right, included: • Professional artists – Barbara Hesse Baron, Herminia C. Ibarra, and Kenia...

The Main Street Players present the production Becky’s New Car by Steven Dietz. The show, which opens Friday, July 25 and runs through August 17, features Becky Foster, a middle-aged woman who seems to be content with her stable, albeit boring, life.  She has been married to Joe, a roofer, for 28 years and they appear to have a rock solid marriage. They have a son 26-year-old son still living at home while he works toward a...