Miami Lakers are enjoying a new restaurant at Park Centre Shops: The Butcher’s Cuisine, which opened in September and offers a meat-based menu with a Peruvian twist.  “I like barbecues, I like a good piece of meat,” Owner Nelson Pino said.  He said he searches far to find quality meat. The Butcher’s Cuisine is Pino’s third steakhouse. With exposed brick lining the back wall, a long red...

Before the Festival of Lights and during the annual event presented by The Graham Companies and Main Street Merchants, the businesses partnered with the Giving Gators charity and the Neighbors 4 Neighbors organizations to collect toys for kids who may not have something to enjoy this Christmas.   Many festivalgoers donated toys, as did employees of The Graham Companies. Organizers picked up the gifts from the lobby of The...

First Origin Mortgage Lenders celebrated the opening of their new office at 14100 Palmetto Frontage Road on Oct. 25 with a ribbon cutting. The two-decades old business is growing and needed a larger space. President and Chief Executive Officer Ray Palacios and Vice President of Operations Yaimet Palacios, who are married, were joined by employees, friends and relatives.       “We could not have gotten to where we...

Barbara Goleman Senior High School students watch a police dog search for contraband in suitcases, among the 1,000 attendees at a Law Magnet Fair on Nov. 6.  Personnel from different agencies -- firefighters, police motorcycle and helicopter units and drug enforcement forensic investigators among them -- performed demonstrations and introduced students to different careers they could pursue.  Photo: Ana Soto-Gonzalez, social...

Thanksgiving is a special time of year for one Miami Lakes family, and not just because it’s a national holiday. It’s also the time, 15 years ago, that Juan Chaparro found an injured stray kitten in the Graham Dairy Lake neighborhood. Though she was skittish, Chaparro said he was able to catch the mewing black kitty.  He and his wife Carol Ann Steele got the feline’s ailments fixed at the vet and brought her home...