The Miami-Dade County Library branch in Miami Lakes is offering virtual and in-person programs.  Space is limited and you must sign up in advance to receive a link via email. Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing for Toddlers en dos idiomas   In person.  Tues., March 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29; 11:30 a.m. – noon. Bilingual stories, songs and activities. Masks are required.  Ages 18 months -...

Let's do the Romanian Dead Lift.  1. While standing, grasp a pair of kettlebells or dumbbells and hold them at your sides (beginners can use just their body weight). Keep your knees  slightly bent as shown above. 2. Contract your abdominal muscles and clench your buttocks tight while pushing the buttocks backward, what we call hinging from the hip. Your upper body and arms should stay motionless. Reach a position where...

     A free drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in Miami Lakes continues to screen people wishing to know if they have the virus.      The project, at 7601 Miami Lakes Drive in the parking lot of the former Hotel Indigo, is a partnership between The Graham Companies and Longview Technology Services of Herndon, Va.      The free tests are the PCR nasal swab version.       ...

     Call it pandemic fashion, the colorful face coverings we wear to protect ourselves, our families, friends and neighbors from the COVID-19 virus and its variants.

      What kind of mask do you wear? To show off your style, send a selfie to LindaT@MiamiLaker.com.

     Photos by Linda Trischitta, The Miami Laker.

     Students from Lawton Chiles Middle School won 1st place in the 2021 - 2022 SECME Festival and Olympiad Bridge competition held remotely by Miami-Dade County Public Schools on Jan. 29.      The winners shown above are, from left: Kennedy Granville and Agustin Betancourt, both in seventh grade and Amerie Cummings, eighth grade at the school, at 8190 NW 197th St. in Miami.      The students...