As part of Red Ribbon Week activities, when students pledge to say no to drugs, Jesmin Tamargo’s kindergarten students at Bob Graham Education Center Primary Learning Center wore sunglasses to “Shade out Drugs.”       The children’s other activities during the week included signing a huge poster to pledge to be drug free and wearing caps and red shirts, Tamargo...

     The Miami Lakes K-8 Center’s Knight Owls competed in their first chess tournament of the school year open to students from public and private schools in Miami-Dade County, put on by the 64 Squares Foundation at the Divine Savior Academy in Doral on Oct. 16. The K-5 division, with Aidan Alvarez, Zoe Trinidad and Christopher Capute, won seven games, putting them in second place, the school said. Aidan Schwinghammer and...

     Give Miami Day is on Thursday, Nov. 18, and there are more than 900 non-profit organizations in the county and 26 groups with ties to Miami Lakes, all hoping for donations to continue their good works.      Among them:  --Main Street Players on Main Street has a New Play competition, summer camp for kids and presents new dramatic plays in English and Spanish. --The Education Fund, which gives...

A proposal by Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid to review Town Manager Edward Pidermann’s performance 15 months before his contract was set to expire was rejected by the town council.      Prior to a discussion of Cid’s new business item during the Oct. 12 council meeting, several residents expressed support for Pidermann.      They also criticized an aspect of Cid’s proposal which would...

     Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid delivered his 2021 State of the Town address before a crowd inside the council chambers at Town Hall.      “The past 18 months have proven extraordinarily difficult,” Cid said on Oct. 21, in reference to the COVID-19 virus that has killed more than 6,472 people in Miami-Dade County, according to USAFacts.org.  “… We honor those we have lost...