Language Arts Teacher Virnalis Arvelo treated eighth grade students from Miami Lakes K-8 Center to dinner at Shula’s Steak 2 on Aug. 6 to celebrate their results on the Florida Standards Assessments. Some students received a perfect 10 score in writing, some earned a 5 in the English Language Arts exam, and others scored both of those grades, Arvelo said. The group had the best FSA scores out of all eighth graders in the school,...

Lakes Elite, young players chosen from the Miami Lakes United Soccer Club, were runners-up in the 2021 3V3 Challenge Tour, Challenge Sports National Championship held in Kissimmee from July 29 – Aug. 1. The boys, ages 6 and 7, qualified to play in the tournament’s finals match but lost 6-4 to a team from Philadelphia, said Coach Eddy Barrios, 34, of Miami Lakes. Barrios calls his team “the comeback kids” because they...

Phillip Rarick has practiced law for 43 years, and more than half of that time at his Rarick & Beskin law firm in Miami Lakes. The firm, at 6500 Cowpen Rd., serves clients with various needs, including probate, guardianship and tax law. Rarick specializes in estate planning and asset protection. “Our clients are all ages,” Rarick said. “From young en- trepreneurs to elder business owners and families, we see them...

Abdominal leg slide with mini band This calisthenic will work your core (diaphragm, multifidus, pelvic floor, internal oblique and transverse abdominus muscles); rectus abdominal, external oblique, iliacus and psoas muscles (around the hips and lower spine) and upper body postural muscles. 1. Lie on your back on the floor, with a mini band of adequate tension placed around the instep of both feet. Lift both legs off the floor to form...

Say hello to Lily! She is a 5-year-old Chihuahua who lives in the Royal Oaks community in Miami Lakes with Dr. Carlos Mendigutia, his wife, Selene De Feria and De Feria’s mother, Pally Martinez. “She is spoiled,” De Feria said. “She is our daughter, literally. She’s so sweet, so tender, so beautiful.” De Feria said Lily is “a real Chihuahua, she barks a lot.” She likes to visit her other...