The Helping Hands column profiles the town’s 12 volunteer committees and advisory boards that promote various causes in Miami Lakes and help town government serve the community. Their activities are funded by the town budget and by ticket sales from some events. Committee: Elderly Affairs Committee  Founded: Nov. 14, 2006 Chair: Dottie Wix  Vice Chair: Lourdes Corvo Treasurer: Rosario Navarro Secretary:...

  Miami Lakes K-8 Center Social Studies teacher Jennifer Simeon will travel to Washington D.C. this summer to study at the Supreme Court Summer Institute.       The program is open to 60 educators who teach seventh-through-12th grade social studies or law-related courses.       They will study recent Supreme Court cases in detail, according to a media release from Street Law...

    Miami Lakes residents who need school supplies may pick up a free backpack, supply kit and more during a giveaway on Sat., June 24 at Miami Lakes Town Hall.      Presented by Mayor Manny Cid and the Giving Gators charity, supplies will be distributed to the first 200 students who arrive at 6601 Main St. from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.       Sponsors are Headquarter Toyota; Mathnasium; Miami-Dade County;...

  When Milly Garcia Chica was not yet four years old, she left Cuba as part of the mass exodus known as the Mariel Boatlift.      The trip to America was a relief for her parents, sister and elderly grandmother. The family endured protests in front of their home in the Camaguey Province and accusations of being traitors before they left the island to stay with an uncle in the Westchester section of...

     The Miami Lakes branch of the county library system is a busy place: Children arrive for tutoring, elders browse for books and videos and patrons from toddlers to teens learn to sing, sew and play chess.      But the community has outgrown the branch at 6699 Windmill Gate Road that it has used since 1981.       Before anything was built on the property, The Graham Companies,...