The Miami Laker newspaper will be hosting a town-wide Halloween costume contest for residents of all ages! To participate submit a photo of yourself or your child/children dressed in a halloween costume to rromero@miamilaker.com. Please include  your name and/or the child’s name and contact information. Children under 16 should have parental permission before submitting. Costumes will be judged on originality, and the top three...

  Led by moderator Stephanie Hibbard, Pace High School’s Key Club took a Saturday morning trip to the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus to clean up trash for International Coastal Cleanup Day. Together with students from FIU and other South Florida high schools, Pace Key Club students dug through mangroves to pick up trash and document species such as crabs and jellyfish. As students picked up trash out of the trees and water, other...

  Town of Miami Lakes is extending an opportunity to the community to nominate a deserving individual to be the Grand Marshal for the 35th annual Veteran’s Day Parade on Sunday, November 9. Nominations are due on by Friday, October 17, and will be reviewed by the Veterans Committee. The selection criteria includes: • Nominees must be in good standing in the community; • Nominees should be persons who have displayed...

  The Diversity Recruiter’s Network and University of Phoenix announced recently that Miami-Dade County Public Schools has been named as recipient of the Diversity Spirit Achievement Award. The Diversity Recruiter’s Network’s Diversity Spirit Achievement Award is a national award program recognizing corporations, individuals, community organizations and media for actively supporting diversity in the community and...

  Frank Verdejo-Chica refuses to be a victim of his disorder. The former Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) student, who left public school for a year to deal with his diagnosis, Tourette Syndrome (TS), blossomed into a vocalist singing side by side with Josh Groban. Verdejo-Chica spent a majority of his childhood in Miami Lakes, having moved from the Bronx, New York when he was 10. He attended Lawton Chiles Middle School and MLEC...