This past holiday season, Express Employment Professionals offices across the United States and Canada joined together to “Pay It Forward” by hosting hiring drives and events in an effort to put job seekers to work. The Miami Lakes Express office secured work for 32 people during the holidays. The goal of the drive was to help give encouragement and purpose to as many job seekers as possible by providing them an...

  Miami Lakes Community and Leisure Services Department has launched a new online parks reservation system: www.miamilakes-fl.gov/parkres. The system will enable town residents to view park calendars, reserve picnic shelters, indoor facilities, and athletic fields, and even register for programs from any device with internet capabilities. The full implementation will be completed in phases. Currently, users are able to create accounts...

    At their January membership meeting, members of the Zonta Club of Miami Lakes proudly joined Zonta International and Zonta Clubs all over the world in celebrating one of its most famous members – Amelia Earhart.This year, the Miami Lakes Zontians celebrated the world famed aviator and first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean by performing a skit that reenacted key areas of her life and accomplishments.Earhart was an...

  First Origin Mortgage Lenders, located at 7850 N.W. 146 Street, Suite 506, in Miami Lakes Business Park West, recently acquired Miami Lakes based ASJ Financial Group and will maintain an office in the Keen Battle Mead building. Ray Palacios, formerly of ASJ Financial Group will head the new company as president and CEO. He has been serving the Miami Lakes area since 2006 with 20 years of banking and mortgage experience. The First...

  The Miami-Dade division of Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, announced that the 14th annual Miami Walk Now for Autism Speaks fundraising and awareness event will take place on April 6 at JC Bermudez Park in Doral.  All event proceeds will support Autism Speaks’ work, both locally and nationally, to increase awareness about the growing autism health crisis, fund innovative...