Students in Miami Lakes Educational Center’s Culinary Program will return to Orlando in February to compete in the Universal Orlando Handheld Competition. The team’s Top 4 finish during the Dec. 2 contest at the University of Central Florida’s College of Hospitality allowed them to advance to the finals.       “Our student chefs participate in this competition for a chance to have their...

       Patricia Gonzalez  President, Hemisphere Title Company Miami Lakes      “I would love for everyone to just breathe,” said Patricia Gonzalez. “Relax and breathe and things will happen naturally. Sometimes in life, decisions, if you try to force it, it won’t happen. Be positive all the time, and things will happen naturally.”     ...

  Darryl “Tre” Bell, III, 18, signed with the Florida State University football program in December. Bell, of Miami, attends Barbara Goleman Senior High School, Class of 2026.       The Seminoles’ head football coach Mike Norvell visited the Miami Lakes campus in October to meet with Bell, a safety who is known for his ability to play both defense and offense on the field. During a signing rally...

     The 2025 Reindeer Run 5K presented by Headquarter Toyota drew 565 runners and walkers to Business Park West on Dec. 13. Racers took off to the sounds of the Hialeah Gardens High School marching band, conducted by Joshua Guzman, a military veteran. The Veterans Committee and Chair William Perez organized the event. Veterans Committee member Judy Farcus Serra, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for...

Sourdough the Goldendoodle is a go anywhere, do anything kind of pup.     He lives with the Senra family - Tania, Luis and their sons Sebastian, 13, and Lucas, 12 - and they take him everywhere.       He’s been photographed aboard a boat in the Florida Keys; in the family’s golf cart during jaunts around Miami Lakes; he joins the school carpool rides and frolics in the backyard, where he recently...