The Miami Lakes Fencing Club features competitors who practice three days a week at Miami Lakes Methodist Church, 14800 Ludlam Road.The group recently competed in the Sunshine State Games in West Palm Beach, where head coach and trainer Javier Andino and assistant coach Gary Cardenas led their team to a good rating for overall performance during the tournament.“Our youngest club member is 9 years old and our most senior is over...

  Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee is offering free field trips to Miami Marlins games once a month on Thursdays for residents 55 years and above. The bus departs from Town Hall, 6601 Main Street and guests should arrive two hours before game time. ID is required to show proof of age. Space is limited. Reserve seating on the bus one week in advance of each of the field trip dates by contacting Special Events and Committees...

    The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding registration for the 2015 Fall baseball and softball season from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., on consecutive Saturdays, August 8, 15 and 22, at Miami Lakes Middle School, 6425 Miami Lakeway North. The Optimist Club welcomes returning and new players to play in an exciting season. New players must bring a copy of their birth certificates to the registration, which costs $145 per person....

  Even coming off of their highly successful 2014-2015 season where they went all the way to the regional finals, Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s boys basketball team has stayed busy in the summer with trips to universities across the Southeast and the basketball Spartan Boot Camp in June. All of this summer activity is common for the Spartans, according to their head coach Anthony Serro. He explained that the camps and...

    Darnell Flucker, a student at Barbara Goleman Senior High School, was named recipient of the Coach Rick Quintanilla Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to football players who not only play well on the field, but also show honor, courage and commitment. In the face of adversity, Flucker pressed on and continued attending practices all the while coping with his mother’s illness, a blood clot in her lung. “We are...