Miami Lake officials took part in the closing ceremonies for the Fall 2014 season of the Miami Lakes United Soccer Club which had 300 kids, ages 4-14, playing on 30 teams at Royal Oaks Park. Pictured (from left) Councilmember Tim Daubert, Club board member Tony Rodriguez, Mayor Wayne Slaton, Club president Alvin Murray, Club boys commissioner Joel Castellanos, Club secretary Diana Bernal, Club treasurer Gladys De La Cruz,...

  The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding registration for its Spring baseball and softball season during the first three Saturdays in January. Boys and girls can sign up on January 3, 10 and 17, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of Miami Lakes Middle School, 6425 Miami Lakeway North, which is adjacent to Miami Lakes Optimist Park. Participants must bring copies of their birth certificates during the registration period, and be...

  The Town of Miami Lakes announced the athletic turf fields at Miami Lakes Optimist Park and Royal Oaks Park will be closed until early January for the annual recreation maintenance. The maintenance work will conclude on January 5 but some areas in the parks will remain open during the recreation repairs. At Miami Lakes Optimist Park, 6411 N.W. 162 Street, the area west of the basketball court as well as the perimeter area for...

  It was February 2013 when 10 young girls, mostly 8 to 9 years old, took the field at Miami Lakes Optimist Park to play softball.  The current softball program was only handling a 14 and younger program because they were the only girls that signed up. The younger girls (under 12) were advised to join baseball as an alternative. “I had signed up my daughter to play softball in hopes of getting a girls team that she would...

  Chris Nurse knows first hand the feeling of melancholia following the death of a loved one. The Fort Lauderdale Strikers soccer star lost his mother to breast cancer and her death sent him into a tailspin of despair. “It was so hard,” he said. But his mother’s death was the impetus for him to reach his dream of becoming a professional soccer player and the face of his organization to raise awareness of a disease that...