In the heart of Coconut Grove, on Main Highway just west of the downtown hustle and bustle, is a quiet unobtrusive building painted in bright reds and greens — Zen Village. To local area devotees, the Tibetan Buddhist Temple Center is a sacred space for community gatherings and meditation. Founder and director of the not-for-profit [...]
When recently elected Vice Mayor Josh Liebman arrived at his home on the Friday before his first city commission meeting, he had a special delivery from city hall awaiting him. The multi-inch thick binder he assumed was the city charter and perhaps development codes library turned out to be the back-up packet agenda for the [...]
Pinecrest Fitness recently hosted a spinning class fundraiser for Olympic-bound triathlete and Little Havana resident Manuel Huerta. Local athletes and friends hope to raise enough money to help Huerta take his family with him to London in August so they can watch him compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games Triathlon at Hyde Park. “It [...]
Maybe it was the salesman who was too busy asking Judy Kilburn out on a date rather than focusing on selling her a car that convinced her to go into business for herself as an auto broker. Her boyfriend (now husband) was in the business at the time. What started out as an entrepreneurial endeavor [...]
It was Ronald Shelley’s father who declared that his son grew up in the middle of a shooting match. In 1940, life on a farm in the countryside outside Rugby, England did not protect the Shelley family from World War II’s Battle of Britain. They just barely managed to escape their destroyed home. Six year [...]
On any given summer afternoon at the Gibson Bethel Community Center, an energized game of kick- ball, basketball or tag can be observed along with the shouting and laughter from the summer camp kids out on the field playing together. Over 190 students are registered for this year’s program which not only provides half a [...]
When South Miami Senior High School (SMSHS) Principal Gilberto Bonce graduated from Troy State University in Alabama with a physical science degree, he figured he would take a leisurely year off to perhaps prepare for vet school. But his dad had other ideas, prodding him to get started earning a living. And so began, quite [...]
Pinecrest police officers Robert Noyer and Phil Martin brought home 10 gold medals and finished in third place overall in the 2012 Florida Police and Fire Games swimming competition held recently in upstate Sebastian. Although Officer Martin broke his pinky toe right after the warm-up swim and Officer Noyer had only just begun swimming competitively [...]
When Dr. Barry Katzen’s mother had a stroke 20 years ago, the use of blot clot dissolving drugs for the brain was in its infancy. Already a practicing physician at the time, he and his colleagues attempted an aggressive treatment to save her life but did not pre- vail. It was at that point that [...]
While Chamber South members and guests enjoyed chicken marsala at Carrabba’s Italian Grill during their recent monthly networking luncheon, guest speaker and County Commissioner, Joe Martinez, spoke to the attentive audience about his partnership with developer Donald Trump to build an 800 acre film studio on the former Homestead Air Force Base site. “Six months [...]
In the elegant black leather and silver chrome lounge of Shula’s 347 Grill, Red Sunset Merchant Association (RSMA) members gathered together recently to sample horsd’oeuvres and enjoy a glass of wine while catching up with old friends and business acquaintances. It was another big turn-out for the monthly “Merchant Night” gatherings where members and guests [...]
Hundreds of students gathered together on a recent Wednesday morning outside Southwood Middle School in Palmetto Bay to honor the memory of Kaely Camacho. Hundreds of sixth, seventh and eighth graders took turns swinging their hands together and marching around the school block in a sea of blue T-shirts (Kaely’s favorite color) during a memorial [...]
The Johnson_Ward Auditorium at South Miami Middle Community School (SMMCS) was packed with eager students awaiting the parting of the red velvet curtains on stage. The din of their conversation carried across the room as they reacted to a power point presentation of student’s art work selections. Happy puppy dogs, gardens with flowers in full [...]
The only thing soccer coach presidents from city sponsored teams South Miami United and South MiamiGrey Ghosts agree upon, is the unpleasant effect the rivalry between the two competing bidders has had on the children that play the game. City Hall was packed with soccer moms, dads and kids decked out in uniforms, holding signs, [...]
