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Monroe County School children shine when Tebow and Wuerffel speak at Island Christian School

You'd be wrong to think Tim Tebow was the star Sunday at Island Christian School where hundreds of Monroe County schoolchildren turned out. Likewise, you'd be wrong to think Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel or chart-topping recording artists Britt Nicole and for KING & COUNTRY were the stars... Nope, it was those children, they were [...]

Discover the fascinating era of World’s Fairs

A student-curated exhibit entitled Entrances and Exits: Resonating Impressions of World’s Fairs will open on April 11, 2013 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at New World School of the Arts Gallery. Entrances and Exits features items from the private collection of Mitchell Wolfson Jr., including a vast array of objects, ephemera and souvenirs from various [...]

Realtor Associate Amy Marcus Hollub Joins Avatar Real Estate Services

Avatar Real Estate Services is pleased to announce that Realtor Associate Amy Marcus Hollub has joined their South Miami office. Amy’s path to real estate at Avatar and Vice president of Real Estate Sales for Hollub Homes has taken her through two exciting professions: law and real estate. Prior to embarking on her real estate [...]

Miami Dance Festival 10 Anniversary Season

The Miami Dance Festival, Miami Momentum Dance Company’s largest endeavor of the year, will be celebrating 10 Seasons of Dance, April 5-May 15, featuring fresh performances from festival favorites, Momentum Dance Company, Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, guest companies, Luminario Ballet Los Angeles and Afro ConTiempo Dance Theater, with special guest artist Liliana Cattaneo, Film Night, [...]

WellCare Donation to Benefit Children with Complex Medical Needs

The WellCare Community Foundation made a $5,000 donation to the South Florida Progress Foundation (the fundraising arm for PATCHES PPEC). PATCHES is a treatment center in Southeast Florida that provides help to families who are trying to continue working while caring for fragile children. It is the only provider of prescribed pediatric extended nursing care [...]

Luxurious Doggie Hotel and Indoor Park Opens in Wynwood

South Florida’s most luxurious and upscale facility for canines, D.O.G Daycare, Obedience & Grooming has officially opened its doors. The state-of-the-art facility provides affordable luxury for dogs. Located in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, D.O.G offers a wide array of services including dog boarding, daycare, grooming, among many others. “There is nothing like D.O.G in South Florida,” [...]

Childcare Agency Opens in Miami

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Childcare Agency Opens in South Florida TLC For Kids has opened a new location in Miami. TLC For Kids, Inc., St. Louis’ premiere childcare agency, has been helping families with babysitters and nannies for twenty-eight years. Now, owner Sharon Graff-Radell and her husband Gregg Radell, Pinecrest residents, have brought TLC to Miami. TLC For Kids [...]

Bilzin Sumberg Receives Benchmark Litigation's National Award, "Antitrust Firm of the Year - South"

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP is pleased to announce that it was named Benchmark Litigation's 2013 "Antitrust Firm of the Year – South" in recognition of the firm's work on some of the most complex, high-stakes antitrust cases in the United States. Bilzin Sumberg was also a finalist for Benchmark Litigation's "Regional Impact [...]

Moms Take The Hill

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Over 200 moms from more than 30 states will travel to Washington, DC, on Wed., March 13, to participate in “Moms Take the Hill”™, a grassroots event organized by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Robin Leader-Landau from Miami will join other moms from the area to demand action on common-sense gun laws. [...]

Miami Foundation names Michael A. Marquez new board chair, appoints two trustees

  The Miami Foundation named Michael A. Marquez, previously the development committee chair, as the new chair of their board of trustees. The Foundation also announced two new appointees to its board: real estate investor Barron Channer and retired orthodontist Dr. Michael N. Rosenberg. “The board’s two new members are outstanding community leaders who know [...]

Statement by Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell

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Vice Chair Lynda Bell provided the following statement to the The Miami Herald regarding the grave concerns over Frank Nero’s continued stewardship of the Beacon Council. Although the complete statement was not included in the Herald’s article, Mrs. Bell felt it appropriate to release her full observations at this time: "The ongoing discussion about the [...]

MCH’s Michael Fux Family Center Offers Interactive Play Area for Children

FuXplore room at Miami Children's Hospital

The Michael Fux Family Center (MFFC) is proud to announce the opening of a new addition, The FuXplore Room, which is designed for interactive play for all children, especially those with special needs. Some of the high-tech features include interactive displays that are gesture and voice controlled and multiple screens to play images of all [...]

New Hangar at Opa-Locka Airport, Florida Expected To Help Grow the Local Economy

Lemartec Engineering and Construction Corporation has completed the design and kicked off construction of Miami Executive Aviation's (MEA) new state-of-the-art business aviation hangar facility at Opa-Locka Airport located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. "This new facility is essential to the continued economic development of Miami-Dade County", said Lemartec president Manny Garcia-Tunon, "and is expected to have [...]

An Afternoon Delight

FIU’s Prestige Cultural Series presents “An Afternoon Delight,” a Gourmet Food and Wine Pairing Luncheon accompanied by the FIU School of Music String Quartet. Do not miss the last event in the series! Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC) and the School of Music present the final event in their annual Prestige Cultural Series. [...]