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Cutler Bay SERVING SOUTH DADE
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
Work on town’s newest park to begin in October
BY GARY ALAN RUSE
House of Horror Amusement Park returns to wreak havoc on Oct. 7
Cutler Bay’s newest recreational facility, the Lakes by the Bay Park, has been a long time coming and has taken a lot of work by town officials just to make it possible, but now construction is ready to begin and Phase One should be ready for residents to enjoy in a year and a half. Alan Ricke, Parks and Recreation director for the Town of Cutler Bay, is grateful that things are ready to move forward. “This is a park that the town acquired from the county after years of effort,” Ricke said. “It’s about 50 acres in size and Miami-Dade County has turned it over to the town, along with some funding they acquired to build the park.” The initial construction costs will come from those county funds, assembled from a number of sources, according to Ricke. “The county had impact fee money
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PARK, page 4
BY MICHELLE AREAN
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Architect’s rendering of the Lakes by the Bay Park restroom/concession building. The inset is what the park will look like after the first phase of construction. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Knots of Hope gala to benefit Transplant Foundation BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD
Priscilla SuzalWright is founder of Knots of Hope.
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n seventh grade Priscilla SuzalWright started making friendship bracelets as a hobby. Around the same time, she and her mother were volunteering with the Transplant Foundation. Her mother had gotten involved with the foundation when she and a friend participated in a holiday angel program and the child was involved with the Transplant Foundation. The little boy had a bone marrow transplant and they gave presents to him and his brothers and sisters. “We wanted to really bring Christmas to them,” Suzal-Wright said. “It was life changing. We fell in love with it. We started going to the walk-a-thon. Now we know plenty of people with transplants.”
Suzal-Wright brought volunteering and fundraising together by selling the bracelets to raise money for the foundation. She sold the bracelets to most of the people she knew, friends, family and her mom’s co-workers. “Anyone I could get a hold of. Slowly but surely it got bigger,” she said. It wasn’t long before she gathered her friends together to form a fundraising group called Knots of Hope. “I brought in my four closest friends last summer. We brought in their sisters and their friends. And now there are other girls who want to join as well,” she said. Today there are 23 girls involved. The
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KNOTS, page 4
ouse of Horror Amusement Park (HOH) returns to wreak havoc on South Florida coming back to life at Miami International Mall on Thursday, Oct. 7, and continuing through Sunday, Oct. 31. The area’s premiere Halloween Amusement Park returns with a vengeance promising to be the largest haunted house in South Florida, including acres of shriek inducing rides, circus acts, the hottest musical acts, and fun for guests of all ages. Be prepared as night falls in October, the House of Horror will bring the dead and unimaginable to life. HOH offers 25-plus bone-chilling scenes inside its fully stateof-the-art haunted house, complete with more than 20 gruesome characters that lurk in the dark. After surviving the terrifying house, park
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HORROR, page 4
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