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JULY 7 - 13, 2009
Officer recognized for Crime Watch service BY RICHARD YAGER atrina Kavanaugh credits her mom for winning countywide recognition. “She showed our family how people working together build strong neighborhoods,” said Kavanaugh, a Community Service police officer with the MiamiDade Police Department’s Kendall District. “Her devotion to helping people in Hialeah, where we grew up, made our family aware of how important community service can be. “She was my idol, my everything.” The example Elsie Kavanaugh gave her five children more than 30 years ago was foremost in daughter Katrina’s mind after being recognized as Miami-Dade’s Citizens Crime Watch “Police Officer of the Year” for 2009.
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Five Ninez rock band boosts summer camp
BY PATRICK SMIKLE
BY RICHARD YAGER
here’s no telling where and when success may strike. And for the rock group Five Ninez (pronounced nines) it all began at the Miami Dade College Kendall Summer Rock Camp session. On Friday night, July 31, the teenage rock group once again will appear at Miami’s Tobacco Road, traditional home of local blues and rock bands. During the summer of 2007, Kevin Orsillo of Palmetto Bay, then
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he July 1 Preliminary Tax Roll has confirmed a substantial decline in the countywide taxable value of existing properties in Miami-Dade County of 13 percent, excluding new construction value. Compared to 2008, taxable value of existing properties declined by $31.8 billion. When adjusted for new construction of $8.4 billion, the 2009 countywide taxable value came in at $222.1 billion, a net decline of $23.4 billion or 9.5 percent. These figures, contained in the 2009 Preliminary Tax Roll released on July 1 by Property Appraiser Pedro J. Garcia, verify a countywide taxable value of $213.8 billion of existing properties, as
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Five Ninez rock band includes (l-r) Chris Basadre, Kendall; Kevin Orsillo, Palmetto Bay, and Matt Sebbag, Pinecrest. They are pictured at the Titanic Brewery in Coral Gables. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Kendall District’s Officer Katrina Kavanaugh honored for Crime Watch service.
PA: Preliminary roll confirms significant decline in values
14, set out to polish his drumming skills at the college. He eventually joined budding bass student Matt Sebbag of Pinecrest, 14, and Chris Basadre of Kendall, 13, working on his on guitar and vocal talents. The trio became friends as soon as they noticed each wore T-shirts emblazoned with classic rock bands (think Led Zeppelin, Cream and The Who, famed rockers that all three mutually admired). Orsillo and Sebbag, both 16 and ––––––––
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