Palmetto Bay 7.26.2011

JULY 26 - AUGUST 8, 2011

Council votes 5-0 to follow court on school’s zoning Village library to remain open despite proposed budget cuts

Family of Bridget Allison Pier encourages organ donations

BY GARY ALAN RUSE

BY GARY ALAN RUSE

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or the time being, Palmetto Bay residents needn’t fear that their neighborhood library will be affected by the proposed county budget cuts that will be closing some library locations.

The picturesque and popular library, located in Ludovici Park at 17641 Old Cutler Rd., is not on the list of proposed library closures, according to Victoria Galan, public affairs officer for the Miami-Dade Public Library System.

“That library will remain open,” Galan said on July 19. “If anything, usage there may increase as people who have been using other libraries due to close have to look elsewhere. Three of the libraries on the list to be closed are what we call storefront leased properties, one is in the Civic Center downtown and the rest are stand-

Palmetto Bay’s branch library in Ludovici Park

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amily members of Bridget Allison Pier (Alexander) are struggling to cope with the unexpected and tragic loss of the sprightly 7year-old, but are finding comfort in the positive ways she touched the lives of others.

The daughter of Palmetto Bay village clerk Meighan Pier Alexander and Brian Pier, Bridget was vacationing with her mother and Cutler Bay town manager Steven Alexander, who were married about a year ago, and her 10year-old brother Brent in Hawaii.

On June 29, after enjoying a day of family surfing, Bridget suffered a massive stroke. She passed away on July 3.

Because of her kind and caring nature and desire to help others, it was decided that her organs would be donated. Her mother thought it seemed appropriate for the vivacious young girl who was such a ray of sunshine to everyone around her.

“I’d also like people to know what a very happy life she lived,” Meighan Alexander said.

“She was always smiling and laughing. I also think people

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fter a three-an-a-halfhour zoning hearing, July 19, on the issue of the village’s May 4, 2010 resolution regarding a zoning application by Palmer Trinity School, the five-member Palmetto Bay Council voted 5-0 to follow the order of the 11th Judicial Circuit Court to eliminate two key points of the resolution.

Conducted at Christ Fellowship Church, 8900 SW 168 St., before a crowd of residents and other interested parties, and also broadcast on the Internet in a streaming video on Realtor Hal Feldman’s website, the meeting began at 6:30 p.m. Each member of the council stating that they had received calls and emails from residents about this issue but had to tell everyone that under the Jennings Rule they were not allowed to discuss it before the quasi-judicial hearing. Each council member said that they could be fair and impartial.

Stanley Price, attorney for Palmer Trinity School, asked for the right to cross examine the council members and anyone that would testify. Attorney Tucker Gibbs, representing the neighborhood group Concerned Citizens of Old Cutler

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Inc. and also the attorney for Councilmember Joan Lindsay, objected.

Village attorney Eve Boutsis began with a brief recounting of the history of the litigation regarding the Palmer Trinity zoning issue which began in 2006 when the private school sought to expand its facility across a parcel of land it had acquired between its original property and SW 184th Street. The school wished to add additional classrooms, a lighted sports facility and other features that would accommodate 1,400 students.

That request was denied by the council in 2008, but in 2010 after legal action by the school, the council passed a resolution granting the zoning application but limiting the number of students to 900 and placing a 30-year prohibition on any additional expansion requests. The school challenged that ruling in court, and in March of this year the 11th Circuit Court ordered the council to eliminate those two restrictions and take no further action.

After lengthy discussion of the legal points — whether public hearing comments would be allowed, whether any new evidence could be discussed, and

questions by Councilmember Howard Tendrich and Vice Mayor Brian Pariser, Councilmember Joan Lindsay made a motion to take a vote on following the court’s order to quash the two conditions and delete all references to them in the resolution and take no further action. It was seconded by Pariser.

“I am ready for this as all of you are,” Lindsay said. “I think it would be a grave mistake for us to do anything other than what the court has said to do. Mayor Shelley Stanczyk agreed with that view.

“I think our job tonight is very clear,” Stanczyk said. “It is to quash the limit of the 900 and the 30-year prohibition.”

Councilman Patrick Fiore pointed out that this issue has cost the village at least a half million dollars in legal fees and divided the community, “neighbor against neighbor.”

Vice Mayor Pariser said, “I believe we are in good faith following the court’s order.”

After the unanimous vote, the meeting ended at 10:08 p.m. Neither attorney would say whether their respective lawsuits would continue or not.

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should take her example and be friendly and nice to others. Bridget could not stand for anyone to be mean.”

Her family is requesting that people wishing to honor Bridget’s memory make a donation to the Kapiolani Medical Center for Children in Honolulu.

“The staff at the Kapiolani Medical Center was outstanding —loving, kind, and comforting,” Meighan Alexander said. “I can’t say enough about the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit nurses and doctors. Each of them embraced us as if we were family.

Additionally, we’d like to encourage donations for the Ronald McDonald Family House. I was stunned when the hospital informed us that there was lodging available for out-of-state families of ill children. The house was wonderful, a very welcoming family environment.

“There are some families that are facing weeks of care for their children, and the cost of lodging in a hotel could very well bankrupt them. To have this lodging available is a godsend and people should do all they can to help support it.”

Bridget’s father, Brian Pier, remembers how special she was, and how much she meant to everyone.

“The main thing about Bridget is how easy she let things roll off her back and how bubbly and moving on to the next thing she was,” Pier said. “She loved her friends, she loved being with her family. She has about 20 something first cousins. She loved them and loved

being around them.”

He recalls countless family trips to Walt Disney World and to favorite places in North Carolina. And he remembers her sweet, loving nature.

“She would go out in the yard and pick flowers, and, unsolicited, come up to you and give you a flower and tell you how much she loved you, and give you a hug,” Pier said. “To have her doing that on a daily basis was special.

“It wasn’t only me, her father or mother, she would come in with flowers she was going to take to her teacher, or her aunt or her best friend. She loved making pictures, and there would always be a heart and an ‘I love you’on the picture. I think she touched a lot of people and a lot of people are having a hard time right now. I just like people to remember her for how she was.”

The memorial service for her central Florida family was on Sunday, July 24. Coral Reef Elementary School, where Bridget was a student, reportedly is working on a memorial for the school’s butterfly garden.

Bridget’s mother said she deeply appreciates the kindness of so many in the community who have reached out to express their sympathy and concern to her family.

“We are touched and overwhelmed with the support and love we’ve received,” Meighan said. “People have asked us what they can do for us. My answer is: consider being an organ donor. You can save a life.

It is an awesome gift.”

For more information on the children’s hospital visit online at <www.kapiolani.org>. For more on Ronald McDonald Family House visit <http://rmhc.org/>.

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The mayor’s proposed budget would close 13 of the 49 library branches as a means of reducing costs because of the budget shortfall.

However, the Miami-Dade Commission is leaning toward tweaking the budget to

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Gamesmanship on display at zoning hearing Michael Miller EXECUTIVE EDITOR

AROUND TOWN Thatzoning zoninghearing hearing last Tuesday night That regarding the Palmer Trinity school expansion application struck us as looking like part routine municipal procedure, part quirky reality show and part chess match.

But maybe that’s to be expected.

If you weren’t there, as most residents weren’t, it was held at the Christ Fellowship Church in Palmetto Bay, which has more space than the Village Hall Council Chambers with its limited seating as well as its own television facility. The hearing followed the order of the court to remove certain conditions in the village’s resolution approving the expansion but limiting it.

Following the court’s order really only required the council to draft a resolution removing those conditions from the original document and then voting it through.

Sounds easy enough, right? Well...not quite. The initial “disclosure” statements at the beginning of the procedure, in which the council members stated what contacts if any they may have had regarding the matter before the vote, took about an hour and a half. The rest of the meeting—an additional two hours—was filled with more voluminous comments and wrangling, essentially polite but oddly strained, in which the two “outside” attorneys, the village attorney and several of the council members conducted their assigned tasks as expected.

But there was also an undercurrent of gamesmanship as preplanned strategies and unspoken agendas were hinted at in what was said and done. It was clear that everyone was looking ahead to the next stage...the next legal move...and was seeking to either reveal biases or missteps that could help their side’s case, or to seize opportunities to enter info into the record so it could be used later. Clearly, everyone was “playing the game.”

And then the council quickly went ahead and did what they knew they were going to

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do all along, simply because they had to.

Tiring, but if you enjoy watching legal strategizing, getting there was half the fun...sort of. There was a web-cast for those of us who stayed home, which was a nice thing, although it was frequently interrupted by commercials from the streaming video company, which was annoying. Maybe the village can get its own video system online soon and avoid that. Stay tuned!

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How can we ever bring our weight problem under control?

R. Kenneth Bluh KENNETH’S COMMENTARY The newspaper story reads: “Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut, after the competitive eater won the Annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest at New York’s Coney Island by wolfing down 62 hot dogs and 62 buns in ten minutes...”

Wow, Joey, what a good example you are setting for America’s youth. The whole world now knows that your 62-hot-dog and 62-bun binge crammed 19,158 calories, 1,246 grams of fat, 2,170 grams of cholesterol and 42,408 milligrams of sodium into your body. And, that was in 10 minutes. I wonder what you had for breakfast and dinner that day, Joey.

Meanwhile our medical researchers are giving us so many confusing signals that we don’t know what is safe or not safe to ingest. We are getting fat. Better said we are getting obese. Life insurance companies have even adjusted upward their weight tables establishing what is consid-

ered the appropriate weight for men and women as it relates to height and age.

Every day the newspapers, TV and radio programs tell the story of an overweight society and what we must do to bring our bodies under control. Yet medical research does nothing but confuse us with “the facts.”

I am proud of that fact that we eat a lot, really a lot, of vegetables and fruits in my home. “Veggies, fruits and exercise” have been one of the rules by which I live.

Dinner almost always contains two vegetables. I thought we were doing it right.

Now the newspaper headline reads: “Why nuts and yogurt for dieters?”

Harvard Medical School reported the fact “…that yogurt and nuts, not fruits and vegetables, were the two foods with the strongest relationship to weight loss.”

Does this mean Publix will close down half their veggie and fruit department and expand their yogurt selection to meet the new passwords to great health — “nuts, yogurt and exercise?” No more eggplant or squash?

Boy, am I glad I put raisins and almonds on my oatmeal every morning. Except for my fruit and nuts in the morning I could have been a contestant on The Biggest Losers TV show!

VIEWPOINT Coffee: I was always told “don’t drink too much coffee; it can cause problems with the stomach and keep you awake at night. Now I read that men who drink at least five cups of coffee a day will push Alzheimer’s 10 years farther into their futures. Am I lucky. I absolutely crave my café con leche in the mornings. “Caliente con espuma, por favor!”

Wine: Let’s talk about wine, once a no-no, especially red wine. Now we are told that two glasses a day is great to stave off heart problems. How about eggs? Remember when eggs were considered detrimental to the heart? Too many and you cause a cholesterol problem. Now eggs are good for us.

And white potatoes? Always told they made us fat? Now they say the opposite.

Seems that white potatoes, especially mashed white potatoes, slows down digestion making us seem full early in the meal and not prone to eating more of everything.

Last, but not least, let’s have chocolate for dessert. It was once bad for us. Made pimples when we were young? Right? Not

true. In actuality, chocolate suppresses our desire to eat “again” for a long time — a great dessert.

And so it goes. What was bad for us yesterday is good for us today. I wonder how many of these unbiased studies are funded by some neutral sounding foundation that in fact is funded by growers or processors of foods that have bad “story” reputations and a need for an expanded market.

Please, please let’s not go back to the World War II era and tell us that cigarettes are good for our health. That I couldn’t buy even from a combined Harvard and Cambridge, 50-year study of 50 million smokers.

I guess we are all really on our own.

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Letter to the Editor Village council wasting money on Palmer Trinity zoning issue To the Editor: In the early days before Palmetto Bay’s existence, we who participated in the citizens group that petitioned the county had dreams of competent self-governance. Some of us had become fed up with the nonsense at County Hall — the impersonal treatment by county officials when addressing local issues; the hearings held outside ear shot of the community; the intractable bureaucracy that never seemed to resolve a matter without the need to hire lawyers.

Well, on Tuesday, July 19, at a remote location outside of our Village Hall, the current mayor and council proved that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence. In a stunning and costly 5-0 vote the village council sent the Palmer Trinity matter back to the courts for a resolution.

Yes, you are reading this correctly. Our village, which we supported as an alternative to the county, punted an already half-million dollar legal nightmare back to the courts when it refused to tell Palmer how many students it may enroll. And they did so despite a clear recommendation from Village lawyers to revert to the 1,150-student figure from the 900 struck down by the court.

Councilman Fiore noted that the village already has sunk $500,000 in legal fees into the Palmer fight. That works out to $2,000 per disputed student and is probably a low figure since the village’s smug challenge to the court may result in taxpayers shouldering the costs of Palmer’s lawyers, too. One can only hope the chaos the village created by its decision will somehow help us avoid this penalty.

Illustrating why the village is tilting at windmills should be an easy task for Palmer. For example, the village staff analysis contained a set of statistics that the mayor and council ignored. Palmer sought to grow its enrollment from 600 to 1,150 over the course of several years on more than 50 acres of property. (Palmer’s original application sought 1,400 students but they compromised with village staff on 1,150 students, which the mayor and council rejected.) At 1,150 students, Palmer is allocating more than twice the land per student (more than 2,000 square feet) than do Westminster Christian (909 square feet) or even Coral Reef High School (954 square feet), which sits on 65 acres.

Do the mayor and council truly believe that Palmer has no right to use the property it purchased?

The council seems to be making a bet that the court will allow it to re-litigate the question of whether Palmer will negatively affect traffic. A late-filed dispute over traffic studies led to the most absurd speech of the evening. One councilmember attempted to explain her view of Palmer’s plan on local traffic patterns. She repeatedly stated that she was no expert in traffic analysis, yet carried on interminably on why county staff and experts hired by Palmer and the village were wrong when they approved Palmer’s application.

Readers should note that a key ground cited by the court for striking down the 900-student cap was that it was not based on competent substantial evidence. A lay council member, no matter how well educated in mathematics, is not a source of competent substantial evidence for traffic matters. This is especially true when the applicant is given no opportunity to rebut her purported evidence and when the village’s consultant advised that the traffic issue was unfounded. No doubt Palmer will reference its diatribe as an example of the village’s failure to follow basic procedures required for a quasi-judicial public hearing.

From the perspective of this resident and supporter of incorporation, the message sent by the mayor and council was disappointing and dangerous for its fiscal irresponsibility. Instead of amicably resolving a very serious zoning and land use matter, the council chose to expose village coffers to the whim of the court and to leave one of its historic institutions swaying in the wind. Even Palmer’s opponents should be asking whether leaving this decision to the courts protects the interests of affected residents. (Punting a tough decision may serve the interests of the punter but it may not serve to win the game.)

Many of my neighbors know little of this controversy and its potential to devastate village finances, despite efforts by this paper and others to warn us. Here is what we need to know: Village residents are already paying dearly for this circus and unless we start asking hard questions, we have just conceded to pay for it.

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Palmetto Bay boy off to San Diego for Pokémon World Championships

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Senior Division (born in 1996–99), and the Masters Division (born in 1995 or After three hard-fought days of earlier) — and each earning guaranteed spots in the Pokémon Pokémon Trading Card Game Trading Card Game World (TCG) battles the weekend of The national Championships where they July 9-10 at the 2011 tournament drew will compete against some Pokémon U.S. National Championships in more than 1,500 of the best Pokémon TCG players from around the Indianapolis, IN, Juan Pablo Pokémon TCG world.

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Taylor Davis earns Kohl’s scholarship for her efforts

BY GARY ALAN RUSE

Palmetto Bay resident and student Taylor (Tae Tae) Davis was awarded a $1,000 scholarship on July 7 as part of a nationwide program by Kohl’s Department Stores to honor deserving volunteers for making a positive impact on their communities.

The program’s aim is assisting deserving youth to pursue a college education, according to Julie Gardner, Kohl’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer.

“Kohl’s has rewarded thousands of amazing kids through the Kohl’s Cares Scholarship Program and, this year alone, we are recognizing nearly 2,200 standout youth who are making a difference with their volunteer time,” Gardner said.

“From feeding the homeless at a local shelter, collecting goods for the less fortunate or volunteering time at a community garden, these kids are making a huge impact on communities nationwide. We are inspired by their stories and are thrilled to recognize their service.”

Taylor Davis, 13, founded the nonprofit organization The Traveling Canvas and has helped raise more than $80,000 in art supplies to save art education in public schools and bring art to homeless children.

She was thrilled with the news of the scholarship.

“I was super excited,” Davis said. “It was amazing to hear that I had been chosen for such a award. It’s really great that Kohl’s recognized kids in their efforts to make the world a better place in their own way.

“It’s really going to help me, because not only is it going to help spread the word about my cause, it brings up the self esteem of the Traveling Canvas. It makes us feel like ‘yes, we can do this.’ If it wasn’t for my teacher, Miss Floyd, I wouldn’t have

Taylor Davis (front) is pictured at a recent event with (l-r) superintendent of schools Alberto M. Carvalho, MiamiDade School Board District 9 member Dr. Larry Feldman, and Southwood Middle School principal Deborah Leal.

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found out about it. It’s been a great opportunity for me.”

Teacher Andrea R. Floyd had Taylor as a student when she was in the seventh grade Gifted Language Arts class at Southwood.

She wrote a letter of recommendation about her efforts in the community.

“The reason I’m so eager to recognize Tae Tae’s efforts is because I hope other students will be inspired by her story,” Floyd said. “The different between Tae Tae and a lot of students who have great ideas is that Tae Tae took the extra step to put her

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“I think she’s an incredible role model for children who are younger than her, as well as children who are older, about how a simple idea can translate into something incredible when you follow through with it. So often people in general will sit there and reminisce about great ideas they had, but that’s where they stop.”

Taylor’s mother, Claudette Davis, is understandably proud of her daughter, but also has high praise for the other competing youngsters and

for Kohl’s as well.

“The fact that she made it this far is remarkable, and an honor,” Claudette Davis said. “All the kids are winners.

Every single kid who is recommended for this is a winner — just the fact that they’re doing anything to help communities.

“For a department store to do something like that for kids is great. There’s a ton of scholarship programs out there, but there aren’t a ton of them that recognize the young kids, 13 and under.”

Taylor’s former teacher says she thinks it is important for the community to continue to support and encourage Taylor because it’s so easy to get burned out and overwhelmed.

“I want Tae Tae to know that there are so many people who have seen the difference she’s making, and who believe in her and don’t want her to stop the incredible things she’s doing,” Floyd said.

“It’s like a ripple effect. Even the youngest homeless children she’s given a pillowcase to, we have no idea — 10 years from now, 20 years from now, even one year from now — how that simple pillowcase will translate to them paying it forward in acts of kindness that they will be compelled to do because someone was kind to them when they needed it most,” she said.

“We’ll never truly know the impact of some of the activities that Tae Tae has initiated, but we can certainly all agree that she has made the world a better place.”

Taylor is still in the running for the national level of the competition, in which Kohl’s will award an additional $9,000 to 10 winners and also donate $1,000 to a nonprofit organization on each national winner’s behalf.

For more information on Kohl’s program, visit online at <www.kohlskids.com>. For information on The Traveling Canvas, visit <www.thetravelingcanvas.com>.

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Commissioners Joe A. Martinez and Jose “Pepe” Diaz make good on their bet by performing a community service project wearing Dallas Mavericks jerseys.

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BY LEE STEPHENS

Miami-Dade Commissioners Joe A. Martinez and Jose “Pepe” Diaz may have lost their bet with Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway about the outcome of the NBA Finals, but some local patients definitely won as a result.

The commissioners made good on their bet by performing a community service project wearing Dallas Mavericks jerseys, part of their wager with Mayor Caraway.

The commissioners visited Miami Children’s Hospital on Friday, July 15, and participated in arts and crafts with pediatric patients who are all from the hospital’s oncology and hematology floors.

The commissioners already have sent Mayor Caraway stone crabs from local

favorite Joe’s Stone Crab, a box of Cuban pastries, and hand-rolled cigars from Cuban Crafters, a care package that also was part of the deal.

“We may have lost our bet, but Miami is still behind its team and we were able to bring some joy to kids in need, so there’s still a victory there,” Martinez said. “I thank Mayor Caraway for having a bit of fun with us during the NBA finals.”

Diaz joked, “I think the children may have questioned our allegiance at first, but were more interested in showing us their artwork. Spending time with the kids at Miami Children’s certainly outweighed a small sting to our pride.”

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The event, funded by a grant from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Forestry, will take place from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Rockdale Pineland Preserve on SW 144th Street and 92nd Avenue.

Volunteers of all ages will help to protect and enhance a rare habitat in South Dade.

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Don Kelbick of Miami has been named assistant coach of the Open Men’s Basketball Team representing the USA at the 12th Pan American Maccabi Games in São Paulo, Brazil, Dec. 26-Jan. 2, 2012.

Kelbick has more than 27 years of coaching experience including 25 at the college level — 14 years as a head coach and 10 years as an assistant coach at Division I schools — including stops at Hofstra University, Marist College, Keene State College and Florida International University. He also spent two years coaching at the high school level and in that time produced six Division I players.

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“We are thrilled that Don is joining our staff,” said team chair Barry Neuberger. “I have known Don since his days at Marist [College] and have a great respect for his ability to teach and coach the game. Our players will have a chance to add to their skill set and basketball IQ by being around Don during the time we are together. We look forward to his contributions.”

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The Miami-Dade Park and Recreation Department has announced the arrival of gourmet food trucks to Tropical Park and Tamiami Park.

There will be music and food choices galore, with a popular assortment of participating food vendors each week, offering everything from Cuban influenced burgers and Asian-style chicken wings to a crab grilled cheese sandwich and even deepfried Oreos and cupcakes.

The food truck events will be a permanent feature taking place every Tuesday from 6 to 10 p.m. at Tropical Park, 7900 SW 40 St. (Bird Road and 79th Avenue entrance), and every Friday from 6 to 11 p.m. at Tamiami Park, 10901 SW 24 St. (The Fair’s main entrance, Coral Way and SW 112th Avenue).

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This brings the total number of MiamiDade parks hosting food truck events to three, including Haulover Park, which began hosting food truck events from 11 a.m. to sundown, Saturdays and Sundays, in April.

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Sanchez Arango Landscaping sets high standards for performance

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When Lazaro Arango and Rouget Sanchez became friends in the sixth grade at the Interamerican Military Academy in Miami, little did they know that four decades later they would still be best friends and business partners.

Together, they founded Sanchez Arango Construction in 1995, a commercial and residential construction, outdoor advertisement and landscaping company.

Sanchez has a degree in Construction Management from Florida International University and is certified as a general contractor by the State of Florida. Arango is certified in architectural and mechanical drafting, and has been active in construction and outdoor advertising management since 1986.

Both share a passion for high-quality craftsmanship and durable construction, performance and reliability, and these principles serve as the guiding mission of every Sanchez Arango project.

This passion for providing their clients with the best materials, design, construction and on-time performance inspired the pair to create Sanchez Arango Landscaping, now one of Florida’s largest contractors for landscape installation, maintenance, hardscape and irrigation.

“We repeatedly ran into situations where the landscape company retained by our client did not perform to our standards,” Sanchez said. “These companies would not complete their work on time, would use sub-standard materials or do shoddy work. Many times we would end up completing the landscaping work ourselves to make sure it was done correctly.

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South Florida teens will have the chance to win the Quince of their dreams by submitting an essay by Aug. 31 in Verizon’s national My Fabulous Quince contest.

The grand prize winner nationally will earn an all-expenses-paid Quince for up to 200 guests, a $5,000 college scholarship, three Verizon smartphones and an exclusive performance by multi-platinum recording artist Prince Royce who will sing his greatest hits including: Stand By Me, Corazón Sin Cara and Mi Ultima Carta.

One regional finalist from South Florida is guaranteed a prize package of a Quince for 100 guests with all expenses covered

by Verizon, a $2,500 college scholarship and a Verizon smartphone. The winner will be announced this autumn after a review by judges and voting by the public.

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South Florida teens also can submit their contest entries in person at a free My Fabulous Quince expo on July 31 at the Verizon Wireless store, 1599 W. 49 St. in Hialeah.

In addition to a performance by Prince Royce, expo attendees will receive tips on how to plan a Quince celebration on any budget, as well as special offers from local vendors.

Attendees can donate no-longer-used wireless phones to HopeLine from Verizon to help support victims of domestic violence and help protect the environment by disposing of wireless phones in an environmentally sound way. Attendees who donate a phone will receive a VIP pass to meet and pose for a photo with Prince Royce.

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What Financial goal should I have with paying for my children’s college?

When planning to pay for college for your children, I encourage you to establish clear goals.

First, you need to determine if you want to have your child’s education be paid with or without the need for financial aid. If you do not want your child or yourself to be burdened with a loan to have to pay back, then set the goal of having enough money saved before they enter college so that the college is paid.

Pictured are 2010 Positive Living Awards winners: (l-r, back row) Allan Kolsky, Sang Y. Whang, Cecilia Hunt, Robert Gintel, Dr. Freeman Wyche, Owen S. Freed; (front row) Marian Cline Krutulis, Irving R. Eyster, Dr. Carol HoffmanGuzman, Barbara Erickson and Belkis Frangente.

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The Alliance for Aging Inc. currently is accepting nominations for the fifth annual Positive Living Awards.

With nearly 500,000 people age 60 or older, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties are national examples of America’s future.

Older Americans make tremendous differences in the quality of life in South Florida by “giving back” to their communities.

Chaired by Rene Cibran, Long Term Care Planning Specialist, and Jerry Santeiro, executive director of the Guardianship Program of Dade County Inc., the Positive Living Awards is a nationally recognized event that honors individuals in 13 distinct areas — Animal/Wildlife, Arts and Music, Corporate Service, Education/Mentoring, Environmental Protection, Faith/Interfaith, Health Care, Inter-Generational, Legal, Philanthropy, Positive Living, Public Service, and Sports and Entertainment.

“This is a wonderful celebration that recognizes South Florida’s senior community and their commitment to the Miami-Dade and Monroe counties,” Cibran said.

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Aug. 22 and will be judged by a panel of distinguished community leaders. Winners will be announced in September.

The Positive Living Awards will be presented during a special dinner event on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Jungle Island.

Sponsors include Sabadell United Bank and the Guardianship Program of Dade County Inc., as well as Miami’s Community Newspapers as the official media sponsor.

The Alliance for Aging Inc. is a private, not-for-profit organization committed to improving the lives of older people by funding more than $60 million annually to local agencies. Through a network of providers, a wide range of services are provided to elders including meals, transportation, in-home services such as homemaking and personal care and services to caregivers. Answering more than 25,000 calls annually, the Alliance’s Aging Resource Center provides accurate information and referral services to elders and their families.

For more Information about nominating a deserving individual or to obtain a nomination form, call Susan Holtzman at 305274-4772 or visit the Alliance for Aging website at <www.allianceforaging.org>.

Who should pay for my children’s college?

As parents we feel motivated or obligated to take on the full responsibility of paying for our children’s college education. The second goal is to establish a clear understanding with your child that if they want a college education they should invest in it by saving for it with earnings from a job. If they invest in their education, your child will value it more.

What is an attainable financial goal?

Harvard cost $52,000 a year for the 2009 – 2010 academic year. Saving $208,000 based on current costs is not attainable for most people. The University of Florida cost $16,690 a year for the 2009 – 2010 academic year.

Saving $66,760 based on current costs is more attainable. Florida International University total matriculation and fees are $4,580.38 a year for the 2009 – 2010 academic year. Saving $19,215.20 is even more affordable. I suggest that you set your goal on a specific college and save enough to cover the actual cost when your child enters as a freshman. Your child should consider a job on campus during the school year and summer jobs during the college years.

I have a 401k plan at work; can I set up a matching savings plan with my child?

Yes. If you can afford it and feel motivated to do so, you can match your child’s earnings dollar for dollar. My son, Steven, did pizza delivery for 4 hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for a total of 12 hours a weekend. Back in 1995 – 1996 he earned $10 an hour which was $120 a weekend or $480 a month. I matched it $1 for $1. Our goal college was the University of Florida, and in 1996 the 4 year cost was $32,000. When he graduated from high school, we had $32,000 in the savings account. $16,000 he earned and $16,000 I matched. No financial aid was needed.

Does a Matching Savings Plan have other benefits?

The matching savings plan may create a new dimension in the relationship you have with your child. You become partners in achieving a long term goal.

Your child should be motivated to in essence to earn twice as much as their pay check. Your child may begin to ask you how to red the account statement and how to invest the savings. Their buying habits may be influenced by their employment. Those $150 sneakers may mean 20 hours of their work so maybe they are not so motivated to buy them because it is not worth 20 hours of their life to have them after all. They may start to look for value in what they buy. They may even appreciate you a lot more for working for a living and paying the bills.

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Dry cleaners collecting used clothing for Camilus House

BY JACLYN LARKIN

Sir Galloway Dry Cleaners, Rey’s Cleaners and Sudsies.com — three of Miami-Dade County’s premier dry cleaning and laundry services — are collecting their customers’ gently used clothing and other household items to be donated to Camillus House for distribution to persons who are poor and homeless in the community.

All three establishments provide customers with specially designed plastic collection bags for the clothing drive, which can be turned in at any of the five Sir Galloway and 23 Rey’s Cleaners locations in Greater Miami, or to Sudsies.com delivery personnel. All donated clothing will given directly to Camillus House for distribution.

The used clothing drive was the joint idea of Sir Galloway president Mark Mills, Rey’s president Angel Suarez and Sudsies.com president Jason Loeb. The three competing establishments kicked off the clothing collection in January and plan to conduct it on a long-term basis.

“All three companies share a commitment to serving the people in our community,” Mills said.

Pictured (l-r) are Bob Dickinson, chair of the Camillus House Board of Directors; Jason Loeb, Sudsies; Dr. Paul R. Ahr, president and CEO of Camillus House; Angel Suarez, Rey’s Dry Cleaners; Mark D. Mills, Sir Galloway Cleaners; Brother Bill Osmanski, BGS, and Brother Raphael Mieszala, BGS.

“So we are working together to support the vital social services provided by Camillus House and to connect our customers with the Camillus mission of ending chronic homelessness in Miami,” he added.

“Camillus House plays a very important part in bringing homelessness to an end by helping people not only at the moment of need, but helping them reinvent themselves and become part of the society at large,” Suarez said.

“We have great expectations for this drive and hope the partnership we’ve created with our dry-cleaning colleagues and Camillus House will make a difference in Miami,” he added.

“It’s critical that the community is aware of what we’re doing and gets involved,”

Loeb said. “Camillus House has such an important purpose and message. If everyone helps out, it makes our community a better place to live and do business.”

The program also has created a unique opportunity for outside sponsors to support Camillus House. Any business can have its name printed on 10,000 clothing drive collection bags for a $5,000 donation to Camillus House. Brown & Brown, a Miami Lakes insurance group, already has stepped forward as sponsor of the program’s first 10,000 collection bags.

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Visit International Collision Repair Center and you drive away happy The International Collision Repair Center team works to make your vehicle “as good as new.”

Pictured (l-r) are Frank Martinez, shop manager; Carlos Tabraue, parts manager; Ernie Tabraue, outside sales, and Celso Corrales, owner.

BY NANCY EAGLETON

Owner of International Collision Repair Center in West Kendall, Celso Corrales, is the first to admit that he meets most of his customers under unfortunate circumstances.

“People come to us because their car has been damaged, so we are a place that they really don’t want to visit,” Corrales said. “Because of this, we work very hard to make our customers’ experiences as pleasant as possible.”

Corrales, a certified master technician, has been in the auto body industry for more than 30 years and opened International Collision Repair, located near Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport, in 1993. “Because I’ve been in in the auto body business all of my life, I know how to get it right,” he said.

“Our customers can expect a high quality professional repair along with outstanding customer service — service that is unlike any other auto body shop.”

Corrales and shop manager Frank Martinez are the “face” of the business and are always onsite to ensure customer satisfaction. The center’s team includes seven certified technicians, each of whom specializes in a facet of auto body repair, such as paint, auto body or mechanical. International Collision services all vehicle makes and models, from Honda and Toyota to Mercedes-Benz and Bentley.

The technicians at International Collision Repair Center use state-of-the-art auto body repair equipment, including structural diagnostic equipment that detects frame and suspension damage. The European PPG computerized paint matching system — a system that Corrales calls the “best in the market” — ensures a perfect paint match. Proper welding is critical in order to ensure structural integrity and the technicians at International

Collision Repair use a welding machine that fuses just like the factory.

Corrales and team restore vehicles to their pre-accident appearance and are confident that customers will be happy with their results. “We offer a lifetime warranty on all repairs that we make,” he said.

Repairs are scheduled so customers have the least amount of downtime and minor repairs may be completed in the same day.

“We keep our customers updated on the progress of their repair with a phone call, text or email — whichever way they prefer to be contacted,” Corrales said. “We are large enough to handle big jobs and a large capacity, but small enough to offer our customers personalized service.”

The bilingual and friendly staff assists customers with the daunting task of working with insurance companies to receive proper payment for repairs. They also will help arrange rental cars, if needed.

To further enhance the customer experience, all vehicles are washed and detailed prior to pickup and a customer feedback card is left on the rearview mirror. A percentage of clientele is contacted by a customer service company and asked to participate in a brief telephone customer service survey.

“It’s important to know how our customers feel about our service so we can maintain and improve our standards,” Corrales said.

International Collision Repair Center is located in a stand-alone building at 13470 SW 128 St., just off SW 137th Avenue and easily accessible from Florida’s Turnpike, Kendall Drive and SW 152nd Street. Shop hours are Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., and the phone number is 305-233-4555.

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Commissioner encourages development of an EV charging station master plan

BY BERNARDO ESCOBAR

Miami-Dade Commissioner Javier D. Souto is looking to make Miami-Dade County a more convenient place for local electric vehicles (EVs) on the go. The Miami-Dade Commission adopted a resolution authored by Commissioner Souto in early July that may be the starting point for a countywide EV charging station master plan.

In April, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a grant of $5 million to fund EV infrastructure, including charging stations, in an effort to spur the deployment of EV facilities through local government and private company collaborations.

The grant minimum and maximum awards are $250,000 and $500,000 respectively.

The South Florida Regional Planning Council, through its role as the South Florida Gold Coast Clean Cities Coalition, submitted a proposal on behalf of a sevencounty region consisting of Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties to the DOE requesting funding to prepare an EV charging master plan which will examine deployment issues, such as the appropriate locations and equipment for such facilities.

Commissioner Soutoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution directs the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office to work with the South Florida Regional Planning Council to prepare an application for a master plan and/or future funding that assesses the feasibility of using locations on Miami-Dade County rights-of-way, including but not limited to the South Dade Bus Corridor and the Metrorail Corridor leading into downtown Miami, locations in or around Miami-Dade County park facilities, and other public rights-of-way, such as the median on State Road 836 between

Floridaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Turnpike and the Palmetto Expressway. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The demand for electric vehicles is growing, but Miami-Dade County needs to be able to provide a charging station infrastructure in order to keep up with that demand,â&#x20AC;? Commissioner Souto said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Despite the increased driving ranges of the new generation of EVs, a major obstacle to overcome is the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;range anxietyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of drivers. An expanded network of EV charging stations will help promote the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainability efforts while assisting residents who use electric vehicles.â&#x20AC;?

A number of charging stations can be seen throughout the country offering varying â&#x20AC;&#x153;levelsâ&#x20AC;? of electricity. Level I stations fully charge a vehicle in 8-12 hours, Level II in 4-6 hours, and a Level III station in approximately an hour. These stations are typically located in places where there is a concentration of vehicles such as parking garages and lots, shopping centers, educational facilities, hotels and major employment sites.

According to the DOE, Florida is ranked No. 3 behind California and Washington with more than 50 existing and planned charging locations. The majority of these facilities are located in the Central Florida, but Miami-Dade already has a few. The Dadeland North Metrorail parking garage has several Level I and Level II chargers.

A solar-powered EV charging station facility also is located in the Downtown Omni area offering Level I and II chargers to the public. The county maintains its own charging stations for its fleet of retrofitted and plug-in hybrids, as well as for the public free of charge.

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Evos Pinecrest celebrates a healthy first year of business

BY SUSAN SMITH

“People tell me all the time: ‘I thought of this idea years ago’ and they then commend me for following through on the dream,” beams Evos Pinecrest Franchise Owner Roland Rafuls.

Evos is a fast casual themed restaurant serving healthier burgers and fries along with salads, wraps, shakes and a diverse kids menu sure to please.

The concept began in Tampa over a decade ago according to Mr. Rafuls and today the Pinecrest location is celebrating the success of its first year.

“We started out here in 2008 during bad economic times for restaurants and we persevered because we had the faith to believe this would be a good service to the South Florida community and that young parents especially would value the eatery,” explains Mr. Rafuls.

The Dadeland Plaza Mall at 9537 South Dixie Highway appears to be a perfect location for families to enjoy an Evos adventure with several children oriented businesses along the mall and a “Kidsville” early childhood development center opening next door in July. And what began as a temporary promotion has evolved into a staple of what Evos represents with kids eating free every Sunday.

Evos also offers the community “Spirit Nights” whereby they will host local not for profit organizations’ fundraising events at the restaurant and donate food as well as a proceeds percentage to organizations like the American Cancer Society, University of Miami’s OceanKids, and the local Girl Scout troupe.

“Roland and Keidy are super supportive. They told me about the fundraising program and even helped me with the flyers. We really don’t do much fundraising beyond selling cookies so this was a great option for us,” says Pinecrest Girl Scouts

community response has been tremendous.

We are partnering with schools like Carrolton and Saint Thomas Episcopal on their lunch programs,” Mr. Rafuls continues.

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Co-Manager Heather Rivera.

As he sits in a comfortable booth in the well lit inviting atmosphere of the restaurant sharing his thoughts on the smooth launching of Evos Pinecrest; mom Darcy and her seven year old son James stand nearby choosing condiments to compliment their meal. Darcy says she keeps coming back to Evos because it’s a healthy and fast option.

Addressing the need for kids to eat healthier is part of the mission behind Evos.

“Kids love it and feel good about it. The

without deep frying but rather are baked with hot air industrial convection ovens that circulate the hot air evenly throughout the food. And it sure tastes great. Vegetarian and vegan options are available as well; offering a diet conscious foodie the feeling of eating decadently without the guilt. “Of all the thankyou’s I typically receive for being here, the vegans and vegetarians are often the most enthusiastic,” recalls Mr. Rafuls.

Evos was voted the greenest burger chain in America for the third consecutive year by Greenopia.com. The Earth Day Every Day philosophy Evos embraces is demonstrated by their sustainable business practices, renewable wind energy usage and alternative eco friendly cooking methods.

Mr. Rafuls recently brought his newborn six week old daughter to the restaurant and said it was a touching moment for the family. “I believed in the dream because I live it every day. My daughter is going to grow up here. We have all this here for her too,” smiles Roland Rafuls.

Evos Pinecrest at 9537 South Dixie Highway is open seven days a week from 11am to 10pm. Contact Evos at 305-7403433 www.evos.com

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Ferdie Pacheco to exhibit paintings at AC Fine Art

BY LEE STEPHENS

AC Fine Art will be featuring original oil paintings by Ferdie Pacheco, aka The Fight Doctor, from Saturday, Aug. 6, to Aug. 31.

Also being featured will be photos taken by Ferdie’s wife, Luisita, during his years with Muhammed Ali. Opening night will include a book signing by Pacheco and live music in conjunction with the Coconut Grove Gallery Walk.

Pacheco has exhibited his works throughout the U.S., France and in London.

Pacheco was born on Dec. 8, 1927 in the immigrant community of Ybor City in Tampa. Boxing was a popular sport in Ybor City, and Pacheco took an early interest.

He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and his medical degree from the University of Miami.

After graduation, he set up practice in Little Havana and began working with boxers alongside Angelo Dundee at the Fifth Street Gym on Ferdie Pacheco is pictured with his wife, Luisita, and some of his Miami Beach.

In 1962, Pacheco began working paintings.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– with Muhammad Ali when the then-Cassius Clay was training in Miami. mended that he retire, but Ali continued to Pacheco became Ali’s cornerman and physi- fight. Due to this difference of opinion, cian and would remain so until the latter parts Pacheco left Ali’s camp. Despite this disagreeof Ali’s career. In 1977, Pacheco noticed that ment, he and Ali are still friends to this day.

Pacheco moved on to become a television Ali’s reflexes were slowing down and recomboxing analyst, working for NBC and Univision. He became Showtime’s featured boxing analyst in the early 1980s and continued his association with that network until his retirement from TV in the late 1990s, covering many memorable fights along the way.

Pacheco is the author of 20 books, most recent Tales from the Fifth Street Gym. He also has written plays, screenplays, and short stories. Many of his books are set in the Ybor City neighborhood where he grew up.

Among his works, he has written a memoir (Ybor City Chronicles), an autobiography (Blood in My Coffee) and a cookbook (The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook, coauthored with longtime friend Adela Gonzmart). Coming out soon is an updated ebook version of the Fight Doctor.

AC Fine Art is located in the Grove Retrospective Gallery at 2911 Grand Ave. in Coconut Grove. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 1 to 5 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 1 to 9 p.m. Also open by appointment.

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U.S.A. WIRELESS OPENS FIRST AT&T AUTHORIZED RETAILER EXPERIENCE STORE IN SOUTH FLORIDA New Store Offers Hands-On, Interactive Experience MIAMI, June 15, 2011 — AT&T* today announced the opening of its first South Florida authorized retailer Experience Store. Experience Stores give shoppers an innovative way to shop for and experience a variety of communications and entertainment services from AT&T. The new U.S.A. Wireless store is located at 900 S. Miami Avenue in Mary Brickell Village in downtown Miami.

With the look and feel of an AT&Towned store, the 1,200 square-foot U.S.A. Wireless location features a hands-on design with a Guided Information Station and “live bar” of devices and services to provide an interactive, “try before you buy” shopping experience. Trained consultants provide demonstrations of a wide range of products and services, including the latest in mobile devices, such as the Samsung Infuse 4G, HP Veer 4G, Motorola ATRIX 4G, and the HTC Inspire 4G**, and AT&T U-verse services, including AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T Uverse High Speed Internet and AT&T U-verse Voice.

Customers can also test drive various wireless data applications, including AT&T Navigator, which provides GPS navigation with turn-by-turn directions, or AT&T Family Map, a family locator service designed to help give parents peace of mind.

“We’re excited to have another AT&T authorized retailer location opening in South Florida,” said Carlos Blanco, vice president and general manager of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets for AT&T South Florida. “There’s a growing demand for advanced wireless data products and services, and we want to make our services and products easily accessible to consumers.”

The Mary Brickell Village U.S.A. Wireless location is managed by Mike Awada and has a staff of five employees who are trained to assist both consumer and business customers with purchasing decisions, customer service and technical support.

Store hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. A grand opening celebration is planned for the weekend of July 15.

There are more than 100 AT&T authorized retailer locations from Key West to Vero Beach. AT&T owns and operates more than 40 stores in the same territory,

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Award-winning Deering Wines now on sale in South Florida

BY SHEILA STIEGLITZ

The award-winning Deering Wines sold worldwide recently made their Florida retail debut at Crown Wine and Spirits Palmetto Bay/Pinecrest store, with all other store locations following in the next few weeks.

Proprietors Blair Collins Maus and her husband, Todd, run the boutique vineyard in Sonoma County, California. Blair is a descendent of the Deering-McCormick family, who were early developers of farming technology, and she is the great-great granddaughter of Charles Deering.

In honor of the event, the historic Deering Estate at Cutler is giving Crown patrons one free admission pass to the Estate with each bottle of Deering Wine sold at the Palmetto Bay/Pinecrest store.

Limit 2 passes per customer.

In 2010, Blair and her husband introduced their wines to South Florida during the Deering Estate Foundation’s signature event, Wine on Harvest Moon. The guests’ response to the wines were overwhelmingly positive.

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Florida Grand Opera brings free zarzuela to Coral Gables

BY STEPHANIE NECUZE

Whether a first-generation Miamian or native of Latin America, most Hispanics can recall enjoying theatrical performances with spoken language and singing on their local town square or TV station.

Known as zarzuela, this Spanish musical theater tradition comes to South Florida’s main stage straight from Madrid’s Teatro Real through Florida Grand Opera’s (FGO) first production of Luisa Fernanda, which opens in November to begin the 2011-12 season.

In celebration of this Hispanic cultural cornerstone, FGO presents Cine Zarzuela, a summer-long film series designed to introduce Miami audiences to the lively music and romance of zarzuela through a sneak peek of Luisa Fernanda. The third event in a previously sold-out series, “Cine Zarzuela: Coral Gables” takes place on Aug. 16, 7 p.m., at the Coral Gables Art Cinema.

Guests attending the event will be joined by local Hispanic celebrities and leaders for a casual evening of film. The festivities

begin with a brief lecture on the zarzuela tradition by Justin Moss, resident opera expert and FGO director of communications, followed by a screening of scenes from Teatro Real’s production of Luisa Fernanda, featuring Plácido Domingo in the leading male role of Vidal.

Among the featured scenes is the wellknown love song Ay, mi morena, first heard when Domingo’s character professes his love for the heroine and then again with a melancholy tone in the zarzuela’s final scene. At the screening’s conclusion, attendees will gather in the cinema’s courtyard for a complimentary wine reception and flamenco performance by local dancers.

The Cine Zarzuela series is free to the public. However, seating is limited for all events and reservations are required. RSVPs are accepted by phone by calling the Box Office at 1-800-741-1010 or by email at <lmerritt@fgo.org>. More information about upcoming Cine Zarzuela events can be found on Florida Grand Opera’s website at <www.FGO.org>.

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Volunteer as Master Gardener; open to county residents only

BY ROBERT HAMILTON

Do you have spare time to volunteer? Do you like plants and want to learn more about gardening? Do you like to help others by sharing your gardening knowledge?

Become a Master Gardener volunteer for Miami-Dade County Extension. Join this elite group of dedicated gardeners who help others solve their plant problems.

Preview sessions of what this program is about are Aug. 5 at 3 p.m. and Aug. 9 at 10 am at the UF Miami-Dade Extension office in Homestead. Each preview session lasts one and one half to two hours. You need to attend only one of these previews. This program is for Miami-Dade County residents only as each county has its own Master Gardener program.

Through the Master Gardener training program, participants receive more than 70 hours of classroom and field training from University of Florida faculty. You’ll learn about: flower and vegetable gardening, fruit trees, insects, disease and plant identification, landscape care, proper pesticide and fertilizer use, and more.

Master Gardeners are individuals who are interested in gardening, educating and helping others, and making civic contributions through volunteer work. They help answer gardening questions on the phone at the Extension office, help establish demonstration and school gardens, are plant consultants at local events, and more. Even if you aren’t physically able to do much gardening, there still are plenty of volunteer opportunities for you.

Once you are selected to take the Master Gardener training, you will be notified about the class schedule. Classroom training is one day during the work week from

Through the Master Gardener training program, participants receive more than 70 hours of classroom and field training from University of Florida faculty.

You’ll learn about: flower and vegetable gardening, fruit trees, insects, disease and plant identification, landscape care, proper pesticide and fertilizer use, and more.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and lasts for 11-12 weeks, beginning in September. Volunteering opportunities are at the Homestead office and at other selected sites throughout the county.

Contact Patty for an application at 305248-3311, ext. 225, or write to: UF/Miami-Dade County Extension, 18710 SW 288 St., Homestead, FL 33030.

Visit the website at <http://miamidade.ifas.ufl.edu/lawn_and_garden/master_gardener.shtml> For information on Florida friendly landscaping, visit the Florida Yards and Neighborhoods website at <www.greenyardsmiami.blogspot.com>.

The Miami-Dade Cooperative Extension is a partnership of the Miami-Dade Consumer Services Department and the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

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Miami Soccer Festival July 30-31st to Offer Tournament, Activities & Family Fun The 2011 Miami Soccer Festival at Kendall Soccer Park, 8011 SW 127th Ave., was organized to promote, celebrate and share “The Beautiful Game” of soccer with the community of Miami. Organized by The Parks Foundation of Miami Dade and the Soccer 5 Foundation, all proceeds benefit youth scholarships and park improvements.

More than 5,000 participants and visitors are expected at the two-day festival. On July 30th and 31st, this free family event will feature a full range of youth, adult and co-ed teams playing in various 11v11, 7v7 and 5v5 tournaments, while a popular mix of local bands will perform throughout the weekend.

“We’re planning to make this an annual event to attract soccer players, families and teams from throughout the area,” said Scott Georgeson, coordinator and president of Soccer 5 USA, the family organization that established 5-on-5 Soccer venues at the SW 127th Avenue complex during 2010. Completed four years ago, the Kendall Soccer Park now hosts both daytime and nighttime soccer, including 5-on-5 fields, five full-size soccer fields, a walking trail, stage area, soccer village and spectator bleachers.

Spectators or folks not registered to play in the two-day festival will also enjoy additional entertainment – Soccer 5 Live Tricks, juggling, worldrecord attempts, soccer walk and get-in-the-game fitness and fun. The Soccer Village will feature foods from around the world, including Cuba, Ireland, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Ecuador, Brazil, Columbia, and the Dominican Republic.

A variety of kids’ activities, including face painting, video gaming and bounce houses, will be offered within the soccer village. Soccer merchandise, soccer games, and a virtual FIFA tournament played on PS3 and Xbox will also be available for fans of the sport.

The Soccer 5 Foundation supports the growth of soccer in Miami to promote and encourage a healthy, active lifestyle within the community. Funds are to be distributed in order to create spaces to play, grants for coaching, tuition, and developmental scholarships, amongst other initiatives. “It’s our way of helping popularize the sport and helping it grow at one of South Florida’s leading soccer complexes,” Georgeson stated.

The mission of Soccer 5 is to promote participation in 5 v 5 soccer in every city around the USA, via its platform of Soccer 5 USA operations, live video and forums, and the Soccer 5 Academy.

The event is free and open to the general public. To participate in the tournament, team costs range from $175 to $325. Sponsors of the event to date include Costco, RedBull, Soccer Locker, Sports Grill, Miami Chamber South, Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, and the Sports Authority. Additional sponsorships at four contributory levels are available. To register for the tournament or for sponsorship information, please contact Scott Georgeson, Soccer 5 Miami President, at 1-888-575-2976, or visit www.miamisoccerfestival.org or www.soccer5usa.com/miami.

Proceeds of the event will support The Soccer 5 Foundation (www.soccer5foundation.org) and The Parks Foundation of Miami Dade (www.parksfoundationofmiamidade.com), working together to create more spaces to play and learn the world’s most popular game.

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BY ALICE FISHER

Bring your dog to watch the Florida Marlins battle the San Francisco Giants on Friday, Aug. 12, 7:10 p.m., at Sun Life Stadium and help raise money for the Humane Society of Greater Miami.

Here’s how it works. To purchase tickets contact Cynthia Coutard at 305-749-1842 or send email to <Cynthia@humanesocietymiami.org>. Tickets are only $12 for adults, $6 for kids and $6 for dogs.

Dog owners must carry proof of the rabies vaccination with them to the game.

You can download and sign the waiver document you can find by going to <www.humanesocietymiami.org> and clicking on 2011 Bark at the Park, and bring it with you to the game. Proceeds

from all dog tickets will benefit the Humane Society of Greater Miami.

Day-of-game sales for Bark at the Park will take place at Gate B beginning at 5 p.m. and concluding in the second inning of the game. Fans and their dogs should enter the stadium through Gate B, with disabled fans and their dogs using the Gate G entrance starting at 4:30 p.m.

Seating will be general admission in the upper deck sections 401-404. Doggie pools, water dishes and a dog-walking area will be available throughout the game. Group tickets are also available by calling 305-626-SAVE. For more information and to purchase individual tickets contact Cynthia Coutard at 305-749-1842 or by email at <Cynthia@humanesocietymiami.org>.

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Get Some Summer Lovin’ at July 31 pet adoption event

BY ROBERT HAMILTON

Animal Services invites you to celebrate its summer Pet Adoption Event, Get Some Summer Lovin’, on Sunday, July 31, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The adoption celebration of pets, life, loyalty and love will take place at the Animal Services Shelter located at 7401 NW 74 St. in Medley.

The event will give residents the opportunity to adopt dogs and cats who are in need of a loving home and find true unconditional love. Anyone who adopts a pet at the event will receive a complimentary picture with the new family member.

Interested adopters must be at least 18 years old. Adoption fees apply, including a $50 refundable deposit if pet is not yet spayed or neutered. Only Miami-Dade County residents may adopt pets under the spay/neuter agreement.

Attendance is free and open to the public. Donations of dog and/or cat toys are appreciated.

Adoption Gift Certificates also are available. If you are thinking about giving a pet to someone as a present, you may purchase an Adoption Gift Certificate so they choose the pet best for their lifestyle.

Donation Gift Certificates are ideal presents for any occasion. It’s the perfect gift for everyone and a gift that will help the shelter animals.

Animal Services is responsible for enforcing Chapter 5 of the Miami-Dade County Code, as well as Florida Statute 828, which deals primarily with animal cruelty issues. Unlike private shelters that have limitations on the number of pets they accept, Animal Services accepts all dogs and cats. Each year, the shelter impounds 36,000 pets. The goal at Animal Services is to reunite lost pets with their families or find life-long homes for as many animals as possible.

For more information visit online at <www.miamidade.gov/animals> or call 3-1-1.

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ASK YOUR PROPERTY APPRAISER…

Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Pedro J. Garcia Answers Questions From Property Owners

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Pedro Garcia has identified community education and outreach as being among the important tasks for his office. He frequently attends meetings of professional organizations, community groups and homeowners associations. Additionally, he has makes himself and his senior staff available to the media, granting interviews to radio, television and newspaper reporters.

This newspaper column is his latest outreach effort to property owners and other residents, providing an opportunity for them to ask questions and hear from their Property Appraiser.

QUESTION: Last year, the value of my home along with all the others in my community, declined substantially.

However, the Property Appraiser increased my assessment and my taxes went up. How can you increase my assessment when property values are going down?

PEDRO GARCIA: This subject was raised indirectly last month.

Thank you for the opportunity to explain it more fully.

In 1992 Florida voters overwhelmingly approved Constitutional Amendment 10, which is generally known as the “Save Our Homes” amendment.

This amendment passed out of concern for rising property values, which resulted in higher property taxes. The idea, as some supporters of the amendment put it, was to prevent homeowners from being taxed out of their homes.

The Save Our Homes amendment

created a second value on properties with a homestead exemption, called the assessed value. Unlike the market value, which must show the full value of the property as of each January 1, the assessed value only increases by 3% or the Consumer Price Index (CPI), whichever is lower.

Therefore, even as the market value of a home increased by whatever the market dictated, the assessed value increase could go up by no more than 3% or the CPI. Amendment 10 saved homeowners hundreds and thousands of dollars in taxes in those years when the market was increasing by double digits.

Market values have been decreasing in the last few years.

However, the law requires that properties, which still have a Save Our Homes assessed value that is lower than their market value, must be increased by up to the 3%.

This is called the Recapture Rule.

What does this mean in taxes?

Let’s use 2010 data as an example. The CPI that year was 2.7%. As such, a property with homestead exemption in unincorporated MiamiDade County with an assessed value of $100,000 in 2009 was increased for 2010 by 2.7%. This increased the assessed value by $2,700, resulting in the homeowner paying $55.24 more in taxes because of this Save Our Homes increase.

For 2011 the CPI is 1.5% and unless the law is changed, or the Recapture Rule eliminated, any homesteaded property with an assessed value lower than the market value, will be subject to this 1.5 percent increase in assessed value.

Over the last several sessions, members of the Florida Legislature have talked about changing the law to eliminate this Recapture Rule. This year, there are bills making their way through the legislature which do just that; stop assessed value increases in declining markets. I have given these efforts my full support and I encourage you to contact your representative in Tallahassee and make your opinion on this matter known.

To ask the Property Appraiser a question please write to: Ask the Property Appraiser 111 NW 1st Street, Suite 710 Miami, Florida 22128

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Audi R8 Spyder named best convertible by SAMA

BY RON BEASLEY

Audi R8 Spyder named best convertible in SAMA inaugural “Topless in Miami” event.

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Automotive Editor Members of the Southern Automotive Media Association (SAMA) named the new 2012 Audi R8 Spyder as the best convertible in the inaugural “Topless in Miami” event conducted recently at the Ritz-Carlton Resort on Key Biscayne.

At the same time, the beautiful new 2012 BMW 650i was named Best Luxury Convertible in a close competition that saw the Jaguar XKR and Mercedes Benz SLK350 finish closely behind the winner.

The Audi A5, Infiniti G37, Lexus IS250 and Mercedes Benz SLK350 also were contenders in the Luxury Convertible category.

SAMA members judged a total of 19 vehicles entered in the competition by 15 different manufacturers and selected the unique new Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet as the Best Family Convertible; the venerable Chevrolet Corvette as the Best Sports Car Convertible, and the all new Fiat 500C as the Best Small Convertible.

More than 40 SAMA members participated in the ride-and-drive competition, spending the day driving each of the convertible automobiles on the roads of Key Biscayne, then scoring them on overall design, ease of operating the convertible top and the driving characteristics of each car.

“It was a wonderful event and everything went very smoothly,” said SAMA president Paul Borden. “Even the weather cooperated; it rained all around South Florida, but not a drop fell on Key Biscayne until our event was finished. And we had some of the most beautiful and impressive automotive machinery in the world to drive and grade.

“Our membership did an exceptional job of picking the winning automobiles and I think the manufacturers were satisfied with

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The winners were announced at an awards ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton that same evening.

Other convertibles that were entered in the competition included the Chevrolet Camaro, Ford’s Mustang GT, Chrysler 200 and Volkswagen Eos in the Best Family Convertible category; the BMW Z4 and Nissan 370Z Roadster in the Sports Car bracket, and the Jeep Wrangler, Mazda MX-5 Miata and MINI Cooper in the Small Convertible category.

SAMA is an organization made up of journalists, media organizations, corporate communication specialists, marketing and advertising specialists, and auto manufacturers specializing in the automotive industry. Formed in 2007, the organization now has more than 100 members throughout Florida and the Southeastern United States.

Each year, SAMA hosts a luncheon at the South Florida International Auto Show and recognizes the outstanding vehicles in the show, including the coveted “Star of the Show.” Many of the SAMA selections have gone on to win national honors in the automotive media industry.

SAMA also sponsors the annual RidesN-Smiles event in conjunction with the Homestead-Miami Speedway and the support of many auto manufacturers. The event is intended to bring smiles to patients and families in programs at Baptist Children’s Hospital and Miami Children’s Hospital by giving them rides in “dream cars” around the speedway’s road course.

For more information, contact SAMA president Paul Borden at 305-807-0454 or send email to <pborden41@yahoo.com>.

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Fiat returns to United States with nifty little 500C Ron Beasley LETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TALK CARS I was prepared not to like the little Fiat 500C that was delivered to me for a week of test driving, but the more I drove it, the more I liked it.

Fiat has partnered with Chrysler to return to the United States after almost three decades â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the first South Florida dealer is Rick Case in Broward County â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and they are launching the effort with a nifty little product that many are going to hate, and just as many are going to love.

Certainly, the Fiat 500 is a cute little car and it does have an appeal to women. Just about everywhere I went, women approached and asked about the car. So, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;chick magnet,â&#x20AC;? this might be the ticket.

The 500 is a small car â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about as big as a Smart Car or a MINI â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Fiat has done a good job of updating the original

version, keeping the bubble appearance and rounded fenders, and a front end that is mostly headlights and the Fiat logo.

As for performance, there is a lot to be desired. The 1.4-liter, 101 hp four-cylinder engine simply does not have the power to play in U.S. urban traffic.

Stomp the gas peddle and you wonder if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to beat the traffic bearing down on you. But you soon learn the limitations of this little car and how to deal with them. After all, this is a commuter car, a vehicle made for commuting to work and getting around the city.

Our test vehicle came with an automatic transmission and it was a little dicey in highway situations, even in the sport setting, and I would have liked to have driven it with a manual gearbox. I think the response would have been much better.

The 500C is labeled as a cabriolet or convertible, but the top really is more of a sunroof, the fabric top sliding back in accordion style at the push of a button.

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Fiat 500 models include the Hatchback and Cabriolet, with a starting price of

$15,500. Options can quickly run the price up and our test vehicle with leather seats and navigation listed at $23,300.

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