SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2010
Work to begin in October on traffic calming projects BY GARY ALAN RUSE
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rojects to make neighborhood streets safer for students attending village schools were approved by council members during the Sept. 13 Palmetto Bay Village Council meeting, and residents can expect to see construction work begin in early October. Director of Public Works Corrice Patterson explained the background of the improvements during an interview on Sept. 20. “There are two traffic calming projects we’ve been planning for the past two years, close to two different elementary schools, Howard Drive on 136th Street and 77th Avenue and Coral Reef on 152nd Street,” Patterson said. “Those areas receive a lot of cut-through traffic and the people there have asked for help. We did a study a year and a half ago and the outcome was a recommendation for a certain type of traffic calming device.” Patterson said that residents in the affected areas initially had resisted the idea
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TRAFFIC, page 4
Public Works team helps Palmetto Bay look good
BY MICHELLE AREAN
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Palmetto Bay ground maintenance worker Steven Diaz trims the swale along S. Dixie Highway (US 1) in front of the village’s new municipal complex now under construction. This is one of myriad tasks — from trimming and planting to maintaining storm drainage and roadways — performed every day by the vil(Photo courtesy Village of Palmetto Bay) lage’s Public Works team.
Knots of Hope gala to benefit Transplant Foundation BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD
Priscilla SuzalWright is founder of Knots of Hope.
House of Horror Amusement Park returns to wreak havoc on Oct. 7
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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
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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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