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MARCH 2 - 15, 2009
ONE OF MIAMI’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
A salute to Columbus HS’s Brother Kevin BY GRANT MILLER
Publisher I first met Brother Kevin Handibode in 1977 when I was still in college and he hired me as an assistant coach for the Columbus High School football and baseball teams. In the 30-plus years that I have known him, I have come to respect and admire him as a man of integrity and honesty, and for all the good he has done for this community. When you say Brother Kevin, in essence you are saying Columbus High School. Brother Kevin is one of the people who have made the school into the outstanding educational facility it is today. It was he who instilled the qualities of honesty, integrity and good sportsmanship in literally thousands of young men who moved through the halls of the school on their various paths to becoming productive adults. He taught them the meaning of life and instilled in them all the necessary things they needed to become the future leaders of tomorrow. After 36 years s e r v i n g Christopher Columbus High School, Brother Brother Kevin Handibode Kevin is a true leg–––––––––––––––– end at the private, all-boy Catholic school. No other person has worked in more capacities at Columbus — teacher, dean of discipline, varsity basketball coach, athletic director, development director and principal. Today, he is president of the school, a −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−
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Capital cooperation
Village Council meetings go ‘live’ online BY LEE STEPHENS
n March 10, the Village Council will officially inaugurate a new streaming media service on the Village’s web site at <www.pinecrest-fl.gov>. The new service, approved by the Village Council last December, will provide live streaming video of all Village Council meetings. An archive of meeting videos and other important videos, including the mayor’s recent State of the Village address, is also available on the site. “This is another avenue of communication with our residents,” said Village Clerk Guido Inguanzo and the Village’s webmaster. “Mayor Cindy Lerner and the Council want to facilitate citizen participation and this is another steps toward that goal.” To access the streaming media page, users can visit <www.pinecrestfl.gov/live> or click on “Streaming Video” on the home page.
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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, visited the U.S. State Department last week and paused for a moment to show Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a copy of her favorite hometown newspaper.
Positive PEOPLE
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DIANE HORN
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