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JUNE 8 - 14, 2010
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Somerset SoMi celebrates Around Town the end to their first year Fun and games
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BY LEE STEPHENS
omerset SoMi, the new kids on the block, celebrates the end of its first year! The Charter School is the first bilingual Charter School in South Miami. “This has been a fabulous first year,” said Principal Kim Guilarte Gil. “The students, teachers, parents and administrators have been involved in making this, our first year, a successful one.” Students have made friends and as a result, families have united to create lasting friendships. From the first gathering as a family at “Habitat for SoMi” to the Preschool and Kindergarten graduations, this year was one where many firsts were initiated. The kids participated in many cultural, after-school enrichment activities that have helped their understanding of the Community and the World. This year they also helped the South Miami Community with its Thanksgiving food drive, raising toys for Amigos for Kids, and helping with the disaster in Haiti. The kids have learned to be part of a community where they all pitch in and give back. “The kids have a wonderful family here
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Ms. Caro’s first and second grade classes.
Mayor Stoddard addresses RSMA
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BY GARY ALAN RUSE
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outh Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard will be the guest speaker at the meeting of the Red Sunset Merchant’s Association on June 8. The meeting will start at 11:45 a.m. at Casa Larios restaurant in South Miami, with time for networking before and after the program and luncheon. This will be the first opportunity for Mayor Stoddard to address the organization and he said he is looking forward to it. “I will tell the association my views
on the importance of businesses to the city, the imperative for improved relations between residents and business owners, and the need to support small businesses through the recession,” Stoddard said. “That’s a view shared by the rest of the commission, I might add.” Stoddard is a professor of Biological Sciences at Florida International University, is 53, married and has one child. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Washington. Casa Larios is located at 5859 Southwest 73rd Street.
T he s oap ope ra at city hall continues and some of our never to be revealed sources tell me that they overheard one of our bright eyed and bushy tailed commissioners tell the now old city manager something along this line, “Oh good, you have children. Well, there are five of us up here and we all need some attention.” And boy oh boy, do they need attention and would someone please pay attention to them. You can rest assured, if you don’t give it to them, they will do something real soon to get someone to write about or talk about them. And by the way, how are those hidden microphones doing nowadays? I hear that at a recent CRA meeting, the board instructed staff not to place any more advertising with us. Hmmm. Well folks, I think that this is wonderful; they didn’t like what we wrote so they’re holding back on giving us paying ads. Golly, I’ll just bet you that if the city attorney researches that type of behavior and checks out the lawsuit that the Broward Reviews filed against the Broward County Sheriff’s Department, he’d tell you all about the real world most of us live in and that the courts gave the Review a bunch of money for the BCSD retaliating against the newspaper. But alas, the city shouldn’t be concerned about that because the last time
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