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Before Black History Month was a nationally recognized observance, “Negro History Week” was created in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson. He chose the second week of February for its observance because that week typically includes the birthdays of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. He wanted to encourage the teaching of Black History in schools. At that time, there was frequently little to no inclusion of the contributions and plight of African Americans in history classes.

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Join your neighbors on the plaza at Miramar Town Center for the most exiting way to stay in shape! Zumba on the Plaza is open to everyone each Tuesday evening at 6:30pm. The one-hour party/workout will put a smile on your face and keep us all young. For more info visit www.miramarfl.gov.

Renowned Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli will have you swooning during his annual “In Concert for Valentine’s.” Doors to the FLA Live Arena open at 7:00pm while the concert begins at 8:00pm. Tickets are available via ticketmaster.

FEBRUARY 12 Mayors’ Countywide Chess Challenge

FEBRUARY 6

Join Cooper City Mayor Greg Ross, children, and adults of all ages for this free event in support of Scholastic Chess! Players of all ages and skill levels are invited to participate in open play. At the Pool & Tennis Center located at 11600 Stonebridge Parkway from 9:00am till 11:00am. For more info call 954-434-4300 #272.

Hollywood ArtsPark Experience: Third World

Celebrating 47 years, THIRD WORLD is one of the longest-lived Reggae bands of all time, and one of Jamaica’s most consistently popular crossover acts among international audiences. Mixing in elements of R&B, funk, pop, and rock and, later on, dancehall and rap, Third World’s style has been described as “reggae-fusion”. The group is holding firm to the cultural and ancestral roots of its members and still pushes forward the cutting edge of music worldwide.

7:00pm - 10:00pm. Concert is FREE. For more info call 305-672-5202.

Paradise Soul Fest

Join us at the Miramar Amphitheater for Paradise Soul Fest and let us bring you to an ultimate soulful state of mind. Enjoy the great sounds from R&B singers El DeBarge, Eric Benet, and After 7. Come enjoy Soul food, great vendors and our community as we touch your Soul! Show begins at 6:00pm. For tickets or more info visit www.miramaramp.com.

FEBRUARY 13 Symphony of the Americas: SERENADES

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FEBRUARY 27

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The Friends of T. Y. Park is presenting a free Salsa and Latin Jazz concert featuring the band, Cachi y Saoco Nuevo from 4:00-6:00 pm at T. Y. Park, Pavilion 12. Food truck on site for the event. T.Y. Park - Pavilion 12, 3300 North Park Road. For more info visit www.hollywoodfl.org.

This family-friendly event includes eight concerts once a month on Sunday afternoons, weather permitting. Those who attend are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs for seating. Concessions will be available for purchase. 3:00 pm till 5:00 pm at the Charles F. Dodge City Center, 601 City Center Way. For more info call 954-392-2116.

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Orange Blossom Festival Rodeo

Head over to the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds after the Orange Blossom Festival Parade to watch the Rodeo! Watch professional cowboys and cowgirls get after it. Everyone should visit the rodeo at least once! At the Davie Arena, 4271 Davie Road. Tickets available at https://davieprorodeo.com/dpr/ tickets/

FEBRUARY 26 Afro-Carib Festival

Celebrate Black History Month and Reggae Month as Commisssioner Alexandra P. Davis hosts the 2022 Afro Carib Festival.

Performances from Afro B, Protoje and more. Gates open at 6pm. Enjoy an evening with music, dance, food and more. Tickets start at $15. For more info or tickets visit https://www.miramarfl.gov/

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Andrew Abramson, president of A Shade Above Window Fashions, and his family have been in the window covering industry for more than 50 years.

He recently answered some questions about his business and what differentiates it from the competition.

Please describe your showrooms.

If you’re in the market for shades or blinds, shopping in one of our showrooms is an experience. When my father, Bruce, started A Shade Above in 1984, he had a vision of a showroom-based shades and blinds company where customers could see full size, interactive displays of all the latest products on the market. In 2000, our Davie showroom was selected as the nation’s first Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Gallery. In 2020 we opened a second showroom in Sunrise near the Sawgrass Mills Mall to better serve our expanding customer base. We’ve treated windows in thousands of Miramar homes, and our new showroom is conveniently located for shoppers who live near or west of I-75. Customers in east or central

Miramar can continue to use our Davie showroom. Both of our stateof-the-art showrooms offer a wide variety of indoor and outdoor shades and blinds from top national and international brands. We have products to fit all budgets.

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We provide many of the top products on the market, including plantation shutters, roller and patio shades, roman shades, horizontal and vertical blinds, automated awnings and patio screens, Luminette, Silhouette, Pirouette and PowerView and Somfy automation.

What products are currently trending in the window covering industry?

Plantation shutters remain one of our most popular products.

They are a timeless window treatment that is always in style. If you’re looking for a decorative statement, plantation shutters provide trim work around your window, including a new contemporary frame. Depending on which shutter you choose, they can complement any decor.

What other trends can customers spot in your showrooms?

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Customers love our Duo Shades — during the day a transparent shade gives you a view of the outside while maintaining privacy and keeping out the heat. At night the blackout shade keeps the room private while maintaining darkness when the sun rises.

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With so many choices, how do you help customers make a decision?

When customers visit our showrooms, they receive a tour of the newest shades and blinds available today. We recognize that it can be difficult to make decisions from small samples. That’s why our business model is special. Our full-size displays are available for the customer to view and operate as it will appear in their home.

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he Senior Games movement started in Florida almost fifty years ago when the Golden Age Games was created in Sanford. A task force was then appointed to study the games and determine a course of action to take moving forward. Without hesitation, the committee decided that it was the right time to bring all existing local senior games together to better serve the needs of seniors as well as standardize them to lead to a state championship.

The Florida Senior Games provides seniors an opportunity to interact with other seniors as they play in various sports and activities. However, the focus is not on winning but participating.

The games encourage and promote a healthy lifestyle, an exclusive multi-sport festival, and the chance to compete at the local, state, and national levels.

Throughout the years, the Florida Senior Games has grown exponentially, but this year was even more special as the 30th anniversary was celebrated. The 2021 games were recently held in December at the Jim Ward Community

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Miramar Vice Mayor Yvette Colbourne sponsored ten seniors who were enrolled in Miramar’s senior center to participate in the Domino Championship. Like all other sports, all games are played and followed by the rule book. This event was a multiple partners tournament in which individuals and/or random partners played over seven (7) rounds of one set each round. Win or lose, all players were able to compete in each of the seven (7) Rounds.

At the end of the seventh round, the player with the highest accumulated score wins the Tournament.

The ambitious bunch received transportation from Miramar to the City of Plantation where they each donned their “Senior Domino” tournament gear and competitive spirit. They enjoyed the camaraderie and a festive meal with others who shared the same passion.

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iramar celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on January 17th with its annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Caravan. The parade departed the Mirmar multi-service complex at 10:00 am and included city leaders, representatives of the fire and police departments, and the community at large.

Residents from all walks of life came out to watch the procession pass. In addition to

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he Carbonell Awards are seeking college-bound high school students to apply for 2022 Jack Zink Memorial Scholarships. Theater and journalism students from Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties are encouraged to apply for $2,000 Scholarships. Since 1978, the Carbonell Awards has given out more than $110,000 in scholarships to winning applicants.

The selection of scholarship recipients is based on talent, experience, and demonstrated commitment to theater and/or journalism, with one winner from each of the three area counties (Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach) receiving a $2,000 scholarship.

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• Completed application must be submitted no later than February 7, 2022.

• The interview/audition for scholarship finalists will be held on Sunday, March 13, 2022, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

The Carbonell Awards fosters the artistic growth of professional theater in South Florida by celebrating the diversity of our theater artists, providing educational scholarships, and building audience appreciation and civic pride by highlighting achievements of our theater community.

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accomplishments of local artistic leaders by presenting several Special Awards. Over the last 45 years, the Carbonell family has donated more than $250,000 in awards.

The scholarship is named for Jack Zink (1947-2008) who was a major voice in South Florida entertainment coverage for more than three decades.

Zink was the founder and a past president of the Carbonell Awards, a past president of The American Theatre Critics Association, and was a recipient of both the Sun-Sentinel’s Fred Pettijohn Award, which is given annually to the newspaper’s top reporters, and South Florida’s prestigious George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. ⊲ Follow the QR code for applications and guidelines for the 2022 Jack Zink Memorial Student Scholarships.

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The Burmese python is now distributed across more than a thousand square miles of southern Florida, including all of Everglades National Park and areas to the north including Big Cypress National Preserve and Collier-Seminole State Forest. A number of Burmese pythons have been found in the Florida Keys, but there is not yet confirmation of a breeding population in the Keys.

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agents. All submitted applications will be kept on file and reviewed whenever positions become available. Python removal agents will receive $10.00 per hour or $15.00 per hour depending on the area for up to ten (10) hours each day while actively searching for pythons on designated lands. For all eliminated pythons, the District will make an additional payment per python: $50.00 for pythons measuring up to four (4) feet, and an extra $25.00 for every foot measured above four (4) feet. See example below:

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ain in the front or

back of the ankle can occur from a dancer standing “en point” or “demi point.”

Pain behind the ankle is due to a bone prominence that pinches the soft tissue or due to a fractured bone or cartilage in the back of the ankle (Os Trigonum). A deep pain in the back of the ankle is felt and is made worse if the foot points down.

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anti-inflammatory medication. If the pain does not improve, a Cortisone injection is given to decrease inflammation and scar tissue. Unresolved pain may be treated surgically, thus allowing a full return to dance. The back of the ankle is cleaned out and a small piece of bone may be removed with arthroscopic surgery to allow the dancer to return to full activity. Rarely an open procedure is needed.

Pain in the front of the ankle is usually caused by thickening of the ankle joint lining and can cause pain while moving the leg forward on the foot. This impingement syndrome is usually associated with an ankle ligament injury and can become very painful, especially the first thing in the morning when getting out of bed to walk or after sitting for a short period of time and getting up to walk. The inflammation and soreness usually lessen with activity but return later on in the day.

Physical therapy and a short course of anti-inflammatory medication may be necessary to reduce the inflammation in the ankle joint.

If that does not improve, a Fluoroscopic Guided Cortisone injection may be necessary to reduce the thickening of the soft tissue. If conservative measures fail, a Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injection can be given into the joint to improve healing potential.

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We will never forget the 17 whose lives were o m a t te r h o w much time passes, taken that day – Alyssa Alhadeff, Scott Biegel, February 14, the day Martin Duque, Nicholas Dworet, Aaron Feis, of the shooting at Marjory Jaime Guttenberg, Chris Hixon, Luke Hoyer, Stoneman Douglas High Cara Loughran, Gina Montalto, Joaquin Oliver, School, will always be a day that profoundly Alaina Petty, Meadow Pollack, Helena Ramsay, impacts our community. While most people Alex Schachter, Carmen Schentrup, and Peter in other parts of the country have moved on, Wang. Each one of these people left behind we continue to work to move forward, all while grieving family members and friends. For those respectfully acknowledging the incredible loss, who lost loved ones, every day is difficult, and pain, and trauma that affected so many in our February 14th will be especially so. community.

In addition to those that were taken, we also acknowledge and remember the 17 people who were physically injured on February 14 and the hundreds more who were traumatized. Everyone who lived in our community that day was somehow affected, and many of the emotions from that day may resurface as we near the fourth-year mark. Support continues to be available at Eagles’ Haven Wellness Center located at 5655 Coral Ridge Drive in Coral Springs. You can contact them at 954-618-0350 or through their website at www.eagleshaven.org.

Our legislative session continues this month

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in Tallahassee, and it is my honor to file a house resolution again this year recognizing February 14, 2022, as “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Memorial Day” in Florida, a day of remembrance for all of those who lost their lives, and whose lives were forever changed, as a result of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

You can follow all the bills I and others have filed by visiting myfloridahouse.gov.

As always, please feel free to reach out to our office at 954-956-5600 with any questions you may have. I will also be providing updates on Facebook at @RepChristineHunschofsky and on Twitter at @rephunschofsky. If you wish to receive email updates, please contact Brianna Schofield at Brianna.Schofield@myfloridahouse. gov to be added to the list. We look forward to hearing from you!

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ith four months left in the 20212022 school year, we would like to take this time to remind parents/guardians of an important conversation to have with your children concerning threats of violence. This school year alone, the Miramar Police Department has investigated numerous cases and arrested several students for making such threats.

After investigations have been conducted, the majority of these threats have proved not to be credible. Most students making threats have motives ranging from wanting to disrupt a school function to making the threat as a prank. They fail to realize that their actions can have devastating consequences, putting not only the public, but their lives at risk. Those making threats also fail to realize the loss of valuable law enforcement resources that could have been directed to solving or preventing other crimes and the emotional distress caused to the entire community.

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your child that any threat ▸ Remind made will be thoroughly investigated

and the consequences are severe, affecting more than just their education and future career choices, even if the child’s intentions were to be humorous. Threats can come in the form of conversations, writings, emails/text messages, and/or social media posts using suggestive words or images.

Be receptive to answering your child’s questions and make sure they know the lines of communication with you and our department are open to discuss any aspect of a school threat.

Monitor your child’s social media accounts and talk to him/her about using social media responsibly.

If you see something, say something: report any suspicious activity immediately. Do not forward or share the threat until the proper authorities have had a chance to investigate it. Doing so could cause panic or spread misinformation.

We applaud students who come forward to report suspicious activity and want to express our gratitude for your

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support of our officers and staff. We truly appreciate the trust you have given the Miramar Police Department in caring for your children.

The Miramar Police Department has always been committed to the safety and future of our children. We were the first agency in Broward County to provide full-time SROs at every public school and have had a school resource officer (SRO) program for decades. Today, our public and charter schools all benefit from the fundamental concept of the SRO program - having students and faculty interact with officers on a day-to-day basis, thus building trust and developing relationships with the youth of our community. Unfortunately, no school district is immune to threats or acts of violence. We must all remain vigilant.

Please remember that communication is key to working together effectively.

Our partnership with you and your child is necessary to maintain safe schools for students, faculty, and staff. Please follow us on Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram for additional safety information.

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Expires 2/28/22. Please see website for rental and range restrictions.

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Learn when you can legally use your gun & how to protect yourself from liability.

Emphasizes safety, fundamentals of marksmanship, handgun parts and function. Excellent for novices, first time gun owners, or experienced shooters who wish to review the basics. Shotgun and rifle classes also available.

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Expires 2/28/22. Please see website for rental & range restrictions. No gun rentals by solitary shooters.

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BASIC HANDGUN

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LADIES DAY: every Monday ladies get free range time.

PRIVATE LESSONS

Private lessons available for all skill levels, from first timers to advanced shooters. Customized to your specific needs by our NRA certified instructors.

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DEFENSIVE HANDGUN

Stepwise progression from fundamental skills used in defensive situations to advanced techniques such as holster draw and malfunction clearing

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