NEWS FROM: Florida City, Goulds, Homestead, Naranja, Princeton, Redland, South Dade
Families, friends and supportive neighbors bid a proud -- and sometimes tearful -- farewell to about 300 reservists who deployed to Iraq from the Homestead Air Reserve Base late Tuesday night.
The mysterious used shoes that littered the Palmetto Expressway, causing traffic tie-ups and a national stir last week, will soon be paired with those in need after being picked up Tuesday by an international charity.
The 32nd annual Redland Festival returns to the Fruit & Spice Park this weekend. The Redland Festival will offer its traditional natural arts and crafts Saturday and Sunday.
![[FILE PHOTO - 01/08/08]: Dr. Walter T. Richardson, pastor of the Sweet Home Baptist Church, stands in front of the new building that is on the corner of Eureka Dr. and SW 107th Avenue.](http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2009/01/07/10/171-church13_church_dns_rnv.bigthumb.prod_affiliate.56.JPG)
Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church to move into its new $7 million mega-sanctuary near Florida's Turnpike in Perrine.
GOULDS | A thief drove off with a 2002 Nissan Sentra in the 10200 block of Southwest 224th Terrace between 10:30 a.m. Oct. 29 and 9 a.m. Dec. 23 while the owner was in jail.
Florida City continues its work toward making sure the Friedland Manor neighborhood will finally be free of flooding. The city is now in the second -- and final -- phase of the $8 million project that began more than five years ago.
A genetic disorder suddenly struck Joshua Stephens at age 12, leaving him unable to move or speak. Though family members have turned away, his mother works hard to provide care and believes more interaction will improve his condition.
With the dismal economy, pet rescuers are finding more abandoned puppies, some only a few weeks old and still needing to be bottle-fed.
We recap the year that was in Homestead, Florida City and the surrounding communities and look to some of what will come up in 2009.
The county's southernmost -- and geographically largest -- police district is getting a new leader as Maj. Carlos Garcia moves on to head another department.
The Canelos family, part-time residents of Key Biscayne, has donated its 26-foot catamaran to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
GOULDS PARK AREA | A thief drove off with a 2002 Lincoln Navigator in the 22600 block of Southwest 113th Place between 1:30 and 7:15 a.m. Dec. 28.
![[Dec. 17, 2008]: Maritza Garay, right, with her daughter Marianna Garay, 13, at the Association of Retarded Citizens Project Thrive daycare in Florida City. Garay's wish this holiday season is to have a lift that would help her move Marianna - who was born prematurely with Cerebral Palsy - around their tiny apartment in Homestead. Garay, who works part time at a McDonald's, also needs help buying the nutritional beverage that is her daughters sole source of nutrition.](http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2008/12/30/09/53-MariAnnaMom01_wishbook_loca.bigthumb.prod_affiliate.56.jpg)
Since her baby was born, Maritza Garay could lift her daughter -- her ''angel from God'' -- from her bed and into her wheelchair, the bathtub, the sofa or other parts of their home. But a recent hysterectomy has made moving the frail 47-pound girl, now 13, more difficult for the diminutive single mother.
EAST REDLAND | A burglar took two televisions, a shotgun and a DVD player after prying open a sliding glass door at a house in the 20500 block of Southwest 130th Court between 5 p.m. Dec. 7 and 11:15 a.m. Dec. 15. The items were valued at $3,000.
Everglades artist Bill McCreary, whose works are displayed throughout the United States, will speak at the Bea Peskoe Lunchtime Lecture Series at noon Monday in the Food Court of the Prime Outlets at Florida City.
Special students from schools throughout Miami-Dade County were named the October winners in the Do The Right Thing Program (DTRT), sponsored by the Miami Police Department, British Airways, The Miami Herald and WTVJ-NBC 6.
BY ROBIN SARANTOS Special to The Miami Herald Have a couple of free hours? Why not volunteer at your child's school? Volunteer opportunities are abundant and range from PTA/PTSA to school-site activities.
Have a couple of free hours? Why not volunteer at your child's school? Volunteer opportunities are abundant and range from PTA/PTSA to school-site activities.
I felt conflicted when I read in the Dec. 14 Neighbors that the folks who live by Pinecrest Gardens were concerned that ``proposed permanent lighting around the Gardens meadow, lakeside terrace and nearby walkways would shine in their yards just as the lights in (the) community center's soccer field do.''
While the blame for our current economic crisis lies resolutely with greedy Wall Street bankers and predatory lenders, their schemes succeeded because they took advantage of the low financial literacy of many working Americans.
Time to Go is a one-act comedy that transcends time and place and is especially relevant to our present economic turbulence.
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