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Broward County offices: Open
Miami-Dade and Broward courts: Closed
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Garbage collection: Varies; check with your municipality
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Stock markets: Closed
Post offices: Closed
Miami-Dade and Broward Transit: Regular schedule
Tri-Rail: Regular schedule
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Malls: Open
The Heiken Children’s Vision Program provides free comprehensive eye examination and glasses when prescribed to low-income school children who fail their vision screening and have no insurance or other resources for eye care. The program was started in 1992, and since then, 75,000 children have received exams with 83 percent needing and receiving free eyeglasses.
Persistence paid off for an Archbishop Coleman Carroll senior. She asked (and asked) and ultimately received Dwyane Wade as her prom date.
The popular television show has helped solve Miami homicides, but critics say the cameras can be a distraction to investigators and the show seems to focus more on African-American communities.
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