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Applications being accepted for Tuckfield scholarship

A fund created by a couple to honor the memory of their daughter is planning to award $35,000 in graduate business tuition scholarships for the 2008-09 academic year to African-American students who live in South Florida.


YOUR PHOTOS & VIDEOS

Submitted by Rita Regev, Bay Harbor Islands: "JAFCO-Jewish Adoption & Foster Care Options, hosted a luncheon & silent auction. From left: Tova Zohar, Event hostess; Rita Regev, volunteer; Marsha Hoffman, Co-Chair; Karen De-Cou, Co-Chair; Miri Mazor, Pres. Miami Chptr; Sharlene Lustig."


NEIGHBORS ESSENTIALS

North Central Neighbors editor: Mohamed Hamaludin, mhamaludin@MiamiHerald.com, 305-376-2022, ext. 7106

  • Courtney Toombs, a first grader from Martin Luther King Elementary School, performs at the 31st annual Theodore Gibson Oratorical Competition at the Miami Dade North Campus.

    NORTH CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE

    Young orators display speaking skills

    Courtney Toombs stepped up to the stage and, without hesitation, began to loudly recite: 'I'm not giving my black back! I'm not giving up my greens or my grits or saying `Girl' and putting my hands on my hips.''

  • NEIGHBORS IN RELIGION | BY BEA HINES

    North Miami Beach church will celebrate 60 years

    W arm Neighbors in Religion congratulations to the members of First Baptist Church of North Miami Beach on the occasion of their 60th anniversary. It will be celebrated June 7-8 at the church, 1490 NE 162nd St.

  • Graduates from the St. Thomas University School of Law celebrate at their Commencement Ceremony on May 10.

    St. Thomas holds 47th commencement

    More than 250 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students graduated from St. Thomas University at the 47th commencement May 10 at the Broward County Convention Center.

  • NEWS FROM MIAMI DADE COLLEGE

    Mystery writer to attend literary event

    Mystery writer Edna Buchanan will be among several authors scheduled to appear at The Noir Side of the Sun: Crimes, Mysteries and Thrillers Miami Style literary event presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College at 6:30 p.m. today.

  • CRIME BLOTTER

    Police reports from local municipalities

    MIAMI GARDENS A burglar took $250 from a drawer in a trailer in the 19900 block of Northwest 37th Avenue between midnight and 9 a.m. May 7. There was no sign of forced entry.

  • LIBERTY CITY

    Abusers speak at domestic violence meeting in Liberty City

    The tension in the room heightened when Carlo Checkley began to speak. ''I would blame her for everything, and I just began to hit on her. I could not see that I was the problem,'' Checkley said. ``She allowed me to do it for so long that it became acceptable. She accepted that I put my hands on her, and I accepted that I did it.''

  • OPA-LOCKA

    Opa-locka mayor reads to kids for National Library Month

    Opa-locka Mayor Joseph L. Kelley read from three books to a group of 16 students from A Child's Journey Charter School as part of the Miami-Dade Library System's observance of National Library Month in April.

UPCOMING ELECTIONS

MIAMI GARDENS

Primary election is Aug. 26. Voter registration closes July 28. Candidate qualifying dates: June 2-9, 2008.

Run-off election is Nov. 4. Voter registration closes Oct. 6.


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