Event: |
Bingo |
Date/Time: |
10/01/08 02:00PM
- 03:00PM |
Description: |
Place:
David P. Samson Commission Chambers |
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Event: |
Mount
Sinai Medical Lecture Series |
Date/Time: |
10/02/08 10:00AM
- 12:00PM |
Description: |
Place:
Pelican Community Park. RSVP: 305-674-2600 |
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Event: |
Convertible
Girl |
Date/Time: |
10/02/08 11:00AM
- 06:00PM |
Description: |
Danny
Simon's comedy is about the uproariously funny
story of Christine Fernandez who falls in love
with Ron Goldberg, who can't marry her because
she is not Jewish. After the conversion she
finds more than she bargained for in her new
found religion. Minimal walking required. Lunch
is included. Residents: $50.00 Non-Residents:
$55.00. |
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Event: |
Team
Metro Bus -- Cancelled |
Date/Time: |
10/03/08 08:30AM
- 04:30PM |
Description: |
Team
Metro Government on the go bus has been cancelled. |
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Event: |
Family
Movie Night |
Date/Time: |
10/04/08 07:00PM
- 09:30PM |
Description: |
Enjoy
a movie under the stars with family and friends.
Games & activities for children prior to
the movie. Food available for purchase. Bring
something to sit on (lawn/beach chairs, blanket
or towel). The screen will be on the baseball
field. Parking is available along 181st Drive,
182 Drive, and the school parking garage. |
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Event: |
Golden
Era Film Series |
Date/Time: |
10/07/08 10:00AM
- 12:00PM |
Description: |
Place:
Pelican Community Park |
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Event: |
Blood
Pressure and Blood Glucose Testing |
Date/Time: |
10/10/08 09:00AM
- 12:00PM |
Description: |
Place:
Pelican Community Park |
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Event: |
Sunny
Serenade |
Date/Time: |
10/15/08 07:30PM
- 09:00PM |
Description: |
Enjoy
the ocean breeze, a starry sky, good music
and good company. |
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Event: |
Regular
City Commission Meeting |
Date/Time: |
10/16/08 06:30PM
- 09:30PM |
Description: |
PLACE:
David P. Samson Commission Chambers |
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Event: |
Sunny
Isles Beach Jazz Fest |
Date/Time: |
10/17/08 06:00PM
- 11:00PM |
Description: |
For
ticket prices, places, and schedule of events
visit: http://www.sunnyislesbeachjazz.com/ |
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Event: |
Sunny
Isles Beach Jazz Fest |
Date/Time: |
10/18/08 06:00PM
- 11:00PM |
Description: |
For
ticket prices, places, and schedule of events
visit: http://www.sunnyislesbeachjazz.com/ |
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Event: |
Sunny
Isles Beach Jazz Fest |
Date/Time: |
10/19/08 06:00PM
- 11:00PM |
Description: |
For
ticket prices, places, and schedule of events
visit: http://www.sunnyislesbeachjazz.com/ |
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Event: |
Smokey
Joe's Cafe |
Date/Time: |
10/29/08 11:00AM
- 06:00PM |
Description: |
A
divine musical comedy shows the hysterical
coming of age story the evolves the education
and upbringing of 8 Chicago children. Minimal
walking required. Lunch is included. Residents:
$50.00 Non-Residents: $55.00. |
Drink
Pink Launch Party
- Kitchen
305
- Newport
Beachside Hotel 16701 Collins Ave.
- Sunny
Isles Beach, FL 33160
October
is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and several
of your favorite restos will be offering
up pink signature cocktails, a portion of
the sales being donated to breast cancer
research. To kick off the drive, Kitchen
305 is hosting this launch party, featuring
(of course) pink cocktails and hors d'oeuvres,
music by the Jacob Jeffries Band and DJ Fresh,
fashion (for sale) by ACDG by Nick Law, and
a Pink Plates dinner menu.
- When:
- Sat.,
Oct. 04 6:00pm-8:00pm
Live
Music at Lime Lounge
Ghaleb.
- Lime
Lounge
- 18001
Collins Ave.
- Sunny
Isles Beach, FL 33160
Lime
Lounge in the posh Trump International Beach
Resort, is spicing up the North Miami Beach
scene with live music and drink specials
six nights a week. International jet-setters
and locals alike retreat to the Lime Lounge
to add a vibrant flair to their evenings
amidst an upbeat setting featuring live music,
exotic cocktails and tantalizing tapas. Tonight
you can check out music by Ghaleb & Luis
and Rumba, Flamenco & Ole.
When?
- Thu.,
Oct. 02 8:00pm-11:59pm
- Thu.,
Oct. 09 8:00pm-11:59pm
- Thu.,
Oct. 16 8:00pm-11:59pm
- Thu.,
Oct. 23 8:00pm-11:59pm
- Thu.,
Oct. 30 8:00pm-11:59pm
Rose
Max
Rose
Max at Lime Lounge
- Lime
Lounge
- 18001
Collins Ave.
- Sunny
Isles Beach, FL 33160
Lime
Lounge in the posh Trump International Beach
Resort, is spicing up the North Miami Beach
scene with live music and drink specials
six nights a week. International jet-setters
and locals alike retreat to the Lime Lounge
to add a vibrant flair to their evenings
amidst an upbeat setting featuring live music,
exotic cocktails and tantalizing tapas. Tonight
you can check out Brazilian jazz by Rose
Max & Ramatis.
When?
- Sat.,
Oct. 04 8:00pm-11:59pm
- Sat.,
Oct. 11 8:00pm-11:59pm
- Sat.,
Oct. 18 8:00pm-11:59pm
- Sat.,
Oct. 25 8:00pm-11:59pm
- Sat.,
Nov. 01 8:00pm-11:59pm
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Sunny
Isles Beach Opens New 2 Acre Park
By
LISA BOLIVAR
Special
to The Miami Herald
The original pelican emblem that once sat upon The
Driftwood Motel now welcomes visitors to the Phyllis & Raanan
Katz Sports Center at the Pelican Community Center
in Sunny Isles Beach, bringing some of the city’s
history to its first-ever community center.
Sunny Isles
Beach opens
new community park
Sunny Isles
Beach on Saturday held the opening of Pelican Community
Park, a two-acre community center and ball park adjacent
to the new Sunny Isles Beach Community School.
The
school and the community center -- both firsts for
the city -- will share facilities when students use
the community center and park grounds for physical
education classes and citizens use the school for
evening access to computer labs.
About
300 people turned out in the sweltering heat to watch
the park's first all-girls baseball game on the new
diamond, to let children loose on a tot-lot playground
and to paint ceramic tiles in an upstairs, air-conditioned
classroom.
Opening
day also featured basketball competitions, a bridge
tournament and yoga. Two members of the Miami Heat
Dancers signed autographs in the gym.
Family
memberships to the park run $200 for residents, $300
for nonresidents and less for individuals and seniors.
The park is at 18115 N. Bay Rd.
Former
Commissioner Danny Iglesias, 54, watched as Mayor
Norman S. Edelcup threw the first pitch. Iglesias
was on the commission when the park was first designed,
and then as it began to be carved out of a wedge
of property between City Hall, the school and residential
high-rises.
''It
was a minor miracle to get to this point,'' Iglesias
said. ``The fact that my wife and I have our kids
going to the new school and now using this community
center makes me feel confident that while I may have
left office, I did so knowing that we had taken care
of our future. I couldn't have asked for more.''
The
$12 million park first came under discussion in 2001.
What appeared on the drawing boards was vastly different.
What began as a 6,000-square-foot structure with
eight parking spaces was transformed into a 10,000-square-foot
gymnasium, a 6,000-square-foot, two-story community
center with lots of meeting space and classrooms,
plus green space and toddler area.
The
people who came to see the facility had nothing but
good things to say.
''It
is so, so good,'' said Daniel Giron, 9, of Sunny
Isles Beach who is in the fourth grade at the school
next door. ``I am going to come here everyday I am
not in school. I love it.''
Angela
Azimova, 11, of Sunny Isles Beach agreed.
''The
new school is so much better than Ojus [Elementary
School], and the teachers are so nice here, and this
is so, so nice,'' she said.
Her
mother, Oxana Azimova, agreed, saying, ``This is
safe and this has such good security. I feel good
with my daughter coming here.''
Along
with programs to entice youths -- including family
story-telling, Israeli folk dancing, recreational
soccer and pee-wee soccer programs, cheerleading,
drama and Hebrew music clubs -- there will be programming
for the mature crowd that will include Tai Chi, Zumba,
jewelry making, yoga, Pilates and a lecture series.
Commissioner
Roslyn Brezin said the feedback she heard was enthusiastic.
''What
is most thrilling to me as a woman is the response
I am getting from the public,'' she said. ``This
center is bringing the city together; it's bringing
neighbors together that might not otherwise meet,
and I think that is one of the most important aspects
of this project.''
Edelcup,
who moved to the area in the late 1960s, observed
that when he first arrived in the small coastal town
hugged on both sides by water -- the Atlantic Ocean
to the east and the Intracoastal to the west -- there
were only about 300 children. The community catered
to retirees and had an average residential age of
70. Today, he noted, the city has about 1,600 children
and the average age has dropped to about 50.
''As
we get older, we get younger,'' he beamed.
Ina
Ludka, 48, has lived in the city for about 15 years
and runs a mobile spa there. She has seen the city
change shape.
''I've
watched the community blossom and become a real community
where people of all ages are able to embrace each
other,'' she said, adding that early residents were
at arms-length, separated by walls of concrete.
Not
any more, she said, thanks to the addition of facilities
such as Pelican Park.
''Everyone
used to stay in their condos, which were all so self-sufficient,''
she said. ``Now we'll get to know each other here,
it's exciting.''
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