One upcoming training course aims to help teens line their empty wallets with extra cash.
The American Red Cross is staging a Babysitter Training Course for boys and girls between 11 and 15 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 17 at TownGate Recreation Center, 901 NW 155th Ave.

The one-day class hands the would-be after-school caregivers the knowledge to care for infants and children, ensure their safety by making logical decisions and problem solving and how to handle emergencies like injuries, illnesses and household accidents. The course also delves into writing resumes and interviewing for jobs.

Before and after students finish, they’ll receive a CD-Rom, a Babysitter’s Training Guide and a Certificate of Competition.

Registration is required by Oct. 14, and course cost is $57 per participant. For more information, call 954-437-1134, or visit www.ppines.com.

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Chilling out on thick beds of grass just became popular again.

The city of Pembroke Pines Parks and Recreation Department is restarting the monthly Jazz Concert series after a summer hiatus at William B. Armstrong Dream Park, 1700 NW 160th Ave.

The Tony Marrero Duo will hit the stage near the passive park’s lakeshore from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 27. While Pines residents groove to the soulful Latin sounds on cozy beach blankets draped across the grass, families can nosh on chips, soda and other light refreshments from an on-site vendor.

For more information, call 954-435-6525, or visit www.ppines.com.

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There’s a variety show charging into Pembroke Pines, and it’s cobbling a trio of heavy-hitting crooners and quipsters.

Walter C. Young Middle School’s Jim Davidson Theatre of the Performing Arts, 901 N.W. 129th Ave., is reviving its Cabaret Night dinner theatres after a two-month summer hiatus.

Cabaret emcee Lou Marsh’s variety show features the song stylings of Errol Dante, the Jamaican-infused tunes of Alston Bair and the wisecracking stand-up from comedian Richard Terry.

The Cabaret night’s relaunch also comes off the heels of a $???? two-year contract renewal approved Sept. 16 for Marsh’s M&A Productions to continue hosting the monthly show, records show.

The shindig runs from 8 to 10:30 p.m. Sept. 27. Tickets cost $15 for adults, $12 for seniors. For more information, call March at 954-438-6200.

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Gen-X and Gen-Y music junkies can score their acoustic fix in the same building thanks to a two-day jam session and rock concert at The Talent Farm, 20911 Johnson St.

The mega soft/hard rock-infused X&Y Fest cobbles 21 local bands stretching across 48 hours of nonstop live performances. South Florida’s wellspring of area talent first hits the black-painted stage Saturday by crooning out Gen-X favorites, from early-‘90s grunge to nu metal to pop punk.

On Sunday, rock leaps a generation as Gen-Y bands stride onstage to crank out the last decade’s most-venerated hits in emo, electronic rock, dance punk and new rave.

Each performing band is vying for $1,000 prize money for the top-voted Gen X/Y’er.
The slated lineup of performers are:

Saturday
2:00 Forever From Now
2:45 Mirrodyn
4:15 The Rock Music Band
5:00 Dusty & the Robodrum
5:45 Coia
6:30 Submission Red
7:15 Autumn City
8:00 The Grey Eights
8:45 Assume Nothing
9:30 Kill Miss Pretty

Sunday
2:00 Celso
2:45 The Shoreline
4:15 Addison!
5:00 Two Headed Shadow Puppets
5:45 Dave Farah
6:30 Kailey Billings
7:15 Fancy Me Yet
8:00 Crudbot
8:45 Skylife
9:30 Old Wives' Tale

Bonus Band
10:15 New City Lions

The wall-to-wall rockathon runs 2 to 10 p.m. Sept. 26 and 27. For more information, call 954-438-3488, or visit www.xyfest.com.

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The annual bonanza of hocking crafted treasures and hand-painted works has returned.

The Southwest Focal Point Senior Center, 301 NW 103rd Ter. is staging the Third Annual Fall Arts & Crafts Show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 26 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 27 to benefit center operations and programming.

Here, hundreds of local artists eager to vend their homemade masterworks of mixed media, stone-fired ceramics and colorful crafts will tastefully arrange those pieces on booths.

Visitors can browse the dozens of booths cluttered with creations in 53,000 square feet of air-conditioned space, or purchase special glazed pottery bowls to benefit the senior center.

For more information, call Sharon Sammarco at 954-450-6888.

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After six years of inactivity, the $66 million empty lot behind Pembroke Pines City Hall will finally secure its first tenants.

City Center, the highly-touted dream downtown district wedged inside the heart of the super-suburb, is turning a deeper shade of green thanks to the Back to Nature Farmer’s Market.

Roughly 100 vendors will hock fresh produce, veggies, plants and natural products amid the polished road medians and two-story clock tower.

The farmer’s market runs three consecutive weekends beginning Sept. 26 through Oct. 10, as an effort to promote health and wellness throughout the city, said Francie Novo, Pines’ special events coordinator.

The afternoon-long fruit, veggie and natural products bonanza runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 26, Oct. 3 and Oct. 10 at City Center, 10100 Pines Blvd. For more information, call 954-435-6525, or visit www.ppines.com.

To download a Farmer's Market flyer, right-click here and save. (PDF)

For more on this, read the Sept. 22 edition of the Pembroke Pines Gazette.

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After a brief summer hiatus, the Pembroke Pines Historical Museum is again supplying World War II veterans with a venue for shooting the fat with fellow war buddies.

Village Community Center, 6700 SW 13th St., is having Fall Bull Sessions from 1 to 4 p.m. starting Sept. 24.

The elder servicemen can participate in an informal roundtable confab while noshing on catered snacks and pastries, said Gerry Witoshynsky, museum curator. Here, the vets can trade thrilling stories of wartime adventures overseas, chat about past and present politics or debate battlefield strategies.

The decorated former GIs can also peep the museum’s permanent collection of WWII-era artifacts, the history of North Perry Airport, and a “Veteran’s Honor Roll,” which chronicles a list of veterans residing in Pembroke Pines.

For more information, call Witoshynsky at 954-986-5049.

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The Florida Department of Transportation is kicking off a road resurfacing project along Pines Boulevard, and they want public input.

FDOT is having a public hearing to iron out details and changes in traffic patterns with Pines residents from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 23 at Rose G. Price Park, 901 NW 208th Ave.

The road resurfacing will stretch roughly 1.6 miles from U.S. 27 to Southwest/Northwest 196th Avenue along Pines Boulevard, with construction workers breaking ground by April 2011, according to Henry Oaikhena, the plan’s project manager.

Improvements to Pines artery, which FDOT officials have totaled at $2.4 million, include milling and resurfacing existing pavement plus the following:

* Milling and resurfacing the existing pavement;
* Minor widening at right-turn lanes to accomodate bike lanes;
* Upgrading roadway features to current standards;
* Modifying sidewalk ramps for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance;
* Adding sidewalk segments; and
* Irrigation system enhancements

FDOT project staff will also be available to field questions during the informal, open house-style public hearing.

For more information, call the FDOT District Four Public Information Office at 954-777-4090, or visit www.dot.state.fl.us.

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Police Athletic League’s horde of homegrown boxers isn’t exactly a bunch of limp noodles in the ring.

But thanks to an upcoming fundraiser, it’s the main course on their dinner plates.

The St. Maximilian Kolbe Church Knights of Columbus are serving up the 12th annual P.A.L. Pasta Dinner to benefit the league from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 22 at Southwest Focal Point Senior Center, 301 NW 103rd Ave.

Sponsored by the church at 701 N. Hiatus Road, The Knights of Columbus’ pasta pleaser benefit P.A.L.’s operations, which offer after school crime prevention programs like boxing and taekwondo to troubled juveniles.

Dishing out the platters of heaping pasta are servers like P.A.L. President Lincoln Mendez, Mayor Frank Ortis and his wife Barbara and city Police Chief Dan Giustino.

The plate of noodles will run diners $8 for adults and $6 for children under 12. For more information, call Jack Green at 954-986-5044, or visit www.ppines.com.

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After months of overhauling the Howard C. Forman Human Services Campus, the long-awaited artist colony debuts with a new moniker and a shot at renting space.

After the Pembroke Pines Parks and Recreation plunked roughly $1 million from a general obligation bond into the project last year, Studio 18 in the Pines is slated to open this November.

The department’s now accepting applications to nab a slice of the studio workspace through Sept. 25.

Snatching up a personal studio allows budding local artists to interact with fellow painters, sculptors and other mixed media mavens, participate in visual arts classes, lectures, workshops and exhibit their artworks in special in-house gallery spaces.

For more information about applications, call Jill Slaughter at 954-986-9027, or visit www.ppines.com.

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Pembroke Pines Charter East Elementary students are storming the beaches ept. 19 to rage warfare against trash-throwers who litter on South Florida’s garbage-strewn beaches.

Roughly 150 charter “beach patrol” students sporting blue and yellow T-shirts are taking aim at errant rubbish-tossers during the 24th Annual International Coastal Clean-up.

The early morning effort takes crews of parents, guardians, friends and students enrolled at Charter East campus, 10801 Pembroke Road, along a mile-long stretch of Hollywood’s North Beach Park, 3501 N. Ocean Drive in Hollywood.

Here, the packs’ll scour the coast between Sheridan and Johnson Streets for items like cigarette butts, bottle caps, shards of glass and other beach pollutants, all geared toward discouraging future refuse in favor of recycling.

The annual cleanup is hosted by the Ocean Conservancy, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit aimed at opposing practices that threaten beach life and ocean ecosystems like Florida’s coral reef system.

Pines Charter East campus students also join dozens of local school cleanup crews and boy and girl scout troops across 12 sites in Broward County.

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Auto enthusiasts can cruise into the parking lot of Pines Recreation Center Sept. 19 for an afternoon of showcasing hot rods and custom-built madness.

That’s because the Street Machines Car Show is revving up for a four-hour display for stock, classic, custom and import four-wheelers, all of whom are gunning for category prizes and trophies.

The supercharged competition pits roadrunner against roadrunner in teen and adult categories along a parking lot cluttered with bandshells featuring live bands and, of course rows of gleaming grills and roaring engines.

Here, judges will examine criteria like top speed, horsepower, engine size, paint job, tire quality and unique interior design. By contest’s end, street machiners will joyride home armed with statuettes in everything from Best Sound and Best Custom Paint to Best Import and Best of Show.

For more information, call 954-435-6525, or visit www.ppines.com. To download an entry application, right-click here and save. (PDF)

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The Florida Department of Education recently handed Five-Star School awards to four Pembroke Pines elementary schools for community involvement in the 2008-09 school year.

Palm Cove Elementary notched its 14th consecutive year, Chapel Trail marked its 12th, Panther Run its 11th and Pembroke Lakes its 8th to net the award among 66 Broward Schools.

The honor merits schools who actively involve parents, guardians, businesspeople and other community leaders in the education process.

To be eligible, the quartet of Pines schoolhouses had to be graded higher than a “C,” had already received the FDOE’s Golden School award for excellence in school volunteer programs and satisfied 29 criteria.

Those milestones included drafting and enforcing a School Improvement Plan, ironing out a business pact with agencies that support teaching in exchange for donations of goods and services to schools, adding discussion and focus groups for families and outlining a plan to allow school staff and students to volunteer for community service learning.

For more information, call 754-321-2040, or visit www.browardschools.org.

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Adult night classes are reaching closer to home thanks to two Pembroke Pines locations.
Douglas Gardens North, a housing complex at 705 SW 88th Ave., plays host to an English for Speakers Of another Language class through Broward Community Schools, a county provider of tuition-free adult education classes.

Meanwhile, West Broward High School, 500 NW 209th Ave., is offering several Adult Basic Education (ABE), General Education Development (GED), ESOL classes and adult high school diploma, where students are able to work at their own pace.

Among the west Pines school’s freebees are Lifelong Learning courses in aerobics, computer training and jewelry design.

For more information or for times, call guidance director Yolanda McNeill at 754-321-7600, or visit www.browardcommunityschools.com.

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One Pembroke Pines church refuses to stop searching for missing children.

To that end, Oasis Church, 12201 SW 14th St., is throwing a Florida Missing Children’s Day luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 14 to recognized families’ unyielding attempts to locate loved ones long-feared missing or dead.

The awareness ceremony is designed to help families reunite after years of estrangement, and reinforces that one shouldn’t “give up on” missing children and adults, said Dinorah Perry, director of Missing Children International Ministries, 12289 Pembroke Road.

During the function, the church will serve a complimentary luncheon and will feature guest speakers tackling issues like old cold cases, an interpretive dance performed by a 13-year-old girl and the symbolic release of a balloon with 25 strings attached.

To RSVP or for more information, call Perry at 954-632-0998, or visit www.missingchildrenministries.org.

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A new starter program promises gifted boxers have a shot at sparring in the big leagues.

Pembroke Pines Police Athletic League boxing champions Leo Tobares and Gabe Ayoob are instructing a 12-week amateur boxing session called Boxing for Beginners.

The classes run from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays beginning Sept. 14 inside the P.A.L. Building, 7900 Johnson St.

Classes, which are available to paid P.A.L. members between the ages of 9 and 17 attending school in or living within Pines, vary from boxing conditioning to one-on-one personal training, said P.A.L. executive director Jack Green.

The novice pugilists should also provide their own mouthpiece, wraps, gloves, water bottles and work-out gym clothes, added Green.

P.A.L.’s new program is designed to prevent juvenile crime and “properly develop amateur boxers to compete in state and national tournaments,” said Green.

For more information, call 954-986-5044, or visit www.ppines.com/police.

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Four hours of jeering, hissing and shouting matches later, last Wednesday’s first City Commission budget hearing is in the books.

Fresh off declaring a state of financial urgency that would press teacher and general employee bargaining unions to faster negotiations, City Commissioners tentatively locked in a property tax rate, including debt service millage, of $6.23 per $1,000 of taxable value for the 2009-10 fiscal year, up from last year’s $5.02.

Although the measure won’t be finalized until Sept. 23’s final budget hearing inside city commission chambers, the proposed hike could save the city roughly $13.5 million and knock that same amount off the city’s $23 million general fund deficit, said City Manager Charles Dodge.

“The property values in the city have plummeted again this year, declining 10.5 percent of taxable value for standard homes in Pines,” said Dodge to a commission chambers packed with hundreds of tense homeowners. “If we’re successful with our negotiations with the fire and police bargaining units, we could save even more money.”

That savings also supposes city officials approve a 2009-10 fire assessment fee hike of $20.36 on the city portion of a homeowner’s tax bill, from $209.36 to $229.99, added Dodge.

Commissioners plan to OK the new fire assessment fee, which could run as high as $229.99, during a final hearing that begins at 5:45 p.m. on Sept. 14 inside city commission chambers, 10100 Pines Blvd.

For more information, call 954-435-6500, or visit www.ppines.com.

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One foster home can afford extra food, clothing and health care services thanks to a wholesale supermarket.

BJ’s Wholesale Club donated $5,000 to Children’s Harbor, 19425 SW 58th Manor earlier this month, a nonprofit long-term foster center sitting on the outskirts of Pembroke Pines.

The foster’s foundation won the largess from a field of roughly 200 grant applicants across the country, each of whom submitted a request before the wholesale club’s March deadline.

The five-grand grant supports food services and self-sufficiency for children and families living in areas where BJ’s Wholesale Club is nearby, said Maria Fruci, a club spokeswoman.

“We just look at who best meets our focus of underprivileged families and Children’s Harbor fit the bill,” said Fruci.

Children’s Harbor’s donation was one of 87 distributed to qualifying nonprofits. The club culls its donations, which totaled $1.3 million last year, through an annual charity golf tournament hosted at Pinehills Golf Club in Plymouth, Mass., added Fruci.

For more information, call 954- 252-3072, or visit www.childrensharbor.org.

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A dozen local artists want the South Florida art world in stitches over Fabulous Fibers.

An art exhibit featuring roughly 100 pieces of fabric quilts patterned with artistic designs ranging from birds and rolling countrysides will be on display from Sept. 8 through Oct. 13 at Pembroke Pines Glass Gallery, 10100 Pines Blvd.

Meanwhile, an opening reception for the Fabulous Fibers display of patchworked fine art runs from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 15, which will feature snacks and light refreshments.

These crafty quilts are courtesy of artist Elaine Rowe’s Pines-based BeeArty Art Guild, which she launched as an offshoot to another local sewing club, Quilting in the Pines. Rowe, of Pines, and 11 other artists are decking the walls with at least five threadworks apiece.

For more information, call 954-986-5027, or visit www.ppines.com.

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Pembroke Pines is once again crowding the atrium of City Hall, 10100 Pines Blvd., to pay tribute to September 11’s fallen victims.

Hundreds of residents, military veterans, police and firemen alike will host a remembrance of the tragedy from 8 to 9 a.m. with a benediction, memorial service and speeches from city commission.

Meanwhile, the Pembroke Pines Honor Guard will display colors, while choirs from various Pembroke Pines charter schools will lead the ceremony with song.

Following the service, hundreds of Pines residents can hop aboard nearby community bus shuttles sitting in City Hall’s parking lot and visit the old Holly Lake Fire Station, 21451 Johnson St., which was transformed into an elaborate studio for Pines-based artists Benoit Menasche and Felix Gonzalez two years ago.

The purpose: a public viewing of the in-progress 9/11 memorial, a colossal steel and marble statue project that includes a series of soaring twin towers, an imported Italian marble base and four larger-than-life human figures.

There’ll be light refreshments, sandwiches and hors d’oeuvres available for families viewing the statues.

“This will be a very big affair,” said Menasche, who’s currently sculpting the memorial’s marble base. “People are coming to view our progress so far.”

For more information, call 954-435-6525, or visit www.ppines.com.

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As Pembroke Pines commissioners scramble to balance a $23 million general fund budget deficit for the 2009-10 fiscal year, potential property tax hikes remain a hot-button issue among city residents.

That’s why the Broward County Property Appraiser’s office is making an encore appearance to field more Truth in Millage (TRIM) notice questions.

Deputy appraisers will be on hand from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 8 at Pembroke Pines City Hall, 10100 Pines Blvd. to assist with Homestead, Senior, Portability and other property tax exemption applications.

Interested residents should bring a current Florida driver's license ID, a voter registration card or declaration of domicile and proof of permanent residency.

Eligible senior citizen residents, or those with a total adjusted gross income less than $25,873, should bring either a copy of their 2008 income tax return or 2008 Social Security 1099 Form.

Both Broward County Property Appraiser’s offices, at 115 S. Andrews Ave., Room 111, Fort Lauderdale and 1 N. University Drive, Suite 111-A, Plantation, will also be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 12 to offer families extended hours.

For more information, call Kelly Brown at 954-357-5579, or visit www.bcpa.net.

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Pembroke Pines commissioners are in the throes of balancing next year’s fiscal budget, and that means a plethora of town hall meetings for city residents.

The first town hall, hosted by Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jack McCluskey, runs from 7 to 10 p.m. Sept. 8 at Pines City Hall, 10100 Pines Blvd.

On the docket are crime prevention updates from the Police Department’s Street Gang Task Force, the renovation of Pines Boulevard from University Drive to the Turnpike and from Sheridan Street to Pines Boulevard. There’ll also be a Powerpoint presentation to residents about staff’s blueprint to revitalize the eastern sector of Pines.

However, McCluskey expects the floundering City Center project, property tax hikes and fire assessment fees to dominate the evening.

“People are most concerned about the messed-up Florida property tax situation right now,” said McCluskey. “If you're a 40-year resident like me, your taxes will increase no matter what because we're protected by the Save Our Homes amendment. But if you're a first time homebuyer, your taxes will likely drop.”

The following evening, City Hall is hosting the first budget hearing at 6 p.m. to discuss the fee increases, followed by a fire fee assessment hearing at 5:45 p.m. Sept. 14.

Meanwhile, Pines Vice-Mayor Angelo Castillo is also hosting a similarly-themed Homeowner's Association meeting from at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at Pembroke Pines/FSU Charter Elementary, 601 SW 172 Ave.

For more information, call 954-435-6500, or visit www.ppines.com.

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One nonprofit clinic is aiming for strikes and spares against the threat of substance abuse.

That's because the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center, 1633 Poinciana Drive in Pembroke Pines, is donning bowling shoes for the Second Annual Rock 'n Bowl-a-Thon at Sparez Bowling Alley, 5325 S. University Drive, Davie.

More than 250 bowlers are hitting the lanes from 12 to 3 p.m. next Saturday, Sept. 12 to benefit the Pines-based recovery center, which provides therapy services and on-campus living space for women with substance addictions.

Besides the rounds of tenpins, players will also enjoy an afternoon of live children's entertainment, clowns, music, a raffle and a silent auction.

Costs to register range from $100 an individual to $400 a team.

For more information, call Heather Keir at 954-592-6925, or visit www.susanbanthonycenter.org.

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Grandparent’s Day is around the corner, and that means the Southwest Focal Point Senior Center is staging a elder-centric event to mark the holiday.

The venue at 301 NW 103rd Ave. is hosting a Grandparent’s Day continental breakfast beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the South Activities Room.

Seniors and their grandchildren can dine on bagels, Belgian waffles, cereal, toast and an assortment of muffins and chat about the days of yesteryear.

The shindig is free for center members only.

For more information, call 954-450-6888.

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Broward County Public Schools can add another notch to its accolades for educating students.

National School Board Association’s Council of Urban Boards of Education, or CUBE, said in a prepared statement that the district served as a role model for progress in school board governance in large urban areas and is one of two finalists in the organization’s Urban School Board Excellence award.

The School Board has “continued success and national attention for the development of community engagement policies and working to close the achievement gap, especially with limited English proficient students,” according to the statement.

CUBE plans to reveal the winning district during the annual CUBE conference Oct. 10 in Austin, Texas.

For more information about the award, call754-321-3200, or visit www.nsba.org/cube.

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For promoting the value of city-run parks programming, the Pembroke Pines Parks and Recreation Department recently pocketed a first place Florida Recreation and Parks Association award Aug. 27.

Winning for Category II, or those cities serving populations between 150,000 and 199,999, Pines jumpstarted an awareness campaign two years ago to show the role parks and recreation plays in its city.

Pines joined 159 other parks agencies across Florida that spread messages of achievement, economic development, health, heritage, nature and conservation.

For more information, visit www.frpa.org.

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One nonprofit is gunning its motorcycle engines and racing for a cancer cure – even if that means crossing the state of Florida and back.

That’s because the Miami Children's Hospital Foundation is throwing the inaugural coast-to-coast road rally Ridin’ for a Miracle & Cruising for a Cure from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 7.

Pines residents and other Broward locals will mount their high-octane hogs (or automobiles) and ride to and from the east coast to Gulf Coast Town Center Mall, 9903 Gulf Coast Main St. in Fort Myers.

The departure point, Rainbow Bakery & Deli, 11602 City Hall Promenade at Miramar Town Center, features a meet-and-greet, event party festivities and auctioned-off prices before drivers hit the road.

Participants are also invited to shop at Gulf Coast Town Center Mall before the road rally-ers turn around and head home.

Proceeds benefit the hospital, the I Care I Cure Foundation, the American Cancer and Leukemia & Lymphoma societies and the Florida Breast Concer Coalition.

Cost to partake is $50 per vehicle for drivers, $20 for adult passengers and $5 for children 12 and under.

For more information, call Bob DeSanti at 754-246-7993 or John Gatewood at 954-430-6135.

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