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An Evening of Beauty in Fashion and Songs

Labor Day. Baseball season turning into football season. First day of school. All of these events are reasons to wave goodbye to summer and welcome autumn with its cooler temperatures. On , August 22, 2010, Back-to-School Eve, at 4:00 pm, the Usher Ministry of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Miami, Inc., (the oldest African-American church in Miami Dade County) located at 3515 Douglas Road, Coconut Grove, Florida presented its 4^th Annual Fashion show, “A Fashion Show for Everyone and All Occasions”.

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Local teens dedicated to help the community

Inspiration was sparked in college freshmen and Coconut Grove natives, Zena Stephens, graduated of Ransom Everglades Upper School and student of Oglethorpe University, and Paige Humphrey, graduate of Coral Gables High School and student of University of Central Florida on May 9^th, 2010. This spark grew into a fire overnight forming Team G.O, Generation Outreach. Both young women were desperate to help their community, and in a few months this non-profit has blossomed into a changing force.  Their mission is to provide life altering opportunities in the Coconut Grove community, built on the principles of Civic Engagement. Dedicated to enhancing the lives of underprivileged individuals through continuous fundraising and community service. Team G.O uses the resources of the community to better the community. This organization wishes to assemble a tight-knit bond within the area, and ensure a long term improvement of addressed issues by educating the community at each event.

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On being stopped by the cops and other grievances

I am a part-time U.S. census worker. On Saturday, May 22, I was walking from the 3400 block on Day Avenue, where I had parked my car, toward McDonald Street to look for addresses that I had to do in my census binder. Two Miami-Dade police officers passed me headed in the same direction.

As I approached Indiana Street, the two officers stopped in the middle of Day Avenue and turned around as I passed. I crossed 32nd Avenue (McDonald Street) and started looking at my papers to see where I wanted to start. On the corner of Gifford Lane and Day Ave, I saw a police car behind me. I said to myself, “I know he isn’t following me.”

The officer exited his vehicle and stated over his radio, “I have her now.”

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