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  • Fresh start: Co-ops offering Liberty City residents healthy, affordable produce

    • June 29, 2015
    • Posted by: KBCF
    • Category: In the Press
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    Dorene Walters, who lives in Liberty City’s Annie Coleman housing complex, paid only $2 for a box brimming with fresh pineapple, nectarines, onions, broccoli, and 10 other fresh fruits and vegetables. In an area where fresh produce is hard to get, the delivery was sweet for her family. For more than a year, Walters, her

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  • Fresh Food Co-Ops Fight Liberty City Food Desert

    • June 25, 2015
    • Posted by: KBCF
    • Category: In the Press
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    For Liberty City resident Izegbe Onyango, purchasing fresh, affordable produce hasn’t been easy. With no grocery store within a mile radius of her city, more than 50,000 residents like Onyango are left with convenience stores, quick shops and fast food to feed their families. “Having fresh produce should be a basic human right,” says Onyango.

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  • Key Biscayne bans vessels from Mashta Flats sandbar off village

    • February 17, 2015
    • Posted by: KBCF
    • Category: In the Press
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    Key Biscayne Council members voted last week to prohibit vessels from the Mashta Flats, a multi-acre Biscayne Bay sandbar located off the village. The offshore sandbar, which has become a popular boat partying site, has seen a few tragedies. In September 2013, Key Biscayne Police Chief Charles Press’ daughter Danielle nearly lost her life in

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  • Boat Safety Classes on Key Biscayne

    • January 9, 2015
    • Posted by: KBCF
    • Category: Community Blog
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    The Monica Burguera Foundation (MBF) in conjunction with the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary offers FREE boating safety classes as a public service for the local community. Since September 2010, more than 2,000 students have successfully completed the program and been awarded the USCG Auxiliary Certificate of Accomplishment and a Florida Boating Safety Identification card,

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  • Key Biscayne Christmas party provides gifts, treats for community children

    • December 23, 2014
    • Posted by: KBCF
    • Category: In the Press
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    Hundreds of Liberty City children filed out of yellow schoolbuses and onto the Village Green park in Key Biscayne for an outdoor Christmas party. They were greeted Saturday by Santa Claus before running out onto the playing field to race each other, do cartwheels, toss footballs and play on an inflatable slide. Miami Fire Rescue

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