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TICKETS AT LEISURE TRAVEL SERVICES 305.437.1595 | Leisure Travel Services
MIAMI MARLINS VS. NY YANKEES, JUNE 15-16
MONSTER TRUCK JAM, AUGUST 8
VAREKAI, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL, AUGUST
MIAMI DOLPHINS, MIAMI HURRICANES, FLORIDA PANTHERS, MIAMI HEAT, MIAMI MARLINS
K1 SPEED TICKETS
BLUE MAN GROUP at Universal Studios
DISNEY WORLD MILITARY SPECIALS
ATTRACTIONS, CRUISES AND MORE!
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MAY/JUNE 2015
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JUNE 3, 2015 http://miami.armymwr.com [email protected] No endorsement implied
COMMUNITY FAIR – August 7 – Fitness Center http://miami.armymwr.com/us/miami/miami-events/community-fair
SUMMER SPLASH JULY 25 http://miami.armymwr.com/us/miami/miami-events/summer-splash
Sports & Fitness
Fitness Center Class Schedule http://miami.armymwr.com/us/miami/programs/fitness-center/
Monday
0600-0700 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free
1130-1230 Indoor cycling with Monica
1130-1230 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free
1130-1300 Self-Defense Fundamentals with Jason - Free
1215-1315 Connected Warriors Yoga with Loren - Free
Tuesday
0600-0700 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free
0600-0700 Indoor Cycling with Lisa
1130-1230 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free
1130-1230 Indoor Cycling with Lucy
1215-1315 Yoga with Loren
Wednesday
0600-0700 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free
1130-1230 Indoor cycling with Monica
1130-1230 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free
Thursday
0600-0700 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free
0600-0700 Indoor Cycling with Lisa
1130-1230 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free
1130-1230 Indoor Cycling with Lucy
1130-1300 Self-Defense Fundamentals with Jason - Free
Hours of Operation
Monday - Thursday: 0500 – 2100, Friday: 0500 - 2000
Saturday and Sunday: 1000 – 1700, Closed on holidays
Open to Active Duty, Reserve, Retired Military & their
Dependents
305.437.0123/0124
All SOUTHCOM/USAG-MIAMI employees may use the Miami Dade Public Safety Training Institute Aquatic Center
9601 NW 58th Street, Miami, FL 33178. M-F, 0600-1800. Call for details: 305.715.5000. No guests allowed.
Schedule is Subject to Change
$3 per Class or $25 for 10 Classes
Pay with cash, check or credit card
Please arrive on time for class
First Come – First Served
Friday
1130-1230 Indoor Cycling with Monica
1130-1300 Self-Defense Fundamentals with Jason - Free
1215-1315 Yoga with Carole
BODYBUILDING COMPETITION Aug. 1, 9am - 3pm, Fitness Center - US Army Garrison-Miami.
Sign up! Participate, Compete, or Meet the role models that chose to educate themselves and took up the
challenge. They chose to change their lives through dedication, proper nutrition and a proven weight training
program. Witness the transformation of the human body, a transformation that you too can achieve.
Participants must register and attend workshops. There will be four categories: Men’s Bodybuilding and Men’s
Physique, Women’s Figure and Women’s Bikini. Call 305.437.0123. Sponsored by Hampton Inn and USAA. The
Department of Defense does not endorse the sponsors.
ARMY BIRTHDAY FUN RUN/WALK – June 12
http://miami.armymwr.com/us/miami/miami-events/army-birthday-5k-fun-runwalk
Sports & Fitness
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Household Goods and PCS Entitlements, June 4, 1-2:30pm. POC: [email protected]
Budgeting 101 and Money Mistakes, June 11, 1-2pm, POC: [email protected]
Transition Assistance Workshop, June 15-19, POC: [email protected]
Newcomer Orientation, June 23, 8:30am–12pm, POC: [email protected]
Marriage and Relationship Retreat, June 25-27, POC: [email protected]
Investing Basics, June 25, 1-2pm, POC: [email protected]
Estate Planning, July 9, 1-2pm, POC: [email protected]
Divorce & Credit with Financial Strategies for Single Parents, July 16, POC: [email protected]
Newcomer Orientation, July 28, 8:30am–12pm, POC: [email protected]
Miami Tour, July 31, 9am-4pm, POC: [email protected]
FREE YOGA FOR VETS - Connected Warriors Classes, Dharma Holistic Center, 305. 834.3371,
8260 NW 27th Street, #410, Doral, FL 33122. www.dharmainstitute.org
ARMY TEN MILER TRY OUTS June 25
http://miami.armymwr.com/us/miami/miami-events/army-ten-miler-try-outs-jun-271
SUMMER SLAM BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT August 14-16! Military teams are free.
Non-military teams - $300. Fee must be paid by 15 July 2015. 305.437.0123/0124.
http://miami.armymwr.com/us/miami/miami-events/summer-slam-basketball-tournament
USSOUTHCOM/USAG-MIAMI - RELATED FACEBOOK PAGES
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) - https://www.facebook.com/southcom?fref=ts
USAG - MIAMI Family Support Center - https://www.facebook.com/USAGMiamiFamilySupportCenter
USAG-MIAMI FMWR - https://www.facebook.com/miamifmwr
SOUTHERN COMMAND SPOUSES - https://www.facebook.com/groups/131929440155922/?fref=ts
USSOUTHCOM PARENT SUPPORT GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/121356728011135/
MILITARY SPOUSE RECIPE SWAP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/102922893243498/
Southern Command On-line Yard Sales - https://www.facebook.com/groups/567364979982480/
Miami-Dade Zip Code Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/MiamiDadeZCG/?fref=ts
Homestead Zip Code Group - www.facebook.com/groups/HomesteadMilitaryWives
SOCSOUTH SPOUSES GROUP - www.facebook.com/groups/socsouthredfam
Conference Center of the Americas (CCA) - https://www.facebook.com/USSOUTHCOMCCA
Army Substance Abuse Program USAG-Miami - https://www.facebook.com/ArmySubstanceAbuseProgramMiami
J9's Public Private Cooperation division - https://www.facebook.com/southcomppc
US SOUTHCOM Health Clinic: https://www.facebook.com/ArmyHealthClinicSouthcom
VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION - Volunteer Management Information System (VMIS)
1. Using Internet Explorer, go to www.myarmyonesource.com. If you are not already registered on this site, click on Register at the top right. Click on the Join Now button in the middle of that page on the right. Complete the registration form and select USAG-Miami in the Military Community Affiliation drop-box under HQ IMCOM. 2. Once registered, you can log in. Click on the Volunteer Tools tab located in the upper right hand corner of the webpage. 3. Click on Volunteer Profile. Complete all requested information in the volunteer profile. Be sure to enter the last four digits only of your social security number and save the page. This will ensure you are a registered volunteer. 4. You can use the Volunteer Opportunities tab to locate volunteer opportunities on the installation. If you want to volunteer off the installation, click on the Army Community Service link provides a generic volunteer position description – Special Projects Volunteer – for all off-post volunteer opportunities. 5. Once you locate a volunteer opportunity, click on the position of interest. This will supply you with a detailed outline of the position including the organization contact person. If you want to apply for the position, click on the Apply button on the top right of the position description. 6. Questions or concerns, contact Mary Ortiz, Volunteer Coordinator at 305.437.2665 or 305.437.2667 [email protected].
CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP - Make a real difference in the lives of people who have fallen on hard times. Volunteers are needed for: Meal Services Program, Breakfast (5:30-7:30am,) Lunch (11am-1pm,) Dinner (5-7pm.) After School Programming in our Family Resource Center (M-F 2-5:30pm and 6:30-7:30pm; Saturday 9-11:30am.) Warehouse and Maintenance Operations (M-F, 8am-5pm.) Holiday Assistance, Special Events. All volunteers must complete the volunteer registration paperwork along with a color picture ID. Chapman Partnership has two locations: one in Downtown Miami and one in Homestead. POC: Grace Ugalde-Wolpert, Community Outreach Manager, Chapman Partnership. 1550 North Miami Avenue, Miami, 33136, 305.329.3081, [email protected]. For more information, visit www.chapmanpartnership.org.
KRISTI HOUSE Volunteers needed at the Kristi House clinic: You must be over age 18 and a high school graduate for this program. Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:30pm: Waiting Room Ambassadors (you can color with the children, read books, make bracelets etc.) Peak hours are afterschool 2-5:30pm. The clinic needs people to play with the children while they are waiting for therapy and/or when their parent is being interviewed by a State Attorney. The need is during the day and on weekdays Other volunteer activities include: public speaking, fundraising, special events and in-kind donation drives. Thank you for your support of these sexually abused children and their families. POC: Kristi House Volunteer Coordinator Abegail De La Fuente at o. 305.547.6823 c. 786.203.6758 f. 305.250.9161. [email protected].
THE ARTS - http://www.artsbizmiami.org/CampaignProcess.aspx?A=View&Data=AHWWLp%2fPUVM30eGwruBkKg%3d%3d
MILITARY HOSPITALITY LOUNGE in Miami International Airport (MIA.) Applicants select shifts but must work at least twice per month. Most volunteers work once a week. Shifts are from 9am-1pm, 1-5pm, and 5-9pm. Volunteers will receive passes for employee parking at MIA. Must have some computer knowledge and work well with traveling military and their families with IDs. Sign up online at www.militaryloungemiami.com/?page_id=8 or call 305.587.0046.
DIVERS, VOLUNTEER with Veterans Ocean Adventures and share the undersea world with the disabled community and disabled veterans. Once certified as a Buddy Diver by the Handicapped SCUBA Association, join us as we give back to the community supporting adaptive diving. Volunteers receive free air and free passage on scheduled boat dives. For more information, email [email protected].
CHARLEE OF DADE COUNTY, INC. provides for the needs of abused, abandoned, neglected, and at-risk children in Miami-Dade County. To volunteer, call 305.779.9706.
MIAMI-DADE ANIMAL SERVICES - email Volunteer Coordinator at [email protected] or visit http://www.miamidade.gov/animals/volunteer.asp
BROWARD: http://www.handsonbroward.org/
MIAMI-DADE: http://www.handsonmiami.org/
Volunteer
MIAMI-DADE DEFENSE ALLIANCE COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE AND DISCOUNT DIRECTORY - http://miami.beaconcouncil.com/mdda/mdda_resource_guide.html
MILITARY DISCOUNTS - http://www.bradsdeals.com/blog/military-discounts
MIAMI OPEN CITY TOUR - free hop on - hop off transportation to active duty and veterans as well as $19 (50% discount) to spouse and children (I.D. required).
Journey begins at Bayside from 9am with the last departure at 4:30pm. Buses are equipped with: Retractable roof (for all weather), Wi-Fi, 7 language audio
presentation, Air conditioning on lower deck, Handicap essentials. www.miamiopencitytour.com/en/
DIVING MUSEUM All active duty military are free. Museum dedicated to collecting, preserving, displaying and interpreting artifacts, antiques, books, documents,
photographs and oral history relative to the History of Diving and celebrates the special role that South Florida and the Florida Keys played in this untold story.
Mile Marker 83 on US-1 in Islamorada on the Bay Side. www.divingmuseum.org/
PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132, Active U.S. Military free with ID, http://www.pamm.org/
BIGSTAR MOVIES offers active and veteran service men and women a discounted rate - a one year membership, all access pass, for five dollars. $5 membership
($34.99 regular rate) for an entire year provides access to worldwide cinema. No matter where you are deployed, you can have access as long as you have an
internet connection. BIGSTAR Movies- go to the secure link HTTPS://www.bigstar.tv/?promo=usaf and fill in the information.
MILLER'S DORAL ALE HOUSE - Service members in uniform receive 25% discount on meals, 3271 NW 87 Ave, Doral, FL 33172.
www.millersalehouse.com/location/doral-ale-house.
FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN offers active duty military personnel with ID free admission. Admission for spouses is $20 and
children $10 (with ID). www.fairchildgarden.org/
RUNNER’S CO, 10365 NW 41 Street, Doral, FL 33178 305.599.9972, www.runnersco.com, offers all USSOUTHCOM employees a 10% discount with ID. Running
shoes, apparel, accessories, nutrition, gait analysis, 2D foot scan.
MIAMI SEAQUARIUM offers free entry for all service members with ID. 4400 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149.
BUBBA GUMP SHRIMP COMPANY offers a 10% discount with military ID for up to 8 people. www.bubbagump.com/locations/miami/
MCDONALD REALTY - Home Purchases, Sales, Rentals and Property Management for Miami Dade and Broward Counties. 15% off standard commission rates for
homes sales and 15% commission rebate for all purchases for all Military Personnel, Government Civilians and their families. Veteran-owned business, Certified
Florida Military Specialist. Colonel David R. McDonald, Jr., USA retired, Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS), Florida Military Specialist (FMS)
Broker/Owner, McDonald Realty, 954.443.6705 (office) 954.632.9105 (Cell)
MIAMI SCIENCE MUSEUM - free admission for all active duty military with valid ID. www.miamisci.org/
PARK ‘N FLY - Military Discount - 30% off posted rates for all Military. Show your Military ID Card and Save. The rates for Military in Miami is $7 outside and $9
inside both valet parking included. View Quick Presentation - 15 seconds - https://www.dropbox.com/s/mho5g3xwey0iuin/Miami%20ParkNFly%20Preso.pdf.
http://www.pnf.com/
AIRPORT FAST PARK - If you are a federal employee, military or civilian, send an email to southcom.miami.sc.mbx-usag-mwr@mailmil for discount information.
This discount is only for federal employees.
YOUNG AT ART MUSEUM - All men and women currently are serving in the military, veterans and their families will be offered an $11 per person admission price
to the museum. The discounted entry fee of $11 will be honored at the Young At Art admissions desk. Please present a military ID to receive the discount. 751
SW 121 Ave. Davie. Hours: Monday through Thursday, 10am to 5pm; Friday and Saturday, 10am to 6pm and Sunday 11am to 6pm. Admission - $14 per person; $12
for Broward County residents, seniors and children over age 1 and $11 for military members and their immediate families. 954.424.0085 or
www.YoungAtArtMuseum.org.
SAFARI EDVENTURE - Hands-on nature and wildlife presentations. 23700 SW 142 Ave, Miami, Fl. 33170, (About 3 miles south of Cutler Ridge – or – 7 miles north of
Homestead.) Active U.S. military families, (Active personnel, spouse, & their children entering with them): $2 off each. http://safariedventure.com/
FLORIDA STATE PARKS – Military discount - https://www.floridastateparks.org/content/annual-pass-information#discountsforveterans
Discounts
NAS KEY WEST MWR - To be placed on the e-mail distribution list: [email protected] – please provide your name & command. LIKE their Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/NAS-Key-West-MWR/127937197261693. Web page:
www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/nas_key_west/ffr/things-to-do.html
MILITARY HOSPITALITY LOUNGE at Miami International Airport for traveling military personnel and their families. Appropriate military identification and airline tickets or
boarding passes are required. Concourse E (in the Central Terminal,) level 2 (Departures and Gates.) Enter hallway to the right of and outside the
Security Check-in point. Look for signage directing you to restrooms and the Military Hospitality Lounge. For additional guidance on access to the
lounge please check with the nearest Airport Information Counter.
BOOKS & BOOKS EVENTS: Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, Florida 33134. For more details on these and many other author events -
www.booksandbooks.com/event/selector. Sign up for emails from Books & Books, www.booksandbooks.com/. Many of their events are live
streamed. Check the website for further information.
DAVID BIANCHI - BLUE CHIP KIDS - Jun 4 8pm. The essential guide to being smart about money and investing. Blue Chip Kids: What Every Child (and Parent) Should
Know About Money, Investing, and the Stock Market is a fun and easy-to-understand introduction to the world of money and investing for kids and
parents. Frustrated by the lack of entertaining financial teaching materials for his 13-year-old son, this book is the result of a father’s commitment
to pass on one of life s most important skills. Written by David W. Bianchi an investor and lawyer with an economics degree from Tufts University
this hands-on resource demystifies the basic principles about money matters and shows what it takes to spend, save, and invest wisely. Filled
with simple examples and numerous illustrations, this easy-to-read book discusses money and investing in 100 bite-size topics. For every parent
who wants their children to develop the skills to invest wisely and become responsible money managers, regular savers, and to earn money while
they sleep.
JAMES GRIPPANDO - CASH LANDING - Jun 5 8pm. Please RSVP HERE. The New York Times bestselling author of Cane and Abe and Black Horizon blends Goodfellas
and Elmore Leonard in this wild, suspenseful caper inspired by actual events, in which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest
airport heists in history with deadly consequences. Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by
German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks.
Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his house and his restaurant business going bust has driven him over the
edge. He and his wife deserve more than life has handed them, and he’s come up with a ballsy scheme to get it. With the help of an airport
insider, he, his coke-head brother-in-law, Jeffrey, and two ex-cons surprise the guards loading the armored trucks and speed off with $7.4 million
in the bed of a pickup truck. Investigating the heist, FBI agent Andie Henning, newly transferred to Miami from Seattle, knows the best way to
catch the thieves is to follow the money. Jeffrey’s drug addiction is as conspicuous as the Rolex watches he buys for dancers at the Gold Rush
strip club. One of the ex-cons, Pinky Perez, makes no secret of his plan to own a swinger’s club—which will allow him carte blanche with his
patrons’ wives. Levelheaded Ruban is desperately trying to lay low and hold things together. But Agent Henning isn’t the only one on their trail,
and in the mob-meets-Miami fashion, these accidental thieves suddenly find themselves way in over their heads . . . and sinking fast.
LESLIE KEMP POOLE - SAVING FLORIDA - Jun 8 8pm. Florida is renowned for its beautiful beaches, natural springs, and subtropical wilderness, but it is widely joked
that the official bird should be the construction crane. Dredge-and-fill projects, air pollution, and pesticides spread so uncontrollably during the
twentieth century that they sparked an environmental movement within the state, and those who led the fight were very often women. Saving
Florida reveals how women’s clubs prompted legislation to establish Florida’s first state park, which became the core of Everglades National Park,
in 1916—before women even had the right to vote. It tells the story of Doris Leeper, who convinced her community and local government to
protect a 24-mile stretch of sandy beach that is now the breathtaking Canaveral National Seashore. It remembers Clara Dommerich, who
summoned the “Who’s Who” of Central Florida to her living room for the first meeting of the Florida Audubon Society. And it celebrates the
towering environmental legacy of the three “Marjories”: author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, scientist Marjorie Harris Carr, and journalist Marjory
Stoneman Douglas. These and many other women led the fight for unprecedented changes in how the Sunshine State reveres its unique natural
resources. They set the foundation for this century’s environmental agenda, which came to include the idea of sustainable development. As a
collective force they forever altered how others saw women’s roles in society. About the Author: Leslie Kemp Poole is an award-winning writer
and historian. A fourth-generation Floridian, Poole has long been interested in the role of women in the state's environmental movement and how
they were saving the state's important natural resources long before they were able to vote. Poole is an adjunct professor of environmental
studies and history at Rollins College. She received her PhD in History from the University of Florida in 2012. She lives in Winter Park, Florida.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING - Jun 9 8pm. The Boston Marathon isn’t just an athletic event – it’s a citywide celebration and a rite of
spring. Begun in 1897, it is the world's oldest annual marathon, run every Patriots’ Day. The course winds its way through eight cities and towns,
26.2 miles that lead from suburban Hopkinton to the Boston's Back Bay. For Bostonians, the race marks the end of winter, a time to pull out lawn
chairs, sit at the side of the course and cheer a global contingent of runners. In 2013, the event changed irrevocably when two bombs exploded
near the finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. A manhunt ensued that paralyzed the city. At its end, Tamerlan
Tsarnaev lay dead and his brother, Dzhokhar, critically wounded, was in law enforcement hands. Convicted and sentenced, Dzhokhar now faces
the consequences of American justice. AP Editions takes a behind-the-scenes look at the case and the journalists who covered it, from the start of
the race through the death penalty hearing. About the Editors. Terry Spencer is the Florida news editor for The Associated Press, a position he has
held for nine years. Before becoming news editor, Spencer spent six years at AP as an editor and reporter, covering such stories as the Elian
Gonzalez raid, the 2000 presidential recount, the attempt to blow up an airliner on a Paris-to-Miami flight and many, many hurricanes. Before AP,
Spencer spent five years as a reporter at the News Journal in Wilmington, Del., covering crime, courts and county government; five years at the
Los Angeles Times covering Anaheim; and two years at The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif., covering education. Spencer is a 1987 graduate of
Cal State Fullerton, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and lives in Plantation with his wife and teenage son. Jim Baltzelle is the
Florida Chief of Bureau for The Associated Press, where he works with news organizations in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. He
also helps AP develop new revenue streams on a national scale with sales strategy oversight of AP’s college and Spanish-language services; as
well as other niche publication and digital market segments, such as travel, religion and business publications. Baltzelle previously oversaw news
operations in Florida from 2006-2012, along with business oversight in the Caribbean, where he created the Americas Report, which helped
stabilize AP’s revenue in the region during the recession. Jim was AP’s interim bureau chief in New Orleans during Katrina in 2005 and began his
career with AP in Dallas as an assistant bureau chief in 2004, where award-winning projects included one coordinated with Texas newspapers on
the power of the liquor lobby. Earlier stints included editorships at two Florida dailies, the Palatka Daily News, 1994-1996, and St. Augustine Record,
2000-2004; as well as state, Metro and local news editing positions at the Florida Times-Union and the Ocala Star-Banner. In high school, he
worked as a copy boy at the Fort Lauderdale News, then owned by the Gore family. A Florida native, he graduated from UF with a degree in
English in 1980. He was a Punch Sulzberger Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in 2010-2011, sponsored by AP. He and the CEO of Mango Media,
a Miami book publisher, recently developed the framework for AP Editions, a book publishing brand (ebooks, apps, Print on Demand) with
international sales being announced in March. Jim is married to his college sweetheart, Rebecca, also a UF graduate. They raised three daughters –
Annie, Katie and Molly May -- and have two granddaughters. Jim is an accomplished drummer and loves to attend bluegrass music festivals.
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