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     This year’s 29th Annual Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center Thanksgiving Basket Brigade Presented by Amazon took place on Sunday, November 21. Dedicated volunteers and community and business leaders personally delivered “Thanksgiving Baskets,” complete with a frozen turkey and all the traditional fixings, to 1,200 pre-registered CDTC families in Broward County who are currently caring for a child with special healthcare needs.

      Today’s music scene is all over the place. We are living in a world where trap beats, poorly used samples, and mumble rap rule the charts and airwaves. In 2021, Silk Sonic saved our eardrums by surprising us with their debut single “Leave the Door Open”. Recently, Silk Sonic released their album, “An Evening with Silk Sonic.” Fans were elated to find out that funk legend Bootsy Collins appeared on the album. Well, thanks to Bootsy being featured on the album, he is making history for himself. Bootsy made his very first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

     The Iota Pi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Miami-Dade County Chapter of the March of Dimes host a Premature Birth Awareness workshop for the students of Dorothy M. Wallace Cope Center. Sponsors of the program included Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Community Health of South Florida, Inc. and Mu Gamma Zeta and Beta Tau Zeta Alumnae Chapters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

The City of Hallandale Beach is proud to announce the recently approved paid-parental leave benefit offered to City employees. Hallandale is the first City in Broward County to adopt the new policy in effort to evolve with the ever-changing workforce and meet the needs of their employees. The ground-breaking policy now makes Hallandale Beach one of South Florida’s Top cities for employment.

 On Thursday, CVS announced that it would close 900 stores over the next three years, which is just about 10% of its pharmacies. Additionally, CVS is in competition with Amazon, Dollar General, and online pharmacies, which is causing their sales to slightly decrease.