The Sunny Isles Beach Reporter

We have a budding musician among us in Sunny Isles — Please read below:

DAVIE — The cello stood taller than 7-year-old Kyla Truong, but she still managed to get her small hands around it.

While booming music spilled from the warm-up rooms during auditions for the Florida Youth Orchestra on Saturday, the sound was bigger than many of the pint-sized musicians creating it.

About 150 children participated in the auditions held at Nova Southeastern University for 5- to 19-year-olds from throughout South Florida. They came with flutes, bassoons, violins, clarinets, trombones, and other string and brass instruments.

It’s a chance for children to broaden their musical horizons, learn to create and become enamored with the arts, said orchestra president and co-founder Myra Weaver.

“It’s not even feasible to have orchestras in the schools with the current funding, but we’re happy to pick up the slack,” she said. “We have kids from North Palm Beach to Key Biscayne.”

Ariel Hus, 10, beamed as he carried his violin and walked back to the car with his grandmother, Orli Gilad.

“I was very confident. It was amazing; it’s my very first audition,” said the excited Pembroke Pines boy.

Gilad said music is in the boy’s blood — his great-grandfather was a member of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, his great-grandmother was a renowned pianist in Israel and other relatives were also musicians.

Nine-year-old Biana Pinchuk’s father, however, hasn’t a musical bone in his body, he said. The petite girl from Sunny Isles Beach remained poised moments before auditioning for violin. Her confidence soared and later, upon request, she demonstrated a powerful opera voice as well.

“I have no talent whatsoever, I’m tone deaf and I have this kid that’s amazing. We’re not sure where this came from,” Paul Pinchuk said.

To read entire article, please go to: http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-06-09/news/fl-youth-orchestra-20120608_1_audition-florida-youth-orchestra-violin

We have some talented athletes in Sunny Isles!  Please see article below:

Sunshine State Games figure skating

Carolina Teijeiro of the Miami Figure Skating Club won gold in Juvenile/Open Juvenile Jumps during the Sunshine State Games at the Saveology.com IcePlex in Coral Springs.

Teammate Analise Gonzalez was third for bronze. In Intermediate Jumps, Carolina Rodriguez, also from the Miami Figure Skating Club, captured gold. Teammate Melanie Bombino won Pre Preliminary Compulsory Moves Group 2.

In Pre Preliminary Compulsory Moves Group 4, Jillian Corredeira of Hialeah finished first. In Beginner 5 Compulsory Moves Group 1, Callie Salas of the Miami Figure Skating Club also earned gold.

More than 360 figure skaters (kids to adults) performed during the three-day competition.

Other local results: Beginner: Girls Free Skate: 1. Isabella Scheer, Sunny Isles Beach. Novice Men SP: 4. Maximiliano Fernandez, Miami.  Juvenile Girls Short Program: 2.Dania Fernandez, Miami; 9.Isabella del Granado, Coral Gables; 10.Sophia del Granado, Coral Gables.  Beginner 5 Girls Free Skate Group 1: 1. Kennedy Mulvey, Miami; 3. Pareasa Ghalebi, North Miami Beach; 6. Gabriela Giraldo, Miami.  Beginner 5 Girls Free Skate Group 2: 9. Marlena Mutter, Sunny Isles Beach.  Intermediate Ladies SP Group A: 10. Melissa Gonzalez, Miami.  Beginner 5 Girls Free Skate Group 4: 8. Kamryn Moe, Miami.  Intermediate Ladies SP Group B: 2. Carolina Rodriguez, Miami; 3. Lourdes Madrigal, Miami; 10. Carolina Teijeiro, Miami.  Junior Ladies SP: 3. Deanna Velez, Miami Shores.  Juvenile Girls FS (Unrestricted) Group A: 1. Carolina Rodriguez, Miami; 5. Melissa Gonzalez, Miami; 6. Dania Fernandez, Miami; 15. Isabella Del Granado, Coral Gables.  Juvenile Girls FS (Unrestricted) Group B: 8. Analise Gonzalez, Miami; 15. Sophia Del Granado, Coral Gables.  Intermediate Ladies FS (Unrestricted): 8. Lourdes Madrigal, Miami; 14. Carolina Teijeiro, Miami.  Pre Juvenile Boys Free Skate: 2. Charles Tyler, Sunny Isles Beach.

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – A Sunny Isles Beach truck driver who allegedly thought he had found a way to beat the system to get out of paying for tolls has been arrested in New Jersey.

When Michael Krasozski, 32, was pulled over Saturday morning on the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey he reportedly had fake license plates from different states.

Krasozski was driving a car carrier with 10 vehicles on board.

Port Authority police officers Michael Brennan and Jason Malice were in an unmarked car when they noticed problems with the carrier’s license plates. After stopping the vehicle, they eventually determined that the plates apparently were made by hand — and that one was a Maine plate and the other an Arizona plate.

You can find this article at: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/06/03/sunny-isles-beach-trucker-charged-in-fake-plates-case/

Article written by Lidia Dinkova

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Temple B’Nai Zion against Sunny Isles Beach and Mayor Norman Edelcup.

Temple B’Nai Zion, 200 178th St., filed the lawsuit in December 2010.

At issue: In 2010, the Sunny Isles Beach City Commission voted to designate parts of the temple as a historic site — something temple representatives like Rabbi Aaron Lankry did not want. Lankry had plans to have the current temple demolished and a new facility built that would better accommodate the growing Sephardic Orthodox Jewish congregation. But the temple’s historic designation halted all renovation plans. Daniel Wallach, a partner at the Fort Lauderdale firm Becker & Poliakoff, P.A., —which represents the temple — said the city’s historic-designation law restricts the freedom to develop the temple building.

Zanita Fenton, a University of Miami School of Law professor who teaches constitutional law, agreed with Wallach.

“The point of historic designations is to preserve historic sections for the community. Once it is designated, then it falls within the need to preserve it,” said Fenton. ”You don’t want to demolish it because that would be completely counter to a historic designation.”

The lawsuit called for the court to throw out the historic designation and declare part of the Historic Landmark city ordinance unconstitutionally vague — on its face and as applied to the temple.

Sunny Isles Beach filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit — and got what it wanted.

Dear SIB residents,

Sunny Isles Beach residents deserve better than to be represented by a Commissioner with unclean hands.  Please contact Governor Rick Scott and ask him to support the people by insisting on Aelion’s resignation. 

To E-mail the Governor, please go to:   http://www.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/email-the-governor/

If you would like to call, the phone number is:  (850) 488-7146

Letters can be sent to:

Office of Governor Rick Scott
State of Florida
The Capitol
400 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001

Because this is a time sensitive matter, we encourage you to E-mail and/or call

(Summary)

Isaac Aelion pleaded no contest before Miami-Dade County Judge Cristina Miranda to one count of making an illegal cash expenditure, one count of failing to report a campaign contribution and one count of failing to report a campaign expenditure, according to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.

(SUMMARY) — April 21, 2011

Federal prosecutors indicted Isaac Feldman and 14 other Eastern Europeans last Friday with engineering one of the most spectacular frauds in the Magic City’s long history of strange crimes. They allegedly set up six Potemkin nightclubs in South Beach and employed a squad of young Estonian and Latvian beauties to lure well-off male tourists inside. Bartenders then pillaged their credit cards for up to $43,000, including $5,000 for cheap bottles of champagne.

Feldman was, in a way, the star of the show — the most public figure involved in the scam, which made headlines from Vancouver to Moscow. A former Russian-language radio show host, wealthy real estate agent, and aspiring actor, he had raised thousands of dollars last fall in a bid for the City of Sunny Isles Beach Commission.  Feldman also spoke four languages, flew planes, and studied karate.

When Feldman decided last summer to join a three-way race for an open commission seat, no one seemed shocked. He raised $8,100, tapping some big names including RK Management, a realty company owned by Miami Heat limited partner Raanan Katz. He printed ads in Russian and plastered red-white-and-blue signs around town. In the November vote, he nabbed 26 percent but fell short of a runoff. “We will win the next elections!” he promised on his Facebookpage.

To read the entire article, pleaes go to:  http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-04-21/news/eastern-european-b-girls-in-sobe-scam/

Isaac Aelion is not alone in his legal troubles.  Former Candidate Isaac Feldman has also made headlines for his alleged involvement in a criminal organization.  According to the FBI press release at http://www.fbi.gov/miami/press-releases/2011/mm041511a.htm,

A picture is worth a thousand words.  Aelion and Feldman give two thumbs up as Aelion proudly announced Feldman’s endorsement in the run-off.