Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Miami

Writer at Miami's Community Newspapers

I'm a freelance writer who has worked in radio, TV and newspapers. Now I write kid's books. I have retired from organizing writing events.

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Positive people in Pinecrest : Myles Messinger

6 days ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Music is Miami Palmetto High School junior Myles Messinger’s passion. This year, Messinger was chosen to play clarinet in the Miami-Dade Superintendent’s Honors Band. “The Superintendent’s Honor Band was full of people who are really committed,” he says. “I was the only student from Palmetto to be a part of it.”At Palmetto, Messinger is a member of the Symphonic Band.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Cemre Sengul

6 days ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Cemre Sengul is Gulliver Prep’s Silver Knight nominee in the Vocational/Technical category. When she was a freshman, she took a computer class. “When I took the Intro to C++, I discovered my passion for computer science and how it can be applied to solve problems,” she says. The summer before her sophomore year, she attended the New York University (NYU) Quantitative Public Health Data Literacy Training Program.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Luisana Hinestrosa

6 days ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity school rising senior Luisana Hinestrosa moved to Miami from Madrid a year ago in August. “I moved around a total of 4 countries, so I’m used to the change,” she says. She’s originally from Venezuela, she moved to Atlanta, to Switzerland, to Madrid, back to Venezuela, back to Madrid for eight years and now Miami. Her English is impeccable, having attended a British school in Madrid. She speaks English and Spanish fluently and takes French at school.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Megan Vinas

3 weeks ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity junior Megan Vinas has a strong commitment to community service. Vinas is a member of Twenty Little Working Girls, a service club that raises money and supplies volunteers for a variety of non-profits. “We partner with The Chapman Partnership for the Homeless and Lotus House, but the Chapman Partnership is one of our biggest service organizations,” she says. The girls volunteer at the homeless shelter in Homestead. “We usually we throw a Halloween extravaganza for them,” she says.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Camron Acker

3 weeks ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity School rising junior Camron Acker, a former football player, has started a non-profit to raise money for Guardian Caps, protective American football gear. The caps prevent concussions. “It goes on the top of the helmet,” he says, adding that the cap disperses the force of a hit around the helmet. “It has been able reduce the concussion rates by 40 percent.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Alexandra Bennett

3 weeks ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity School sophomore Alexandra Bennett participates in Model United Nations (MUN) and Round Square. For Model U.N., Bennett attended the conference at the Hauge in the Netherlands. “I represented the Gambia, a country in Africa.”She had to do additional research to get enough information about Gambia, because it’s a small country and less active in the political world. “We met with someone who had worked in the Gambian government,” she says.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Zachary Rodriguez

1 month ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity School senior Zachary Rodriguez loves to bowl. Knocking down the pins gives him great joy and even better, he is good enough to earn money from his sport. He plays competitively outside Miami. His freshman year, he started a bowling club at school to share his love of the sport and help students with his expertise. “I wanted to bring that community and aura around the school,” he says. “I brought in a coach (a teacher), but I was a coach myself. We had events, we had practices.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Florencia Nieto

1 month ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity School junior Florencia Nieto is weaving her love of music and social justice in a concrete way that helps underprivileged children by creating the Melody Initiative. “I love music. I have been playing cello since sixth grade,” she says. “Music is like sports. It’s one of those things that I feel empowers people.”She’s a member of the school orchestra and she also sings in the Miami Children’s Chorus.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Veronica Segredo

1 month ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity School junior Veronica Segredo started her own community service project this past year. Her first project last August was to conduct a supply drive with the supplies going to Miami Southridge Senior High School. “We collected items like pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, all the necessities,” she says. “We emailed them and asked what they wanted. We did it through an Amazon wish list. We sent them (the items) to my house.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Walker Ciorobea

1 month ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Music is important to Palmer Trinity School junior Walker Ciorobea so he eagerly joined his friend Florencia Nieto when she wanted to start a community service organization called Melody Initiatives. “Our mission statement is serving the underprivileged youth through the arts,” he says. “Especially music.”They have partnered with the Miami Music Project, a non-profit that gives children an opportunity to play their music after school for three to four hours.