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Notice to Sumerlin Institute Classmates

Notice to Sumerlin Institute Classmates
Your Summerlin 125 Steering Committee has scheduled our next General Meeting at 5:30, on May 21, at the McLeod Presbyterian Church, located at 695 West Stuart Street, in Bartow. All who attended Summerlin Institute are invited, and encouraged to attend.   Join us, and hear the details of our upcoming fantastic “125th Anniversary, and Grand Reunion Celebration”.  “Come and...

Keep Bartow Clean & Beautiful Event...

Keep Bartow Clean & Beautiful Event April 14
Take part in the largest community cleanup event in the City of Bartow. The Solid Waste Department (SWD) and Keep Polk County Beautiful are partnering to kick-off Bartow’s annual Keep Bartow Clean & Beautiful/Great American Cleanup Event. Last year, more than 300 Bartow citizens and 13 civic clubs volunteered to keep Bartow clean and beautiful. The Greater Bartow Chamber...

Register Now For Summerlin 125th Grand R...

Register Now For Summerlin 125th Grand Reunion
Bartow High School has been around for a long time, but in the beginning, it was known as Summerlin Institute. A cattle baron, Jacob Summerlin endowed the local citizens of Fort Blount with a 120-acre land grant and personally donated $1,100 dollars for the construction of a school and Masonic Lodge. The land grant also provided for the establishment of the county-seat, and two...

Leadership Bartow Sponsors Toy Drive

Leadership Bartow Sponsors Toy Drive
Leadership XIV, the current class of the Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce Leadership Bartow program, is sponsoring a toy drive benefitting Heartland for Children’s foster kids. The Polk County Democrat is co-sponsoring the drive. Left, Heartland For children Chief of Community Relations Kim Daugherty is joined by her fellow Leadership XIV classmates, co-chairmen Paula Jackson (far...

Bartow Blooms With Fun in June

Bartow Blooms With Fun in June
Bartow’s Farmers & Artisans Market takes place every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Fort Blount Park, on the corner of Main Street and Broadway Avenue. Besides fresh fruits and vegetables, the market also includes other items such as fresh cut flowers, plants, crafts, and homemade jams and jellies. The Bartow Farmers & Artisans Market is sponsored by Main Street Bartow,...

Upcoming Events … Parades and Pig ...

Wednesday, April 27, 9:30 a.m. 22nd Annual “Just Say No” Parade, Rally and Luncheon The parade will begin at Tom’s Chicken Shack and continue down Main Street then turn left on Broadway and end at Bartow High School where the rally will be held. The public is also welcomed to attend the day’s final event, the Just Say No Civic Club and Community Luncheon at the Bartow Civic...

April in Bartow: Lipizzan Stallions, Ban...

Sunday, April 3, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 2nd Annual Celebration of the Horse Summerlin Academy Equestrian Booster Club Fundraiser High Gait Farm, 6415 Garfield Road, Fort Meade Come see the World Famous Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions and the Summerlin Academy Equestrian Team along with a special performance by Ashley White & “Dreamcote.” All monies raised will benefit...

What’s Happening in Bartow

Buy Your Barn Boogie Tickets Today Thursday, March 3, 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Barn Boogie Dinner & Dance Leland Young’s Barn WANTED:  All you urban cowboys and sassy lasses to saddle up for a barn-raising hootenanny at the inaugural Barn Boogie Dinner & Dance. Leadership Bartow invites you to a southern-style, honky-tonk, boot scootin’ celebration featuring a...

Bartow Chamber Announces Upcoming Events

Now is your chance to to make a contribution to the Bartow Welcome Wagon gift basket. Make new residents of Bartow feel at home with a free gift from your business. The Bartow Welcome Wagon presents gift baskets to new members of our community and now is your chance to promote your business while welcoming a new member to our great city! The price is just $150. So, if you’re...

Be Sure to Visit the Alafia River Rendez...

If you are interested in seeing what this country looked like over 160 years ago, be sure to visit the 40th Annual Alafia River Rendezvous in Homeland, about four miles south of Bartow. During the early part of American history, a “rendezvous” was a pre-determined place and time set for fur trappers to meet up with fur traders. This kept the fur trapper from having to come all the...

Bartow Co-ed Volleyball League Sign-Up

Sign Up for Bartow Parks & Recreation’s Co-ed Volleyball League will close January 12th Start the New Year off right with a variety of fitness programs and events from Bartow Parks & Recreation including Zumba, the Polk Street Weight Room, Co-ed Volleyball League and the Bartow Blarney Triathlon.  Also, look for new adult fitness programs like Yoga at the end of the...

Youth Art Programs Offer A Great Opportu...

     “Art Through Design” includes programs for children Kindergarten through eighth grades. The Kindergarten through second grade and third through fifth grade class is held Monday, January 24 through February 14. In the Kindergarten through 2nd grade class, young doodlers will learn about coloring, drawing, and painting from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. The third through fifth grade...

The Bartow Public Library offers many ev...

The Bartow Public Library offers many events this January Six To Eight Years Story Time Children ages six to eight years old can come to enjoy books read by Bartow’s Children’s Librarian from on Tuesdays between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. from January 4 through February 22. Three to Five Years Story Time Small children ages three to five years old may come and hear books...

Polk Life and Learning Center Annual Cou...

The Polk Life and Learning Center will be having its Annual Country store on December 2nd and 3rd. The Country Store will be open from noon to 4 p.m. on December 2nd and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on December 3rd.  This annual event offers plenty of activities for all including a rummage sale, silent auction, bake sale, plant sale, craft tables and games and activities for kids.  There...

Crickette Club Parade and Carnival

Join us for the original Bartow Halloween Parade and Carnival Thursday, Oct. 28, at 4 p.m. at Mosaic Park, Floral Avenue, Bartow. Food and Fun! Games and Prizes! Proceeds benefit Bartow area Girl Scouts and the Bartow Community.

Carolyn’s Gallery 10th Anniversary...

Bartow Chamber Carolyn’s Gallery presents the 10th Anniversary Celebration with featured artist Tara Milliken. The “Meet The Artist” event will take place on Sept. 17 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Carolyn’s Gallery, 395 E. Summerlin St., Bartow. Come out and enjoy wine, cheese, punch and cookies and the 10th Anniversary Celebration. For more information call (863) 51

‘Polk Vision Refresh’ Revisi...

Polk Vision, a comprehensive vision for the future and the mechanism with which to build it, is revising the original priorities and strategies developed in 2004. “Polk Vision Refresh” will be conducted through focus groups, social media communications, surveys and task force meetings. The organization encourages community input in the “refresh” process through a series...

Fourth of July Celebrations Begin July 2...

The theme for the 2010 Fourth of July Celebration for Bartow is “Let Freedom Forever Ring.” The traditional Young Patriot’s Foundation Community Barbecue is Friday, July 2. Barbecue dinners will be available from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Mosaic Park, west of the bandshell. Special guest is Congressman Adam Putnam, (unless there is a Congressional vote that day in Washington, D.C.)....

‘Let Freedom Forever Ring’ a...

The theme for the 2010 Fourth of July Celebration for Bartow is “Let Freedom Forever Ring.” The traditional Young Patriot’s Foundation Community Barbecue is Friday, July 2. Barbecue dinners will be available from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Mosaic Park, west of the bandshell. Special guest is Congressman Adam Putnam, (unless there is a Congressional vote that day in Washington, D.C.)....

City of Bartow Co-Ed Adult Innertube Bas...

Basketball League for adults. Registration is limited to the first 28 to register. Sign up as a team of seven players or individually. Games will be 5 on 5 for 30 minutes on Monday nights from 6 to 6:30 p.m., July 5-Aug. 9. $15 per person resident, $25 per person non-resident. http://www.bartowchamber.com

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