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Meet Me In Polk: Fairs, Festivals, Stage...

Meet Me In Polk: Fairs, Festivals, Stage and Music
Here comes a week full of fairs and festivals, live stage productions and music from chamber sounds, orchestral productions to Abba and Jim Stafford. 54th Annual Kiwanis Pancake Festival is Saturday, Feb. 11, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Tigertown. The festival is a major fundraiser for the three Kiwanis Clubs in Lakeland: Lakeland, Citrus Center & North Lakeland. Adult tickets at $5...

Free Exercise Program for Cancer Survivo...

Free Exercise Program for Cancer Survivors
The cancer exercise program at Lakeland Regional Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Clinic is a FREE community service provided for cancer survivors. More information can be obtained by calling 863-687-1189....

CancerCare Offers Online Support and Fin...

CancerCare Offers Online Support and Financial Assistance
We offer limited finanacial assistance for cancer-related costs, and our professional oncology social workers can help you find resources. We can help with costs such as: Transportation to and from appointments Home care Child care Pain medication Lymphedema supplies To qualify for assistance, you will need to meet eligibility requirements and share information about your...

American Breast Cancer Foundation, Key T...

American Breast Cancer Foundation, Key To Life Program
American Breast Cancer Foundation, Key To Life Program provides individuals in need with financial assistance for mammograms and diagnostic testing. Also offers help with medication, wigs and other resources. For more information call or visit the website: http://abcf.org/ 1-877-539-2543 Our Mission To provide individuals in financial need, their families and their loved ones...

Komen Race Online Registration Closes; L...

Komen Race Online Registration Closes; Late Registration Details
Online Registration Needs To Close At Midnight On Wednesday The rate for registration across all events increases by $5 after this date. BUT…We will be taking “late registrations” throughout via the registration forms: Late registration opening at Tigertown, Friday, January 13, 3-7 p.m. at the Ticket Counter area.  And, also early morning Race Day, Saturday, Jan. 14...

Finding a Patient Advocate Just Got Easi...

Finding a Patient Advocate Just Got Easier
Patient Advocate Foundation Patient Advocate Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that all Americans have access to healthcare. Case Managers are available to assist patients affected by debilitating or life threatening illnesses by empowering them to be able to make informed decisions regarding their healthcare options. Our Mission is to provide effective mediation and arbitration...

MMIP: Florida Flywheelers Host ‘Ch...

MMIP: Florida Flywheelers Host ‘Christmas Past’
Florida Flywheelers’ “Christmas in the Village” transforms Flywheeler Park into a holiday exposition as every building is trimmed with lights, every yard and building is filled with decorations. Everyone gets to enjoy cookies and beverages. Bring non-perishable food items or new, unwrapped toys, to enter the park. Food and toys are distributed between Frostproof, Avon...

Kids’ Nature Festival at Tenoroc

Kids’ Nature Festival at Tenoroc
Kid’s Nature Festival, Saturday, Dec. 3, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tenoroc Fish Management Area (an outdoor recreation area in northeast Lakeland). Free lunch. Live native animals, fossil dig, pony rides, fishing, nature exhibits, Smokey Bear, Native American Indians, games and prizes. Follow the signs at Tenoroc Fish Management Area office located at 3829 Tenoroc Mine Road. Sponsored...

Parades Lead Off Fun-Filled Holiday Seas...

Parades Lead Off Fun-Filled Holiday Season
Holiday Happenings means Downtown Lakeland stays open late for holiday shopping and cheer tonight. Get some holiday shopping done and enjoy the yuletide spirit. Photos with Santa, holiday music and entertainment. Dec. 2, 6-9 p.m. Rock on over to the Jingle Bell Rock Party at Wabash Community Center, 1230 Southern Ave., Lakeland Dec. 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. Presented by Polk County Parks...

Show Us How You Can Green Your City

Show Us How You Can Green Your City
What’s an idea using Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) that can help green your city? No matter where you live, there are ways your city or town can “go greener” through the innovative use of your STEM skills. Planet Connect and Staples want high school students to demonstrate in a 30-120 second video how one or more of the elements of STEM can help green...

Snowbells Bells Ring – Are You Lis...

Snowbells Bells Ring – Are You Listening?
“Christmas with the Family” Parade begins at 7 p.m. Nov. 28 on Main Street in Avon Park. Sponsored by the Avon Park Chamber of Commerce. Holiday Happenings means Downtown Lakeland stays open late for holiday shopping and cheer. Get some holiday shopping done and enjoy the yuletide spirit. Photos with Santa, holiday music and entertainment. Dec. 2, 6-9 p.m. Rock on over to...

Meet Me In Polk: Variety Spices Up Polk ...

Meet Me In Polk: Variety Spices Up Polk This Weekend
Southeastern University presents “Godspell” tonight, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 with a matinee Sunday at 2:30, Historic Polk Theatre, Lakeland. $15 general admissions, $10 students/seniors. Not to be missed. Drawing from various theatrical traditions, such as clowning, pantomime, charades, acrobatics and vaudeville, “Godspell” is a groundbreaking and unique...

Polk County Family Week Celebrates Five ...

Polk County Family Week Celebrates Five Years
A week full of fun activities and events designed to unite, honor and celebrate families kicks off Saturday as the fifth annual Polk County Family Week encourages all families in Polk County to mark their calendars and meet in Winter Haven’s Central Park Saturday morning. The kick-off begins with a free pet-friendly 5K or 1-mile run/walk begins at 8 a.m. The run is free, but...

Fort Meade Hosts Vietnam Traveling Memor...

Fort Meade Hosts Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall
The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall entered Fort Meade by way of U.S. 98 East from Highway 27 on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 11 a.m., escorted by Vietnam veterans’ motorcycle clubs and supporters and greeted by school children, residents and community businesses and visitors. The Wall has been set up at American Legion Post #23 at 825 North Charleston adjacent to Patterson Park. The...

Treat Yourself to a Boo-lishus Scare

Treat Yourself to a Boo-lishus Scare
Buckingham Terror 13 days. 13 terrors. Camp Fire USA. Through Oct. 31 Sunday-Thursday 7:30pm-9pm Friday & Saturday 7:30pm-11pm Tickets: $6- adults; $3- 12 and under Halloween 7:30-10pm Tickets: $8- adults; $5- 12 and under Camp Fire USA, 2600 Buckingham Ave., Lakeland. 2600 Buckingham Ave., Lakeland. The Sanatorium: Night’s Bedlam. Friday, Saturday, October 28 & 29,...

Harrison School for the Arts presents Wh...

Harrison School for the Arts presents White Christmas
Harrison School for the Arts proudly presents the musical White Christmas on November 10, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m. and November 13 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students and senior citizens. Based on the beloved timeless film, this heartwarming musical adaptation features seventeen Irving Berlin songs and a book by David Ives and Paul Blake. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil...

Halloween Abounds With Fun and Fright

Halloween Abounds With Fun and Fright
Buckingham Terror 13 days. 13 terrors. Camp Fire USA. Oct. 24-28, 3-6pm: Stop in for a kid friendly tour of this year’s haunt where our ghouls and goblins have Halloween treats for your ghouls and goblins. Through Oct. 31 Sunday-Thursday 7:30pm-9pm Friday & Saturday 7:30pm-11pm Tickets: $6- adults; $3- 12 and under Halloween 7:30-10pm Tickets: $8- adults; $5- 12 and under...

Break The BIG Pink Ribbon Record

Break The BIG Pink Ribbon Record
The BIG Pink Ribbon committee is making plans for a life changing historic event. On Saturday, Oct. 22, come out and join 5,000 pink-clad participants from all over Florida to break the Guinness World Record for the largest human awareness ribbon in the world, bring global awareness to Breast Cancer, and raise funds for local programs and Breast Cancer Research. Fantasy of Flight has...

Halloween Sneaks Up On Us Tonight

Halloween Sneaks Up On Us Tonight
Halloween may be just around the corner, but we have some great Halloween activities sneaking up on us this week. “Scared To Death By Literature” is a one-hour interactive event during which guests will rotate through four rooms of a candlelit mansion to hear literature’s greatest horror writers recount their most famous stories on Friday and Saturday in a real...

Meet Me In Polk: Fall Is Bursting At The...

Meet Me In Polk: Fall Is Bursting At The Seams With Fun
Fall is bursting at the seams with so much happening that it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s start with some biggies for the weekend. Always a favorite, the Lake Mirror Classic Auto Festival displays more than 500 vehicles on and surrounding the restored 1920s, art deco-inspired Lake Mirror promenade in downtown Lakeland Friday through Saturday. The Big Jammalamma...

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