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The personal touch on pandemic safety

Oct 12, 2021 | Newsletter, Other

Started in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this program has been so popular it may very well continue in perpetuity. “We knew in May – right before Polk County fields re-opened – that we had to do the right thing and double-down on sanitation,” said Neal...

PCTSM returns to IPW

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A year after being cancelled, IPW 2021 made a triumphant comeback – albeit a little smaller. The U.S. Travel Association produces IPW, the leading international inbound travel trade show in the United States. While no one in the industry calls it this any longer, the...

Center of the Lacrosse Universe

Sep 21, 2021 | Lacrosse, Newsletter, Other

Looks like Polk County can add another superlative to its list. Already known as The Water Ski Capital of the World, after this September, it wouldn’t be hard to add “Center of the Lacrosse Universe.” Home to the Pan-American Lacrosse Association (PALA), Lake Myrtle...

Welcome Back

Aug 24, 2021 | Newsletter, Other

Really, it never left. After being cancelled due to COVID one year, and virtual next, the State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida will return, in person, to the RP Funding Center in 2022. The March event draws thousands from across the state to Lakeland each...

Fresh. Made Daily

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Mr. Whipple. Little Mikey. The Budweiser Frogs. When it comes to marketing, staying up-to-date not only helps keep you in relevant, but it also helps gain market share. That’s the reasoning behind a series of photo shoots that took place around Polk County recently....

Celebrating the Centennial

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Baseball has Fenway Park. Football has Lambeau Field. For water skiers, no single location is as storied as Winter Haven’s Cypress Gardens on the banks of Lake Eloise. While water skiing may have been invented by Ralph Samuelson in 1922 on Lake Pepin in Minnesota,...