Communication Builds Our Community
Communication Builds Our Community
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With the title to the historic Walesbilt Hotel firmly in hand, the City of Lake Wales has issued a nationwide invitation to potential redevelopers of the ten-story building. According to a document released by the city, a request for qualifications (RFQ) response by interested parties will allow the city to "evaluate and shortlist developers based on their technical expertise, financial capacity, project experience and recent relevant innovative strategies for adaptive reuse...
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Working in 95-degree heat on a Tuesday afternoon, one Lake Wales woman demonstrated her commitment to making the world "a bit better or more beautiful." La Casa resident Carol Sundheim was spotted working alone with hand tools to clean up the prominent roundabout at the intersection of Scenic Highway and Hunt Brothers Road at the southern end of the city. Asked why she had undertaken the project, she had a simple and civic-minded response: "It's Lake Wales! I mean, come on! I...
The public is invited to participate in a virtual forum beginning at noon this Friday, June 20, to help shape a Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) that will guide the expenditure of transportation funds for the next 25 years. The event is hosted by the Polk Transportation Planning Organization (TPO). The LRTP provides a plan to address the future transportation needs of the county, in accordance with federal requirements and to account for the ever-changing transportation...
I very much enjoyed the live-action, three-dimension remake of How to Train Your Dragon, a new take on the beloved 2010 animated classic. The story still centers around Hiccup, a young Viking misfit, and his unlikely friendship with a rare and powerful Night Fury dragon named Toothless. Directed by Dean DeBlois and starring Mason Thames as Hiccup, Nico Parker as Astrid, and Gerard Butler reprising his role as Stoick, the film closely follows the original storyline. Like many...
Polk's emergency responders are getting a new tool that may help save lives in the future. Several Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR) Battalion Chiefs will begin carrying whole blood on their trucks and have the ability to administer blood transfusions to patients in the field. Blood for the effort will be supplied by OneBlood, which operates a mobile blood-donation bus across Polk County. Polk County Fire Rescue will maintain a ready supply of blood through coordinated exchanges...
