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POLK COUNTY – On Dec. 19 the Polk Region-al Water Cooperative (PRWC) board and the Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority board (PRMRWSA) both voted to settle litigation over how much water could

be drawn from the Peace River for future wa-ter supplies.

The settlement will become effective as soon as the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) board votes to approve when it meets next.

The PRWC board is comprised of mayors and commissioners across Polk County who are

trying to make sure there is enough water available in Polk County to meet future needs. The PRMRWSA board represents water needs for the counties of Charlotte, DeSoto, Sara-sota and Manatee. The SWFWMD board is a regional board representing water needs for all of the counties mentioned.

Swimming upstream: Regional water dispute nears settlementWRITTEN BY CHARLES A BAKER [email protected]

Calling on the communityWinter Haven Police are asking residents for help with solving a homicide

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Hardwood rivalryLake Wales topped Winter Haven in a boys basketball showdown Dec. 20

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Recognizing a citrus iconWinter Haven names road in honor ofH.E. “Bert” Schulz

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PHOTO BY CHARLES A BAKER IIIAuburndale Mayor and Polk Regional Water Cooperative Chair Tim Pospichal voted Dec. 19 to settle a water war between Polk, Charlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota and Manatee counties.

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MAIN STREET BARTOW’S FARMERS AND COMMUNITY MARKETWhen: Dec. 26, 2018 | 10 a.m.-2 p.m.Where: Fort Blount Park W Davidson St., Bartow.More than fruit and vegetables! You may find handcrafted items, popcorn, jewelry, fresh baked goods, homemade jams, and food trucks. Check the Facebook page to see what’s new each week. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, Fort Blount Park, corner of Main and Broadway.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS MUSICAL AFTERNOONS WITH DEAN JOHANESENWhen: Dec. 26, 2018 | 12:30-2:30 p.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgLive music performed at the Pinewood Estate historic Frog Fountain Courtyard. Included with general admission or membership. (863) 734-1222

CREATIVE WRITING CRITIQUE GROUPWhen: Dec. 27, 2018 | 12:30-2:30 p.m.Where: Winter Haven Public Library, 325 Avenue A NW, Winter Haven.www.mywinterhaven.com/event/creative-writing-critique-group-2/2018-12-13/This group meets on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month from 12:30 — 2:30 p.m. Attendees share and critique their writings. All aspiring writers are welcome. (863) 291-5880 Questions? Send email to [email protected].

WINTER HAVEN STAMP CLUBWhen: Dec. 27, 2018 | 7:15 p.m.Where: First Presbyterian Church 6th St. NW, Winter Haven.The Winter Haven Stamp Club meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 7:15. They meet in the Geneva room at the First Presbyterian Church, 637 6th street NW Winter Haven. Everyone with an interest in stamp collecting is welcome.

TAI CHI IN THE GARDENSWhen: Dec. 29, 2018 | 8:30-9:30 a.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgLearn the ancient art of Tai Chi surrounded in the serenity of the Gardens. Individuals of all ages and physical conditions can use the fluid movements to help release tension, increase balance and relax. $10 members/$17 non-member. (863) 734-1222

KIDS PIZZA MAKINGWhen: Dec. 29, 2018 | 10-11 a.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgKids will learn how to make sauce and roll out the dough, top and bake the pizzas in the wood-fired oven. For children ages 8-14 with enough pizza for one adult included. Additional member adults $30. Additional non-member adults $40. Member child $25/Non-member child $35. (863) 734-1222

HOLIDAYS AT HAMMOCK HOLLOW: NEW YEAR TRADITIONS FROM THE NETHERLANDSWhen: Dec. 29, 2018 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgTake the “Plunge” with a wintery run through the River Walk and discover Dutch traditions with cookies and crafts at Doodle Bug Art Place. Included with general admission or membership. (863) 734-1222

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS MUSICAL AFTERNOONS WITH BRYAN RIVERSWhen: Dec. 29, 2018 | 12:30-2:30 p.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgLive music performed at the Pinewood Estate historic Frog Fountain Courtyard. Included with general admission or membership. (863) 734-1222

DEATH IS A CABERNET ‘OL CHUM A MURDER MYSTERY DINNERWhen: Dec. 31, 2018 | 6 p.m.Where: Ramon Theater 15 E Wall Street, Frostproof.www.ramontheater.comUse your sleuthing skills to investigate the death of Cabernet vintner Malcolm Melee. Ticket price includes dinner & favors. Purchase tickets online. (863) 635-7222 $50

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYSWhen: Jan. 01 - 06, 2019 | 8 a.m.-6 p.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgCome “Home for the Holidays” and experience Pinewood Estate completely transformed into a holiday showplace and reflecting the grandeur of the 1940s. Combo admission to the Gardens and Pinewood Estate Holiday Home Tour $24 adult, $12 (child ages 5-12). (863) 734-1222.

NEW YEAR’S DAY CARILLON CONCERTWhen: Jan. 01, 2019 | 1 p.m. & 3 p.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgRing in the new year with a Singing Tower concert. Included with general admission or membership.

COUCH TO 5K TRAININGWhen: Jan. 02, 2019 | 8 a.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgMonday, Wednesday and Saturday at 8am. Running training designed to motivate someone “out of shape” to prepare for a 5K race. By last meeting, you will be ready to run at the Carillon Classic 5K on February 23, 2019. Training sessions free with general admission or membership; separate charge applies for Carillon Classic 5K. (863) 734-1222

MUSICAL AFTERNOONS WITH RON BETTSWhen: Jan. 02, 2019 | 12:30-2:30 p.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgLive music performed at Pinewood Estate historic Frog Fountain Courtyard. Free with general admission or membership. (863) 734-1222

GOLDEN MILKWhen: Jan. 02, 2019 | 1-2 p.m.Where: Bok Tower Gardens 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales.boktowergardens.orgGolden Milk is soon becoming a popular drink for healthy habits and to fight harmful inflammation. Learn how to make this simple but elegant drink and treat yourself to health. $5 members/$15 non-members. (863) 734-1222

FARMERS MARKET AT THE VISITOR CENTERWhen: Jan. 03, 2019 | 9 a.m.Where: Central Florida’s Visitor Information Center 101 Adventure Ct., Davenport.Join us every Thursday for fresh produce, arts & crafts and specialty gifts.For more info, or to become a vendor, please call our Visitor Center at (863) 420-2586.

POLLINATORS: NOT JUST THE BIRDS AND THE BEESWhen: Jan. 03, 2019 | 10 a.m.Where: Mackay Gardens and Lakeside Preserve 945 Mackay Blvd, Lake Alfred.mylakealfred.comFree Community Gardening Workshop on the first Thursday of every month. Come and enjoy Florida Friendly gardening workshops, sponsored by Florida Master Gardeners and University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Workshops are Free! No registration necessary. Join us to learn about pollinators in the garden. Not only are the birds and the bees pollinators, but many other creatures help pollinate our plants. Learn about what to plant, and how to manage your landscape to protect our pollinators.

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEEWhen: Jan. 03 - 20, 2019 Where: Theatre Winter Haven 210 Cypress Gardens Blvd Winter Haven.www.theatrewinterhaven.comAn eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.Does contain adult themes, language and humor. 863-294-SHOW (7469)

CRYSTAL BOWL SOUND BATHWhen: Jan. 05, 2019 | 11:30 a.m.Where: Inside Out Yoga 52 4th St. NW, Winter Haven.www.ioyogastudio.com$20 Investment. Join Cosmic Sound Healer, Buffy La Roux as she facilitates a high vibratory journey of Sound through time and space. During this deeply meditative and transformative experience, Buffy guides us inward through a sound bath of deeply shifting vocal toning, singing, frequencies and quartz crystal singing bowls. Each Crystal Sound Bath is a unique symphony and a dance of the collective energies present for the Well Being of All.

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WRITTEN BYCHARLES A BAKER [email protected]

POLK COUNTY – Over the past couple of weeks, multiple media outlets have reported that 30,000 tons of sludge from Fort Myers are being transported to Polk County for disposal.

During public comments at the coun-ty commission meeting Dec. 18, Lake Wales resident Glen Martin raised some concerns about this news.

“I don’t know why we have to take toxic waste from other communities,” Martin said. “Why should we be the sewer for the state of Florida?”

Polk County Manager Jim Freeman said that the county has zero regula-tory capacity to stop the private trans-action, that no county permits are required for the transaction and that state regulators are ensuring the pro-cess is safe and legal.

Freeman further stated the sludge was non-hazardous and non-toxic ac-cording to state regulators who will speak to the public at the county com-mission meeting Jan. 8.

Fort Myers sludge coming to PolkAccording to Freeman, back in the 1960s, a Fort Myers water treatment plant dumped sludge in the ground that was made public recently.

Sludge disposal is common practice. This sludge will be processed by Clark Environmental, a company in Mulber-ry, before being dumped in the Cedar Trails Landfill in Bartow over the next few months. Sludge from the City of Winter Haven is dumped there regu-larly.

Several media reports have described the sludge bound for Polk as having above-average levels of arsenic. Ac-cording to a Dec. 20 article from the News-Press, a newspaper based out of Fort Myers, “The sludge has shown higher than safe levels of arsenic over the years, but it’s unclear if the arsenic has been deposited by outside factors or if it’s part of the sludge.”

Officials say the sludge will be non-tox-ic once treated.

According to the News-Press, “Fort Myers will still be responsible for on-site and offsite testing to ‘ensure com-plete remediation’ and determine where the arsenic is coming from.”

COUNTY NEWS

POLK COUNTY – Tornado warnings were active across Polk County all day Dec. 20 after the jet stream dipped south, causing rain from Florida all the way up through Maine.

Polk Fire Rescue spokesman Chris Jonckheer said there were reports of downed power lines across the county, but the most severe event ap-peared to be a roof that was ripped off

Storms roll through Polk

of a home just north of Warner Univer-sity, near Lake Wales.

One person was hospitalized.

The weather also caused a litany of cancellations, including of civic events such as the Christmas parade in Bar-tow and Snow Central in Winter Hav-en.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY POLK COUNTY FIRE RESCUEA resident living at 270 Genesis Point Drive in Lake Wales was hospitalized Dec. 20 after a possible tornado ripped the roof from a quadraplex.

WRITTEN BY GRADY JUDDSheriff

This is a great time of year to remem-ber the importance of staying sober if you plan on driving.

If you drink and drive you are not only risking your life, but endangering the lives of others on the roadways. The safest way to ensure you aren’t en-dangering lives behind the wheel is to hand the keys to someone else or else take a cab or an Uber.

Don’t plan on “having just one — I’ll be OK.” For every drink, our inhibitions lessen, so it’s even easier to have “just one more.” It’s better to be safe than sorry.

And let’s not forget drugged driving. Driving under the influence of illegal drugs, prescription pain medications,

If you’re driving while tipsy or high, you’re DUI

prescription mood-altering medica-tions and “medical marijuana” con-taining THC can be every bit as dan-gerous as drinking while driving.

Drugs and alcohol slow a person’s re-action time, altering their perception.

I’m asking everyone to take an extra step to prevent senseless crashes. In addition to keeping yourself from behind the wheel while under the in-fluence, please take a stand against others doing the same. Whether it is for a family member, a friend or just an acquaintance, stand up and say what they need to hear: “Please don’t drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs.”

Crashes happen in an instant. Lives change in an instant. Pain and loss can last a lifetime. Please keep our holi-days safe and happy for everyone.

PHOTO BY CHARLES A BAKER IIIWith Christmas music playing through a speaker in his pocket, Santa Claus — also known as former Winter Haven Mayor Dave Dershimer — strolled through down-town Winter Haven Dec. 21, handing out holiday cheer and candy.

Santa loves WH, visits early


ON THE COVERWATER DISPUTEFROM PAGE 1

POLK COUNTY – For the past 38 years, a Polk County clerk of courts and comp-troller has been recognized for excel-lence by the Government Finance Offi-cers Association.

On Dec. 18, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam traveled from Tallahassee to his hometown of Bartow to recognize Polk County Clerk and Comptroller Stacy Butterfield, her staff and the county commission for earning two Certificates of Achieve-ment for Excellence in Financial Report-ing this year by the GFOA.

“It’s an immense honor to have [Adam Putnam] here this morning to present these awards and celebrate this accom-plishment,” Butterfield said.

The GFOA Comprehensive Annual Fi-nancial Report has been awarded to Polk County for the past 38 years and the Popular Annual Financial Report has been awarded to Polk County for the past 17 years. Both documents are available online and track Polk County government finances over the past de-cade.

Water that comes out of Polk County faucets almost exclusively comes from rainwater taken from Upper Floridan Aquifer (UFA) wells. Due to explosive growth, the UFA is running dry and SWFWMD staff have ordered Polk County leaders to seek alternative wa-ter supplies to meet future needs.

In January 2017, the PRWC board or-ganized a water summit during which time it said that by 2035 Polk County would need to find more than 40 mil-lion gallons per day of water that did not come from the UFA. The proposed solution was to build two sets of wells into the Lower Floridan Aquifer (LFA), at a cost of close to a billion dollars. A secondary plan was recharging the aquifer around Peace Creek.

In March and April 2018, the Winter Haven Sun published articles about how communities to the south were building water reservoirs to harvest rainwater. The Sun published an edito-rial in May asking why that option was not being considered in Polk County. Weeks later, the PRWC board voted to file an injunction to stop leaders to the south from expanding their reservoirs, alleging that if they did so it would limit options to do the same in Polk County in the future.

The settlement appears to represent a shift away from primarily relying on LFA wells, which can be significantly more costly, and toward higher prior-ity on using the Peace River to store summer rainwater and on recharging the aquifer around Peace Creek.

On May 10, the PRWC board submit-ted a water-use permit to store up to

18 million gallons per day in a reservoir from Peace River in Polk County. On June 15, the PRWC board applied for a second water-use permit to divert 12 million gallons per day of water from Peace Creek to recharge the aquifer.

PRWC staff member Gene Heath said Dec. 19 that the PRWC contract with engineers to build LFA wells may need to be amended to reflect a higher pri-ority on using Peace River and Peace Creek as alternative water-supply op-tions.

Heath also released some logistics to this plan. Since it mostly rains in Polk County in the summer, most of that wa-ter would have to be put in reservoirs during that time frame. Heath said in order to average pulling enough wa-ter out of the Peace River in 90 days, it would require a reservoir roughly a square-mile in size.

One member of the public has al-ready offered his land for such a pur-pose, but that option requires more study before action can be taken.

In addition to voting to focus more effort on building a water reservoir in Polk County and recharging the aquifer, the PRWC board also vot-ed to approve implementing a wa-ter-solution idea proposed by utility staff from the City of Winter Haven.

In late November, the Sun reported that Winter Haven staff had a plan to pump up to 6 million gallons per day of treated wastewater into the ground near Lake Eloise. On Dec. 9 the PRWC board voted to make that plan part of its own plan moving for-ward.

Job well-done: Adam Putnam congratulates county clerk

PHOTO BY CHARLES A BAKER IIIFlorida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam came home to Bartow Dec. 18 to congratulate Polk County Clerk of Courts Stacy Butterfield for ongoing accounting excellence.

Butterfield (2013-to-present) joins for-mer clerks Richard Weiss (1997-2013) and Bud Dixon (1973-1997) in the con-sistent earning of the recognition.

“This is the highest form of recognition in government accounting and finan-cial reporting,” Putnam said. “These are prestigious national awards that rec-ognize conformance with the highest standards of preparation.”

There are some interesting statistics in these reports. Total primary govern-ment expenses, program revenues, business licenses issued and property taxes collected are each less now than they were in 2008. This may not be the case next year, given that the county commission raised taxes in September.

Residential and commercial building permits took a huge hit after the finan-cial crisis, but have rebounded and now exceed values from 2008.

Residential land values still have not fully recovered since 2008. but com-mercial property values have edged higher than 2008 values. The top five principal taxpayers in 2008 were Duke Energy, Tampa Electric, Mosaic, Publix and Coca Cola. In 2017 they were Prog-ress Energy, Tampa Electric, Publix, Car-

gill and Duke Energy. Walmart fell from sixth to tenth place.

Population has grown from 585K to 661K over the past decade and personal income has climbed slightly. The larg-est employers in 2017 were the school board (13,061 employees), Publix (8,200), Wal-Mart (5,100), Lakeland Re-gional Medical Center (5,000) and Polk County Government (4,493).

In 2008 there were 45 parks. As of 2017, there were 69.

“We are committed to the highest lev-el of transparency and accountability to our citizens and providing the fi-nancial data that they deserve,” But-terfield said.



Alturas resident John Voight, far left, got a special present for his 90th birthday Dec. 8 — time together with his family. Pictured with him are his great-grandson, Spencer Voight; great-great-grandson, Harrison Voight; grandson, Aaron Voight; and son, Tom Voight. Aaron Voight said approximately 100 people attended the party, including family from outside the state and one of John Voight’s high school classmates.

Five generations of VoightWRITTEN BYCHARLES A BAKER [email protected]

POLK COUNTY – Back in 2012, the recycling bins in Polk County looked much different than they do now. Bins were relatively small and yellow, com-pared to the 65-gallon recycling cans distributed now.

Apparently, what residents placed in-side was different then, too.

According to Polk County Waste and Recycling Director Ana Wood, in 2012 only 2.2 percent of the items placed in recycling bins were non-recyclable trash. A recent study concluded that nowadays, however, 32.5 percent of items placed in the large recycle cans are non-recyclable.

The combination of residents placing trash in the recycling cans, along with fewer markets for selling recycled ma-terials — most notably the dramatic decrease of materials purchased by China — has forced a change.

Polk County Commissioners voted unanimously to amend their recycling contract for the third time since 2012,

County urges residents to ‘recycle smartly’

raising the amount of money paid to recycle materials from $50 to $90 per ton for as long as contamination per-centages remain higher than 20 per-cent. Wood described the problem as long-term and said that in 2019 coun-ty staff will be trying hard to educate the public what can and cannot be recycled.

“There was a time, I think, [when] the general consensus was ‘when in doubt, put it in the recycle bin,’” Polk County Commissioner George Lindsey said. “I think we now need to change that mentality. When in doubt — don’t. Recycle smartly.”

According to the county website, dry newspaper, paper or paper products are allowed so long as they are not wet or contaminated with trash. Alu-minum, steel or tin cans are accept-ed as are cardboard cereal boxes and most milk and juice jugs that are not colored plastic.

Glass, most plastics and wet paper are no longer recyclable.

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POLK COUNTY – A brand new county ambulance got packed to benefit Toys for Tots and Santa helped staff get in the holiday spirit at the Polk Fire Rescue Holiday Banquet at Lake Eva Event Cen-ter in Haines City on Dec. 7.

Guests saw 54 staff members get hon-ored for excellence this year.

Jeff Calcutt earned Sworn Member of the Year. Kathy Drainville earned Civil-ian Member of the Year. Al Green earned Reserve Member of the Year. Ari Sea-man earned Cadet Member of the Year.

Earning the Meritorious Service Award were Jamey Pynes, Sean Beardmore and Heather Coburn.

Unit citations were awarded to Ken Wil-liams, Brandon Carmack, Alex Pullen, Dean Molnar, Chris Vega, Matt Brown, Frank Morrison, Lance Dunn, Polk County Sheriff’s Office Telecommu-nicator Melissa Smith, Joe McQueen,

Polk Fire Rescue holiday banquetKyle Douglas, Courtney Stokes, Shane McGregor, Warren Fuller, Ken Williams, Jamey Pynes, Scott Zinninger, Jordan Webster Jason Drinkard, Louis Guthrie, Jason Yost Matt Bailey, Bob McNelis, Sean Beardmore, Sky Beard, Tyler Park-er, Cesar Rivera, Curtis Wiggs, Acie Gord-ie, Mark McDonough, Daniel Daugharty, Lindsey Sisanh, Joe Bergold, Sean Gillo-oly, and Chris Rivicci.

Civic awards were awarded to Dan Win-tz, Loni Prenitzer, Ashley Brown, Daniel Sotolongo, and Kyle Gramowski.

Community Service Awards were earned by Dave Rittenhouse, Dan Win-tz, Gary Bales and Jay Schwartz.

The Agency in Partnership Award was earned by the American Red Cross of Mid-Florida.

The Citizen Certificate of Appreciation was awarded to Keshaun Smith and Kurt Held.


WINTER HAVEN NEWS

On behalf of the City of Quincy’s great citizens and customers, City

Commissioners, Keith Dowdell, Andy Gay, Daniel McMillan and Ronte

Harris, Interim City Manager, Jack L. Mclean Jr. and Utility Director,

Robin Ryals, we take this time to extend our grateful appreciation to

the linemen from your community, who came to our rescue during our

time of need.

Hurricane Michael left a trail of destruction in our City and County. The City

of Quincy Electrical System was severely damaged. However, because of

the Mutual Aide Agreement with your Utility, we were able to rebuild and

make the necessary repairs to get our customers back on line within 10 days.

The following lineman worked 12 hours each day for weeks to get the City’s

power restored. Our Heartfelt Thanks to the Bartow Team:

“Thank You”

Jimmy Lewis, Billy Leal, Eddie Hunt, Jose Pena, Sam Youngblood, JJ Byrd

May this Holiday Season BringYou Peace, Joy and Happiness.

Sincerely,

Mayor Angela Grant Sapp

City of Quincy, Florida

404 West Jefferson Streetwww.myquincy.net

Quincy, FL 32351850-618-0020

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...in the heart of Florida’s Future

WRITTEN BYSTEVEN [email protected]

WINTER HAVEN — The Christmas hol-iday came and went, but what was a joyous day for many was a somber oc-casion for family and friends of Darnell Powell.

Powell was asleep in bed in the ear-ly morning hours of Sept. 29 when someone shot through the window, striking him. Responding Winter Ha-ven Police Officers rendered aide to Powell, 21, upon arrival to the home at 502 Ave. V NE, but he succumbed to his injuries.

The ongoing investigation into who fired the shots that rang out at 4:26 a.m. that morning has produced per-sons of interest, but Winter Haven Chief of Police Charlie Bird said Dec. 20 that he and his detectives need the community to solve this crime.

Standing in front of 12 family mem-bers at a press conference, Bird im-plored anyone with information about the crime to come forward.

A cash reward for information has been increased to $5,000.

“Our detectives have come to a point in this investigation where we are ask-ing for help from the public to assist us,” Bird said. “We are reaching out to

Police chief, grieving family ask community to help solve homicidefolks who may have seen something or know something — some of whom don’t even realize they have a piece of the puzzle that will help us put this to-gether.”

Led by Powell’s mother, Darnya Bar-ber, family members implored the community to help.

“We miss Darnell — we have to go through another holiday without Dar-nell and into the new year without Darnell,” Barber said.

Surrounded by supporters donning t-shirts that read “Justice for Darnell,” Barber lovingly recalled her son.

“He sings a lot and he loves to go to church,” Barber said. “He’s an outgo-ing kid and he’s had typical struggles that all of us have transitioning from a young adult to an adult. He doesn’t have enemies — he’s a well-loved kid.”

A day after the press conference, po-lice and supporters canvassed the neighborhood around where the crime took place to place signs and ask neighbors if they may have any helpful information.

The signs advertise the increased re-ward and also include a photo of Pow-ell.

“The signs put a face to the victim — because we’re not just talking about a

victim,” Bird said. “We’re talking about Darnell Powell.”

As far as what type of information the police are hoping to attain, Bird left that open-ended, suggesting that even seemingly unrelated informa-tion could contain a small piece of the puzzle.

“We’re looking to jog someone’s mem-ory,” Bird said. “I don’t care how insig-nificant someone may think [a detail] is … we’re imploring them to pass that on to us.”

Powell’s grandfather, Clyde Edwards, and father, Eric Reed, also spoke, as did the family’s pastor, Clifton Dolli-son, of First Missionary Baptist Church

of Winter Haven. Dollison stated that he knew Powell from his infancy.

“We’re praying the Lord will touch someone’s heart,” Dollison said.

Investigators are asking anyone with information to call Heartland Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226-TIPS. Anonym-ity is guaranteed, and information ob-tained could help lead to closure for those impacted by Powell’s death.

“The folks who surround me show just how much Darnell was loved,” Bird said. “I think it is imperative that we, as a community, come together to solve this case so that they can have closure.”

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PHOTO BY STEVEN RYZEWSKIFamily and friends of Darnell Powell, a Winter Haven man that was slain while sleeping in Septem-ber, stand behind Winter Haven Chief of Police Charlie Bird as he asked the community for help in solving the case Dec. 20.


Health Events to Keep You HealthyBayCare Events in Polk County

BayCareEvents.org18-614728-1218

To register for a class or for a physician referral: (855) 314-8352

Bartow Regional Medical Center

2200 Osprey Blvd., BartowWinter Haven Hospital

200 Ave. F N.E., Winter HavenWinter Haven Women’s Hospital

101 Ave. O S.E., Winter Haven

Featured Events (no cost to attend)

Anterior Hip Replacement

Registration is required: (855) 314-8352Samuel Messieh, MD, Orthopedic SurgeonThursday, January 17, 4–5:30pm

Courtyard by Marriott Lakeland3725 Harden Blvd., Lakeland

Thursday, January 24, 4–5:30pm

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lake Placid608 S. Lakeview Road, Lake Placid

Thursday, January 31, 4–5:30pm

Bohemian Hotel Celebration, Aviary Ballroom700 Bloom St., Celebration

Advances in Shoulder Surgery

Registration is required: (855) 314-8352 Tuesday, January 22, 5:30–6:30pm

Paul M. Morin, MD, Orthopedic SurgeonWinter Haven HospitalAuditorium

Cancer Support (no cost to attend)

Woman to Woman Cancer Support Group

Registration is not required. Mondays, January 14 and 28, 6–7pm

Winter Haven HospitalWellness Center Conference Room

Man to Man Cancer Support Group

Registration is not required. Tuesday, January 15, 1:30–2:30pm

Winter Haven HospitalQuality Improvement Conference Room

Ovarian Cancer Support Group

Registration is not required. Monday, January 21, 5:30–7pm


Winter Haven Women’s Hospital

Breastfeeding ClassRegistration is required: (855) 314-8352Saturday, January 5, 9:30am–12pm Classroom ACost: $15

Prepared Childbirth (4-Session)Registration is required: (855) 314-8352Mondays, January 7, 14, 21, 28, 6:30–8:45pmClassroom ACost: $40

Infant and Child CPRRegistration is required: (855) 314-8352Thursday, January 10, 6–7:30pmClassroom ACost: $15

Sibling ClassClass is for children ages 3-10. Registration is required: (855) 314-8352Saturday, January 12, 10–11amClassroom CCost: $10

Newborn CareRegistration is required: (855) 314-8352Saturday, January 12, 1–4pmClassroom ACost: $15

Perinatal Bereavement Support GroupRegistration is required: (855) 314-8352Tuesday, January 22, 6:30–7:30pmNorth Entrance Sitting Area Cost: Free

Orthopedic Events (no cost to attend)

Total Joint ReplacementThursdays, January 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 12:30–2pmWinter Haven HospitalWellness Center Conference RoomRegistration is required: (863) 297-1808Tuesdays, January 8, 15, 22, 29, 1–2pmBartow Regional Medical CenterClassroom 1Registration is required: (863) 519-1665

Support Groups (no cost to attend)

Heart-to-Heart Cardiac Support Group

Registration is required: (863) 280-6066Tuesday, January 8, 3–4pm


Better Breathers Club

Registration is not required.Wednesday, January 9, 1–2pm


Caregivers Support Group

Registration is not required. Friday, January 11, 1:30–2:30pm


Ostomy Support Group

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WINTER HAVEN – The Winter Haven City Commission recently voted unan-imously to rename the main roadway through Winter Haven Industrial Park from Winter Haven Boulevard to Bert Schulz Boulevard.

City staff made a few extra signs and distributed them to the family of H.E. “Bert” Schulz, who passed away in 2009 at the age of 88, and his former business partners on Dec. 10.

Schulz has received worldwide cred-it for being a pioneer in the recovery of citrus oils to manufacture cleaning supplies and citrus fragrances from or-ange peels leftover from juicing.

“His contributions to the citrus indus-try have produced significant eco-

Citrus pioneer Bert Schulz honorednomic benefit to Winter Haven and the surrounding areas,” stated a city proclamation..

In 1942, Schulz and his father, William Schulz, founded Florida Molasses as an alcohol distillery. After World War II ended, the company named changed to Florida Chemical and started pro-ducing citrus oils. The Winter Hav-en-based corporation became a glob-al supplier in citrus oil. His son, Paul Schulz, and daughter, Carla Hardy, helped to run the corporation before it was eventually sold.

Paul Schulz went on to become an art-ist for Hallmark Cards and over the last few years he has bought land in Win-ter Haven, establishing an event ven-ue called Outback Oasis, and recently asked the city commission to zone some additional land for a retirement community.

PHOTO BY CHARLES A BAKER IIICarla Hardy holds up a street sign honoring her father, the late citrus pioneer Bert Schulz on Dec. 10 along with her brother Paul Schulz and Winter Haven Mayor Brad Dantzler. The Winter Haven City Commission unanimously voted to rename a street in honor of Schulz recently.


WINTER HAVEN – The Winter Haven Afford-able Housing Advisory Committee had its quarterly meeting Dec. 17 at City Hall.

Members primarily discussed two up-dates, as well as the Nov. 26 city commis-sion vote to spend $340K on more senior subsidized housing and an update on the Mayor’s Affordable Housing Initiative.

On Nov. 26 Winter Haven Housing Au-thority staff, without prior public debate, requested $340K from the city general fund to support an application for state fi-nancing for a $16M senior housing project called Lakeside Terrace Phase II.

Winter Haven Housing Authority Execu-tive Director Lisa Landers released more information about the financing applica-tion Dec. 17, saying staff expected to learn which projects would be financed by the state sometime in January.

If the city-supported Winter Haven Hous-ing Authority application is chosen in the January lottery, it would mean the city would get more than 90 additional units of subsidized senior housing by mid-2020.

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“We are excited about the possibilities,” Landers said.

The Mayor’s Affordable Housing Initiative is a project with a goal of providing af-fordable housing options for 150 families over the next one-to-five years. Now in the planning stage, Heart for Winter Haven Director and Affordable Housing Advisory Committee member Brad Beatty said that over the next six months, multiple pub-lic meetings will be scheduled to discuss ideas and options.

Affordable housing has been a goal of the city commission for years. Last year, the city commission donated two pieces of city-owned land in the Sears Avenue area of the Florence Villa neighborhood. State grants were used to build two two-bed-room homes which will both be complete by February 2019.

“Affordable housing is an issue across the nation,” Beatty said. “It’s a widespread is-sue. What can the city do to plan for that?”

Habitat for Humanity of East Polk Coun-ty Executive Director and Winter Haven Housing Advisory Committee member Julie Farish said that the waiting list to ini-tiate the process of having a Habitat home built will open up in February 2019.

WRITTEN BY CHARLES A BAKER [email protected]

WINTER HAVEN – On Dec. 10, members of the Woman’s Club of Winter Haven were honored with a proclamation celebrating 105 years of service to the community by the Winter Haven City Commission. A week later, the ladies celebrated 10 years of creating a “sock tree” to benefit school-aged young ladies who attend Girls Inc.

“It’s an honor to represent the mem-bers who continue to do everything that (Winter Haven Mayor Brad Dantzler) said,” Woman’s Club of Winter Haven President Jane McGinnis said. “We promote the fin-est of the finest, youth education, goodwill and better life situations. It’s our honor to be a stimulus among young people and to have the affection of one another because that is what it is all about.”

On Monday, Dec. 17, a handful of the members of the club took part in creating their 10th Annual Christmas Sock Tree.

Beginning in 2008, the late Phyllis Gil-bert started the tradition of decorating a Christmas tree at Girls Inc. with colorful socks that the girls could pick off the tree

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before leaving for Christmas break. Gilbert bequeathed her idea to Claire Apfelbaum, and for the past few years Jane McGinnis has led the project.

More than 300 socks were put on the tree, one for each of the 80 to 90 girls who at-tend daily and around two more that the girls can gift others for Christmas. Each year the girls get creative in terms of get-ting to pick first, Executive Director Peggy Threlkel joked.

Threlkel is seeking nominations for the 28th Annual She Knows Where She is Go-ing award in May. She is asking members of the public to email her nominations to [email protected].

Paul Schulz thanked the city commis-sion before handing the mic over to his sister.

“Bert would always push for us to take the road less travelled, and also take the high ground,” Carla Hardy said, holding a street sign for Bert Schulz Boulevard. “Here it is.”

PHOTO BY CHARLES A BAKER IIIMembers of the Woman’s Club of Winter Hav-en show pride after creating their 10th Annual Christmas Sock Tree at Girls Inc., Dec. 17.


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LAKE WALES NEWSWRITTEN BY BRIAN ACKLEYNews Correspondent

LAKE WALES – Plans to spend $1.2 mil-lion to bring four airplane hangars to Lake Wales Municipal Airport have been grounded by city commissioners, at least for now.

Concerns that the project was not com-petitively bid, and the question of wheth-er or not the city should build them or let private investors foot the bill, were brought up by several members of the board.

Commissioner Curtis Gibson, who is the liaison to the airport authority board, not-ed that group also recommended that the plan be tabled for the time being.

“I think we need to have an open bid. It’s fair to the people — it’s their [tax] money,” Gibson said.

City staff had previously recommended the project go forward with SEMCO Con-struction being awarded the project. SEM-CO is in the second year of a three-year contract with the city that allows them to be used on city projects, but usually it is used for much smaller projects.

That contract was competitively bid, city officials noted, and several commission-ers noted their position had nothing to do with SEMCO or the quality of their work.

Mayor Eugene Fultz was the only commis-sioner to vote in favor of approving the plan.

The city has recently done a number of upgrades at the airport – after taking over

Hanger plans grounded for nowoperation of the facility several years ago – including lengthening one of the runways to accommodate larger planes.

City Manager Ken Fields indicated he would come back to the commission in the near future with a more in-depth review of airport operations.

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The City of Lake Wales will get a new web-site address in January, changing email ad-dresses for city staff in the process.

Currently, the city’s website can be ac-cessed at www.cityoflakewales.com. Start-ing Jan. 16, however, that will change to www.lakewalesfl.gov. Entering either ad-dress into an internet browser will direct users to the city’s current website, which was overhauled a few years ago and will not change.

The bigger issue involving the new address is related to email. Beginning Jan. 16, res-idents or other parties can enter either “@cityoflakewales.com” or “@lakewalesfl.gov” to the ending of an employee email ad-dress. However, beginning March 19, only the email addresses with the “@lakewalesfl.gov” ending will be accepted.

The change comes in part because officials noted that “.com” addresses are typical-ly used by for-profit entities, and that the “.gov” address better represents the func-tion of the city itself.

City manager Ken Fields noted there are other advantages. For example, the Lake Wales Library would be eligible for free newspaper subscriptions with the new designation, something it would not quali-fy with the current address.

Commissioners hoping to get an update on any work or progress on renovations at the Walesbilt Hotel were left disappointed last week.

That’s because there is none.

It’s been months since work stopped at the downtown site, and Kathy Bangley, the city’s director of development ser-vices, said there was none expected in the near future.“There are no active permits,” she said. “The site is secure and as far as we know,

Hotel update? Not yetthere is no imminent activity taking place at the hotel.”

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LAKE WALES — The Kegel Training Center, located just off of U.S. 27 in Lake Wales, played host to a showcase event for the Professional Bowlers As-sociation earlier this month.

The 2018 PBA Clash — a $25K winner-take-all, single-elimination competi-tion featuring all eight of the previous season’s leading money winners — took place there Dec. 10.

A significant event in more ways than one, it represents the first telecast for the PBA on FOX Sports, after years of working with ESPN. Though shot on Dec. 10, the airing of the event was tape-delayed and broadcast on Dec. 23

Jerry Schneider, a media representa-tive for the PBA who was on hand for the event taping, said it was a rousing success.

“[The Kegel Training Center is] an ex-cellent place to hold a competition,” Schneider said. “You couldn’t ask for much more than they provided for that event.”

Schneider added that the crowd, which Kegel staff estimated at rough-ly 200 persons, was enthusiastic throughout.

“It was a very enthusiastic, packed-house,” he said.

The Clash was the third PBA event hosted at the Kegel facility, and argu-ably the most high-profile. In addi-tion to the prestige of having had the event held there, Brent Sims — the

PBA stars clash in event filmed in Lake Walestraining center’s coordinator — said the broadcast showcased some of the cutting-edge technology that Kegel has pioneered.

“There are two parts of it that are sig-nificant for us,” Sims said. “Obviously, we hosted the event and it will be the first [PBA] show [on Fox] … Fox also added Specto to the broadcast, which is one of the products that we are the sales and marketing arm for.”

Regarded as one of the most techni-cally-advanced facilities in the nation, the Kegel Training Facility is home to the Webber University bowling team and also serves as a place where bowl-ers of all skill levels can go to train.

“We’re a bowling training facility — we teach people how to bowl,” Sims said.

Indeed, a few days after the event, Sandra Gongora — a Professional Women’s Bowling Association com-petitor from Mexico — was hard at work refining her game with a Kegel coach.

The facility is located at 1951 Long-leaf Blvd. in Lake Wales and is part of a large manufacturing operation for Kegel. It relocated to Lake Wales in 2004, when former owner John Davis — widely regarded as a pioneer in the lane-maintenance industry — moved it from Sebring.

Sims credits Davis, since deceased, with foreseeing the sport’s growth and the ensuing need for a facility of that type.

“He understood that this was some-thing that was going to be needed in our sport,” Sims said.

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In a tradition that dates back to 1936, Bartow will set fire to its discarded Christmas trees on New Year’s Eve as the community prepares to welcome the arrival of 2019.

The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 31, at the south end of Mary Holland Park.

The city’s parks department will be-gin picking up discarded trees from curbside on Dec. 26, after which it will stack them into one large pile.

Bartow Parks Superintendent Tim Gri-ner said that anyone whose tree has not been picked up by noon Dec. 31 may call (863) 534-0120 before 2 p.m. that day.

The tradition began at the urging of the late Nye Jordan, who said it was

Bartow to burn trees Dec. 31bad luck to have a Christmas tree in the home on New Year’s Day. Friends suggested that Jordan, a volunteer firefighter, may have created the su-perstition himself to encourage res-idents to get their dried trees out of the house, because they created a fire hazard.

Bartow firefighters will set fire to the stack of trees, after which they will stand by to keep the fire from getting out of control.

A limited amount of bleacher seating will be available, and spectators may bring their own folding chairs. Mos-quito repellent is recommended.

Eda Marchman is chairman of the event, and Rev. Becky Toalster of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church will lead sing-ing. The Emcee will be S. L. Frisbie, IV, who will trace the history of the event. A preview of his remarks is published in his column on page 16.

WRITTEN BY JEFF ROSLOWNews Correspondent

The Magical Illumination Christmas Parade in Bartow, which had been rescheduled for Dec. 20 after origi-nally being scheduled Dec. 14, was cancelled this year due to storms that rolled through Polk County last week.

“We’ve never had to reschedule and have always said [the parade] would [take place] rain or shine, but because of the severe weather forecast last week, we had to reschedule. It took a lot of effort, but Mother Nature was

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“It’s too close to Christmas,” Holcomb said. “There are so many city depart-ments getting ready for a four-day weekend. As bad as it is I hate it … we had to do it.”


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PHOTOS BY CHARLES A BAKER III Raykwon Frazier had a team-high 11 points for Lake Wales in a 65-53 win against Winter Haven Dec. 20.

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LAKE WALES — The Lake Wales boys basketball team continued its strong start to the 2018-19 season Dec. 20, holding off a late rally from Winter Ha-ven for 65-53 victory.

The game preceded a weeklong break for both local squads, after which both teams are headed to Vero Beach Dec. 27 for its Holiday Hoopla event.

Lake Wales head coach Don Grant said after the game — one in which his team had led by as many as 19 points — that there were good and bad take-aways from the rivalry victory.

“We showed some energy,” Grant said. “We didn’t finish like I wanted to, but we played pretty strong [in the first half ].”

Nine different Highlanders (6-1) reg-istered in the scorebook and three players for Lake Wales finished in double-digits: Raykwon Frazier had a team-high 11 points, to go along with 10 points apiece for Gervon Dexter

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Josh Celiscar had a team-high 11 points to lead Winter Haven (2-4).

Grant said afterward that he was pleased with the amount of playing time that non-starters for the High-landers received during the game.

“What we’re trying to do is build up our other guys because when we go down the stretch [of the season] we’re going to need some help,” Grant said.

On the season, Lake Wales has re-ceived consistent strong play from a handful of players led by sopho-more guard Walter Clayton — a sec-ond-team, all-county player as a fresh-man — and Dexter, an impressively athletic junior forward.

As the Highlanders prepare for the holiday tournament and the new year, Grant hopes to see his exciting young players grow.

“They’re young and [we’re] trying to press them into leadership — that’s a hard thing to do,” Grant said.

WRITTEN BYBRIAN ACKLEYNews Correspondent

Has anyone in the country – any level, any conference – played a more diffi-cult schedule than the Warner Univer-sity men’s basketball team? So far this season, the Royals have played the No. 2, No. 4, No. 9, No. 11 and No. 19 ranked teams in the NAIA.

The Royals lost them all — including one game by one point and another by five to local rival Southeastern — so the team’s record of 9-6 is actually pretty impressive.

They’ll get a chance to get revenge on the Fire at home come Jan. 17 — a must-see for local fans.

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Hats on for signeesOne of the popular trends when high school seniors announce their college choices is to don the hat of the school they’re going to attend.

So, a tip of the cap to Auburndale’s Joquet Jiles, who is off to play at Sam-ford and Lake Wales offensive lineman Luke Hiers, who is off to Appalachian State. Winter Haven’s Jack Twyford is off to Yale, while Haines City lineman Cameron Vaughn is off to Central Michigan where former Florida coach Jim McElwain is now the top dog.


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Authentic love does not control oth-ers. Love gives freedom to choose good or evil, but genuine love requires consequences for both good and evil. Love requires a heaven and a hell.

God could have created angels and humans that could not sin, but robots can’t love. Robots do not have free will.

The baby in the humble manger was named Jesus because He was to save people from sin, a word that is now at the top of the politically incorrect list.

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Properly understanding Christmas and Easter reveals that God has done everything possible for us to be with Him now and for all eternity. We have a choice, repent and turn to God, or remain on a destructive path. Making the right choice is the way to have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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With sincere gratitude, I would like to take this time to thank every citizen for their time, support and assistance in the 2018 Election Year.

It was incredibly amazing to receive 17,000 plus signatures to be on the 2018 Midterm Election Ballot. Thank you for your consideration in the elec-tion.

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I do not care which political party you are affiliated with, my gratitude ex-tends across party lines. I thank you very much for your votes and consid-eration.

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ACROSS

1 Early wake-up time7 Title for Iran’s

Ruhollah Khomeini11 Herbert of

old “Pink Panther” films

14 Penultimate tourney round

19 “Doesn’t matter to me”

20 Not yet completed21 ____ moment22 Sash go-with23 Ancient capital

of Laconia24 Brew25 Letters before single,

double or triple

26 Lace tip27 Casting doubt on30 Lake Volta’s land31 The best, informally32 Radio/TV character

played in film by Michael Horse (1981) and Johnny Depp (2013)

33 Like some ruins in the Western Hemisphere

35 Lookalike36 8.5” x 11”: Abbr.37 Scare quote?38 Words of resignation40 Topic concerned

with hacking and software rights

42 Put on a few layers44 Three-star

mil. rank

45 Pope who supported the House of Borgia

47 Diminishing returns?50 They’re between

shoulders54 Word with

shot or suit55 Rowdydow56 Not abstaining57 Much sales58 “No bid”60 An end to depend62 Head honcho63 “Resume

speed,” musically64 Emailing option65 Riddle-

ending query67 Toward the stern69 Its first letter stands

for “India”70 Certain tenant72 Lex, e.g., in N.Y.C.74 Misfortunes75 Going for broke77 Sides in Risk78 Bette Midler’s

“Divine” nickname80 Tense periods,

for short82 Archer of film83 Dangerous

environment84 Easy-to-

swallow pill85 Food item cracked

open before eating87 Prized duck89 It comes after

II Chronicles91 “Today was

just brutal!”94 Coiner of the term

“Oedipus complex”96 /

97 Thickheaded100 Words of denial101 Lost103 All-nighter aid105 Sets of

plotted points106 Shade of pink108 Immediately … or

where this puzzle’s five shaded squares appear?

111F loor112 Japanese

symbol of luck113 Largo or lento114 Swimming115 Notable schemer116 Some dash lengths117 Rock stars are

frequently on this118 Come out119 Standard parts

of combo meals120 “I’m good, thanks”121 E-tail site

since 2005122 King’s speech?

DOWN

1 Kind of year2 Collision3 Calf raised

for its meat4 Gloucester and Kent in

“King Lear”5 Certain bubbly,

informally6 Final work

of Willa Cather’s “Prairie Trilogy”

7 Tennis commentator’s cry

8 Police officer who’s not necessarily on horseback

9 “Play next” command on a music app

10 Shade of green11 Cowboy’s rope12 “Here we

go again …”13 Followers

of openers14 By oneself, in a way15 It’s played for half a

beat in 4/4 time16 Country whose name

consists of three consecutive state postal abbreviations

17 Peaceful18 ____ spawn (hellions)28 “Ooh, let’s do that!”29 “Eww,

that’s enough!”34 MetLife

Stadium team, on scoreboards

37 Clear and set, as tables

39 Scanned IDs41 Italian pistol42 Gets to43 One who

cracks the whip?44 Plastic construction

piece45 Serving in a

red-and-white striped box

46 Totally out48 Juice brand49 Longtime N.B.A. on

TNT analyst51 Who wrote “Some

people talk to animals. Not many listen, though. That’s the problem.”

52 Action of a ladle

53 “Miss ____” (2016 political thriller)

54 Some fall births

57 Heroes of the Battle of Britain, for short

59 Babe

61 Mannerly

66 Freelancers’ units: Abbr.

68 Colorful treat that resembles a rocket

71 All-Star Mets catcher of the 1990s-2000s

73 Corner PC key

74 Tow destination

76 Scat snippet

79 “Quién ____?”

81 Sanctuaries

84 Be conned

86 [Shiver]

88 With 93-Down, half of a double helix

90 Skunklike, say91 Like TV but

not radio?92 “Old MacDonald”

farm sounds93 See 88-Down94 Purchase at an

African market95 “Yay, team!”97 Cause damage98 Volunteer’s

declaration

99 Snowball fighter’s protection

102 Botanical opening

104 Marriage money

105 “Ciao!”

107 Gifts that one usually bows when receiving

109 Certain dirección

110 What stars have

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27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35

36 37 38 39 40 41

42 43 44

45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53

54 55 56 57

58 59 60 61 62 63

64 65 66 67 68 69

70 71 72 73 74 75 76

77 78 79 80 81 82

83 84 85 86

87 88 89 90

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

100 101 102 103 104 105

106 107 108 109 110

111 112 113 114

115 116 117 118

119 120 121 122

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WRITTEN BYS.L. FRISBIENews Columnist

For most of my adult life, I have been an Episcopalian, and if we Anglicans are justifiably famous for one thing, it is for our commitment to our tradi-tions.When in doubt — a condition for which Anglicans are not particularly well known — we will do things the way we’ve always done them.

So why does Bartow burn its discard-ed Christmas trees on New Year’s Eve? Because we’ve been doing it since 1936, that’s why!

My Dad had a well-earned reputation for the gift of gab, and some folks say I inherited a little of it. It is a talent that earns you an occasional invitation to be a master of ceremonies. An MC at an event is sort of like a corpse at an Irish wake: everybody knows you have to have one, but they hope he won’t talk too long.

Incidentally, it’s called “the gift” of gab, because for most of us, it doesn’t pay anything. It gives new meaning to the term “free speech.” But for us gabbors, just having an audience of apprecia-tive gabbees is reward enough.

One such occasion is to be the MC Monday night at Bartow’s annual Christmas tree burning. Dad was MC for several decades, and I think it was 22 years ago that he asked me to fill in for him when he developed a cold on New Year’s Eve.

A year later he suggested that I take over the job. Somehow, I was not sur-prised. That makes me a recent arrival to the event, given that Eda March-man is in her 43nd year as chairman, give or take a year.

Bartow has been burning its discard-ed Christmas trees on or near New Year’s Eve since 1936, with occasion-al interruptions for World War II, bad weather and — once or twice — a tree chipping.

Nye Jordan, who was about three years older than baseball, began the tradition, asserting that it was bad

Burning Christmas trees; because we’ve always done it

EDITORIAL

luck to have a Christmas tree in the house on New Year’s Day. In the days before the invention of tree stands that held water, Christmas trees were drier than a prairie dog’s paws in the desert in July, and represented a real fire hazard. Bad luck indeed.

The height of Bartow’s pile of dis-carded trees has diminished over the years, given the increasing popular-ity of artificial trees. But the event is still popular enough to draw a pretty good crowd to the south end of Mary Holland Park at 6:30 p.m. every New Year’s Eve.

Regular attendees may have about memorized my spiel by now, since it changes little from year to year. Histo-ry is like that, unless you are into the “political correctness” movement and believe that history should be rewrit-ten periodically.

For instance, I tell why the event was staged in its original location for only one year; why the event was sus-pended during World War II; and the marvelous idea I had for a special tree burning when the calendar rolled over to the year 2000. Unfortunately, I was the only one who recognized what a fantastic idea it was.

But the history of our tree burning is much longer than this column, and you are invited to come hear it re-counted yet again on Monday at 6:30 p.m.

Lawn chairs, mosquito repellant, and a willingness to chuckle at old anec-dotes are encouraged.

See you there?

(S. L. Frisbie is retired. He refers to the bonfire as consuming “discarded trees,” not “live trees,” on the theory that the moment a Christmas tree is cut down, it becomes a “dead tree.” He can be annoy-ingly literal about stuff like that.)

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As we usher in the new year, we pres-ent a look back 90 years, to 1929.

The following excerpts are from a bro-chure produced in 1929, shortly af-ter the boom unraveled. We present these excerpts and the accompanying photos as a “snapshot in time.”

Winter Haven: The City of 100 Lakes

Lakes: Winter Haven has always been known as “The City of a Hundred Lakes,” by reason of her ninety-seven beautiful bodies of water in a radius of six miles from the city’s center. Sixteen are connected by canals, providing a 50-mile boat course. Some of the lakes have wide boulevards around them, while all have beautiful homes and large bearing citrus groves on their banks. “The New York Times” has called Winter Haven “a veritable island in the midst of a tropic sea.”

Those Who See May Know and Un-derstand: And so Winter Haven is portrayed in the pages of this little booklet for those who would know something about her industry, her commercial status and her cultural and social life. No flowery rhetoric or extravagant claims are made for the “City of a Hundred Lakes.” The Cham-ber of Commerce, G. F. Sampson, Sec-retary, presents the booklet as an ac-curate picture of Winter Haven.

Schools: The schools include a high school with 300 students, junior high with 200 students, and four ward schools with 1,100 students. There

Winter Haven in 1929

are 61 teachers, complete econom-ics, manual training, commercial and agriculture departments. The high school is among the leading accredit-ed schools of the state.

Good Roads; Winter Haven was the pioneer in good roads in Florida, the first mileage being built in 1914-15. Since then, Polk County has built over 900 miles of asphalt highway. Winter Haven alone possessing 106 miles - the largest mileage of hard roads and streets of any city of its size in Ameri-ca! (Note: Remember the claim of no exaggeration?)

Recreation: Winter Haven, through its Public Recreation Department, of-fers diamond ball, basketball, base-ball, volleyball, hockey, shuffleboard, checkers, horseshoes, girl scout work, a community chorus, a little theatre league together with (a) supervised playground for young people. Two first-run movie theaters here are among the most notable in Florida. (Those were The Williamson [later, The Ritz] and The Grand, razed in the 1960s.)

Next week: A 1929 look at Citrus, Agri-culture and Homes

The Museum of Winter Haven History will reopen Saturday, January 5, 2019 from 9 a.m. to Noon. Located on Pope Avenue at Lake Howard Drive, it is free and open to the public. Tours are avail-able other days for groups of four or more by appointment. Contact Bob Gernert at [email protected] or by phone at 863-206-6855.

The Grand Theater was located on 4th St. NW at the terminus of Grand (now Pope) Avenue. Admis-sion was 9 cents.

This dance troop poses on the lawn outside the vine-covered Woman’s Civic League building (circa 1920s), now the pink Woman’s Club building on Pope Avenue.



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