Posts filed under 'Main Street Winter Haven'
Posted: March 9, 2010: 12:08 pm
The top 10 winners of the 2010 Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition have been selected and are being installed in downtown Winter Haven’s Central Park. This year’s outdoor gallery will be found in Virginia Miller Park (across from library), Central Park, and South Central Park and presented to the public on April 15 at the Central Park Stroll.
Join your friends from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. and stroll the parks. Then vote for your favorite sculpture in the People’s Choice Awards. Official judges awards will also be announced that evening. Adding to the festivities will be music performed by musicians from Polk State College.
The Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition is presented by the City of Winter Haven and the
Polk Museum of Art in partnership with Main Street Winter Haven and the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce.
You can see all ten sculptures here.
Pictured above left is Basalt Man by Glenn Zweygardt, Alfred Station, NY, and at right is Creepy Crawley by Adam C. Walls, Laurinburg, NC.
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Posted: October 12, 2009: 3:48 pm
Plan on great fun, music, beer and bratwurst as Main Street Winter Haven presents the Second Annual Octoberfest Community Fall Celebration. The festivities all take place this Friday, October 16 – ah, and cooler weather is predicted.
Bring your friends to Central Park, downtown Winter Haven from 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Live music by BandHaven. Beer and bratwurst may be purchased individually, or V.I.P. tickets are available for $15 each, or two for $25 (include food and admission to the beer-tasting tent allowing guests to sample more than 15 specialty beers).
The sponsors are Bernie Little Distributors, Inc., the City of Winter Haven and Main Street Winter Haven, Inc.
As long as you’re downtown you can also have the bejeebies scared out of you (for those with too many bejeebies) from 7:30 to 10 p.m. when you visit Ridge Art’s “Terror on the Ridge: Bedlam Asylum” … a haunted house for adults and children age 12 and up. Based on an insane asylum theme, this will be an intense experience created in 13 rooms of sheer horror. Located just east of the historic Ritz Theatre, there is a $7 admission fee that benefits the arts group.
Make this Friday a night in Downtown Winter Haven!
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Posted: July 27, 2009: 3:00 pm
There is no Chamber Networking Showcase scheduled for July which makes it a perfect time to enjoy an old-fashioned Fish Fry downtown in Central Park. Tickets are $20 per person and guests will enjoy fresh fish, hush puppies, corn-on-the-cob, cole slaw, cheese grits, collard greens, baked beans and key lime pie. Enjoy live entertainment with “Harmony Grits” of “Pickin’ in the Park” fame. Beer and Wine also available. The event is presented by Main Street Winter Haven. That’s 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. this Thursday! Downtown! Proceeds benefit MainStreet Winter Haven.
Tickets available in the Chamber Lobby now through Thursday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Posted: April 16, 2009: 11:31 am
April 18 and 19 will be a grand weekend for cycling enthusiasts with an Alturas Road Race on April 18 and a fast-paced downtown Winter Haven Criterion event with a series of races for most ages on Sunday, April 19.
More than a year in the planning, the cycling events are sanctioned as a Florida Points Series Event, a Land Armstrong Junior Olympic Race Series Event and a US Cycling Federation events.
You can find a complete race schedule for both the Alturas Road Race and Downtown Criterion here.
Join your friends on Saturday and Sunday for what is sure to become a premier cycling competition. This event is the latest addition to the Chain of Lakes Festival events.
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Posted: March 12, 2009: 1:15 pm
Downtown Winter Haven is positively abuzz as Publix Supermarkets films an upcoming commercial for the nation’s finest grocery chain (in our humble opinion). The company was founded right here in Winter Haven nearly 79 years ago (September 6, 1930 to be exact). Ironically the filming of this commercial took place directly across Central Park from George Jenkin’s first “Publix Food Store” (now Score’s Sports Restaurant). Between 1930 and 1941 Winter Haven was home to the only Publix Store. In 1940 Jenkins built his first store from the ground up. The building still stands on Central Avenue at 2nd Street NW across from the First Baptist Church.
Publix reported $23.9 billion in retail sales in 2008. They have 141,000 associates and 1,001 stores … and to think it all began here!
We do not know the story line of the commercial but judging by the side of the Publix truck below, we bet it involves PUBLIX ICE CREAM! All is flavor say aye!
Hats off to Main Street and the City of Winter Haven for a Downtown worthy of a Publix commercial.
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Posted: January 29, 2009: 4:20 pm
You may not realize your company is a victim of fraud until you lose your company!
RSVP now next week’s First Wednesday Better Business Breakfast “How to Reduce the Chances of Fraud in Your Business”
Presented by: Bob Lynch, CPA, CFE, CVA, Manager – Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support Cross, Fernandez and Riley, CPAs LLP
Here’s what you’ll take away from the C/F/R presentation:
Why Employees (Fraudsters) Steal?
How Employees (Fraudsters) Steal
Statistics on Fraud by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Learn “Red Flags” of Fraud
What you can to reduce the chances of Fraud
Cross, Fernandez and Riley merged with Winter Haven’s Beckert, Price and Rowse, CPAs in August 2008. The combined firm has offices in Orlando, Winter Haven and Tampa. Join us for this timely topic to reduce your chances of losses from fraud in your business. You’ll have a great breakfast and hear timely updates from the City of Winter Haven, Main Street and the Chamber as well.
Join us Wednesday, February 4 at 7:30 a.m. in the Chamber’s Coleman Auditorium. $10 for Chamber members and $20 for non-members. RSVP required and due to food guarantees, no shows will be invoiced. Make a date for great professional advice for the cost of breakfast. RSVP here.
First Wednesday Better Business Breakfast Series is presented by Tampa Electric Company, Tinsley Family Concessions and Wachovia.
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Posted: January 2, 2009: 9:52 am
Happy New Year! Start 2009 with a Business Breakfast!
Join us Wednesday, January 7 for “Financial Literacy”
New for 2009, the Chamber and PCC Corporate College are proud to introduce a “Business Breakfast” the first Wednesday of every month. The program will feature regular updates from the five minute updates from City of Winter Haven, MainStreet Winter Haven and the Chamber followed by a Best Business Practices presentation.
Program Overview: “One in three American workers are in financial distress; many live payday to payday by raiding their retirement plans to maintain their lifestyle, more companies than you imagine actually lend directly to employees to handle short term “emergencies”.
The take-aways…
- Research and insight on how we got here
- How to recognize the signs
- Doing nothing is certainly an option but not desirable
- It can be fixed but not by any one group alone
- A list of effective options and resources
Join us January 7 in the Chamber’s Coleman Auditorium for a great breakfast and new perspectives. $10 Chamber members, $20 for non-members. Doors open 7:30 a.m. Program begins at 8. To RSVP, click here.
The First Wednesday Best Business Practices Series is sponsored by Tampa Electric Company, Tinsley Family Concessions and Wachovia.
Oh, and in honor of our new breakfast series “the bacon is on us.” Just click here for your free bacon.
Business on the Balcony – Jan. 13
4 – 6 p.m. @ Chamber’s Coleman Auditorium
Start your new year with the power-networking event!
Admission: $10 for Chamber members (Chamber members only) Click here to RSVP.
WHYPG Business Forum “Male & Female Body Language in the Workplace” – Jan. 14
5:30 – 7 p.m. @ Chamber’s Coleman Auditorium
How does body language affect us in the workplace and what are the differences in the ways in which men and women communicate? Being more sensitive to both of these dynamic aspects of communication makes us more effective in the workplace and in our personal relationships among family and friends.
Admission: Free for WHYPG members and $10 for non-WHYPG members, Complete details and RSVP.
The Banker’s Cup awards nomination deadline is Friday, Jan. 16. To nominate an individual for the recognition, address your nomination to “2009 Banker’s Cup Awards Committee,” PO Box 1420, Winter Haven, FL 33882-1420 or deliver to the Chamber.
A couple of future dates to save …
Thursday, January 22 - Networking Showcase at McGee Tire
Thursday, February 3 – 2009 Banker’s Cup/Taste of Winter Haven
Thursday, February 26 – Networking Showcase at the New Winter Haven Honda
Wednesday, March 4 – First Wednesday Business Breakfast “Focus on Early Childhood Development”
Saturday, March 14 – Wheels & Keels – Chain of Lakes Auto & Boat Show
Friday, March 27 – 2009 Chamber Challenge Golf Tournament
Click here to see upcoming community events.
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Posted: April 11, 2008: 10:21 am
The Third Annual Central Park Stroll was held April 10 amid picture perfect weather, beautifully manicured parks and ten new outdoor sculptures. This year’s Stroll was unique in that for the first time, one of the ten sculptures was created by a Winter Haven artist. Perhaps most exciting is the fact that Albert Kriston’s “Reach” sculpture (pictured at left) was selected as “Best of Show” by the judges and “Peoples Choice” winner from Thursday evening’s guests.
Reach was inspired by the astronauts who lost their lives on the shuttle Challenger.
The Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition is organized by the Polk Museum of Art in conjunction with the City of Winter Haven. This is the eighth year for the competition and the third time it has been in Winter Haven’s downtown parks. The City of Winter Haven provides both financial backing for the exhibition and the logistical support to install and maintain the sculptures. The sculptures are selected by a committee of area residents. This year’s judges included Carol Mickett, Ph.D., and Robert Stackhouse, Ph.D Artists.
The Central Park Stroll was sponsored by Cartlon Music Center, CSX Transportation, Food Partners, Haskell Corp., Peterson Myers, P.A., Publix Supermarkets, Inc., Raley Downtown Properties, Richards Fine Coffees, Tampa Electric Company and the Winter Haven Chamber Foundation.
The Chamber joins with Main Street Winter Haven and the City to present the Central Park Stroll. Those who voted for the sculptures last evening received a coupon book good for discounts at downtown restaurants and retailers.
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Posted: March 26, 2008: 2:31 pm
The obviously empty housing at left was removed from the historic Times Square building yesterday to join the previously removed works for restoration and electrification. The vintage “McClintock Clock” was placed on the then Snell National Bank in 1925 and for the past 83 years has served as one of Winter Haven’s most recognizable landmarks.
Current owners of the building, Park Partners, recently donated the clock to the citizens of Winter Haven thereby ensuring the clock never leaves the community.
The restoration is being coordinated by Lloyd Larish who purchased the remaining inventory of the now defunct McClintock Clock Works. The process will require the skill of a number of master craftsman and is expected to cost approximately $27,000. Restoration and electrification will take from three to five months.
Representatives from Main Street Winter Haven, the City of Winter Haven and the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce are working together on a campaign dubbed “Buy a Little Time.” A restricted fund has been established within the Main Street organization to accept tax deductible gifts for the clock’s restoration. The cost of restoration has been divided among the hours and minutes of a 24 hour day making contributions affordable to everyone from children and schools to larger organizations within business community. For example:
$1,000 sponsors an hour
$500 sponsors a half hour
$250 sponsors a quarter hour
$100 sponsors five minutes
and minutes are $20 each
All hourly sponsors will be listed on a plaque to be placed below the clock. All donors will be listed in a celebratory program to be used on the date of the clock’s re-dedication.
For further information or a donor brochure contact Main Street Winter Haven at 295-9422 or the Winter Haven Chamber at 293-2138. Donor brochures are available here.
Tick-tock people! Join us and “Buy a Little Time.”
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Polk Museum of Art in partnership with Main Street Winter Haven and the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce.
The Official Website of the Greater Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce
