Polk County Public Schools hosting Fine Arts Festival this weekend in Winter Haven
WINTER HAVEN The best of Polk County Public Schools’ student visual and performing arts will be on display this weekend in Winter Haven during the PCPS annual Fine Arts Festival.
The event will also play host to concerts at Chain of Lakes baseball stadium scheduled for Friday evening and throughout the day Saturday, along with a visual art show set for Central Park from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday.
“We feel like the arts are such a vital part of a students’ education in normal time, but during a pandemic they are particularly important, so we are celebrating the arts this weekend,” said Beth Cummings, director of PCPS fine arts department. “It is just a celebration of the hard work our students put together and our teachers in the classroom. The arts are strong in Polk County. We’ve always had great support.”
Apr 4, 2021
Local Girl Scouts Stephanie VanCheri, left, and Emily Bowers, right, of Troop 20069 raised about $4,500 to purchase new appliances and other needed items for the Family and Consumer Science program at Silver Creek Central School District as part of their troopâs Silver Project. They are pictured with Superintendent Todd Crandall.
SILVER CREEK – Two diligent and industrious local Girl Scouts Emily Bowers and Stephanie VanCheri of Troop 20069 and freshmen at Silver Creek High School were recently presented the Silver Award, the second highest award of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
The concept of this award is for a small group of Cadette Girl Scouts to identify a community need that overlaps with their own areas of interest then develop and execute a project to address that need. The girls, who are both members of the Junior National Honor Society, began the planning process in August 2019 and it didn’t take long for them to identify this overlap of interes