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The Polk County Democrat September 27, 2014 Polk Arts Alliance at Leadership Forum Meri Mass, Executive Director of Forum Visit us on the Internet at www.PolkCountyDemocrat.com Saturday P The September 27, 2014 fir" FORT MEADE Polk Count yDemocra t V VS., BARTOW Bartow’s Hometown Newspaper Since 1931 75¢ Inside Volume 83 Number 113 USPS NO 437-320 Bartow, Polk County Florida 33830 An Edition of the Sun Copyright 2014 Sun Coast Media Group, Inc. Four charter school applications shot down By CATHY PALMER Our Children’s of Winter Haven most because of potential funding each application, outlining the pluses CORRESPONDENT Middle, Our Children’s of Winter Haven issues. and minuses in each proposal, with the prekindergarten and Our Children’s of The board’s consultant Vicki Mace negatives outweighing the positives. The Polk County School Board’s char- Lakeland were all pulled before recom- outlined each proposal for charter Discovery, which would have been ter review committee shot down four mendations were made to the school schools Discover High in Lake Alfred, the only high school in Lake Alfred, was applications for new charter schools, board at its Tuesday work session. Ridgeview Middle School in Four to work hand-in-glove with the existing most in Northeast Polk County, while Those four still in contention early Corners, Poinciana Community Discovery Middle School, even sharing three applicants withdrew their appli- Tuesday will find themselves on the School and Winter Haven Montessori facilities and teachers. Superintendent cations before they could be officially cutting room floor if the board OKs the Academy. denied. review committee’s recommendations, Mace painstakingly went through SCHOOL | 9 Loving heart saving Traviss has come dogs from miserable life a long way Career Center celebrates 50 years in public school system l Y ; By CATHY PALMER t VAL , CORRESPONDENT Things have changed, from an agricul- . : . , c L r , j at tural and mechanical focus to today’s high ..l tech world, through it all Traviss Career Center has kept up with the times and Thursday celebrated 50 years of providing career education to Polk County students. Started with only a handful of teachers 1 1 ' 1 ( 'f l ti at the Bartow Air Base in 1964 and the _ , r d N dream of founder Maynard Traviss, what , V< si ' ' ' r .:a f .y A;Qc r Z " : ./y v was once the Traviss Vocational Technical -_ School has morphed into today’s career y r P '! i <D, center that offers more than 50 career 1 ' / \ 1 ^' n .51 2 ' !t9 i/ ,1 ` ` t tracks for Polk County residents who want to jump start their career, go back to PHOTO BY AL PALMER school to learn a trade or leap-frog from Suzan Harrell, a 27-year veteran Traviss Career high school right into a profession. Center teacher talks with school Director PHOTO PROVIDED Wayne Dickens at Thursday’s 50th anniversary TRAVISS | 8 Several weeks ago these two dogs, sister and celebration at the school. brother from the same litter, were emaciated to the point that Animal Control was notified. By STEVE STEINER [email protected] Forum addresses For Tammy Hyde, the sight is often heartbreaking. A postal carrier whose route encompasses the western part of PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER hunger in the county Bartow, she often sees a number of dogs As of Sept. 23, the dogs are regaining weight living in less than adequate shelters. By STEVE STEINER DeGennaro, community development and health. However, the two still need medical [email protected] manager for the BOCC; Whitney Fung, Some live in boxes, and those may be attention. The one on the left may have a spinal the lucky ones. She sees others not so family and consumer sciences agent with issue. The one on the right may have a respi- The Polk Vision Quality of Life Task fortunate, that may be tethered, or that the University of Florida IFAS program; ratory problem, or worse, heartworms. In the Force held a LEAD (Learn-Engage-Assess- have no shelter. and Dr. Ulyee Choe, director, Florida background is the shelter in which they live. The Discuss) forum on hunger in Polk County In addition, many of those dogs are Department of Health in Polk County. flooring comes from what looks to be pallets. at the Board of County Commissioner not in the best of health. For instance, The session was moderated by Kim Long, building on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Participating one dog, which its owner allowed Hyde way the dog was when she got it,” said director of the Agape Food Bank. as panelists were Susan Erhart, director of to find a new home for, had an obvious Hyde. “I told her that meant the dog After introducing herself and talking school nutrition with the public schools eye infection. about the Agape Food Bank, Long asked system; Alice O’Reilly, president of VISTE “She [the owner] told me that’s the DOGS | 8 (Volunteers in service to the Elderly); Jim HUNGER | 9 ABOUT ARTS CHECK OUT THIS STUFF MIND MANOR What is Former Bridge the Arts President indentation, Ensemble? Reagan senior cracks closes aide’s Lake road near Babson home elementary items for auction school `' a page 2 page 3 page 6 Page 2 The Polk County Democrat September 27, 2014 Polk Arts Alliance at leadership forum Meri Mass, Executive Director of Forum. The agenda was an intensive selected to participate in this ground- councils — Winter Haven, Davenport the Polk Arts Alliance, was selected to all day interactive Leadership Forum. It breaking forum of an elite group of my and Lake Wales — I look forward to represent Polk County and participate included updates from Robert Lynch, peers in this industry and to represent working as a united group to promote in the intensive 2014 Americans for the President of Americans for the Arts, to Polk County as the designated Local the arts and build community sustain- Arts Local Arts Advancement Executive guest speakers who are leaders in their Arts Agency,” said Mass at the time of ability,” she said. “It is exciting and en- Leadership Forum at Sundance Resort fields addressing and work-shopping the forum. “This is taking place at the couraging that the Creative Industries and Preserve in Utah. Cultural Arts issues in communities. most opportune time for the Cultural is being recognized as a major sector The forum was held Sept. 16-20 Also among the presenters was Robert Arts community in our county. for employment as well as a tourism and a select cohort of 21 arts agency Redford, President and Founder, “With the newly-formed Lakeland asset here. I look forward to returning leaders from the U.S. and Canada Sundance Institute. Mayors Council on the Arts and the with learned experiences and knowl- were selected to take part in this year’s “I am very excited to have been other cities that have formed arts edge to bring back to Polk County.” What is the Polk Arts Alliance By STEVE STEINER able, in part, to demonstrate how the arts [email protected] is a quality of life issue. For example, she said, for a doctor considering moving to When Meri Mass and her husband Polk County and establishing a practice, (now deceased) moved to Polk County the arts matter, not just for the doctor from Palm Beach County in 2005, she but also for the family. “They’re not going was surprised to discover the arts were to come to a community where there is a not being promoted effectively or lack of cultural arts.” extensively as was done in Palm Beach She added that the arts environment County; and Mass had a basis for com- in Polk County has grown. An economic parison as she had been the marketing study done in 2005 under the auspices of director in Palm Beach County. the University of South Florida revealed “In Palm Beach County they have that the arts had a $48 million impact. At been supporting the arts since 1975, to the time there were only 23 arts organiza- the tune of $30 million,” Mass said. She tions, she said. That number is now more added she was also surprised when she than 42. discovered that in 1987, when a “bed tax” Polk County, she said, has a very active PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER had been instituted in Polk County, that arts community, with more than 100 15 percent of the first two cents collected events (on average) every month, from Having forgotten her regular eyeglasses, Myrtice Young (right), this year’s president of The Greater were to go to the arts. However, in 1987 art gallery showings to theatrical perfor- Bartow Chamber of Commerce, reads aloud an introduction to the community of the Polk Arts Alli- there was no such entity as the Polk Arts mances (both local and road shows) to ance at the ribbon cutting ceremony held Thursday, Sept. 18. Looking on are (from left) Julie Revell, Alliance (PAA), which is a 501 (c) (3) not- concerts. Included in that mix are the David Harrell (in the background), Carol Hughes, Jane Waters-Thomas, Jeff Clark and Gail Smith. for-profit agency. Nor is the PAA a county events that take place at Bok Tower. agency. Currently, the Polk Arts Alliance is not a Part of the reason for that is that the representing the Cultural Arts Council After she was named executive director county government agency. However, like PAA is, for almost all intents and pur- in Polk County. It advocates for all the in 2010, it took longer than anticipated to similar agencies, such as Polk Vision, PAA poses a one-person operation. However, Cultural Arts Organizations in Polk get that 15 percent of the first two cents fulfills needs on behalf of the county, and the PAA has helped in selecting the County and promotes the impact of redirected to the arts in Polk County.
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