The Lakeland Women’s Collective is organizing a co-working space that it says will be for female, femme-identifying and non-binary persons. The location: 818 E. Lemon St, near the Lake Mirror Center | website
Combee Connection Ministries offers free bottled water in coolers to help homeless people stay hydrated in the hot summer months.
A “Welcome to the Catch” video (here) produced by outdoors outfitter L.L. Bean features Lakeland resident Will Dunn and his non-profit, Take a Kid Fishing. The company donated to his non-profit, supplied gear and clothing and paid the two teens featured in the video, Dunn said. | Learn more
Alice Koehler, whose career has focused on Lakeland non-profits since she returned here after two years in the Peace Corps, has been chosen as the next president and CEO of Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine. More
When Rose Rosenkranz first visited Auschwitz, the former Nazi extermination camp where as many as 1 million Jews were murdered, she said she heard the voice of her grandmother, who was among those who died there along with her two young children.
“She said, ‘Speak for me and my two babies. I no longer have a voice. You must be my voice.’” More
This is a story about how Kathy Wallen met Andy and Ashley McEntire six years ago and how the resulting friendship blossomed into a new organization that aims to share stories of good works to an international audience. More
Rosa Rosenkranz, a child survivor of the Holocaust, will speak at Temple Emanuel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day observance May 1 at 7 p.m.
At a rousing faith-based rally Tuesday night, four Lakeland city commissioners pledged to reach a goal of adding 500 housing units for families with homeless children by 2023. Mayor Bill Mutz and commissioners Stephanie Madden, Justin Troller and Phillip Walker drew cheers for their pledges from the approximately 1,400 participants at the 19th annual Nehemiah Action rally of the Polk Ecumenical Action Council for Empowerment, or PEACE, at Resurrection Catholic Church in Lakeland. More
Lakeland Vision is looking for some good people like readers of LkldNow to take a survey to help guide the city’s future. You can take the short survey online. The deadline is March 31. More
The League of United Latin American Citizens launched its Polk Chapter Jan. 1 and has scheduled a swearing-in ceremony for April 5 at 5:30 p.m. at Florida Polytechnic University | Facebook
