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Clermont Fire Department Offers COVID-19 Vaccines to Local Businesses

Local businesses have a new COVID-19 vaccination opportunity. The Clermont Fire Department and the Florida Department of Health in Lake County (DOHLake) are partnering to help vaccinate local business owners and employees at their facilities. “As a business friendly city,…

LSSC offers COVID-19 vaccines to students, staff at South Lake campus

Lake-Sumter State College says in a news release it will offer a COVID-19 vaccination event for its students and employees on April 14-15. This is event is being offered in coordination with the Florida Department of Health and vaccinations administered by the…

RoMac offers $20K matching challenge for donations in March to Habitat for Humanity

Through the month of March donations made to Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter will be matched by RoMac Building Supply. The matching challenge, up to $20,000, will benefit the Youth Construction Academy in partnership with Leesburg High School and ultimately,…

Lake Tech offers free tuition to adult education students

Thanks to a local scholarship organization, Lake Technical College’s Adult Education students will receive an automatic scholarship to cover their spring tuition – a $30 value. “This is exciting news for both returning and new GED Preparation and English language…

Lake County quickly fills appointment-based COVID-19 vaccinations

Lake County began taking appointments at 2 p.m. Jan. 12 for immunizations for the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine, and then by 2:41 p.m. county officials announced all appointments are full at this time. “Interested persons can text COVIDUPDATE to 888777 for…

Lake Tech offers ‘amazing’ scholarship opportunity for essential workers

Lake Technical College in Eustis is partnering with Lake County to provide “Elevate to Essential” scholarships to students enrolling for the spring 2021 term. “If you have lost your job due to COVID-19, are underemployed due to coronavirus, or are…

Villages theater offers viewers free virtual play reading on Friday

The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol in The Villages offers audiences a free virtual play reading every Friday at 1 p.m., and the Sept. 18 play will be “Cosmo St. Charles is Dead and Someone in This Room Killed Him” by…

LSSC offers 2 drive-thru food distribution events for students

Lake-Sumter State College will offer two drive-thru food distributions for LSSC students Sept. 3 and 10, all part of Hunger Action Month, and following the success of a May event at the Leesburg campus. According to a news release…

AdventHealth offers ‘safe business’ tips and Facebook Live briefing

AdventHealth has two new resources geared toward helping businesses and nonprofit organizations as they prepare to reopen or expand capacity. AdventHealthCFLSafeBusiness.com is a new site that includes AdventHealth “safe business” recommendations and services, general tips for reopening and supplemental reading…

SCORE offers more online workshops to assist small businesses

In keeping with safe distancing guidelines, the SCORE Mid-Florida Chapter now offers all workshops online, with a broader selection of workshops and business events than before, according to a news release. SCORE Mid-Florida serves Lake, Sumter and Marion counties by…