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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage at the 2025 Conferencia de Transformación

July 30, 2025 Uncategorized

La Conferencia de Transformación is an intensive experience. It empowers individuals to tap into their innate abilities, dismantle limiting preconceptions, and achieve extraordinary performance. Prepared and published by Viva Polk Magazine. La Conferencia de Transformación will take place on September 6th, 2025 at Southeastern University. It is an event “where human potential meets boundless possibility”. […]

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City of Winter Haven Adopts Five-Year Strategic Plan, Commits to Continued Quality of Life for Residents

February 17, 2025 Uncategorized

Like every city in Polk County, Winter Haven is reaping the rewards of rapid growth, which, City Manager T. Michael Stavres said, “speaks to the city’s continued commitment to an exceptional quality of life.” It’s also battling the challenges. “The city is seeing growth in residential (single and multi-family), commercial (retail and restaurants), hospitality, medical […]

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Polk State College Respiratory Therapist Program

September 26, 2023 Talent Pipeline, Uncategorized

With demand for Respiratory Therapists growing, Polk State College is being recognized for excellence in its respiratory therapy program, which graduates students who often stay in Polk County to work.  Respiratory therapists may be the unsung heroes in healthcare facilities, working with doctors and nurses to provide oxygen and breathing treatments, intubate patients, manage ventilators, […]

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