Caribbean Jerk Competition returns to Clermont
The Caribbean American Affiliation of Lake County will host its twelfth annual Caribbean Jerk Competition from midday to 9 p.m. June 7 at Waterfront Park, 300 Third Avenue, Clermont, with genuine jerk delicacies, dwell music and craft distributors. The occasion may also embody a children zone with face-painting, bounce home and petting zoo. A cookoff competitors may also happen.
Admission is free and open to the general public.
Particulars: Maritza Rivera at 561-951-4035 or maritza@marzevents.com.
First Friday in Eustis
The Metropolis of Eustis will host its month-to-month household pleasant First Friday road celebration, that includes dwell music, meals vehicles and distributors, at 6 p.m. June 6 at East Magnolia Avenue and North Eustis Avenue in downtown Eustis.
Particulars: 352-483-5491 or e-mail cityofeustis-pr@eustis.org.
Gatorland presents program at Eustis library
The Eustis Memorial Library, 120 N. Heart St., will host a wrangler from Gatorland on June 6. Alligators, snakes, lizards and extra will probably be current for a Gatorland Dwell occasion at 11 a.m. and midday and a photograph alternative with gators will happen on the finish of the applications. Area is restricted.
The applications are free and open to the general public.
Particulars: 352-357-5686.
Wetland tour by way of Crooked River Protect
Employees from Lake County’s workplace of Parks and Trails will lead a Wetland Tour of Crooked River Protect, 11121 Lake Louisa Street, Clermont, starting at 9 a.m. June 7. Contributors on the fast-paced hike will get to discover the protect’s numerous ecosystems, together with the crops and animals that decision the Crooked River house. Hikers ought to deliver water and put on correct clothes for climate circumstances.
Particulars and registration: Luke Allen at 352-602-0809 or luke.allen@lakecountyfl.gov.
Trip Bible college in Mount Dora
First United Methodist Church of Mount Dora, 439 E. Fifth Ave., may have its annual Trip Bible College from 9 a.m. to midday June 9-13 for youngsters in pre-Ok-3 by way of fifth grade. This yr’s theme is Hometown Nazareth Trip Bible College: The place Jesus was a Child.
This system will embody interactive Bible enjoyable, video games, crafts and snacks. The price is $20 and features a T-shirt.
The church has added a Keep and Play after VBS possibility from midday to five p.m., with video games, crafts and films. The associated fee for the after-VBS program is $125. Area is restricted.
Particulars and registration: mtdorafumc.org/households or Amanda Inexperienced at 352-383-2005 or household@mtdorafumc.org.
Digital go to at library with Florida writer Amy Nielsen
Creator and 2025 Florida Guide Award winner Amy Nielsen, a former educator, will focus on her award-winning novel “Value It” throughout a 2 p.m. June 10 digital go to with patrons of the Umatilla Public Library, 412 Hatfield Drive.
Nielson’s young-adult novel follows the trials of a pregnant teen in an abusive relationship and is rooted in Florida historical past, the devastating back-to-back freezes of the 80s that crippled the citrus trade. The e book’s fictional city of North Lake was impressed by the town of Umatilla. This system is free and open to the general public.
Particulars: 352-669-3284.
Be taught to analysis household historical past with assist of Library of Congress
A J Aiséirithe, reference librarian within the Researcher and Reference Companies Division on the Library of Congress, will give an introduction to utilizing the library’s on-line assets and collections to analysis household historical past from 5 to six:30 p.m. June 12 on the Cooper Memorial Library, 2525 Oakley Seaver Drive, Clermont, or through Zoom.
An issue-and-answer session will happen after this system, sponsored by the Pastfinders Genealogical Society of South Lake County.
Refreshments will probably be served previous to this system at 4:30 pm., adopted by Pastfinders bulletins. This system is free and open to the general public, however registration is required.
Particulars and registration: pastfindersslc.org.
Hearth truck security program at Eustis library
The Eustis Memorial Library, 120 N. Heart St., will host members of the Eustis Hearth Division throughout a Contact-a-Truck security program for youths at 11 a.m. June 13. Youngsters will study combating fires and hearth security and take images with a fireplace engine afterward. This system is free and open to the general public.
Particulars: Jaimie at 352-357-0896.
Comedy sequence begins in Mount Dora
Humorist Rauce Padgett will kick off Mount Dora’s 2025 REAL Comedy Sequence with a efficiency at 8 p.m. June 14 on the Mount Dora Neighborhood Constructing, 520 N. Baker St.
Padgett’s particular company will embody Kevin Deane, AJ Cline, and host Angel Rivera, identified for his work on Monsters within the Morning. A social hour will happen previous to the present at 7 p.m.
The comedy sequence will proceed with comic Ryan Holmes at 8 p.m. July 12, adopted by Sabrina Ambra at 8 p.m. Aug. 23. Common admission is $20, with VIP tickets accessible for $40.
Particulars and tickets: MountDoraMusicHall.com.
Lifeguard certification programs
Orlando Well being Nationwide Coaching Heart, 1935 Don Wickham Drive, Clermont. is providing a three-part American Purple Cross full-certification lifeguard course from 5 to 9 p.m. June 20, and from 8 a.m. to six p.m. June 21-22.
Contributors should full a web-based portion of the category earlier than the in-person course.
The course will give entry-level contributors the data and expertise to forestall, acknowledge and reply to aquatic emergencies, together with the way to present look after respiratory and cardiac emergencies, accidents and sudden sicknesses till emergency medical providers personnel take over.
The associated fee is $275. For particulars and registration, go to americanlifeguard.com/. For questions, e-mail kelsey.tobin@orlandohealth.com or name 352- 241-7144, ext. 4224.
Lake administration workshop sequence continues
Lake County has launched a development administration workshop sequence, a four-part initiative to collect neighborhood enter and encourage clear dialogue about preserving pure assets, defending high quality of life, and managing the impacts of development on roads and infrastructure. Three applications stay:
— A planning 101 workshop will happen at 2 p.m. June 10 on the Lake County Agricultural Heart, 1951 Woodlea Street, Tavares. Residents and stakeholders will find out how planning insurance policies and land improvement laws help accountable development. Kimley Horn consultants Kelley Klepper and Katy Magruder, and Planning and Zoning Board employees will take part within the workshop.
— An ag farmlands workshop will probably be held at 2 p.m. June 23 on the Lake County Board of County Commissioners chambers, 315 W. Fundamental St., Tavares, with a dialogue on native agriculture challenges and accessible assets. Companions for the workshop embody State of Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson, State Sen. Keith Truenow, State Rep. Danny Alvarez, 1000 Buddies of Florida President Paul Owens, extension brokers and native agricultural leaders.
— The final workshop, a joint planning settlement roundtable, is at 1 p.m. June 30 on the Venetian Heart, Harris Room, 1 Dozer Court docket, Leesburg. The main target will probably be on
collaborative municipal planning by way of joint planning agreements. Space municipal mayors and metropolis managers, together with Dr. Richard Levy of Levey Consulting, will take part.
As a part of its long-term imaginative and prescient for accountable improvement, the county welcomes residents, enterprise house owners and civic stakeholders to attend and assist form development administration methods. Public feedback and enter are welcome on the workshops, aside from the June 30 session.
For particulars, registration, or to offer enter: LakeCountyFl.gov/development.
Summer season e book, film sequence at Mount Dora church
First Presbyterian Church of Mount Dora, 222 W. Sixth Ave., hosts a summer season e book group from 7 to eight:30 p.m. Tuesdays by way of Aug. 28 to debate the C.S. Lewis e book “Mere Christianity.” There is no such thing as a price to affix the group, which is open to the general public. The conferences happen within the chapel.
The church may also have a summer season film sequence that includes “The Chosen” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays from by way of Aug. 27. The historic drama relies on the lifetime of Jesus and those that knew him towards the backdrop of Roman oppression in first-century Israel. There is no such thing as a admission cost and the general public is welcome.
Particulars: 352-383-4089.
Mount Dora council members obtain Dwelling Rule Hero awards
The Florida League of Cities, which represents the state’s municipal governments, just lately acknowledged Mount Dora council members Doug Bryant and Cal Rolfson with 2025 Dwelling Rule Hero awards for his or her exhausting work and advocacy efforts in the course of the 2025 Legislative session.
Dwelling Rule Hero Award recipients are native authorities officers, each elected and nonelected, who constantly responded to the League’s request to succeed in out to members of the Legislature and assist give an area perspective on a problem.
Rolfson labored all through the session by sharing insights, native knowledge and real-world examples that helped inform state lawmakers and elevate the voice of Florida’s cities.
Bryant engaged with state lawmakers all through the session, providing insights, neighborhood knowledge and native experiences.
Seaport Village in Tavares expands development
Winter Park-based Henin Holdings LLC, has begun Section Two website development of 90 remaining single household homesites at Seaport Village in Tavares, on Slim Haywood Avenue off State Street 19 and County Street 561.
Section One, that includes 56 house websites, was offered final yr to Jacksonville-based Dream Finders Houses and houses are underneath development there.
The 36-acre neighborhood has a complete of 146 heaps that may accommodate flooring plans with three, 4 and 5 bedrooms starting from 1,407 to 2,531 sq. ft of residing space.
Particulars: Jerome Henin, founder/CEO of The Henin Group at 407-644-8595 or Jerome@henin-co.com.
Grant funding alternatives
The Lake County Workplace of Housing & Neighborhood Companies is accepting grant purposes in help of youth prevention and intervention applications in addition to human providers applications benefiting at-risk people and households.
The funding alternatives embody youngsters’s providers council (youth providers), abuse and neglect prevention, after-school and out-of-school programming, psychological, bodily, or behavioral well being providers, sponsored childcare, initiatives selling wholesome decisions and decision-making, human providers applications (elder and household providers), providers helping seniors and people with disabilities, applications selling financial self-sufficiency, help for impartial residing and/or meals help providers.
Eligible organizations could apply for funding of as much as $25,000 per program. Organizations could solely apply for one of many two accessible grant classes. The deadline for purposes is 3 p.m. June 18.
To entry the fillable utility, go to lakecountyfl.gov/house and scroll all the way down to the hyperlink underneath Newest Information.
Particulars: Amy Elliott at HHS@lakecountyfl.gov.
Ages 50-over males’s softball league seeks gamers
The Lakes League Males’s Softball League, for ages 50 and over, will play in October at Pear Park, 26701 U.S. Freeway 27, Leesburg. Video games are at 9 a.m.
Particulars: tsperanza7@gmail.com.
Prenatal courses provided at Orlando Well being South Lake Hospital
Orlando Well being South Lake Hospital provides a Prepared for Delivery childbirth class every week in two components from 6 to eight p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, or a one-day class from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturdays. The courses happen on the hospital, 1900 Don Wickham Drive in Clermont.
The category encompasses details about workout routines to organize the mom for delivery, leisure and coping strategies, ache management choices, labor positioning, induction and C-section fundamentals, restoration and welcoming child. Expectant moms are inspired to deliver as much as two help “coaches” to the category. Registration is required and each different month the category is obtainable in Spanish.
— The hospital additionally has a prenatal Prepared for Breastfeeding class, targeted on advantages of breastfeeding for child and mother, from 6 to eight p.m. Tuesdays or Thursdays, or from 10 a.m. to midday Saturdays. The category covers what to anticipate when initiating breastfeeding, skin-to-skin holding, positioning, deep latch strategies, pumps and pumping, and fundamental troubleshooting.
— A Prepared for Child new child care class takes place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. It particulars what to anticipate in the course of the hospital keep, toddler vitamin choices, immunization info and choices, developmental milestones, soothing child and new child hygiene.
— A month-to-month Restore Your Core and Pelvic Flooring class will handle frequent points like again and pelvic ache, diastasis recti (stomach separation), urinary incontinence and pelvic flooring dysfunction. Ladies will be taught what bodily adjustments to anticipate after giving delivery, the way to put together for childbirth and the way to maximize restoration.
Registration is required for every class. Go to southlakehospital.com and go to prenatal schooling courses.
A maternal schooling counselor is obtainable to assist choose courses and focus on delivery plans. To e book a 15-minute appointment with a counselor, name 352-386-1185.
To submit occasions
To submit a neighborhood occasion for on-line publication, e-mail data not less than two weeks earlier than the occasion to lake@orlandosentinel.com.
