MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
The Polk Authors & Illustrators Festival!
Saturday, October 2, 2010         9:00 – 3:00
South Kentucky Avenue (between Main and Lemon Streets)   Downtown Lakeland
Help uncover Polk County’s undiscovered talent in this festival for lovers of all things “Book”!
Local authors, illustrators and publishers, now is your chance to feature your work (just in time for the holidays!)  [...]

Sparky invites you to her house for “Dog Days of Summer” fun!
Join us at The General Store on First Friday, August 6 - from 6:00 – 9:00
as Sparky hosts:
GEODOGS OF SUMMER – a Geocaching Event to raise funds and awareness for Save Our Homeless Pets / Polk Co. Animal Control         geocaching.com  GC2B42X
SAVE OUR HOMELESS PETS – [...]

SPARKY & THE GENERAL STORE
will be hosting
SAVE OUR HOMELESS PETS,
the volunteer arm of Polk Co. Animal Control,
 First Friday August 6th from 6-9 p.m.

Sparky, a success story from Polk Co. Animal Control,
is asking for you to give a paw to less fortunate canines!
 
Polk County Animal Control has recently seized more than
350 dogs from 2 abusive situations, [...]

THE NEW SHIPMENT HAS ARRIVED!
As seen in The Ledger, The General Store is currently the only local outlet for the latest publication on Lakeland’s history, Lakeland – Picturing Change  by Lakeland’s own Randall, Susan & Sarah MacDonald!
Get your piece of Lakeland history today!
THE GENERAL STORE
125 South Kentucky Avenue, Downtown Lakeland, FL
Monday-Friday 7:30-6    Saturday 10-5
http://www.theledger.com/article/20100622/NEWS/6225027

Play the Discover Downtown Geocache Challenge in the month of June! The program runs from June’s First Friday (6/4) to July’s First Friday (7/3). Twelve caches are located in Downtown. A GPS is not required because clues will be given in addition to location coordinates. Participants finding all twelve caches have a chance to win [...]

Music For Haiti

March 18th, 6:30 pm
Tickets available at General Store , J.Rowans Art Gallery, on Day of
Event. Or by calling (863) 668-1321. $15.00 General Admission.

Local Musicians are coming together to create a Musical Extravaganza held
at the Historic Polk Theatre to benefit the relief efforts in Haiti. The
multi [...]

SPARKY’S GONE GREEN!
(It’s easy, free and you can go green, too!)
CONVENIENT OFFICE RECYCLING IS NOW AVAILABLE DOWNTOWN!
THE GENERAL STORE in Downtown Lakeland
has joined with AVB RECYCLE in its GO GREEN LAKELAND! campaign
 
We are raising awareness while collecting e-waste and helping to keep these items out of our landfills!
 
Drop your e-junk – electronics and toner cartridges off [...]

The General Store (125 S Kentucky Avenue in Downtown Lakeland) is definitely the place to go for the unusual, often hysterically funny – but always useful gift item! Just check out the latest offering…

The General Store has partnered with the historic Chalet Suzanne Restaurant and Country Inn to bring a taste of Lake Wales to Downtown Lakeland!
From Moon Soup, named for its travels aboard the Apollo 15 and 16 trips to the moon, to the creamy Vichyssoise (yes, we had to look up the spelling!), these soups, canned [...]

Lake Mirror Tower will be hosting Taste of Downtown Lakeland Friday, July 17, 2009 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.