South Lake Tablet

*NO CLASS MAY 15TH*
Take steps towards stronger bones with this 7-week educational series led by Lori Johson, Family & Consumer Science Agent. The series includes a lecture, cooking demos, and sample recipes designed to help you improve and maintain bone health. Whether you’re looking to prevent osteoporosis or manage it better, this program covers essential topics such as diagnosis, treatments, nutrition, safe movements, exercise, and fall prevention.
Cost is $30
10am-11:30am, beginning April 24th. Classes repeat on Thursdays, ending on June 12th.
*NO CLASS MAY 15TH!*
Register here: https://bit.ly/3DQYsoV
For more information contact Lori Johnson by email: lorijohnson@ufl.edu or call the Lake County Extension Office: 352-343-4101.

submitted by The Mascotte Church

Start your Saturday with a delicious, hearty breakfast at The Mascotte Church’s All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Breakfast on April 26, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am. For just $7.00 per person (dine-in only), enjoy unlimited pancakes accompanied by your choice of two bacon strips or two sausage links, along with coffee, juice, or water.​

The Mascotte Church is located at 15 N. Bay Lake Ave. For more information, please get in touch with Barb at 352-636-4303. Follow us on Facebook to stay updated on more fun events!​

Orlando may be the least understood world-famous city in the United States. Its theme parks draw millions, but relatively few of them realize it also boasts a history that goes back long before Walt Disney World opened in 1971. For most of that history, photographers and artists have documented life in Florida’s largest inland city. In this illustrated talk, designed to complement the History Center’s latest special exhibition, Orlando Collected, longtime Central Florida history writer Joy Wallace Dickinson traces the trajectory of Orlando’s last 150 years through favorite images of the city and some of the fascinating folks who have called it home.

This program is free with registration.

About the Speaker

Joy Wallace Dickinson grew up in Orlando, where she remembers seeing at least one alligator in the lake across from her childhood home in Thornton Park. She has edited historical books at the Institute of Early American History in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Stanford University Press in Palo Alto, California. From 2000 to 2023, she wrote the weekly “Florida Flashback” feature in the Orlando Sentinel about aspects of Central Florida’s past. She’s also the author of three nonfiction books about Central Florida’s past, including Orlando: City of Dreams, and a mystery novel set in Orlando in the late 1940s titled Secrets of the Flamingo Café.

About the Brechner Series

The History Center’s Brechner Speaker Series honors the late Joseph L. Brechner, a longtime journalist, Central Florida community leader, and television pioneer who is also remembered as one of Orlando’s first clear public voices for civil rights. The son of Eastern European immigrants, Brechner believed deeply in American democracy and citizens’ responsibilities to be informed and participate. The museum’s research center, home to the archival collection and historical of the Historical Society of Central Florida, also bears Brechner’s name.