Events and information from your fellow chamber members.

Vendor space is now available for the Bushnell Fall Festival, scheduled for Saturday, October 15, 10:30am to 7pm. There are several changes to the festival this year. Read More Here>> 

Wildwood Athletic Club's 4th Annual Golf Tournament is July 22 @ Lake Miona Country Club. We are looking for golfers, donations for raffle prizes and new members for our club. Please contact Lester Lucas with any questions. He can be reached at home 352-748-7811 or by cell 303-8066. All donations are greatly appreciated, and new members welcomed.

Susan Kelly, UF/IFAS Sumter County Extension Director, is conducting a survey to determine how many people in our area would use a shared commercial kitchen and/or processing facility. To produce food products for sale, you must process them in a licensed commercial kitchen or facility. Please take the survey here. You can also send it to anyone who might be interested in using this facility to start a food business.

The Lake Panasoffkee Neighborhood Project offers free parenting classes every Tuesday evening at the Church of the Fishermen in Lake Panasoffkee. Free childcare is provided.  Read More Here>>

Devereux Kids will present a two-day workshop beginning June 28 designed to teach how to intervene in situations of children at risk. Read More Here>>

Humane Society/SPCA of Sumter Urgently Needs Donations  As the summer months approach and snowbirds leave the area, many needs remain behind such as the on-going programs for low income residents and their pets.  The Humane Society/SPCA is requesting a show of community help with a monetary donation. Donations can be dropped off at the Humane Society/SPCA Office on CR 529A (one road east of the Sumter Co. landfill) Monday-Friday between 10am-2pm.  Read more here>>