Before February comes to an end, the Winter Park Country Club (WPCC) in the City of Winter Park, Fl, will be having their February edition of the popular Gold Lecture Series, which is presented with the help of the North Florida PGA and the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

The February edition of the lecture series will feature one of golf’s most renowned women, Jan Stephenson of the LPGA. Stephenson’s rise to fame first began in 1974, the year she joined the Tour. On that same year, she won the LPGA Rookie of the Year Award, an achievement that was soon followed by many and more significant awards and wins. Two years later in 1976, Stephenson won her first LPGA at the Sarah Coventry Naples Classic.

The Winter Park Country Lecture Series is an event held each month and features experts specializing in different aspects of the golfing world. In past months, the WPCC has had some of the best PGA and LPGA Tour golfers as guests, with the likes of Ken Green, Lee Janze, and Jim McLean visiting the city to talk about fitness, the sport’s history, mental coaching, and more.

This month’s lecture will take place on the 23rd of January, at 6:30 in the evening.

Do you have a green thumb? If so, then we’ve got news of a great series of seminars we’re sure you’re going to enjoy.

The City of Winter Park, Fl, together with the Orange County Cooperative Extension brings you the “Nine Principles of Landscaping Seminar”, a seminar that discusses the ins and outs of landscaping, and shares with everybody gardening techniques and secrets.

The seminar, which takes place on one Thursday of the month, running from March until August of 2010, will feature a guest speaker each month tasked with discussing vital landscaping information. He or she will also be answering questions from those in attendance.

Each seminar will also tackle the nine principles of landscaping, which are:

• Water efficiently
• Fertilize appropriately
• Pollution Management & pollution
• Right plant, right place
• Plant selection, soil, pH Irrigation & calibration
• Mulch
• Selection, application, scheduling Guidelines
• Manage yard pests responsibly Recycle
• Integrated pest management Benefits, mowing,
• ID, treatment & disease pruning & composting
• Reduce stormwater runoff Protect thewaterfront

The seminars will be taking place at the Winter Park Welcome Center, located along 151 West Lyman Avenue, from 7 to 9 in the evening, on one Thursday of the month.

Mark your calendars and register now by calling 407.599.3597.

Are you married and love live stage performances? Here’s a musical happening in Winter Park, Fl that you might like.

Taking place until the 14th of February is Married Alive!, a musical onstage at Winter Park Playhouse that presents a humorous take on married life.

Although definitely not an original plot, Married Alive! is still a fun series of sketches that deal with marriage, married sex, babies, Viagra, sports metaphors, and a whole lot more. Each subject is cleverly woven together by songs performed by talented actors.

Michael Edwards, arguably the most known actor associated with Winter Park Playhouse, plays a middle-aged man who is somehow dragged into the marriage service of a couple he doesn’t even know. His performance of a cranky and exasperated middle-aged husband is undoubtedly the most popular.

Married Alive! isn’t really what we’d call “Broadway worthy,” but the material is rescued by excellent actors and actresses time and time again. The musical’s director, Roy Alan, has in his arsenal a talented cast of veterans and newcomers. All of them are undeniably great at what they do.

Again, check out Married Alive! at the Winter Park Playhouse in Winter Park Fl. The musical will be running until the 14th of February, Valentine’s Day.

With spring just around the corner, nature lovers have a reason to truly smile about. If you care about the planet we live in and want to know more about conservation methods and the like, we have an event – rather, a series of presentations in one event you’ll definitely love.

Taking place today from 9 to 11 in the morning is Nature’s Bounty “Growing Green”, a series of 3 presentations packed into one morning. The first, which begins at 9:30 in the morning is an icebreaker titled “Growing Your Photography Skills,” a presentation/workshop about garden and floral photography and its appreciation. Professional photographer Claudia Wickham will be the guest speaker.

At 10:30 in the morning, another presentation titled “Growing Green and Blue” kicks off. It’s a discussion on low maintenance water conserving yards to be presented by Teresa Watkins, a Florida Water Specialist.

Last but not least is “Greening Your Own Piece of the Planet,” a presentation that tackles landscaping methods that are eco-friendly and cause the least damage to the environment. Ed Fosgate, architect, landscape artist and owner of Landscapes Orlando will be the featured speaker.

If you’re interested, simply head to the Winter Park Garden Club. The best part? Admission is free.

The City of Winter Park, Fl, recently picked DigitalPersona, Inc. to take care of the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) mandates authentication component. The city selected DigitalPersona Pro as well as DigitalPersona Privacy Manager Pro to secure their local networks and programs used at Winter Park’s City Hall.

DigitalPersona, Inc. is one of the word’s leading providers of fingerprint identity and authentication solutions for businesses, program developers, and regular consumers. The company develops software and hardware that secures the sensitive information of people and businesses.

Among the facilities the new systems will “keep watch” over are the department of motor vehicles, electric division, as well as the city’s roster of emergency and police vehicles. Furthermore, confidential and sensitive information is kept secure thanks to digital signing and use of an ultra-sophisticated encryption code for e-mails and important documents.

Before DigitalPersona, Inc. was chosen by the City of Winter Park, they used usernames and passwords to protect networks from intruders and unauthorized personnel. But every hacker worth his gold knows this level of security is too easy to break into. The CJIS mandate however, called for Winter Park to utilize advanced authentication systems. Officials from the city commented that DigitalPersona was the best choice due to their excellent track record.