LAKELAND, Florida — Mayor Howard Wiggs addressed 250 guests at the third annual Mayor’s Breakfast, declaring March 8 as Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) Day. The breakfast was held in the Florida Air Museum on the SUN ‘n FUN campus on Lakeland-Linder Regional Airport (KLAL) with tables and chairs placed under and between static aircraft on display. […]
Winging over Winter Haven
By JONI M. FISHER It was a quiet Saturday in late November at Gilbert Field in Winter Haven, Florida, when five Air Force ROTC volunteers showed up to help flight instructor and businessman John Collins make good on his offer for free flights to the families of police and firefighters in Winter Haven. The idea started weeks earlier […]