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SATURDAYS QUESTION: Do
you dress up for Halloween?

(370 RESPONSES)

11% YES

Yes, and I plan to this year.

And Im 83.

89% NO

TODAYS QUESTION: Will

the economy suffer if the
government isnt reopened
and the debt ceiling raised?
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5 p.m. When prompted, press 2
for a Yes response; press 3 for
a No response.
[ Polk Pulse is intended to give
readers an opportunity to
express opinions on a variety
of topics. It is not a scientific
poll of community opinion. ]

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By ANYA ZENTMEYER

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costume in 50 years and
dont plan on starting now.
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kids. ... No, I dont participate in the devils holiday. ...
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LAKE WALES | Wynette

Kimbrel has tried for three
years to start her own garden.
Shes spent several hundred
dollars and read nearly every
book on the topic at the library,
all to no avail.
However, after connecting
with Josh Jamison and Paul
Saucier, current and former
farm managers, respectively,
with Hunger Education and
Resource Training Institute,
she hooked up with a Lake
Wales-based gardening group
called Ridge Organic Community.
All of the sudden, Im so
engrossed in this, its not funny, Kimbrel, 73, said.
About 10 members from
ROC spent a weekend earlier
this month helping Kimbrel
put together a more sustainable garden something they
call a garden works day
with the motto Work, learn,
play. They helped install a
pallet bed to grow annual vegetables like cabbage, cauliower, broccoli and tomatoes
right in her backyard.
For her to get all of this
done on her own would have
been really difcult, Saucier
said. Where shes at in life,
shes on xed income, so she
cant drop a couple of thousand dollars. It just isnt going
to happen.
Because of a bad back,
Kimbrell can spend only about
an hour a day working on her
feet before shes back in her
wheelchair, so ROC volunteers
designed the pallet bed to be
wheelchair accessible, and
that has made all of the
difference.
I spend about an hour in the
morning working on my feet,
but I can wheel out here in my
chair now and weed and do a
lot of things from my chair,
which will make it a lot easier,
she said.

FOCUS ON STEWARDSHIP

The group started about two

years ago, thanks much to
Lake Wales residents Hunter
Lilly and Linda Taylor. At Edward Bok Academy, Lilly
works with agriculture curriculum. He said while practicing as a naturopathic physician in the 80s, hed done a lot
of research on how health and
happiness correlate with a

5 Arrested
In Saddle
Creek Park
Sex Sting
By STEPHANIE ALLEN
THE LEDGER

LAKELAND | Undercover
deputies arrested ve men Friday in a solicitation sting in a
Lakeland park.
The Polk County Sheriffs
Ofce said each of the men
solicited a detective while at
Saddle Creek Park.
Michael Seawell, 54, of 1133
Country Oaks Lane, Lakeland,
James Dudley Fretwell, 70, of
1566 Excalibur Court, Lakeland,
and Dennis Hice, 55, of 4345
Creekwood Lane, Mulberry, are
each facing a misdemeanor
charge of soliciting another to
commit lewdness, according to
the Sheriffs Ofce.
Eric Witte, 50, of 6711 Summer Cove Drive, Riverview, is
facing a second-offense felony
charge of soliciting another to
commit lewdness, the Sheriffs
Ofce said. And 53-year-old
Thomas Bly of 715 Finney St.,
Lakeland, is facing charges of
soliciting another to commit
lewdness and indecent exposure in public, according to the
Sheriffs Ofce.
Seawell, Dudley, Witte and
Bly were released from the
Polk County Jail on bail. Hice
was being held in lieu of $250
bail.
[ Stephanie Allen can be reached
at 863-802-7550. ]

PIERRE DUCHARME | THE LEDGER

WYNETTE KIMBREL PREPARES TO PLACE a chaya plant Friday in the hole prepared by Paul Saucier at her home garden in Lake Wales.
strong sense of community.
So, part of the agriculture
curriculum at Bok Academy
naturally evolved into showing documentaries to gently
help students become more
aware of the realities of what
is going on in our world, and
yet at the same time become
empowered to make positive
changes, Lilly said.
He started showing these
documentaries at Lake Wales
Care Center and Lake Wales
High School and eventually
garnered enough interest to
start a more consistent following for the ROC.
The overall theme is to
create an authentic community via creating a more sustainable way of living, Lilly
said. Sustainability, to him,
means environmental stewardship, economic and social
justice, human health and
well-being.
Basically, a triple or quadruple bottom line, he said.
Not just the typical single
bottom line based on shortterm prots it gets back to
what ultimately creates real
happiness, and becoming
aware of what factors tend to
erode the foundation of creating happiness and making
positive changes aimed at the
causes of our problems.
How does the Ridge Organic
Community aim to help foster

this positive energy? Lilly said

creating a community can involve many different quality
of life aspects, including local
food systems, the local economy, and env ironmental
awareness and education
events. And since members of
ROC each have their own interests and passions, they try
to do it all.
Our group tries to support
each person related to these
aspects of creating a community by helping to create
food gardens or food for wellbeing, he said.
He used Kimbrels garden
project as an example, adding
others like garden farm tours,
seasonal celebrations of food
and music, local economics

via the barter system, and

projects that tackle environmental and health issues.
Theyve partnered with other groups like Polk Connect in
Lakeland and Bartow Womens Center to help projects
become a reality. Lilly said the
partnerships help them inspire
each other and gain from
one anothers insights and
experiences.
What ROC means to Lilly is
that its possible to create some
kind of path toward what he
thinks is a better way to do
things. The group has intentionally operated with a limited structure, he said no
president or vice president, no
nancial dues for membership
in order to let it freely evolve

into whatever kind of better

way is possible for the initiative down the road.
For Kimbrel and surrounding community members,
what it means is something
better, too.
It means Im giving back
to my community, Kimbrel
said. because when you get
old, if you sit at home and
watch that idiotic TV I
mean to tell you, the things
they put on there that are
supposed to amuse us. Youd
do a lot better with education
like this.
To learn more about the
Ridge Organic Community or
to become part of its team,
email ridgeorganiccoop@
gmail.com.

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