PLACES TO GO

FRIDAY

BackStage Pass To Play At Watering Hole

SEBRING - BackStage Pass will be at the Watering Hole, 6813 U.S. 27 S., in Sebring tonight and Dec. 20 from 9.30 p.m. until 1:45 a.m.

Dance Club Features The Skylarks

SEBRING - The Highlands Social Dance Club hosts ballroom dancing tonight from 7 - 9:30 at the Sebring Lions Club on Sebring Parkway. Music will be provided by the Skylarks.

Free ballroom dance instruction from Walt and Sue is available at 6:30 p.m.

All club dances are open to the public. Appropriate dress is required.

Admission is $4 for members and $6 for non-members.

For more information, call 863-471-0559.

SATURDAY

Movies To Be Shown At Libraries

SEBRING - Free movies will be shown at both the Sebring and Lake Placid libraries Dec. 20.

"The Polar Express" will start at 2 p.m. at the Sebring library, 319 W. Center Ave.

"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" will be shown at 2 p.m. in Lake Placid at 205 W. Interlake Blvd.

Choir To Play At Bok Tower Gardens

LAKE WALES - Bok Tower Gardens has extended the hours for the Christmas at Pinewood holiday home tour through Jan. 4 in Lake Wales.

For the first time in 14 years, tours of the 20-room, 1930s Pinewood Estate will be open Christmas Eve and Christmas Day from 1 to 5 p.m.

The sounds of the season fill the Gardens with daily Singing Tower carillon concerts at 1 and 3 p.m. On Dec. 20 at 2 p.m., the 12-member Beymer Memorial United Methodist Church handbell choir will perform holiday favorites, hymns and other selections at the Visitor Center.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Mediterranean-style Pinewood Estate was built by wealthy industrialist Charles A. Buck and typifies the winter retreat lifestyle of early Florida.

Christmas at Pinewood tours are Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults; $6 for children ages 5-12, free for children under 5; $7 members. Tickets do not include general gardens admission and can be purchased at the entrance gate, Visitor Center, Pinewood Estate, and online at www.boktowergardens.org. Group rates are available.

SUNDAY

Drum Circle To Meet At State Park

SEBRING - Primal Connection and Highlands Hammock State Park will present a Community Drum Circle from 3 - 5 p.m. on Dec. 21 at the park.

The normal park fee of $4 per vehicle applies.

Primal Connection members can get in free if they show their card or their Primal T-shirt.

Call the park at 386-6094 or Fred Leavitt at 402-8238 or e-mail fredinc@tnni.net.