For those who know when these popular annual events roll around, we salute your memory. For those who don't, here's the list OCTOBER The Apple Festival SEBRING The Palms of Sebring retirement community will hold its 12th annual Apple Festival Oct. 2, 3, and 4 in a different location this year. Due to renovations at the Palms of Sebring, this year's event will at Blough Hall at the Church of the Brethren, which is across the street from the Palms of Sebring, on the corner of Oak Avenue and South Pine Street. The entrance for this event is on Oak Avenue. ...more

September 27, 2008

SEBRING — The recreation room at the Palms of Sebring looked more like a craftsman's workshop Monday morning, as the residents and volunteers got their hand-made blankets, towels and napkin holders together. The pictures of apples, the wooden apple models and the fall leaves overhead share a theme. Lester Kesselring and the 60-plus volunteers have until Thursday to get the recreation room ready for the 11th annual Apple Festival, and it's still too soon to cook the food. The consultant at the Palms and the chief organizer of the festival said they have been at it the past eight weeks. When the days come, some of them would churn out 90 jars of hand-made apple jelly, 90 half-pint containers of apple butter, a hundred hand-made apple pies, dozens upon dozens of apple cookies (think of an oatmeal cookie with some apple bits among the raisins) and about 75 apple cakes. ...more

September 25, 2007