Grab your friends and family and come down and enjoy a great night under the stars. Bring a picnic or snacks to the Downtown Central Park (251 South Park Ave) for a free showing of Shrek on Thursday, August 8 at 8pm. The rain date will be August 22, same time and place. See you there!

Photo by Lindsay Niles

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release:

Media Contact:  Clarissa Howard 407-599-3428 or cell 407-948-2044

WINTER PARK USES NEW CEMETERY MOBILE APP

TO KEEP THE MEMORIES OF OUR LOVED ONES ALIVE

 WINTER PARK, Fla., an internationally recognized ICMA Excellence Award winner with accredited fire, police and parks & recreation agencies (June 28, 2013) – The mobile app world is not just for the living anymore – now those who have gone even 100 years before us can benefit from these new advancements in technology.  Well, sort of.

Two years ago in 2011, our Parks & Recreation Department implemented an online burial search that allows the public to find burial locations via the city website. Today, Parks & Recreation has launched a new feature to this software that will allow family, friends and visitors of both Palm and Pineywood cemeteries to remember their loved ones, and learn about the many others laid to rest at each cemetery as well.

By downloading the new mobile app called WPC Explorer from your devices’ app store, any visitor can walk through either Palm or Pineywood cemetery with an android, iPhone or tablet.  As they visit a gravesite, they can access their loved one’s obituary, life history and photos directly from their mobile device. This information would be electronically submitted by family or friends of the departed to the Parks & Recreation Department, who will review and upload into the new software.  Each site will have its own GPS location so as you travel through the cemetery, you can actually experience an in-depth history of the city’s past residents and family members.

Literally, as you travel through the cemetery, information and wonderful memories about the ones who have gone before us can be available on your android, iPhone or tablet.  With this new upgrade, the phrase  “there’s an app for that” will not only benefit us now, but can also be a new way to remember. Keeping these memories alive is so important and the city’s Parks & Recreation Department is making it easier for us to remember our dearly departed through the use of modern technology.

For more information regarding WPC Explorer, visit cityofwinterpark.org under What’s New or call 407-599-3252.

Celebrate The City of Winter Park’s 125th Anniversary!

Come to the 11th annual Unity Heritage Festival

The Event begins Sunday, January 20th, 2013. 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM

We’ll be at Shady Park at Hannibal Square (corner of Pennsylvania and New England avenues)
And best of all, the event is FREE!

The wonderful community of Winter Park will come together for the 11th annual Unity Heritage Festival on Sunday and Monday. This celebration will promote family history and raise money for the Educational Fulfillment Fund for local economically disadvantaged youth. The festival will have fun for the whole family. Including children’s games, food and retail vendors, entertainment by various gospel artists, and then there will be a presentation of the annual Heritage Award.

Do not miss out on this great event. It is a festival the entire family can enjoy!

For more information, go to: www.cityofwinterpark.org or Contact: 407-599-3275

In honor of National Arbor Day, the Parks & Recreation Department of the City of Winter Park will proudly host the 20th annual Jeannette Genius McKean 5K Memorial Run for the Trees. Event takes place April 28, 2012. This exciting 5K (3.1 miles) run/walk will begin at Showalter Field, located at 2525 Cady Way, and finish on beautiful Genius Drive which is open to the public only once a year for this magnificent event.

Funds raised from the event will support the Winter Park Tree Replacement Fund. Each “Run for the Trees” race participant will receive a commemorative T-shirt as well as a young tree to plant at a location of their choice. For specific race details and registration information, please visit www.trackshack.com.