Lakeland, FL -- Wednesday is All-You-Can-Eat Night sponsored by Natalie's Sports Bar & Grill.  

Tickets are just $10 and includes admission to the game and all-you-can-eat hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages, cracker jacks, popcorn, pretzels and chips as well as food from Natalie's from 6:00-9:00 p.m. or while supplies last.

Gates open at 6 p.m. and the game starts at 7 p.m. at Joker Marchant Stadium.

For more information call 863-686-8075.

A Harrison School for the Arts student and students from Mulberry Middle excelled in 2011 oratorical contests coordinated by the North Florida District of Optimist International and the Lakeland Optimist Club.

Simon Cedeno, a Harrison student who resides in Mulberry, won a $2,500 scholarship for winning first place in the boys competition of the North Florida District contest held at the Crown Plaza Tampa Westshore. 

The oratorical contest topic was “If I were leader of the free world, the first issue I would address would be….” The North Florida District of Optimist International encompasses central and north Florida and the panhandle. Simon will be a senior at Harrison in 2011-2012.

Laura E. Hagerty, a Lakeland resident and 2011 graduate of  Lakeland’s Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts was announced today as a National Merit Scholar by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Laura’s National Merit Scholarship is funded by the University of Florida where she will attend this fall. Laura has listed a probable career field of neuroscience.

Colleges and universities sponsoring National Merit Scholarships provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study.

More than 1.5 million students entered the 2011 National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The 2011 National Merit Scholars represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and are the highest scoring entrants in the country on the test.