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One Liners Polk: Fresh Kitchen, BayCare and more

| Jo-Lynn Brown

► Bruce Jacob, a researcher and chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Polytechnic University, was named to the editorial board of the international publication IEEE Access.

Amy Wiggins

► Fresh Kitchen, a Tampa-based build-your-own-bowl restaurant chain, has plans to open its first Lakeland site at 4520 S. Florida Ave.

► The Lakeland Chamber of Commerce named Amy Wiggins as its president and chief executive officer.

► Jim Steinbauer of Steinbauer Associates announced the sale of a shopping center located at 6645 S. Florida Ave., Lakeland, to Lakeland Christina Center for $5.73 million.

► Lakeland Regional Health purchased a minority interest in BayCare HomeCare, and now will, in Polk County, be known as BayCare HomeCare/Lakeland Regional Health.

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