Wednesday Briefing: Wadsworth Skate Park Upgrades, Compassionate Friends, Sabal Palms, Orwell

Today: Partly cloudy. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Details here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index168
The OED’s Word of the Day: Nemean, adj..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

Today’s Briefing: Quick Links

• First Light
• In Flagler and Palm Coast
• Flagler Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours of Incident Reports
• Announcements
• In State Government
• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
• The Day’s Best Reads
• Editor’s Tweets
• Fact-Checking the Knaves
• Palm Coast Construction and Development
• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

“It was not merely the lack of money. It was rather that, having no money they still lived mentally in the money-world — the world in which money is virtue and poverty is crime. It was not poverty but the down-dragging of respectable poverty that had done for them. They had accepted the money code and by that code they were failures.”

–From George Orwell’s “Keep The Aspidistra Flying” (1936).

Previously:

Supreme oracle | Orientalism | Original but foolish | Billy Graham’s anti-intellectualism | Severgnini’s America | Louis XIV’s vainglory | Unknown Kerouac | Swearing | Galileo’s heresy | Lincoln on Foreigners | Spinoza’s science | Hartley’s real change | Chesterton on public opinion | Music saves lives | Knausgaard’s Autumn | Dworkin’s intercourse | Religion’s subversiveness | Malcolm X | Dead bodies | 17th Century Nature | Imperfect mother | One’s stupidity | Third World | Tramps’ necessity | Stock market folly | Sunrise on America | Migrants through time | Mother tongues | Roth on age | Baudrillard’s reality | Madame de Sévigné’s fever | Public opinion | Wealth and art | Pascal’s world | Wheelies | Knausgaard on writing | Bach’s grace | Suffragette fury | Donna Tartt | Regrettable intercourse | Glory’s obscenity | Atheism v. Bach | Describing music | Dostoevsky’s truth

In Flagler and Palm Coast:

Note: all government meetings noticed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many can be heard or seen live through each agency’s website.

The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.

The River To Sea Transportation Planning Board, also known as the TPO, a collection of Flagler and Volusia County transportation and government officials who plan for future transportation needs in the region, meets at 9 a.m. The executive director will update the membership on Flagler County’s fixed-route transit operations plan. In the TPO Conference Room, 2570 West International Speedway Boulevard, Suite 100, Daytona Beach.

The Flagler County Economic Opportunity Advisory Council meets at 9 a.m. in board chambers at the Government Services Building, Bunnell. Heather Shubirg, vice president of business development at Enterprise Florida, is expected to address the panel.

The Flagler County Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meets at 10 a.m. in the First Floor Conference Room, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bldg. 2, Bunnell.

A meeting of the Compassionate Friends is scheduled at the Vitas Office at 4 North Old Kings Road (across from Kentucky Fried Chicken) in Palm Coast. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. Please note the later starting time. The Compassionate Friends, a nonprofit self-help bereavement support organization for families that have experienced the death of a child. The meeting is open to all parents, grandparents, and siblings over age 18 who has suffered the loss of a child of any age. For more information, call John Brady at 610-428- 3139. To learn more about The Compassionate Friends, visit their national website at www.compassionatefriends.org.

Grand Opening of Sabal Palms Assisted Living and Memory Care, with a ribbon-cutting and an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. 2125 Palm Harbor Parkway, Palm Coast. For more information, call Karen Worley at 386-302-3550.

Blood Donations: The Big Red Bus will be at the following locations this week:

• Friday: Palm Coast City Government offices, 160 Lake Ave., Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Saturday: Walmart, 1174 Cypress Point Parkway, Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Sunday: Farmer’s Market at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Parkway, noon to 4 p.m.

Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours' Incidents in Flagler, Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell

Jail Bookings, June 19-22 Sheriff's night shift incident reports, June 21 Sheriff's day shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's night shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's day shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's night shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's day shift incident reports, June 21
Previous and archived reports

Announcements:

East MalaCompra Road and Malacompra Park closed for dunes restoration: The easternmost section of MalaCompra Road will be temporarily closed as Flagler County’s dune restoration project moves south. Sand deliveries will begin Monday morning (Feb. 26). Flagler County has just completed its fifth week of work on the project, and completed the work at Washington Oaks Garden State Park. Revegetation of the recently shaped dunes is expected to occur over the next few months. “This next phase of dunes restoration construction will start at Bay Drive Park near Sea Colony and move southward to the MalaCompra access point,” said County Engineer Faith Alkhatib, who is overseeing the projects, which will cost upwards of $25 million. High tides, daylight, and weather affect the length of the workday.

In Flagler Beach, More Beach Walk-Overs Open: Last week the city re-opened six additional Beach Access Stairways /Dune Crossover locations, South of State Road 100. The following walkovers are currently open and the newly re-opened locations are identified in bold red:

In Florida and in State Government:

Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.

SENATE HOLDS FLOOR SESSION: The Senate is scheduled to hold a floor session. (Wednesday, 10 a.m., Senate chamber, the Capitol.)

TEXTING WHILE DRIVING, OPIOIDS AT ISSUE: The House will hold a floor session and is scheduled to take up dozens of bills, including a proposal (HB 33), filed by Rep. Jackie Toledo, R-Tampa, and Rep. Emily Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, that would make texting while driving a “primary” traffic offense. Among other bills is a proposal (HB 21), filed by Rep. Jim Boyd, R-Bradenton, that would take steps to curb the state’s opioid epidemic. (Wednesday, 10:30 a.m., House chamber, the Capitol.)

‘PIP’ REPEAL ON AGENDA: The Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee will consider a proposal (SB 150), filed by Sen. Tom Lee, R-Thonotosassa, that would repeal the state’s no-fault auto insurance system. The system includes a requirement that motorists carry personal-injury protection, or PIP, coverage. (Wednesday, 4 p.m., 401 Senate Office Building, the Capitol.)

CABINET AIDES MEET: Aides to Gov. Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis are scheduled to meet to discuss issues in advance of a March 7 Cabinet meeting. (Wednesday, 9 a.m., Cabinet meeting room, the Capitol.)

—-Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:

The Day’s Best Reads:

Editor’s Tweets

Keep Up with Donald Trump’s attacks on the press through the ACLU’s running tab here.

Keep Up with mass shootings in a running database here.

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

Here’s a summary of the latest city developments as of Feb. 23, 2018, with a link to the full week in review here.

Click to access week-in-review-palm-coast-feb-23-20181.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda

Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim

Previous Codas:

• Albert Camus’ “The Human Crisis”
• Swinging Bach
• Keith Jarrett Standards Trio
• Anoushka Shankar Ensemble
• Jacques Loussier Play Bach Trio: a 2007 Concert
• Abdel Rahman el Bacha Plays Two Nocturnes by Chopin
• Edith Mathis’s Creations
• Sheku Kanneh-Mason: No Woman No Cry, Cello Version
• Viotti’s Violin Concerto No 23 in G Major, Performed by Jennifer Jeon
• Bruckner’s Symphony Nr. 7 at the Lucerne Frestival
• Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the style of Chopin: Syd R Duke
• Nikolai Kapustin performing Prelude, op. 53, no. 11
• Ray Chen, Sarabande from Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor
• It’s A Small World: Ken Kubota and Friends
• Maria Callas: The Mike Wallace Interview
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Oboe Concerto in B flat major, Wq 164
• The Cranberries: Linger
• Martha Argerich Performs Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major
• Vivaldi’s Winter in a Wintry Performance By Milan Řehák
• Bach: Musical Offering BWV 1079, Concert des Nations Jordi Savall
• Bach: Sonata for Gamba and Harpsichord in G minor, BWV 1029
• Claude Debussy, La fille aux cheveux de lin, from Préludes
• Bach’s Complete Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & Bach Soloists
• Angels in Heaven: Chris Rodrigues and the Spoon Lady
• Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher
• Brendel Performs Schubert’s A Major Sonata No. 22, D. 959
• The New York Philharmonic in a 2016 Performance of Dvorak’s New World Symphony
• Alexander Gavrylyuk Plays Bach İtalian Concerto